The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-21

IueIb was WHlLt IEuSb III 0ucstGl
Monday morning and those who left hot
beds uncovered lost some of their early
plants.
There are several hundred cases of
mumps in Burlington, many of them in
the student body Of the University of
Vermont.
A barn in Lyndon belonging to Cyrus
Deos was burned to the ground last
hay. Two small boys playing with
matches was the cause.
In the Congregational church at Gas.
tleton is to be placed bronze tablet in
roll s. Fellows, artillery men killed by
German shell fire. The tablet is to be
unveiled next Sunday.
Bennington and vicinity had a storm
Ast Saturday SO severe that on the road
90 Salisbury henhouse "a feet long
was picked up bodily by the wind and
carried over fence. A number of fruit
trees were uprooted and many trees were
laid fiat.
Mrs. Frank Patno, 49, died suddenly Of
heart failure Saturday evening in Bris-
tol. She attended the movies and, feel
ing faint, started for home. She got as
far as Valentine Varney's house, was
taken in there and expired as she got
inside the house. She is survived by her
husband and eight children.
M. Mre II II ExFnrntt 1x
escaped injury in Orleans a few days ago,
when the new Dodge car they had pur
chased and were trying out went over
an emhankment and pinned them be-
meath it, The car had to be lifted off
them. Mr.. Everett has sprained wrist.
Mrs. Everett was scratched about the
face and the car was badly damaged.
North Hero, the bean raising section
of the state, is shipping beans every
week, carload of 500 bushels going to
Boston a few days ago. The price paid
is around S4, but some of the farmers
are holding their product for higher
prices. More wheat than ever is TO be
sown in that section, as a -four mill at
Chazy, N. Y, will provide the farmers
all they want much cheaper than to pur-
chase the western product. The recent
rise in the price Of flour is the cause Of
a larger acreage than last year.
Joseph Walker, a l4-year-old st. AL
bans boy, has been taken to the indus.
trial school at Vergennes on an old
charge of larceny. Last summer he was
arrested for breaking into the money
drawer of the late H. W. Ballard in st.
Adams He was released on a promise
of good behavior and six days later
broke into the barber shop of Elliott
Renaud and took $l2. He was arrested,
told the officers where he had hidden the
goods and was again released. Since
then he has been in school only about
half the time, so the original sentence
will be served at the industrial school.
At Greensboro Bend the selectmen are
building a new culvert and built tenn
porary bridge over the ditch above the
road for teams. On Saturday John Bar
rington's four-horse team, loaded with
corn, cut through the bridge and dropped
the rear wheels in to the axle. The
derrick used in handling stone for the
culyert was used to raise the load, but
the team started too soon and the der
rick was not loosened quick enough, 80
that the load was swung to the side Of
the road and tipped over. It was too
late to get it UP that night in the rain,
so the corn was covered up and the next
day was picked up.
Following hearing in Rutland city
court, the o-year-old daughter of Mrs.
John Peryer was taken away from her
and win be cared for by the state. This
is the child who was found with both
legs broken, one arm, a fracture on each
side of the collar bone and two ribs
broken. In addition to this there was an
old fracture of one leg which had never
been set properly Mrs. Peryer said that
the arm was broken when the ehilds
grandmother slapped her, that the legs
became broken March 2S, when the child
became entangled in the iron rods Of
its crib and that she had no knowledge
OF how its ribs had been broken or the
collar bone, The child also had been
without sufficient nourishment,