The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-10
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from Dir
ferent Sections.

ferent Sections.
There are several cases of scarlet fever
in Richmond and the schools have been
closed to keep the disease from spread
ing.
Henry w Rowley, Vermont deputy
game warden, has received commission
as deputy game warden in the service Of
the United States.
Alfred G. Taggart, veteran of the
Civil war died at the home of his daugh-
ter in Rutland Town Friday of apoplexy.
Mr., Taggart was rs years old.
"Aunt" Martha Stafford celebrated her
goth birthday anniversary at her home
in Morristown Feb 26, l25 people calling
on her. that day. There was large
birthday cake, with 90 candles.
DIR. r. D. Worden, formerly of Rut-
land, who was recently discharged from
the army, has accepted a position as as
sistant physician in the Kings Park
street hospital on Long Island.
The fve-year odd nephew of Mr., and
Mrs NJ. c. Washburn of Jacksonville, in
taking what was supposed to be cough
medicine the other day, got by mistake
some iodine. The mistake was discov-
cred Immediately, and the child came out
none the worse for it.
Lester Thompson of Shelburne went
out at 8 o'clock on the morning of day
recently and returned at in the after
noon with $50 worth of skins from his
traps. He shot fox and mink,
caught four skunks, and trapped four
muskrats.
Claiming that the defendants deliher-
ately felled tree across the highway,
the tree remaining there go days and i'm
peding traffic, c. w. Baxter of Halifax
has brought suit for 5000 against Lewis
and Adolphus Root of Halifax, claiming
injuries when he had to make a detour.
Mrs. Susan B. Mum passed away in
her sleep at her home in Grafton recent
~, at the age of Dc years. Two years
ago she suffered a slight shock, since
which she had been confined to her bed
most of the time, but until within a few
weeks she had been able to sit up a por-
ton of each day and read the daily
papers.
Two deaths occurred at the Old Ladies'
home in Rutland Saturday morning,
those of Miss Louise Z. Aiken of that
city, aged 81 years, and Mrs. Elvira A.
Daggart, native of Manchester, who
was 49, Miss Aiken had been in the
home for 10 years and Mrs. Daggart for
six.
Harry Knight of Bennington, N. a., a
travelling salesman for Handy e. Co. of
Springfield, Mass, died at the Rocking
ham hospital in Bellows Falls Saturday
Of apoplexy Mr. Knight was very we'll
known on the west side of the state,
having travelled through that section for
many years. He was about 80 years old
and leaves wife and sons at Benuing-
ton, N, H.
Mrs. G. P. Morrill, of Wells Beach, Me,
and Arthur James Lamb of Bellows Falls,
who were married in the latter place
March | as a result Of an advertisement
that the bride placed in the Bellows
Falls Times last fall, are living in that
place and apparently are satisfied with
the bargain. IT is the third marriage for
each Of them, Mrs Lamb having four
children and Mr.. Lamb two.
Seventeen canal boats and two tugs
wintering in lake Chauplain and moored
opposite the Champlain transportation
eompany's dock at Whitehall, N. Y,
broke their moorings Saturday night and
forced up to the high water and floating
ice. Before they came to a stop they
had reached the elbow, about a mile
north Of the village, where they were
wedged and are now held tightly by the
ice lam which has formed at this point.
Several days ago a carload of wheat
was shipped from Vergennes consigned
to a commission house in Boston for ex-
port trade. The car was loaded from
wheat presenting % farms in the towns
of Addison, Waltham, Monkton and Fer
risburg. The total amount shipped was
1902 bushels, the largest lot, ia bush
els, being raised by Charles Reed Of West
Addison. The shipment graded No. 2
northern spring wheat, selling in Bos-
ton for $685. bushel, netted the farm
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spection charges had been deducted sci
a bushel. This is a good price for a car
load of wheat made up of so many small
lots.
Something that does not happen very
often is for steam yacht to be cruising
about the waters Of Lake Champlain all
winter, and yet Thursday, March 6, J. Il.
Cashman's yacht Victor went over to
Stave island with a cargo of hay and
grain for the livestock which F, H. Wells
keeps there. The boat left with three
tons of hay and one ton Of grain at o.
a. M, and returned after lunch early in
the afternoon. A considerable amount of
floating iee was seen at the mouth Of
the Winooski river, but the water around
the island was all open. Mr.. Wells keeps
8 family on the island all winter. There
Fare a man, his wife and child and some
other relatives. They have their own
cows and horse and there also are II
deer on the island. In ordinary years
the supplies could be drawn across, the
ice from South Hero, but no such course
was possible this year. On the boat with
Mr., Wells were Charles Fabricco, Cash