The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-09
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Dit
ferent Sections.

Up to the first Of August there were
23,054 automobiles registered in YER
mont
Edward Cleary of st, Johnsbury res
cued seven year-old boy who had fall
en- into the Passumpsic river Thursday
from drowning by pulling him out with
rake.
The Flint Drug store in st. Johns
bury will now be known as the Simpson
pharmacy, as d. E. Simpson and D. H.
/ Simpson have bought out Dr. Stiles in
tterest in the business.
Henry J. LaPointe of Burlington, a
foreman of the Vermont Milk Choco-
late CO., was placed on trial Friday for
striking on the jaw Miss Garvey, one
of the participants n the recent strike.
Green maple worms are causing great
destruction in maple forests in Guilford
and Westminster. County Agent W. P.
Frost has taken up the matter with
state officers to see what can be done.
The county agent visited Wilmington
this week to inspect the potato crop in
that section and found it to be almost
Q complete failure. Many farmers will
have just enough for their own use,
where in former years they have shipped
tout carloads of them.
The executive committee of the Nor
gan Horse club has chosen H. R. Law
renee of Rutland, Spencer Borden of
Fall River, Mass, cotton manufac-
turer, and Col. Frank Tomkins of Nor
witch to select a carload of Morgan
horses to be sent to the international
livestock fair in Chicago next fall.
The Brandon Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Co. was visited Wednesday by Deputy
Charles Scott'of Montpelier and so pack
ages of different articles were seized
which are said to be under weight. The
investigation was caused by the com
plant of the residents of Brandon. A
hearing will be held as soon as date can
be arranged with the states attorney
L. S. Brunell of Burlington has re-
ceived word that his son, Albert A. Bru-
nell, anu HIS TItlltu VI lut3 HdNt
in New York. Brunell was stationed
for some time in Boulencourt with the
ordnance repair service and met the girl
there and married her. They will come
to Burlington as soon as Brunell gets
his discharge.
Rutland is facing an acute tenement
shortage The real estate dealers all
have waiting lists of people desiring to
buy or rent houses On account of the
high cost OF building only four houses
have been erected during the last year
There are now three more under con-
struction, but this increase cannot keep
up with the normal increase in popu-
lation.
Leutenat Bernard Kehoe Of Burling-
ton received through the mail Thursday
a personal letter of communication from
Marshal Petain and the French croix de
guerre. II was given him for estab-
fishing and maintaining telephone con-
nections with the French and American
forces under fire such that the wires
were frequently cut and had to be i'm
mediately repaired. This work was all
done by Lieut. Kehoe himself.
Mack MacLeay of Charlestown, N. H.,
who was confined to the Rockingham
hospital in Bellows Falls, caused good
deal of excitement Wednesday morning
by running through the streets of the
town clothed only in short night shirt,
pursued by nurses, hospital employees and
citizens After chase of 80 minutes
Ahe was captured with some struggle and
returned to the hospital, where it was
necessary to have two men hold him in
bed. Thursday doctor was summoned
and the man was removed to his home in
Charlestown.
The census bureau in Washington an
nounces that Vermont has been divided
into two supervisors districts, the first
comprising seven counties, Addison Ben
nington, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand
Isle, Lamoille and Rutland, which in
1910 had a total population of l7s,l86,
and the second, also containing seven
counties, namely, Essex, Orange, Orleans,
Washington, Wirbdham. and Windsor,
with a total population of l77,770 As
already stated in this paper, Jeremiah c.
Durick of Fair Haven is supervisor for
the first district. The supervisor for the
second district has not been named
Two rooms in the home OF Mr. and
Mrs. e. A. johnson Of Brattleboro were
completely wrecked Wednesday evening
by gas explosion. The house had been
at one time lighted with gas, but with
the installation of electricity, they had
given up to gas and had it turned off.
Mrs. johnson was having new gas
stove installed and the gas was once
more turned on. The pipe in the parlor
had not been plugged, so when Mr.. Kali,
who was installing the stove, set out
with a lighted match to discover the
escaping gas that could be smeled about
the house, an explosion and small fire re-
suited. After turning off the gas in the
eellar, Mr.. Kali extinguished the fire
with a pail Of water
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