The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-12-16


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ABOUT'THE STATE
Happenings IF Interest from
Different Sections.
The Rutland county farm bureau
closes the year $4,705.l7 in debt.
"The Rose Girl" given recently at
Springfield. Melted the hospital $3.50,
Townshend voters viii use $4,000 to
furnish the new town hall and ia put
in lighting plant.
The smallpox epidemic in Rutland
has not entirely subsidized, four new
cases being reported last week.
The Community church in Cam
bridge has purchased moving picture
machine and three reels of pictures are
shown every Sunday evening.
Plans for expenditures by the Rut-
land Congregational church for 1921
will be about $4,000, an increase OF
l7Ha per cent over last year.
J. FL. Lyon, a Burlington teamstef'
is in the Mary Fletcher hospital with
broken leg and injuries TO his head,
caused by the kick of a horse.
During Tuesdays wind, sleet and
rain storm in Rutland, telephone and
lighting wires and poles were blown
down, as well as several large trees.
w. NJ. TAYLOR, the leading merchant
in Derby, died Dec. 10 in Bradentown,
Fla, where he had gone with his wife
for the winter, leaving home Nov. 30.
Someone stole from the farm OF
Napoleon Rock in Charlotte 22 of his
27 hens and Mr.. Rock, who conducts
a boarding house in Burlington, discov-
cred the loss Monday.
The Hickok box shop in Burlington
has laid off it's l55 employees for an in
! definite period, but it is expected that
work will be resumed within week
or two. Lack of orders is the cause OF
the shutdown.
In the family of a Mr.. Hart, who
lives in Castleton Corners, are seven
persons eligible to hunt deer. This sea-
son six of them got deer each. One
of the number shot deer and fine
fox in one day.
Leland H. Green of Springfield, who
allowed his affections to be aienated,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Hooper the alien
ator, are serving respectively terms OF
one and half to five years and six
months to three years at Windsor, hay-
ing broken terms of probation.
Sergt. Chester A. Streeter, a veteran
of the Mexican war, died at his home
near Fairbanks village in st. Johnsbury
a few days ago of pneumonia. He en-
;, listed in the Vermont National Guard
in 1912 and served continuously until
April IA, 1917. He performed excellent
service.
Three Newport Center farmers, all
Canadians, were convicted in court at
Newport Monday of selling watered
milk to Fl. p. Hood 4 Sons of Bos-
ton. Each had to pay fine of $50
and costs. Warrants are yet to be
served on IA more alleged vendors of
diluted milk in that vicinity.
The ferryboat on the Connecticut
river in the town of Putney, ten miles
north of Brattleboro, broke away Mon
day under the pressure of ice and with
two teams and three passengers on
board foated half a mile down the
river, finally stopping against ice near
the Corser farm. With some difficulty
it was gotten ashore, and next day it
was towed back to the ferry.
In the vicinity of Bennington two
hunters had narrow escapes from death
last week, one through becoming lost
in the woods and the other from ex-
haustion. John Elwell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur j. Elwell, spent Friday
night in the woods, without so much
as jackknife with which to cut wood
for fire. He became separated from
a fellow hunter, but toward morning
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