The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-12

nome III lHeLIOTu, May Il. SHe was
able to receive her friends and enjoy
the day.
Edward Mack, employed on Town
shend's new town hall, fell 20 feet
Wednesday, breaking a rib, cutting his
head, receiving internal injuries and
many bad bruises
So far there are three candidates for
the office of state senator from Frank
lin county-C. s. Howard of Fairfax,
s Carl Carpenter of Richford and w.
j, Chaffee of Enosburg.
In the collision of Buick and Ford
ca, between Hinsdale and Brattleboro
Wednesday evening, Mrs. J. F. O'Con-
nell received deep puncture of the
right thigh and other bruises.
When it came to vote at a meeting
of citizens called this week in st. Al
bans, they voted to continue until Oct.
the daylight saving system which
has been in vogue the last month, about
a dozen voting against it.
Miss Harriet Vernon, the valedieto-
rian of the graduating class Of St.
.Johnsbury academy, not only captured
the first honor of the class but has the
distinction of hava1g completed Il
years of school work without an absent
mark.
The village of Manchester, which ca
ters largely to the summer trade, will
go onto the daylight saving system
June 10, believing that it will accommo-
date the tourists. most of whom come
from states in which that system pre-.
walls.
At the commencement exercises of
the Worcester Polytechnic institute in
Worcester, Mass, Thursday. Albert
Gerry Blodgett of Lyndonville was
awarded the principal prize for having
attained the highest scholastic average
during the course.
A group of Massachusetts capitalists
has purchased the Green Mountain
and Hemlock Island waterpowers in
the Lamoille river near East Georgia
of r. H. Dewart and John Reynolds of
Burlington and T. A. Hogan of st.
Adams. The price paid is estimated
to be in the vicinity of 100000.
Mrs. Albert McCallum of North Al
burg met with a very serious accident |
!. recently. She was opening a can of
chloride of lime when it exploded and |
went into her face and eyes. Her sight |
l.. A A
her misfortune, her daughter was sick |
with measles and her husband with |
mumps.
William Haley of Newport lost a
young horse, valued at $780, one day |
this week from injuries it received aft |
ar it bolted while hitched with another |
horse to a cultivator Both horses ran |
for some distance. when the younger |
one fell into ditch and the second |
horse landed on top of him with the |
cultivator, inficting injuries which |
necessitated his being shot at once.
A cat, belonging to Fred Martin of |
Swanton, recently gave birth TO lit
ter of 10, five of which are bona fide |
kittens and five of them skunks, some
what smaller than tHc kittens One of /
the kittens and one of the skunks died,
but the other eight are alive and eat
ing heartily. The little animals do not
seem to be cross-bred in any way, each
retaining every characteristic of its
own species
Thomas f. Donegan, 54. employed
r. 1O L.. a l.. a. a D..
company in Bellows Falls, received
blow on the back of the head from a
stick of four-foot wood which he was
trying to guide onto a conveyer and
died as he was being taken to the hos
pital. The accident was almost indenti-
cal with the one which caused the death
OF Earl W. Clark, May Is, at the plant
of the same company in North Wal
pole, n. II. l.
Principal S. o. Salmon, who was sum
marily notified a few weeks ago by
Superintendent Charles Straitif. in
charge of the district Of which Town
shend is a part, that his services as
principal Of Leland and Gray seminary
in Townshend would not be required
after the close Of the school year, has
closed contract TO teach in a high
school in New York state next wear
and after he had done so, the trustees
Of the seminary learned from DIR. NJ. b.
Hillegas that it was in their power to
hire or dismiss teachers, and that the
superintendent had no authority to use
is Office arbitrarily. Principal Salmon
was very popular with the citizens, pu-
pills and school authorities in Town
send and he would have been retained
had the trustees known they had
right 20 90 against tie district superin
Miss TIA Orr Of Vershire, who took
the difficult part Of Shylock in The
Merchant Of Venice deserves the high
est praise for her dramatic work while
ia Smith college. She transferred to
smith at the beginning Of her sophie
more year from Colby college. In her
iuniof year she took part in a play,
Mothers Of Men. given in te rally day !
show. This year she gave q monologle
a the Wsshingtons birthday ceiebra-
iion and in the fail production Of the
dramatic association took part in the
play. Three Pills in a Bottle Be
sides being = member Of the dramatic
association she belongs 10 the Sociology
club. the debating union and the Alpha
honorary society. Miss Orr's greatest
achievement and biggest role vas in
ssnisr dramatics Tor a. Shyiock she
I'D e difficult and superb piece 81 act