The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-19
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections.

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Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections.
The village of Chester reduced it's Il
debtedness 81 ,740 the past year
It is estimated that about 1873
persons pay income taxes in Vernon
Sixty people participated in MOI
day nights community snowshoe hi
In Mortified.
Lumber has been drawn for Chester
new hotel, to take the place of one d,
stroyed by fire.
In Peru, the thaw of last Friday an
Saturday took so much of the snow o
that the fields are quite bare.
petition for a new junior mig
school in Burlington has been presente
to the school commissioners, signed D.
los women.
+. W. Iawler died suddenly at hi
home in MeIndoes March 8, after nav
ing shoveled path from his office &
his home, half block away.
The receiving vault at Prospect Hill
cemetery in Brattleboro is filled to it
capacity, 81 bodies having been PLACED
there during the winter to await IN
terment later.
Fred n. Harris of Brattleboro, anna
teur tennis and ski expert, climbed
to the summit of Mount Marcy il
Lake Placid, N. Y, March l6 on skis
Long, fast slides were possible on the
return trip.
Blasting broke the water main be
low the reservoir at Mendon Tuesday
and for "a hours large part of the
residential section of Rutland was
without water. Hundreds of people
melted snow for culinary purposes.
The sugar making season is well I'M
der way in Middlebury and vicinity
many orchards being tapped. Sugar
makers are expecting large run OF
sap In Essex Center, also, many or
chards are tapped.
Philip Fl. Seaver, for 81 years asso-
ciated with the Lincoln iron works OF
Rutland, died Wednesday. He was
prominent in Masonry, having been
active in the fraternity for 10 years.
From 1905 to 1917 he was recorder of
Cairo temple, A. A. o, n. NJ. s.
A monograph is to be manufactured
in Rutland and it will be known as the
Vermont. Charles Hales of Rutland,
mechanician, and Ernest II. SENEGAL, a
Rutland photographer, already have
begun to make the machines. They
have rented store as permanent head
quarters.
Samuel Willard Barrows. Stoves
oldest resident, observed his oath birth
day anniversary Tuesday. Mr.. Bar
rows is native of New Hampshire
and went to Stowe from Bethel in
1905. He retains his faculties to a re-
markable degree and is able to be about
and split wood nearly every day.
Rev. C. C. st. Clare, for the past
nine and one half years pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at Port
Henry, n. Y, and previous to that 10
Gated in Worthwhile, rendered his resig-
nation March 7 to take effect April 4.
He has accepted the work of the direc-
torship of a newly organized depart
ment of industrial relations in Nine
willie for Wetherbee Sherman & Co.
Arthur Shepard, a l4-year-old Man
chester boy, has brought suit for Sl0,-
900, through his mother, Mrs. Julia
Shepard, against the Manchester Lum
Der company for the loss of four fingers
on his left hand and an injury to the
thumb of the same hand, alleging neg
ligence on the part of the company in
employing a boy under 10 years OF
age.
A petition to Gov. Percival w. Glenn
ent is being circulated in Brattleboro,
asking for the appointment OF Tyler
Goodell of Nottingham as assistant
Judge of Windbam county court to sue
ceed Fred B. Pier of Brattleboro, re-
signed. Mr. Goodies son, Harvey L.
Goodell, is the governors secretary OF
civil and military affairs.
On complaint of the st. Adams HUI
name society, William Peno was ar
raigned before Judge n. n. Post in st.
Adams city court Wednesday after
noon, charged with cruelty to animals.
He was found guilty and fined $40 and
costs, amounting to Sl6.s0. II was
alleged that Peno, who is employed as
driver by William G. Wry, was seen
beating a horse.
The teachers of the Morrisville
graded school all handed their resigna-
tions to the school board, to take effect
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