The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-03

ADOOl he OI HE
Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections.
There is possibility that a larg'
dairy plant may be erected soon II
Brattleboro, costing $4,000.
Fred Bohannon, an employee for fiv,
years of Senator G. s. Page of Hyde
Park, died Dec. % Of lockjaw. He was
only SO years old.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore j. Turner Of
Brattleboro quietly observed the 60tf
anniversary of their marriage Christ
mas day at their home.
Rev. L. A. Edwards. pastor of the
First Congregational church of New
port, has been elected president of the
Associated Charities of Newport, sue
ceeding Carroll Huntington.
Rev. w. E. Baker, for six years pas
tor of the Congregational church in
Morrisyille, died recently in Ottawa,
Canada, where he had been located for
the past three years.
T.. J. Eagan of North Troy, N. ", is
patient Mt the Rutland hospital, hay
ing been injured when caught between
two freight cars at Castleton. 1t is
thought one lung was punctured.
The repairs of the steamer Ticon-
deroga, resulting from the accident last
August, have been completed and the
ship will be launched the first of next
week. 1t will also be the first boat
back in commission next spring.
There were 145 fire alarms in Bur-
lington during 1919, but of these it was
necessary to use water only 4S times.
Forty-seven were bell alarms and the
other 9S came over the telephone.
o. Mcknight of Keene, N H., motor
car inspector for the Boston and Maine
railroad, died suddenly at the passen-
ger station at Wells River Tuesday,
following stroke OF apoplexy. He was
80 years old,
The sugar card system that has been
use dior the past several months by the
Bellows Falls sugar grocers to secure
as fair distribution of sugar as pos
sible, has been discontinued The price
of sugar in that town varies from ii
cents to 25 cents.
Another victim Of gas poisoning died
Dec. 81 in Burlington, Miss Mirilda
Raymond, aged - years. Her mother,
Mrs. George Raymond, was one of the
other victims and was buried Christ
mas day. The APPROPRIATIONS were
caused by broken gas main Dec 20,
when many houses were filled with the
deadly fumes.
There was not a single arrest in
Rutland for intoxication during the
month Of December, and only one such
arrest has been made there in two
months There were 1873 arrests for all
offenses during 1919, 55 of them for
drunkenness, and 30 of these were
made before Aug. l.
The fire loss in Rutland for 1919 was
less than $4,000. The department
was called out 60 times but in only
four instances were the firemen com
PEELED to use any considerable guam
tity of water. About rs per cent of
the loss was in the Quinn building blaze
in the business district in February. |
Not since June | has there been a fire |
of consequence. 4
Wesley Dee of East Burke was sur
prised TO receive as a Christmas gift |
a check for S25 from a man he never |
saw but once. The automobile of the |
man, Elmer W. Van Brunt Of South |
ampton, n. Y, became stalled in the |
mud in q pouring rain one day last fall |
near Mr. Dees home. The latter as
sisted him in getting the car out Of the |
mire and invited the family into the !
house to wait, and the Christmas gift |
was the result.
Fire seriously damaged the interior |
of the David S. Persons house. built of |
brick, in East Putney Thursday night |
and destroyed the icehouse which Frank |
Whitman had just completed back of |
the house. The wind was away from |
the barn, SO that building was saved,
but it was necessary to protect the
milk room with wet blankets to pre-
vent the building from catching fire.
The barn stable room was filed with |
stock.
SUES WILMINGTON MAN.
Woman Seeks $1,000 for ALLEGED Ill /