The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-09-28
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from
Different Sections.

Il Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections,
! IA Ferris II. Vaughan and Christie
csowell of Brattleboro have been elect
ed to receive the 33d degree in Masonr
in 1921. There are no 33d degree Ma
sons in Brattleboro and only ~ In Yer
mont.
Attorney and Mrs. w. B. G. Stick
ney of Rutland leave next month t.
Visit their daughter, Mrs, Jules Bran
here, in Algiers, Africa. Mrs Bran
here was formerly Mrs. Robert A
Lawrence of Rutland
Henry Bedard, the pepper" who ha
been annoying women in Burlington
and looking into windows for som,
months, was caught Sunday and h,
admitted that he had been looking intt
Windows for nearly year
The girls of the University of Yer
mont are forming political clubs, il
which they may learn more about gov
eminent and parliamentary procedure
So far as known, this is the first col
lege in the country to have its women
students organize thus.
i Because of the fne weather of the
last week, Mt. Mansfield hotel on Mt
Mansfield, which was to have been
closed last Sunday, will remain open
until October and possibly through
that month, should the weat Their prove
propitious.
Henry Tracy, eight years old, who
lives at the home of Moses Gonyea in
Center Rutland, was struck by an anto
Friday in the covered bridge there,
both bones in one leg being fractured.
The boy was returning from school
when hit.
T, RI. Magner of Burlington, head
Of the Vermont Anti-Tuberculosis So
ciety, has received two checks of $685.
900 each from Redfield Proctor and
Miss Proctor, being the amount they
promised if the state association
would match their money to build
q state preventorium, which was done.
DR.. w. G. Watt, Vergennes physi-
clan, leaves Oct. 81 for France, where
he will be married, the affair being
a elimination of friendship made
during DR.. Watts service in the war.
He will remain abroad a year
Capt Charles Pell, recently appoint
ed captain in the regular United
States army, has declined the appoint
ment and will return to civil life. Capt.
Pell's mother, Mrs. Helen w. Pell, lives
in st. Adams.
A trunk belonging to Ed Drew, a
Newport man, was broken open during
the day Friday and from ii were tax
en- diamond stickpin and $35 in mon
ev Mr. Drewewas employed by Aaron
Grout and kept his trunk stored in
the barn.
Alexander Van Santvoord of Ben
nington is the Vermonter named by
the Rhodes trustees to be Rhodes
scholar at the University of Oxford.
He is elected for 1920, so will 90 10
Oxford in January, 1921. About 400
men were candidates for the Ga APP
pointments.
Hugh H. Holbrook, 50, and one of |
the Oldest residents of Townshend, vdied |
Friday after short illness. Mr.. Hol-
brook had held many town offices, in |
Guiding selectman, auditor, lister, |
school director and Justice of the |
peace. He was a director of the Wind |
ham County Savings bank, served in |
the Civil war as a sergeant and was a |
member of the G.. A. r. post in Towns
bend.
A special village meeting was held |
in Bellows Falls Friday evening when
ii was announced the village had about |
50 on which to run affairs for the re
mainder of the year. Many of last
years bills were unpaid then and had
to be taken out of this years tax re-
ceipts, which caused the shortage 1t
was voted 10 draw from the water
department surplus to pay current ex-
penses.
Philip Fl. Rutter, so years old, a
townsend man, was seriously hurt IN
an automobile accident Saturday He
received compound fracture Of ono
knee cap and may have internal injur-
les. Two passengers with Mr. Rutter
were thrown from the car and badly
cut. Mr.. Rutter was driving his own
car, when il suddenly became unman-
ageable, crossed the road and ran into
tree 20 feet from the highway, be-
ing smashed.
Gilbert Goodell of East Dover shot
black bear on his own premises Sun.
day, which weighed $50 pounds Aft
er missing a lsub, Mr.. Goodell fol-
lowed the tracks and came upon bruin
washing his face in the stream. hav-
ing eaten the lamb. Mr. Goodell killed
the bear with one shot, and the ami
NAL was so heavy it took four men to
get it out of the water and take il
away. The shooting was in the ser
ton where $50 men made an unsuc-
cessful bear hunt last year.
All Of the farm buildings and con
tents. excepting the house, on A r.
Clarks farm. situated in the south
part of Addison and occupied by Frank
Boosks, were burned TO the ground
Friday evening at a loss of $4,000 |
The cause of the fire is unknown. A
COW barn l20 feet by 30 feet and
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