The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-05-24
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections,

Tickets, clothing and ITO pennies
were stolen from the Central Vermont
railway station at Colchester a few
nights ago.
Mrs. Charles 4. Kimball OF Chester
was the winner of 800 for the best last
line for the limerick poem contest pub
lished May Is.
The Hotel Woodstock in New York
City, owned in part by Governor j.
W. Clement of Rutland, has been sold
to syndicate.
A building boom in Fair Haven has
sent carpenters wages up to $ll day,
by their working overtime, and there
is shortage of workmen even at that
price.
Harry Elmendorf, an organist of
some note and for the past three years
serving in the Trinity church, Sanger
ties, N. ", will come to Rutland to be-
come choir master of Trinity Episco-
pal church.
The price of shoe shines in Rutland
has been kept down to l0c by two
Greek sinners, who refused to go up
TO l5c when the others decided to. The
trade all went their way and the 9TH
ers dropped back to their original price
of Zoe.
An option has been secured on 30
acres of land on the St Johnsbury Cen
- ,,,Nn nf
ing it for landing place for airplanes.
The $500 necessary to purchase the
property has been subscribed by about
so of the townspeople OF st. Johns
bury.
Prof. N. N Love- former principal
of the Poultney graded school and aft
err that superintendent of schools in
that district, has received the appoint
ment of educational director of the fed
eral board of vocational education, re-
Mobilization district, in charge Of work
in Maryland.
Lake Bomoseen is closed to angling
in certain section up to july /. This
is for the protection of the bass spawn
ing beds, many of which are found in
that part of the lake Formerly hun
dreds of big bass were caught at that
point, not having been off the spawning
beds when the fishing season opened.
Leo Francis Ross, former. resident
of Rutland, met his death in Platts-
burg, N. Y, May IL, in pushing to safe
ty young woman who was on the
upon her. He was struck by some pro-
jecting portion of the train and thrown
a considerable distance, his skull being
fractured and one of his legs being
broken.
The big three-ton truck of the Ely
works of the American Fork u Hoe
company of st. Johnsbury went
through the bridge near Wheelock one
day last week, the truck being loaded
and three persons also riding. The ma
chine landed in the stream right side
up and none of the occupants was
hurt, but the bridge was practically de-
molished.
Mrs. Renda Louise Oliver, daughter
of DIR. Taylor, Ludlow physician, died
at her home in New York City last
week She was widely known as
singer, having a soprano voice Of great
beauty which had been developed under
Italian masters in Italy. She sang
abroad in concerts and for several
years was soloist in the choir of
Grace church in New York City.
w. H. Fisher, aged SO years, Civil
war veteran, died at his home in Brat
tleboro May 20, after an illness of two
and one half years, during most of
which he was confined to the bed.
Death resulted from several shocks.
Mr. Fisher was in many of the big bat
ties of the war and after the second
battle of Bull Run was discharged on
account of disability.
Clifford j.. Durant OF Marlboro, Y.
H., who passed two worthless checks
few days ago. in Brsttleboro and
Keene, in payment for clothing, has
been given up to the New Hampshire
authorities, since il was learned that
he was out of the Concord, n. H.. state
prison on parole, having been commit
ted for horse stealing, and that he had
a year and half more to serve.
Peter Petersen of Cambridge, the
diver who has been examining the steel
arch bridge in the Connecticut river
at Brattleboro, which was washed out
BY the high water and ice March %,
finds the structure total wreck. So
much debris had collected about the
bottom OF the bridge that il was i'm
possible then 10 determine whether the
body Of Cornelius Flanagan, who went
down with the bridge was held in the
greckage or not.
The Rutland Railway Light & Pow
er company has increased the rate Of
each and every fare zone on its lines
one cent, the fare now being seven
cents, instead of six cents, in each zone.
The company also states that begin
ming June ]. the express rates on its
lines will be increased at least 20 per
cent. caused by the general increase of
salaries and the high cost Of operating
the business along various lines.
The Nellie ellis Offer Prize.
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