The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-30


sentative from Richford.
The summer session of the Rutland
public schools began Monday, with
so students present in one building and
30 in the other On July II, the sum.
mer school for teacers will open and
already about 100 teachers have regis.
tered for entrance.
General Rush C. Hawkins of New
York, a native of Pomfret, has given
to Vermont university as part of the
general endowment fund the sum of
100000, the income of which is to be
used for increasing the salaries of the
faculty of the college of arts and sci
ences.
An automobile, belonging to Wy
man Odell of East Middlebury, went
over an embankment about five feet
high as he was driving into Middlebury
Saturday, then caught fire and burned
up. The machine, which was valued at
s400, was sold to a junk dealer after
the accident for $50.
Homer Gibson, former resident of
Richford, was instantly killed in New
York City recently. He was struck
down on Broadway by car, which, in
turning out for another, struck a fire
alarm post, wrecking the post and car
and killing Mr.. Gibson and another
man. Mr.. Gibson was IS years old and
had lived in New York several years.
A. Oscar Astle of st. Johnsbury Cen
ter last Sunday caught under the iron
bridge at the Center California square
tail brown trout that measured u
inches in length and weighed almost six
pounds. Mr.. Astle tried to land this
same fish year ago and several fisher
men since then had tried to get him on
their lines. The fish must have been
several years old and is supposed to
have escaped when lingering from
the United States hatchery and worked
Its way up the Passumpsic river.
Edward T. Daley, who was found
guilty of manslaughter six months ago
and was sentenced to Windsor for
term of years, was pardoned Monday
by Governor Clement and has returned
to his home in Burlington. A petition
for his release had been quite general
ly circulated in Burlington, signed by
city officials and others connected with
the case The accident, which caused
his arrest, happened last September,
when Miss Hazel Rugg was killed on
the Shelburne road by an automobile.
Theodore L. Pierce, who died at the
Vermont soldiers home in Bennington
Monday, had been an inmate of the
home longer than any other Civil war
veteran who had entered the institu-
ton. He was born at Jamaica, in 1874
and served in New York regiments
from December, 1858, to November 20,
1865. He re-enlisted in the regular
army in 1866 and remained in the serv-
Ice three years. During his latter en-
listment, served in what was then
the Far West, he met Brigham Young,
William f. Cody, wild" Bill Hickok
and other border celebrities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin A. Brown OBJ |
served their silver wedding anniversary |
ut their home in Wilmington June PC. |
Each guest was presented sterling !
silver spoon as souvenir, the spoons |
being made for the occasion and being |
patterned after the household silver. |
Dn the back of each are the dates and |
ltitials, 1866. NJ. H. NJ 1920" in |
relief Mr.. Brown is treasurer and |
general manager of both the Woodstock |
Lumber Co. and the Parker Young CO., |
the annual business of the two com |
panies amounting to $l5,000,000 The |
family spends most of the year in Bos-
ton, but spends the summers at the |
home in Wilmington. In 1898, Mr. |
Brown represented Wilmington in the |
legislature and was the youngest mem
Der of the House.
Rutland had an automobile accident |
Saturday in which a Ford car said to
belong to Eugene Butterfield of Ran |
iolph was almost completely demol
lshed on one entire side and the occu-
pants of the car, Mr. and Mrs. Butter
held and another adult and child of |
Randolph, had to return home by train.
The Ford had been trailing another for |
considerable distance and had made sew
sral attemps to pass, but the forward |
sar, whose owner or driver is unknown,
stayed in the middle of the road and
lid not give an opportunity for passing.
Making one ONE attempt, the Ford
,hot by the other, only to strike a
Itch and bring up against a culvert
lbout 100 feet farther on. Two wheels
VI the Ford were stripped, the mud
guards and running board were de-
ltroyed, the top was broken and both
,eats we're badly denied. The occupants
we're somewhat bruised and cut.