The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-08-11

About $500 feet Of cement road il
Rutland was finished in about so days
considered very quick job.
Closed to the public for more than {
year. the Orleans house at Nortf
Craftsbury was opened Aug. because
OF the demand by summer visitors.
Pulp logs at Bellows Falls Will b'
Aoated across the Connecticut river to
Hinsdale, N. H., because of the attl-
tude of the paper mill strikers at Bel
lows Falls.
Major John Greed, formerly of Rut-
land. a graduate of Norwich university
and veteran of the World war, has
been detailed as military instructor at
the University of California.
When thrown from wagon. by an
unmanageable horse driven by her hus-
band, Mrs. Ernest Yandow of Essex
junction was badly cut about the face
and her little daughter had her jaw
broken Sunday evening.
Daniel Monroe, veteran OF the tlVll
war. of Bristol died suddenly at the
home of his daughter in Lincoln Satur-
day night, having gone there that day
for a visit. Abram Douglas, another
veteran, of Starksboro died Monday.
Frank TYLER, an Essex liveryman,
rented an automobile to man three
weeks ago. The man did not return.
Tuesday Mr. Tyler and deputy sher-
if located the car at Scottsville, Z. Q.
The Vermont number plates had been
replaced by Others.
While Harold Litchfeld was on
steamer excursion at Newport early
last week, leaving his auto parked
near the Lane h Son block, someone
stole it and it has not yet been locaSed
The car was new Ford. He had
backed it down hatchway to make its
safety sure.
To add to the chapters of accidents
connected with the construction of a
highway bridge over the Connecticut
river at Brattleboro, pile driver,
weighing a ton and three-quarters, fell
into 40 feet of water. The construction
work on the bridge hae now reached
the stage where it was June Is, when
the false work collapsed and let l72
tons of steel fall into he river.
Mrs. Fannie F. Prouty of Brattle
boro has sued the Pellet & Skinner
contracting firm of that village for
$4,000 damages, claiming that her |
right knee was injured and she was
otherwise incapacitated when she fell
over some material "carelessly left
scattered about the street" while the
contractors were rebuilding the Yer
mont National bank building in Brat
tleboro.
William Waller, student at Penn
sylvania State college, and Arthur Hy
man, who plans to enter Yale univer
sity this year, started to walk from
New York City 10 Poland, Me. When
they reached Joe's pond in West Dan
Vile one night last week they had
walked only five miles of the entire
distance, having been given lift" all
along the Adirondack TO Lake Placid
and Burlington.
A can of forgotten tar roof paint,
put on the stove to warm came near
causing a disastrous fire at. the home
of H. S. kidder in Townshend recent
ly. The paint boiled 20 the top of the
can, ran over onto the stove, caught
fire and then ran onto the floor ne.
fore it was noticed. Then Mrs. kidder
put out the flames with fire ex.
tinguisher, but not until the kitchen,
rooms and two upstairs ,
rooms were completely covered, walls
and furniture, with heavy SCOT.
Dennis G. Cutting, conductor on Z
the trolley lines of the Rutland Rail {
way, Light & Power Co. has sued 4
Patrick J. Daley for $500 as result t
of fracas on a car July 2. Daley I
and others are alleged 10 have been i
acting boisterously in TIE presence OF i
women on the car and when the con (
ductor demonstrated with them Daley, [
is alleged to have struck and beat Cut b
ting so that several teeth were loos- b
ened and he was KNOCKED from the car. I
Miss NJ. Joyce Hindley, daughter Of :
Editor Howard L. Hindley of the Rut. n
land Herald, and Frederick c. Brig
ham of Rutland were married Tuesday Q
in the Brigham home. where for five Il
generations members of Mr.. Brigham's Il
family have been married. Both are $
graduates of Rutland high school and o
the groom Of Middlebury college, where Il
he played on the football team. Mr.. "
and Mrs. Brigham will go to Chicago, G
where he has taken a position with the a
Western Packing CO. Il
FORMER VERMONT MAN.
Lyman B. Griffin, 70, Committed Sui .
eide by Shooting. p