The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-25

ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections.
West Burke, with population OF
500. has As widows living within a mile
of the postofiice.
Ira Jones OF Gallups Mills caught
300-pound bear in trap last week, it
being his second SC far this summer.
Rev. Clark 7, Brownell pastor of
the Baptisl church liz Brattleboro, was
granted the degree OF ID. d. by Colgate
university this week.
A ferry boat service has been start
ed between Brattleboro and Hlnsdaie,,
n. H., carrying teams, automobiles ana
other vehicles and passengers.
f. w. Bradley, formerly principal OF
the Junior high school in Concord, has
given up teaching and gone into the
insurance business at st. Johnsbury.
Rev. Charles Waite, for four years
pastor of the Congregational church
in Hardwick, has resigned and left for
a new pastorate in West Stockbridge,
Mass. Z.
Bennington residents have been eau
toned against using water for setting
the dust ON the streets and against
using the lawn hose, as water III the
reservoir is getting very low.
For disturbing the slumber OF resi-
dents in the vicinity of The Randall,
Morrisville hotel, during a recent night,
three Morrisville men and Burling-
ton travelling man were taxed $50 eaeh
in court
Peter Chase of rBattleboro, compar-
ing the weather of June, 1921, with
that of other years, says that in 1868
the hottest period of that summer be-
gan June II and lasted for five days.
During those days in the daytime Their
mometers registered 100 in the shade
and the nights brought little relief In
sleep.
George Beaulieu, 10. who was ar
rested following an attempt to wreck
a train in the Central Vermont tun'
mel a mile north of Burlington last
Sunday, waived examination in Bur
lington city court Friday and was
bound over to county court in the
sum of $500.
A Young son OF George Mcclellan of
Dandy was badly injured when the
horse attached to the milk wagon on
which the boy was riding became
frightened and ran away The boy
was thrown against the iron railing OF
n bridge and one leg was broken in
two places, while his head was cut
open and he was badly bruised other |
wise. The accident happened Thurs
day.
Eber Huntley Palmer of Duxbury'
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin F. Palmer,
who was graduated this month from
Waterbury high school, has had
most unusual record of school attend
ance ever since he started to attend
school in Duxbury. He has attended
school eleven years, six in DuXbury
and five in Waterbury, and in that
time has never had an absent or tardy
mark although in the past five years
he has had two miles each way to
travel to and from school. The young
man is l6 years of age and expects to
enter Norwich university in the fall.
An Overland automobile, driven by
R. T. Rogers, son of Mr.. and Mrs Ed
ward Rogers of st. Johnsbury,
ploughed into herd of cows owned by
Alcide Leclerc on the Danville road in
Fairbanks village Tuesday evening,
two of the cows being so badly in
iured they had to be killed. The own.
err of the car then sped on without
waiting to see what damage he had
caused, but the affair was seen by sew
eral persons in autos, so there was no
difficulty in learning the name OF the
driver of the car. He was fined $50
and also settled with Mr.. Leclerc for
the loss OF the cows.
A hoarv bat, one Of the rarest NAM
mails in New England, was found IN
Woodstock this week by Karl A. Penn
Der, county clerk, who found the ami
NAL alive on the sidewalk and sent 1t
to naturalist for Identification. The
skin has been mounted. This is the
first published record for a specimen
of this bat in Vermont since October,
1871, when one was taken at Colches'
ter. and was presented to Zadock
Thompson. who mentions it in the APP
pendix of hrs Vermont history. The
early specimen was presented to the
state for its collection and is now in
the Capitol at Montpelier. The hosry
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