The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-05
WELLS RIVER
Big Wind of Last Week Does Lots of
Damage.

Last Friday the big wind that lasted
for few minutes did great deal of
damage in this section. The porch
roof of the golf club house and por-
ton of the roof proper was taken off
and carried completely over the house
and lodged in the driveway, completely
blocking same. At the farm of Will
liam Bolkum, just above the club, the
entire roof on the ell part of the house
was removed and section of the iron
roof of the barn. A part of the iron
roof was carried several miles in the
wind. An old barn standing at the
1 Whitelaw farm was demolished and
every board and timber was scattered,
some for great distance. On the
Groton road several small houses were
/ disturbed but the greatest damage
| seemed to be in the billy section. A
great many large trees, some of them
very valuable, were blown down and
| roads were blocked in several direc-
| tions for few hours. At the club
house Mulliken and Crabtree had just
| finished round of golf when the wind
and rain came and they, thinking that
the end of the world had come. left in
/ wonderful
An engine, a large hog, left the rails
on the Woodsville side of the Connecti-
cut river bridge last Monday evening
and toppled over on its side. This de
layed the night trains for several
hours. The night Boston train went
by the way of White River while the
northbound was able to leave Woods
willie about 8 80 a. m. with only de-
lay of a few hours.
Kilburn Powers. who has occupied
rent in the postofiice block for
greatmany years, moved into the low
err rent in the Field house on Wednes-
day last. The rent in the postofiiee |
block is already engaged.
J. A. Moore and family motored on |
Sunday to Newport, N. H., where they |
spent the day with their daughter,
Mrs. Cody.
The Rebekahs of this section held |
their district meeting in the village t
hall last Friday evening. After a sup |
ped served in the ladies' parlors, the |
ladies went to the village hall where /
work was done by the Lyndonville |
lodge. Lodges represented were the t
u.
bury, Groton, Concord and Bradford De /
spite the fact that the wind had de-
stroyed all the wires and the village /
was without lights they all reported
the meetin as highly successful.
Since last Saturday we are able to
see a marked improvement in the
electric lights. While they are not up
in voltage they are way ahead of what
we have had in the past, particularly |
the first of the evening. Around eleven
it is still necessary to light the oil
lamps il you care to read There are
no lights in the day time and those
owning motors in this section of Yer
mont are still abliged to let them stay
idle
Dr. Thomas and wife. in company
with Seward French and wife, spent
last Friday evening at South Ryegate
where they attended church supper
at the Presbyterian church.
Timothy Deblois is spending his an
nual vacation visiting relatives in
northern Vermont. He expects TO be
away from ten DAYS to two weeks.
Fred Bailey of Washington. d. c.,
is spending a short week with his
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Al
bert Bailey.
The shortage of water in this sec
ton is being felt TO a great extent. In
the river there was not enough water
to turn the wheels and thus refill our
reservoir and the wen which was dug
las fall has been dry for over ten
weeks
Miss Iillias Moore has resumed work ,
It Bucks Drug store while Murray viii ,
bur has finished his work for the sum
mer ,