The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-11-05
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Intcrert from
Different Sections.

Rev. Fredric r. Champin Of West
Hartford has been given call 70 the
pastorate Of the churches in Windham
Ind South Windham.
AT the so-called William Bent spring
IN Bennington five deer appear every
morning to drink, which indicates that
the streams are low in the mountains
Mrs A. G. Baldwin raised this sea-
son in her garden in Hortonville q
citron VIII CHI weighed IA pounds and
after it was cooked made SIX quarts
and pint Of sauce.
Burglars entered the general store
cf George w. Briggs in Wardsboro
Wednesday night and secured about
tI4 in change, some cigarettes, tobacco
Ind one or two loaves of bread
Frank Stone of Winooski, aged rs
years, was taken i'll at the breakfast
table Wednesday and died within half
IN hour. He had been suffering within
Bright's disease for four years, but not
confined to his bed.
On Portland, Oregon's, "Roseway"
crows a rose which bears the name of
Mrs. James Hardness, wife of Cover
nor Hardness OF Vermont, planted there
In honor of this state. The 'Roseway"
consists Of six miles of rose bushes,
three miles on either side of a boule-
ward, which was dedicated Sunday,
Oct. 20.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed Monday in the office OF the
United States district court in Bur
lington by T. G. Fisher, a Concord
farmer. He gives the total amount OF
his debts as $ll ,72S.2S with assets OF
Sill ,895, and property valued at ST.
500 claimed as exempt. Fishers larg-
est creditor is II. Il. Currier Of Con-
cord for 1880, for grain and feed.
By the will of Daniel j. Carroll who
died in New York City, in May, 1920,
Michael Coops of Schupled, Va, was
given $4,000. Mr.. Cops is former
resident Of West Rutland, but for
number of years has been general
manager Of the Virginia Soapstone
company. in which Mr.. Carroll was in
terested. 1t was for his faithful serv-
ices that his employer willed him the
$4,000.
John X. White, a Jamaica farmer,
spent Wednesday night in Jail in New
fame. having been arrested on a charge
Of disturbing the peace by threatening
WILDER II. Wellman, another Jamaica
farmer, with bodily harm. The trouble
REV out Of difference about cattle. Mr..
White was placed under bonds Of 5000
for his appearance later in the term Of
Windham county court and was re-
leased.
Six Springfield boys were hailed i'm
10 police court as a result of Hal
Iowe'eD escapadc. the throwing of a
squash through the plate glass window
of Marmon coupe belonging to A.
G. Bowman and driven by his chauf-
feur, Raw Cutler. They had been throw
ing various vegetables at passing cars
No disposition was made of the case,
which was adjourned until next Mon
day.
a North Bennington Ford car, with
six passengers, ran away Thursday,
threw the passengers into Cushman
pond and then laid down on the troll
lev track, where it blocked the line
for half an hour. Jesse Vadakin was
driving the car and with him in the
Ford were his father and brothers and
Arthur Bassett and Bert Bromley, all
of whom work at Cushman's. No one
was hurt. but all got good ducking
in the pond.
Oct. 81 two officers Of the state pris-
on at Windsor took three inmates Of
the institution to dentists Office. On
leaving the Office, one Of the prisoners,
Clyde Robinson, aged rs years, sent to
Windsor from Montpelier, slammed the
hallway door at the foot of the stairs
directly in the face of his attending
officer as he was about to step out into
the street Robinson disappeared
around the corner of the building and
that is the last seen of him, although
officers have ever since been searching
for him.
A man who gave the name of Lewis
Westover asked Harold w. Gammons,
head of the English department in the
Springfield high school, for a ride to-
ward Springfield one day last week. He
said he was on the way to Burlington,
where he was to be married, and re-
ferred to his war service, but before
Mr.. Gammons reached his home town
with the passenger he decided he was
unsound mentally and delivered him
up 10 the village police Office. The next
morning, however, the young man
seemed all right and was released. Not
long after, Springfield officials received
a telephone call from Red Cross head
quarters at st. Adams, asking them TO
be on the lookout for this same West
over, who is from Swanton, and who
had escaped from the state hospital at
Waterbury. By that time all trace Of
him had ben lost.
The Cadillac victoria, stolen from in
front Of the office of w. c. Clark of
Burlington Wednesday. night, was
found abandoned in a swamp about
three miles south of the city Of Yer
gennes Thursday night. The robbers
evidently understood a Cadillac. for
they had cieverly wired around the
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