The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-14
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections.

Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections.
Rutland has three influenza cases.
Tomorrow the gain in the length of
The day will be exactly 90 minutes.
Essex Junction reported a tempera.
ture of % below zero yesterday morn
ing.
Rutland Congregationalists raised
$l0,l9G last year, and their 1927 bud
get Is S0,o05.
Over 1000 perch have been caught
at the mouth of Dead creek, in YER
gcnnes, within the past few days.
The week of January rs 80 cases
pf measles were reported in Rutland
Hounty, mostly outside of Rutland city
N At the annual meeting of the Jericho
congregational church, Jan. g. A. p.
sByington resigned as clerk, having held
the office for = years.
"a Miss Avis Myers, in attempting to
board an electric ear near her home in
Pownal Center. was thrown and sus-
tanned injuries to her spine.
H The farmhouse at West Arlington,
owned by Arthur Grout, was destroyed
by fire Saturday night. The family
were away from home at the time and
nothing was saved.
Mrs. Guy J.. Bouilette has been elect
ed to the office of collector of taxes in
fire district No. of Hartford town.
This is the first election of a WON
an to like office in that town.
Henry +. Puffer, an inmate of the I
Soldiers home at Bennington, was
found dead in his ROOM Wednesday, in
Troy, n. T. where he was visiting. I
There is much illness at the home,
three inmates being critically sick.
In the 60 years that the First Ma
tional Bank of Bennington has been in
operation there have been but four
cashiers, the fifth being chosen at the
annual meeting this week, Arthur J.
Colgan, who has been assistant cashier
for two years. :,
Austin D. Beach Of Salisbury, who
was thrown from a load of hay onto
the iron railing of bridge, when the
hay rack slipped off, is in the Mary
Fletcher hospital, Burlington, with sew
cral broken ribs and a punctured lung
His condition is serious,
Trouble at the shirt manufacturing
plant of the TauberL Upton company
in Rutland, which arose several weeks
ago when several employees left rather
than accept a reduction in pay, has j
been adjusted and the girls have re-
turned.
There is little possibility that the
Vermont Mix Chocolate company will
resume work at its plant in Burlington \.
before March Between IS and 100
men are employed there now but they
are only stocking up for future bust
ness A cut in wages has been made
III all departments
A bearing is to be held at Poultney
Jan. Is in the case of Catherine Crit
fifth ct al, vs.. Henry Spalholz ct al,
in which the plaintiffs allege that
the defendants fraudulently and by
Misrepresentation secured possession Of ,
the stock of the so-ealled William Crit (.
fifth slate quarry at POultney.
Allie Brace. colored, was caught in :
the act of robbng the store of H. P, {
Prindle in Burlington Tuesday morn
ing a policeman apprehending him just :
as he was ready to leave with bottles =
of olives, cans of fruit and other things. =
He had just finished serving time for
stealing shoes, trousers, etc, from his 6
father.
, The statue of Ira Allen, a gift to tie n
University Of Vermont, viii be dpdi, y
Gated at commencement time, the plas o,
ter cast now being at a foundry near
New York City to be cast in bronze :,
The pedestal will be finished in all i
hammered Barre granite, Of plain de- :,
sign, and will bear a simple inscrip- q,
ton.
Charles C. Gates, one of Hartlands b,
prominent citizens. died Of heart fail q,
ure in his sleep Jan. .. He was GS Fl
years Of age and for over 40 years had II
lived on the farm, "Fairyiew.r where ii
he died. He had served as selectman,
school director Justice Of the peace D,
and represented his town in the legis- D,
lature of l00S-l9 m
Oh
William II. Lyons a native Of Der
lin. was found dead at his home in m