The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-27
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of 1ntereet FROM
Different Sections.

A hawk was killed at the Hack farm
in Orwell Saturday which measured
four feet and one inch from tip to tip
of its wings.
Rev. H. Sumner Mitchell was in
stalled as minister of the First Congre-
gational society (unitarianl in Bur-
lington Tuesday evening.
DIR. B. Fl. Stone, director of tho
laboratory of hygiene at Burlington, is
in the Mary Fletcher hospital criti-
caIly i'll, following a shock which he
suffered Monday. "a.
Miss Sophie Villemaire, Winooskl's
oldest resident, observed her Odd ami
versery Saturday night, $50 relatives
and friends gathering to do her honor.
There was banquet, program and
dance, Miss Villemaire dancing a fox
trut at the reception
The Roberts & Schaefer company, a
firm of engineers in Chicago, has reg
istered with the Vermont secretary Of
state as foreign corporation doing
business in Montpelier. They are
working on the National Life Insur-
ance company's new building.
During Saturday night $3.50 in a.
pockbook and two gold watches were
stolen from the Melrose hospital in
Brattleboro and Mark Crawshaw of
Providence, r. l., who had been or
derby there for month, is missing
The money belonged to student nurse
and the watches to patients.
Hiram Davis, deputy commissioner
Of weights and measures, has returned
to Montpelier after trip for inspec
ton Of railway track scales. The roads
inspected were the Boston & Maine,
st. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain
and Central Vermont. One set of
scales at st. Adams was condemned
and sealed.
John L. Berry of Andover, Mass,
who had been patient in the Melrose
hospital in Brattleboro year, with a |
broken back, was discharged Oct "a |
Mr. Berry, an employee Of the Cham
plain Realty company, fell at Bond
vile where he was at work and broke /
his back, He was strapped to board
at the hospital for nearly eight months
but for the past four months has been
about.
Ethan 4. Carr, for over 25 years a
conductor on the st. Johnsbury & Lake
Champlain railroad and member OF
Chamberlin post. No. |, G. A. R., died
Saturday, aged so years, He was born
in Walden, Sept IL, 1871, and married
April 10. 1873 Mrs Esther Pierce Of
DanviIle. Their married life was spent
In st. Johnsbury His wife survives
him. He had held many Offices in Cham
berlin post and was also a member of
lodge of Masons. II
The Judith. Lyford Womans club of
Cabot has filed with the secretary Of .
state notice of an amendment to its
by which the purpose of :
the organization will be to promote
and aid educational interests of the
town by assisting in the support of
The public library, the furnishing of a
reading room, and the lending of finan-
,ial support where il Is deemed ad.
Tisable; to aid charitable interests by !
furnishing a room for Red Cross work,
ind to make the club known as an ed.
lcational and charitable institution.
William Woodbury. Of Rutland is in
he Proctor hospital with fractured '
kull and not expected TO live; Paul
,picer of Benson is also in the hospital
With bad bruises and George McCurdy,
he third victim~of an automobile acct
lent which happened near Proctor
donday, has broken ankle and in
ured eye. The cause of the accident T
3 unknown. Woodbury., veteran of |
he World war, was driving. Spicer a
vas on the seat with him and Me S
'urdy alone on the back seat The car, a
which was travelling a straight course il
t not more than 20 miles an hour ac- v
ording to one of the party, suddenly Iii
Eft the road, went into a ditch and b
hen hit tree, throwing Woodbury.
nd Spicer onto the control board and
fcCurdy from the machine