The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-01
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections. .

happenings OF tuLeIeSL htVii
Different Sections.
Newport City is trying to raise
$4,000 hospital fund
The tax rate for the city of Yer
gennes has been fixed by the city coun
Gil at 50 on the grand list.
d. Fl. Mohat, aged 90 years, an EN-
ploye of c. II, A. Stafford of Morris
Vile, has dislocated spine, due t
trying to stop a rolling log.
Rev. Hervey Gulick has resigned thu
pastorate of the church in Bridport ant
has moved his family to Salisbury
where he has purchased house.
The Missisquoi river at Enosburl
Falls is so low that persons easily cross
the stream with common rubbers or
and the fish are dying in quantities.
Louis Sharlow aged y years and q
resident of West Enosburg, died re
Gently as result of being thrown
from a load OF lumber and striking or
a brake iron.
Francis Coolidge of Mt Holly is crit
ically ill with congestion of the lungs
following a severe attack of infamma
tion of the throat, caused by kernel
of popcorn being lodged there.
L. Is IL
visiting at a neighbours Sunday, com
planned of the headache and was given
tablets for his relief, which proved to
be bichloride of mercury. He was taken
to hospital for treatment.
Rev. c. c. Delaney, rector of St..
Anthony's church 10 White River juno
ton has been given the degree of doc
tor of divinity by his alma mater the
University of Ottawa. He was valedic
torian of his class in 1891.
William Bacovitch, IS years OF age
attempted suicide in st. Adams on
Wednesday evening by drinking iodine,
but he will live. Seeking a job and fail
ing to secure one, he took the poison.
He was stranger in the city.
Edward Foley was arrested Tuesday
night on the street in Rutland for de-
sertion from the United States army.
Foley had been at his home in Rutland
for some time but the officers had just
been notified of his desertion. He had
served nearly two years of a three
year enlistment.
Auto inspectors visited vergennes on
Wednesday night and held up over 25
motorists, who were using dim lights,
only one light or no rear light. About
a dozen horse drawn vehicles were also
stopped for being operated without
lights. They were taken before jus
tiee and fined S. and costs,
Judge z. c. Mower of Burlington,
who has been special lecturer on in
ternstionsl law and other courses in
government at thu University of Yer
mont since 1910, will next fall devote
his whole time to teaching those sub
jects at the college. Judge Mower will
have a full professorship.
The town of Hartford has filed !
petition with the state board of com
missioners of toll bridges for the re-
fund of expenses amounting to $1,000
in the construction and maintenance
of the so.called Connecticut river Ly-
man bridge, long ago made free
bridge. II IL the present plan Of the
state to reimburse the towns in annual
allotments
John Phillips and Harry Clark of
New York City, on their way from
there to Quebec, stopped near White
River Junction to lcok for engine trou
bic and Mr.. Phillips took off his dia.
mond ring, valued at $3.50, and placed
it on the fender Of the car. When re-
pairs had been made, they resumed
their journey and had gone 40 miles
before Mr.. Phillips thought of his ring,
their journey, they found it
by the roadside just where they had
resumed their trip. u
Mrs Irene Bliss Kelton, who died in
Glover June Z, was at one time a
in Montpelier and operated
the first sewing machine owned in that
town She was in her Goth year when
she died Mrs Kelton began supporting
herself at the age Of 10 years, by work
ing in the weaving rooms of different
shops in Nashua, y H., and in Mont
pelier. When a young woman she made
a trip TO Ohio by stage coach. Mrs
Kelton was born in Calais and .1ved
there most Vt the time until the death
Of her husband, W. H. kelton, in 1901.
Burroughs orchestra of St Johns
bury was in an automobile accident
near the Lyndonville creamery at
o'clock Wednesday morning when the
Packard in which they were riding
'ideswiped an electric light pole and
proceeded 20 feet into a field before il
,ould be stopped The party was re-
urning TO St Johnsbury from The
3oulders a. Willoughby lake. where
hey had been playing the night before
or a dance Thomas Burroughs, VIC {
mist and manager, was struck glsnc Z
ng blow on the chest when the car
truck a pole and was UNCONSCIOUS for
time, also having bruised leg and
,eing generally famed all over. His