The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-08-05

cent heavy showers.
A child, playing with matches, start
ed fire in Burlington that did $50
damage to the house of Mrs. Ell
Shipman.
Butterfeld & Co. of Derby Line hay
posted notices announcing a genera
wage reduction of 20 per cent for thei
employees, beginning Sept. /.
Fire destroyed a large barn in ST
Johnsbury Center belonging to JOSEPH
Tower Monday, the origin being un
known. One horse was badly burned
Northfeld's supply of ice has nearl,
been sold out on account OF the ex
treme weather this summer and deal
ers are looking about for enough tt
complete the season.
Mrs. Laura Douglass of Morrisville
who will be So years old next Febru
airy, has just returned from an auto
trip of over $50 miles through Yer
mont and Massachusetts,.
There is so much reckless driving in
the vicinity of White River Junction
and Lebanon that officers on both
sides Z the Connecticut river are CO.
operating in the matter of enforcing
the automobile laws.
The barn in Lunenburg, owned by
John kenney, was struck by lightning
Friday and was burned with all its
contents. The family. were away, but
neighbors saved one barn and the
house. There was small insurance.
The Congregational church at Wind
ham has extended call to Rev. w. +.
Bissell of West Townshend to serve
as pastor of that church and also OF
the Baptist church in South Wind
ham, providing the latter church will
concur.
It has already been decided that vot-
ers next spring in Rutland will be
given an opportunity TO vote on the
question as to the advisability of pro-
viding municipal swimming place.
The Rotary club has taken the mat.
ter up.
Raymond Griffith and Hiram Tom
linson of Bolton while picking black
berries in Bolton Notch recently found
the safe that was stolen from Ran
dolph station a short time ago 1t
was reported detective found it,
which was a mistake.
Delphis Dignault, who left the jur-
isdiction of Albany, n. Y, authori-
ties after he had been sentenced to
the county Jail for violation of liquor
laws, was arrested in North Pownal
Tuesday and locked up in the Rutland
county Jail to await disposition of his
case.
A 36-hole exhibition golf match is
to be played at the Ekwanok Country
Abe Mitchell and George Duncan, the
celebrated British professionals, who
are spending the summer playing in
this country, and Jim Barnes, the new
champion of the United States, and A.
J. Christie, professional at the Elk
wanok Country club.
Pasquale Cioffi, Is years of age, and
his cousin, p. Cioffi, the same age, were
sentenced in Rutland to serve the re-
mainder of their minority in the in
dustrial school in Vergennes for taking
two $40 bills and two 81 bills from the
pocket of Arthur Paul while he was
swimming in Otter creek. Sentence was
suspended and the boys were put on
probation,
According to the report of the state
board of health, Vermont was COM
parativelv free from contagious dis
eases during July. The most prevalent
was measles, of which there were 255
cases, 9s of them in Washington coun.
ty. Seven cases of poliomyelitis were
Middlebury and one each in st. Al. |
bans City, Grand Isle, Hyde Park,
Montpelier and Brattleboro.
The Buick touring car of T. A. and |
L. F. Fox of Rutland and a National |
touring ear, owned and driven by Isa-
dor Simonds of New York, collided on |
the road leading up the east side of |
Sherburne mountain Tuesday Dam |
ages estimated at $500 were done to
the Buick and the owners have at.
tached the other machine to cover the
damages. 1t is asserted that Simonds |
was on the wrong side of the road
John Young Of Alburg lost his large
motorboat Saturday night when re-
turning from Rouses Point. The motor
backfired through the carburetor, set
ting fire to the woodwork and all of
the hull burned to the waters edge
and the engine and rest of the struc-
ture sank. With Mr.. Young were his
brother, Nelson, and Frank Degreche,
who jumped overheard with lifebelts
on. They were picked up by a boat
from Rouses Point and brought home.
O. Leland Green, for several years
head of the state agricultural school
at Randolph Center, later engaged in
war work overseas and since return.
ing being an instructor at the Berry
boys school in Mt Berry, Ca, has
now been made principal at the school,
Here the mountain whites are edu-
Gated and there is a student body of
about 500, with a faculty and working
force of more than so persons There
are nearly two score buildings con-
nected with the school and 5000 acres
of land is owned by the school, 1000
acres of which is in cultivation Mr.
Green oversees the entire project.