The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-02-04
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interss- from
Different Sections.

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Mrs. Ira Shedrick OF Panton has
cactus which has 2l0 blossoms on ~
The plant is 80 years old.
Rev. Joseph ). Brown, who has been
pastor of the Manchester Center bap'
list church for long period, has been
obliged to resign because Of III heaith
PerIe Harrington of Shaftsbury
Center met with an accident IN the
woods Tuesday which resulted in The
loss Of one eye. A limb struck hin
there.
While Harold Heaton was working
abo,It his ice house in Post Mills re.
Gently. nail flew from piece OF
board and struck him in one eye, de-
stroying the sight.
As Judson Harrington Of Randolph
Center was drawing wood one day this
week. he saw bobcat and as it started
to climb tree he hit the animal with
a stick and killed it. He got IS bounty
Charles Jennison of Peacham be-
lieves he holds pretty good record IN
trapping for In nine days after the
opening Of the season he had captured
eleven foxes, thirteen skunks and ore
coon.
Douglas Fairbanks, motion picture
star. was in Windsor Tuesday. lie
contemplates renting the Butler place,
known as "Highcourt," in Cornish, n.
H.. about three miles from Windsor
for summer home.
Stillman Ring, a Morrisville man,
was badly hurt while attending a hire
in that town last week, when the
hose cart passed over his chest. Since
then he has been confined to the bed
and a bad case Of pneumonia has de-
veloped.
Mary Plouff, eight -year-old daughter
Of MI. and Mrs. Edward Piouff OF
Burlington, is in a hospital in that city
for treatment Of injuries to her head
received in fall from chute, drop
OF 10 feet. She was unconscious Tor
many hours.
Gardner Lucas Of Flecheryille has
made with knife and saw q wooden
mill. The wheel that turns it is three
and one half feet in circumference ard
the little man is foot tall that turns
the wheel. Mr.. Luce has been offered
$40 for il.
Little Florence Swanwich of East
Burke got penny lodged in her throat
one day last week. and the same week
Fred Farmer of the same place got
niece Of oyster she'll lodged in his
throat that be had to 60 to st. Johns
bury to have removed.
ALB. Smith OF South Llinenburg and
viii Allen of Barnet made the trip
from Woodsyille, N H., TO Los An
peles, Cal, in eighteen days, leaving
Woodsville December II and reaching
their destination January 2. They
made the trip in Mr.. Smiths Ford car
and stopped over two days en- route.
Mrs. Mary Griffith of East Dorset,
who is spending the winter with her
daughter in Rutland, took her dog
with her when she made the change OF
residence, but lately the canine came
up missing Then word came from East
Dorset that the dog had arrived home,
having made the 2S-mile trip on foot.
About 20 men from the towns along
the West river from South London
derry to Brattleboro have recently
gone to Missouri to open up coal
mine and two of the men who have
gone have written back that it seems
to be moneymaker as they are get
ting $25 day for having charge OF
getting the coal on tractors from the
mine to the cars.
City Clerk +. B. Corley of Burling-
ton issued Monday marriage license
to couple whose total age is l76
years. Anthony jerome of North ave-
nue. gave his age as SO while that OF
Fanny Green, the bride-to-be, was Civ
en- as 81. Both have been married be-
fore. Contrasted with the above ages,
a marriage license was recently grant
ed TO a girl Is and man 49,
GUY Z. johnson, son Of John l..
johnson of Brattleboro, was in the
Knickerbocker theatre in Washington.
ID. c., 1--WE minutes before the collapse
OF the roof Saturday, Jan. 2s. He and
five others went to that theatre, but
part of them did not like the picture
and the group left. They had gone but
one block when they heard the crash Of
the roof ahad returned, witnessing the
whole affair.
A fire of unknown origin in Benning-
ton destroyed building occupied as a
tenement and plumbing shop and be-
longing to William Fonteneau Wednes-
day afternoon causing almost total
loss. Albert Caron lived in the tene-
ment and most of his furniture was
burned or badly damaged. as Mrs. Car
on was away when the fire started. Mr..
Caron was gassed in the war and has
had hard time getting along ever
since. Mr.. Fonteneau had an up-to-
date plumbing shop and his los is
5000, with a good amount Of in
suranee.
Roland Lyford. young son of Mr..
and Mrs. II. r. Lyford OF Hardwick, re-
ceiyed a bad cut on the back of HE
head a few DAYS ago in a peculiar acct
aenf His mother sat in a rocking chair