The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-12-29

Boston has arrived at Manchester De
pot to spend week and IS following
various trails around that section.
Vernon has an outbreak Of searle
fever and as result all public Christ
mas exercises had TO be given up, NJ
gatherings Of any kind to be held unit
further notice.
w. r. Smith lost one eye while
placing barrel overhead IN his barn
at Jacksonville few days ago. a
pair of ice tongs was dislodged, which
fell on him, catching in one eye and
gouging it out.
A party of 25 st. Adams people will
leave that city Jan. 2 in a special char.
tered car for Sarasota, Fla, where they
will spend the remainder Of the win.
ter. One of the group, Mrs. G. @. Bost.
wick, is So years old. She has spent
is consecutive winters in Sarasota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore j. Turner OBJ
served their sixty third wedding ami
versary at their home in Brattleboro
Christmas day, four generations being
present at family party. Mr.. Turner
is so and Mrs. Turner is II years old.
Nine children were born to them, of
whom only three survive.
Harrison NJ. Townshend, an aged
Putney man, who for two years has
lived alone, is in a serious condition as
a result of having no fire in his house
Fearing fire he has so neglected himself
that when his brother, Alfred Towns
bend, called he found the aged man IN
bed with both feet frozen. He was
then removed to the home OF Charles
Townshend for care.
The Rutland jail, which accommo
dates rs. is full to overlooking so that
Joseph Willett, confined there while
awaiting hearing on charge OF
burglary, was obliged to sleep on the
floor. 1t is said that the young man
has confessed to stealing S25 from the
cash drawer of the c. Z. Corey store
in Hubbardton Christmas day and hid
ing it. Tracks in the snow led to the
boys arrest. He is TO-
Three members of Rutland wedding
party, who were in an automobile at
tempting to head off the bride and
groom, narrowly escaped death when
the roadster with the three persons in
one seat jumped a three-foot culvert,
struck tree, went through a wire
fence and into another tree and stopped
right side up in a pasture about %
r. - L .xwI,. .atrc IN
the snow observed after the accident |
there was one stretch Of approximately |
IL feet where the wheels did not touch |
the ground. After one new wheel had I
been substituted the ear was driven |
70 a garage John H. Toohey, Miss /
Clara Toohey and Patrick 4. Melon
ough all of Rutland, were in the auto /
mobile, but no one was seriously hurt.
Mrs. Mary Brown Mayo, for 46
years in the service of the Burlington
schools, died Wednesday at the home
of her sister in Eaton, N. ", aged IA
years. Mrs. Mayo, then Miss Brown,
came to Burlington in the fall Of 1876
primary school, having previously
taught eight years in New York state.
In 1884 she was married to George G.
Mayo, brother of Admiral II. I.
Mayo, but continued her teaching. She
was transferred from one school to
another and since the present Law
renee Barnes school was completed and
opened in the fall of 1895 Mrs. Mayo
had been principal of the grades in
hat building. Her health was so poor
Turing the summer that she could not !
resume her duties last September, but
no one was appointed to take her
place, since it was thought she would
ater be able to come back. ]