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I VOL. VIII NO. 105.
BAKEE, VT., MONDAY, 'JULY 18, 1004.
PBICE, ONE CENT.
BARRE
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ASSAULT
Russians Couldn't Dis
lodge Japanese
IN YESTERDAY'S ATTACK
Attempt Was Made Early ' Yesterday
Morning, Reports General
Kuropatkin.
Tokio, July IS. General Kuroki reports
that two divisions of Russians made a
desperate assault on the Japanese posi
tion at Motionling yesterday at dawn.
They were repulsed. The casualties
are nut given.
DROWNED WHILE FISHING.
Charle .Millet of Burlington Stood t 1 lu
the lioal.
Burlington, July IS Whi'.s fishing at
Halt Moon Cove in the Winooskt river
early yesterday morning, Charles Millet of
this city was drowned early yesterday
morning. Millet stood op in the boat.loat
bis balance ana pitched into the river.
Two companions, James Francis and Ja-
ob Marshall, were unable to rescue him
Millet was 30 years old and leaves a wife
and live children. . .
TERRIBLY MANGLED.
Body, of liilitiowa Matt Found South of
Kurlington,
Burlington, July 18. The body of an
unknown man, 55 years old, weight 2o0
pounds, five feet ten inches tail, was
found on the track at the Howard Park
crossing, a mile sooth of this city today.
He was,run over by the southbound mid
night train and horiibly mangled and tin
recognizable. He was fairly well dressed,
and wore a grey beard and a short mus
tache. The iuttials "J. C." were on the
shirt.
CUPID AND DOG AS RIVALS.
Younuer Brother Tales Canine aud
Un Elder Starry Sweetheart.
.... Wellington Fulii-r lias 'iniirrlod bin
brother Arthur's glr!,"nd brother Ar
tbur is now owner of Wellington's
prl roon dog, says a WinsW (Conn.)
Ki'cial dispatch to the Chicago Inter
Oce.tri. Wellington Bays he hit gut the
boat slid prettiest girl in .Berkshire
county, Muss., arid brother Arthur says
that if there Is ony dog in the county
thnt can tree more awns than his new
dott he'd like to know it.
Wellington and Arthur both became
smitten with pretty Miss Ivy White,
Walter White's daughter, last fall, and
they began "callin' regular." Arthur is
twenty-four and his brother twenty-six
.Soon the big brother henna to under-
Kturid that the little brother was get
ting mere wnlles than be wan. and the
viltiise folk told him he had better be.
spry. He might have settled it in
fight, but be chose diplomacy.
"Arthur, did ye ever s a coon dog
that could ketch more coons than my
...Sport V
Arthur admitted he hadn't.
"Arthur, Miss Ivy is a pretty girl, but
1 guess as how you have seen some one
Jc-t as pretfy?"
Arthur thought maybe he had.
"Well, Arthur, there ain't another
coon dog like Sport, and there may be
another girl like Miss Ivy. I am going
to give you Sport. He's your'n."
Arthur was delighted.
"And when you get Sport I want you
to forg. t the way to Miss Ivy's house
and let me do all the courting alone,"
said the big brother.
Arthur thought it over. Sport certain
ly was a good dog and Miss Ivy cer
tatuly was a fine girl but there wasn'
another dog like Sport.
"Being as I am only twenty-four nn
pretty young to get married, I guess
will take the coon dog, if ye really
mean It," announced Arthur.
To show that he meant It Wellington
.and MIks Ivy White were married 1
the village tbureh in New Boston
Mass. Arthur has bought a new gu
.and is impatient to get after the coons.
The Voracity of Fluh.
The voracity of fish is remarkabl
A huge pike caught in an English ea
nal is said to have had in its stoma
.a child's tin toy wagon, a tablespoon
. a short Roman sword, probably lost by
one of Caesar's legionaries, a hamiue
and a baby's flannel shirt.
The First Libraries
"In 1304 the Royal library of France
, contained twenty volumes and was the
largest possessed by any king in E
' rop0-
Tibet's Poller,
Porno years ago at Diirjiliug, on tli
i border of India, a Tibetan was dueke
in a fountain fur insolence to an Lag
lishwoman. He was afterward prim
minister of Tibet and did much
. shape the Tibetan policy of excluslo
for all white foreigners.
5 INNINGS
AND A TIE
Leaders and Tailenders
Had Long Battle
A HOST EXCITING GAME
Bobby" Dresser and "Sammy" Ap-
perilous The Heroes of the Day.
Burlington Shuts Out Rufand
The leaders and the tail-enders In the
orthern league race clashed on the Inter
city grounds Saturday afternoon, and!
when the smoke of the Impact was raised,
or rather when Umpire Shea decided that
it was too "dark" to play ball, Barre-
Montpelier had secured four runs and
'htttsbarg ditto. That was at the end of
the fifteenth inning. How many more in-
ings the teams might have played with
out decisive results is a matter of con
jecture. The sun shone on brightly lor
half an hour after the game was called.
The ball players, and the crowd, as well,
were tired, however, and there was really
no one sorry that the umpire called the
game. It Is the longest game of the pres
ent league season and it was probably as
fall of a mixture of good and bad plays as
any that will be served cp to the patrons
of the game this season.
Fifteen hundred people saw the contest.
and a large number started to leave the
grounds in the ninth Inning believing
that the game was lost to the home team.
But the latter gave an excellent exhibition
of that fighting spirit at the finish and
staved off defeat.
Little "Bobby" Dresser, the foxy south
paw, and that tall geutieman, "Sammy"
Apperious, were the heroes of the game so
far as the home team was concerned. Af
ter Johnson, who started in to pitch for
the borne team, had apparently lost the
game through his inability to locate the
plate. Dresser went into the hot in the
fifth inning and held the visitors down' to
one score for the next eleven innings.
'Sammy" Apperious assisted in tying the
score in the ninth with a double and be
tied the score hi the thirteenth inning
with a home tub, making the longest and
prettiest hit ever seen on the grounds. Sot
only did he do that but Apperious also
batted oat an extra two-bagger and one
single, making four hits with a total of
nine bases out of six times at the bat. It
was a splendid exhibition of stick work
and made the tall left fielder solid with
the crowd.
Dresser, the other hero, twirled as pret
ty a game of ball as has been seen in a
long time. W lib the score three to noth
ing against him, he went Into the box.beld
the Piattsburgs down to four hits for the
rest of the game, fanned eleven of them
and presented but four passes to first on
bails, lie put up a last game. Johnson
was a disappointment. He was very wild,
giving six passes to first In the four in
nings he officiated, allowed three hits and
struck out only one man. His bases on
balls were most costly, two of the free
passes developing into scores in the fourth
inning, aided by errors on the part of the
home team. Johnson was pulled out of
bad holes In each of the first three innings
by excellent work on the part of his field
ers. In each inning Plattsburg had two
men on bases when the side was retired.
Burke on first was responsible for Flatts
burg's failure to score in the first, through
some fast fielding of hard grounders; and
the other fielders worked hard to keep
down the score.
When Dresser went into the box the
crowd breathed easier, and the players
seemed to have more confidence. The lit
tle fellow was an enigma to the Fiatts
burgs for the remainder of the game.Xash,
the local catcher, gave a wretched exhibi
tion of backstopping, ana nis dropped ana
passed balls with Johnson's pitching near
ly made a gift of the game to the tail-emi-
ers. Xash. needs to brace up in his worK
to keep pace with the rest of the team.
McLean, the Plattsburg twirler, pitched
a steady and consistently strong game,
He allowed ten hits but mauaged to keep
them scattered with the exception of the
seventh and ninth inniugs, when the lo
cals landed on him for three In each inn
ing. Up to then he had been touched up
for only two hits, and In the remaining
six Innings Barre-Montpelier got only two
more, one of thembeiug "Sammy's" home
run. McLean save bat three bases on
balls and fanned eleven of the home stick
ers. Sheldon falliug a victim four times.
McLean received tine support from his
team-mates, the Infield particularly mak
ing some fast plavs. Kellogg, Dunn and
Shntte each shut otT what was apparently
a sure single bv brillant catches of hard
hit balls. For the home team, Poland was
all over the field, Morgan played a fast
game and Stewart made a beautiful catch
of a dimeuit fly Dan.
Skelly and Cosgrove.the first two Piatts- j
burgers up were given free trips to first :
base and Flynn advanced them with a sac
rifice. Things were breaking badly for
the locals when Burke gobbled Dunn's
grounder aud touched the runner out hold
ing the other runners on second and third.
Shulte wa3 so foolish as . to send another
grounder to the same man and was out,
A sigh of relief went np from the crowd.
Cosgrove In centeriield robbed Apperious
of an apparently sure hit in the same inn
ing, falliug down just as he caught the
ball.
Johnson preented Kellogg a cheap base
in the second, Stroh hit to Burke and
Kellogg was forced at second. Johnson
made a botch of attempting to field Davis'
grounder, but McLean struck out. With
two on bases Skelley put up a sky-scraper
for "Jimmie" Morgan and retired. Barre
Montpelier was blanked again.
Plattsburg looked good f or a run In the
third, with abase on balls and a single,
but the infield came to the rescue and re
tired the side. After Sheldon was retired
on a liner to Shulte and Johnson had sat
down after fanning, Poland singled to
left. He tried the catcher's arm and died
at second on a pretty throw.
The fourth inning is a tale of woe for
the locals. Johnson began the matinee
by passing Stroh to first. Xash dropped
a ball and Stroh went to second. Davis
singled to right field and Sheldon let the
ball get by him, Stroh scored. Johnson
made a wild pitch aud Davis was pleased
to be on second. McLean popped to Dor
man and then Xash dropped another ball,
Davis took third. Skelley popped one to
Morgan ; then Xash followed up his pro
gramme by having a passed ball. Davis
scored. Johnson presented Cosgrove his
ba36 and Cosgrove was ticketed for a
score. When the pitcher made another
wild throw Cosgrove went to Beeond;
rlynn landed on the ball, when It came
over, for a hit to center field; and Cos
grove crossed the plate. Stewart cap
tared Dunn's fly, after which the crowd
counted up the costs and found that Platts
burg had tallied three unearned runs.
Scorer Charley Lord got rattled and chalk
ed down four on the big score board. The
crowd quickly put him right.
Defeat loomed up ominously before the
home team as McLean was pitching win
ning ball. ' Both sides were blanked for
two innings. Apperious worked In a
double in the fourth but was put out
through foolish base running. But with
Dresser in the box there was nothing do
ing for Plattsburg. The locals got a-going
in the seventh. Apperious started the
ball by singling to left. Davis let the ball
get through him, and the runner took sec
ond. Xash Hied to third and on the lat
ter'a poor throw to double Apperious at
second the latter scooted to third. Burke
struck out but Capt. Morgan brought in
the runner with a clean single past the
pitcher. Stewart doubled to right but
Sheldon clpsed the inning by striking out,
Another inning passed without scores
and Barre-Montpelier came up in the last
half of the ninth, with the score three to
one against them. They got , together
Again Apperions started off. this time
with a double to right. Nash ripped oil a
triple to the right lieid tence and Apperi
ous scored. Burke sent a long one Into
centre field, and after the catch Xash
went in with the score which put the
home team on even running with the visi
tors. The crowd cheered wildly. Mor
gan filed out to left, Stewart singled aud
Sheldon struck out. And an extra inning
game was assurred.
But it was to ba more than extra in
nings. The tenth, eleventh and twelfth
passed with both sides retired in order as
fast as they came np, by some of the finest
fielding ever seen here. Outside of one
dropped ball by Xash there was not a
skip, and that did not result disastrously.
The thirteenth opened unluckily. Dresser
passed Stroh to first, and the runner took
second, Xash dropping another pitched
balL Dresser ate up Davis' fly and then
struck out McLean; but Skelley drove the
ball far into center field and Stroh crossed
the plate with the run which looked good
lor tne game.
It was do or die with Barre-Montpelier
then. They did. Dornian, the first man
up, fouled to the catcher, and Plattsburg
began to breathe again. But Apperious
was next up. As the tall fielder walked
to the plate his ears were dinned with the
frantic cries of the crowd for a 'home
run." Apperious looked determined.
The first ball sailed over tha plate, and the
umpire called "strike." Bat the second
one didn't get by. Apperious' bat struck
it squarely on the trade-mark and away it
sailed toward left center. Apperious tore
to first, while the little piece of rubber,
twine and horsehide seemed to take
wings. Away it sailed with the three
Plattsburg fielders legging tor it. The
crowd was so silent that a pin fall could
have been heard. But It was only for
moment. Apperious had responded to the
call. And as the ball dropped over the
extreme left center fence and soused into
the river, the crowd let loose. Such an
ovation has never been given a local ball
player as was accorded the "slugger ' as
ha circled the bases and crossed the plate
chuckling. It was several minutes before
tb game could proceed. The hit saved
the day and staved off sure defeat.
And the like of the hit has never been
seen here. It was the longest and clean
eat home run that has been made on the
local grounds. Had there been no fence
and eo river, Apperions would have been
re&iing on the bench before the fielders
could have returned the ball to the dla
mond. It mattered not after that which
side woo the game.
For two innings more the teams played
and then L mpire Shea called the game.
Both pitchers were game to the finish, and
pitched even stronger ball than when they
started. , It was a quarter before six when
the game was called.
ltarrnx-Mimlpcliei.
ah r 1)U po s
Poland, 2b. T 0 1 a S
Ikmuan us (10 0 12
Apperious If 7 H i 0 0
S.iii c fill 1-2 1
Burke 11, 5 0 0 Is) t
Morgan 3b Capt C 0 2 2
Stewart i: f 0 0 8 4 0
.tiilinsim i 1 0 0 0 1
Sheldon r f 6 0 0 0 0
1 iresser p 5 0 0 1 4
65 4, 10 45 19
V Plattsburg;.
. til' r Mi po a
fkf!lv r f (5 (1 X ' D 0
omji.tt i! rl 4 1 0 5 0
IHinn 31) ..6 0 0 6 3
f-tliulte ss C 0 0 1 i
KUgg 2b O O 7 5 2
Stroll c 4 2 1 IS S
jinvis If 7 1-12 0
Mrl.pan p 7 0 0 0 4
1-ljim 1 b 7 0 Q 14 1
t,l 4 7 45 17
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
I
1
Score by iunings:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 IS 11 15
llnTTK.-Mnnt 0 0 00001020 0 0 0 0 14
plattsburg 0003000000 0 0 1 0 1-4
Earned runs : B. and 'MY S ; left on
bases. B. and M. 8, Plattsburg 14; two
base hits, Apperious 2, Stewart, Skelly;
three base hit; Xash; home run, Apper
ious; stolen bases, Cosgrove, Kel
logg, t'lroh, Shu!te,'2, Dresser Hurke 2,
fans on balls off Johnson 0, off Burke 4,
McLean, 3; struok out, by Johnson 1. by
Dressier 11, by McLean 11; double play,
Kellogg and Dunn; wild pitches, Johnson
1; passed bails, Xah (S, Stroh 2;time, 2h.
45m.; umpire, Shea.
RUTLAND SHUT OUT,
Burlington Made L Hit But Wat F
worl by Krrors.
Kotland. July
IT. A pitchers' b
le
with Cristail for Burlington and O'Brien
for Rutland resulted in a shut out for the
Marble City team here yesterday, the
score being 3 to 0.
Score by innincs;
12 3 4 5 0 18 0
Burlington 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 03
Rutland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
Batteries, Cristail and Breunan, 0'13rien
and Dun'. Hits, Burlington 3, Rutland i.
Errors, Burlingtan 1, Rutland 3.
Northern Lefigu Standing,
Won Lost Fit
it -l
ti 5
6 0
5 7 .417
11 ,182
HatTfi-Montpftllcr
llutland
St. Albans
Burlington
Plattsburg
Sara lilts.
There was nothing safe in Burke's ter
ritory.
Mr, Johnson's little valise didn't con
tain the goods.
There won't be many fifteen inning
games, ana, too, without decisive result.
The crowd was interested when It learn
ed that Burlington had shut out Rutland.
For the get-together spirit no team has
anythihg on the Barre-Montpelier combi
nation. The crowd saw a prodigious amount of
sport, and the standing of the teams was
not affected. :
Plattsburg kicked, my, how they kicked,
over Umpire Shea's decisions! Shea did
well under trying conditions.
Charley Lord, who keeps the big score
board in centeriield, ran short of figures
and had to take them all down and start
again.
In the eighth, Dresser pitched six times
and McLean and Skelley sat down on the
bench, Dresser thought they needed fan
ning. Barre-Montpelier's battery misplays
were an expensive luxury. It Isn't every
team that can afford them, and Barre-
Montpelier can't. ,
It was a game of record-breakina; the
longest of the season, Apperions' home
run was the best ever and Xash made
new high record on dropped and passed
balls. . .
For opportuneness, that home run drive
by Apperious couldn t have been bettered.
It was just what was wanted and at the
time when it was most needed. "Sammy"
is it with the stick.
Dresser and Stroh gave a little side
show exhibition on the first base line in
the seventh, when the former tried to
field Stroh i grounder. 1 hey were both
excellent as "tumblers."
Bowoock, who hell down second base
for the Barre-Montpelier team the first of
the season, is plaving left ueld for his old
home team, Fall Kiver, in the Xew En
gland league. He has a worthy successor
in Poland, who played ail over trie held
Saturday and pot np as slick an exhibition
as Bowcoek ever could.
In place of MeXeil who could not come,
Thomas Slattery, a deaf and dumb pitch
er from Xorth Adams, Mass., has been se
cured by the Barre-Montpelier manage
ment. Slattery is a protege of Jack Ches
bro of Xew York. He will pitch against
the Cuban X Giants Thursday.
The St. Albans Messenger is authorized
to say that the rumor that the St. Albans
team was to disband has no foundation In
fact. The directors of the St. Aiban's as
sociation have been assured of ample fi
nancial backing and the statement that
the team will not go through the season Is
untrue. St. Albans is In it to stay.
The defeat of the Hyphens yesterday by
St. Albans gladdened the hearts of the lo
cal fans, and no doubt equally pleased the
other teams in the league as well. Al
though Montpelier-Barre ha3 a splendid
team they will not have things their own
way continually, and "there'll oome a time
some day." The toboggan is open to all
comers, Rutland Herald. It's not greas
ed for Barre-Montpelier though.
LEAGUE BASE BALL.
Bout on National Defeated hv St. Louis
Yesterday.
Yesterday's American League scores:
At Xewark, Xew York 3, Detroit 1.
Saturday's American League Scores:
At Boston Boston 13, Cleveland 3.
At Xew York Xew York S, Detroit S
(10 innings').
At Philadelphia Philadelphia 8, St.
Louis 1.
At Washington Chicago S, Washing
ton 0.
American Leue Standing,
Wnii. Lost. Pet,
4'.i 24 .U71
45 2 .(116
41 Si .071
4ll 32 .fti'ii
37 32 AMt
: an .4,5
'29 4:i 1 .4o3
14 57 ' .11(7
Boston
New York
t'Hileago
Philadelphia
Cleveland
t. Louis
Pctroit
Washington
Yesterday's Xational League scores ;
At Chicago Chicago 8, Philadelphia 6
At St. Louis St. Louis 0, Boston 3.
At CincinnatiBrooklyn 4, Cincinnati 2.
Saturday's Xational League scores:
At St. Louis St. Louis 5, Boston 3.
At Pittsburg Xew York 7, Pittsburg 0,
At Cincinnati Cincinnati 4, Brooklyn
2.
At Chicago Chicago 1, Philadelphia 0
National League Standing.
Won. Lost, Pot.
-JO . .7
47 27 - ,im
42 31 . .675
40, 31 ' ,6i3
30 3fS .627
2 4
50 .;m
17 5ft .2J
New York
Chicago
('inclnnatt
PittKbuit;
St. Louis
ltoston
Unwklvn
riuUdot'ltiu
A house and barn on a lot containing
nearly three acres of land, located only
about lo minutes walk from the postotlice
for sale or will exchange for farm or rent
ing property. Terms easy. I). A. Perry
Real Estate Agency, Gordon s block.
BEEF PRICES
TO GO HIGHER
Will Be at Maximum in
Few Days
SO SAY THE BIG PACKERS
But They. Do Not Expect Anything Ap
proaching a Meat Famine-To- ,
day's Strike Situation.
Chicago, July LS. The prices of meat
will be at their highest in a few days and
will then decline until they come to the
normal in ten days. This Is the predic
tion of the packers as to effect of the
strike. At the same time the men con
trolling the meat Industry declare there
will be no real famine nor anything ap
proaching it.
The retail dealers today expected to ad
vance the rate for straight beef half a cent
a pound, making a total of four and a half
since the butchers walked out.
An order prohibiting the stock handlers
from handling cattle for the packers after
six o'clock this morning has been counter
manded pending the result of the meeting
of all union men at yards not now on
strike. The meeting will be held today.
LEGISLATOR TAKES LIFE.
George A. Huniner of Lincoln Commits Sul-
Bristol, July 10. George A. Hanuier
committed suicide at his home in the
north part of Lincoln last eveniug by tak
ing strychnine. He would have been 42
years old September 25. It Is supposed
that the cause of his act was that he was
despondent and tired of liviug. He was a
popular farmer and prominent citizen and
had held many town offices. He repre
sented his town in the last legislature. He
is survived by his wife, a young son, an
aged mother, and a sister.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
JIarhfiBlt Mau Arretted on Complaint of
Toon t Girl.
Montpelier, July 18. Hiram Bean of
Maishtield is under arrest at Haverhill,
Mass., on a serious charge Four years
ago Mr. Bean, who is a married man, took
into his family Josephine Kent, a girl
then 10 years old. Four weeks ago she re
fused to live longer with Mr. Bean and af
ter she had left his home charged him with
repeated felonious assaults upon her.
STRUCK BY A TRAIN.
Dent Wo man of Rutland KiU-d While
Walking on the Truck.
Rutland, July 17. Mrs. George Deooro
of Xo. 433 West street was struck and in
stantly killed by a Delaware & Hudson
train a short distance from the village of
West Rutland this morning. The woman
was very deaf.
BADLY USED UP.
Mau Nam ml Ashton Pounded and Cut Sat
urday Night.
A man named Ashton was badly used
np in a scrap which took place on Second
street Saturday night, being pounded and
alsoeut. Tha police have arrested a fel
low named Xewman on the charge of be
ing bis assailant. .
WHO WANTS GAS?
The gas company Is trying to find out
on which streets there will be the most de
mand for gas, and on those which there
will be no demand at all mains will not be
laid this season. If you desire to use gas
fill out the coupon on fourth page aud
mail It to the Gas Co, 385, Barrs, Vt,
TALK OF THE TOWN.
Prof.- Avery went to Royalton this
morning ou business.
F. D. Ladd went to So. Royalton yester
day in his automobile.
Mrs. Frank Bird went to Burlington
this morning to visit inenas.
Mrs. Chas. Keith leaves tonight for a
two month's trip to Scotland,
Roy Darling of So. Ryegate spent Sua
day with friends in this city.
Sister Louise of the Holy Ghost convent
at Graniteyille went to Leominster,Ma3.,
this morning.
Mr, and Mrs. H. C. Jones, who have
been visiting friends in the ci y, went to
Woodsvllle, X. H., this morning,
The Junior League base ball team of
the Congregational church went to Chelsea
today to cross bats with the junior team of
that place,
Closing outsale of summer millinery.AH
my trimmed and untrimmed millinery to
close out in the next ten days at one-half
cost. Miss L. J. Hall, la Elm street,
Barre, Vt.
Notice to Claimmnn.
All Clansmen are requested to attend
the regular meeting to be held on Mori
day, July 1,'th. last., as business of im
portance will be transacted.
Jas. Muteh. secty.
PROCTORS
NOT TOUCHED
Their Plant Only One
Running Today
ALL WORKMEN NOV OUT
Says F. D. Proctor, I Will Let the
Who!e Plant Rot Before I Wil!
Give la An Inch."
Rutland. July !. As a insult of a fiery
speech ma'le by President Fitzgerald yes
terday afternoon, the machinists and
quarrymeu of all the plants except the
ermont Marble company went out this
morning. Probably the number is several
hundred. Xot a plant in this section is
doing anything in any department today
except the Vermont Marble company,
which is ttiil not affected.
"I Will let the whole plant rot before I
will give in an inch." said Fletcher D.
Proctor, president of the Vermont Marble
company, against which a strike has been
declared, yesterday in speaking of the
probability of the company coming to
terms with the strikers. The remark was
made privately by Mr. Proctor to a Rut
land marble dealer the Vermont Marble
company will not give out anything for
publication regarding the strike but it
indicates the position which the company
has taken and also that the men have be
fore them a long hard battle with iittie
prospect of anything but hardships and
privations.
FIRST ANNUAL PICNIC
OF QU0ITING ASSOCIATION
Good Company of People Had Excellent
Time at Caledonia Park,
Saturday.
The first annual picnlo of the Barre
Quoiting association was successfully held
at Caledonia Park Saturday. There were
about 125 people present. Much of credit
for the success of the picnic is due to the
efforts of the oouirnittee in change. They
were Chairman, G. Thompson, ,G. Rob-,
ertson, J. Birnie, P. Brown, J, Angus, WY
Davidson and W. B. Scott.
After lunch a ball game between two
picked teams was won by Capt. Brown's
aggregation by the decisive score of il to
6. The line-ups were:
Capt. Robertton, A. Rennle, C. Keith,
H. Gamble, W. Milne, G. Birnie, D.
Stevens and H. Casselinl.
Capt. Brown, W. Reaside, F. Dale, X,
Dale, C. Birnie, A. Forbes, J. Stephens,
u. ijrown ana . liouia.
The results of other sports were:
Married ladies' race, 1st, Mrs. C. Bir
nie; 2nd, Mrs. W. Milne; 3rd, Mrs. W.
Cruickshank,
Young ladies' race, 1st, Lizzie Brown :
2nd Jenie Smart.
Girl's race, 1st, Helen Llnd: 2nd. As
ms Keith; 3rd, Gertrude Dale.
Boy g race, 1st, Alfred Edwards: 2nd.
Charlie Birnie; 2rd, Harry Lavlne,
After the sports were finished music for
dancing was furnished by Messrs. Robert
son ana uoss.
THE WORST ROADS EVER.
Autoiuoljilffttt Tells ot Exoerluuce on
Main Street.
A writer in "The Horseless Aj" tell
ing of a trip from Boston to the Canadian
border, in which he has the following that
is of local interest.
"Just as we entered Barre, which we
at once knew by the granite rpiarries. we
met the first party who did not dare to
pass toe car, out drove back and into a
dooryard. Through this city we ran over
the worst road yet encountered. Granite
being so cheap, they nse broken bits to
fill in the mud holes in the streets. The.
result you may guess. However, we got
only one cut, and that in the 'shoe' only."
DEATH OF AGED MAN.
James Mitchell Died Saturday Niaht.
Aged 85. ... ,
James Mitchell, age 85 years, died nt
1.30 o'clock Saturday evening at the home
ot ms aaugnter, airs, aiary feelman, of
Maple avenue. The cause of his death
was senile deelina. He leaves to mourn
his loss a wife, one daughter, Mrs. Kel
man, and two sons, Edmund of this city
and one of Montpelier. The funeral was
held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from bis
home, Rev. B. C. Roberts otSicintint,
The interment was in Hope cemetery.
BROKE COLLAR BONE.
Hugh Bancroft
Daughter
Feet . .
Kelt Fifteen
The fourteen year old daughter of ILi-rh
Reacroft fell ahout fifteen feet from the
back veranda of the house ou the Pas'
Barre road this morning and broke" "her
right collar bone. Dr. M. D. Lamb wai
called to reduce the fracture.
NOTICE,
Receiver F. B. Gate is sending out a
large number of statements of aeoim'
due the Barre Co-operative store, a-id in
enable au early closing up of the attairs i f
the company, he desires all to call and ,i
tie at once. F. B. Cate, receiver,
ti