The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-04-28
ABOUT THE STATE.
Items of Interest Cleaned from Our
Exchanges.


Exchanges.
w. IL Griswold of the town of Cam
bridge has served as town clerk nearly
40 years. If reelected next March he
will have been elected SO times re-
markable record.
The Rev. Il. NJ. Fuller, of Burlington,
has gone to North Stratford, n. H.,
He expects to be absent from the city
until May II, visiting several towns in
the interests of the Vermont State Sun
day school Association.
Hale Flint, who arrived from Chicago
a few days ago states that he intends
to plant 40 acres Of potatoes on the Ira
Howard farm in Braintree this spring.
This viii be without a doubt the great
est amount of potatoes ever planted by
one man in that vicinity.
c. w. Hobbs and two assistants have
arrived in Shelburne with twenty one
horses that DIR. w. S. Webb recently
4 purchased while in California. All bnt
one are saddle broken and will be used
on Shelburne Farms for riding to
hounds.
The families Of Gen. j G. McCul-
Tough, f. b. Jennings, and Thornton
Turner have arrived from New York
and are occupying their summer resi-
dences at North Bennington. Mr.. Jen-
nings IS making extensive improvements
at Fairview by grading and putting in
new driYeways.
! 1t is reported that Arthur Burt of
Washington, d. c., who spends the
greater part of the summer in Randolph,
will sow on the Burt farm this spring
about % acres Of alfalfa, which has
not as yet proved a very successful crop
in this state, but Mr.. Burt intends to
give it a very fair trial.
During the past year the expense of
the highways Of the village of Randolph
amounted to S1,3s6.77 and the miseel-
laneous expenses Of the village amounted
to $2,3s1,11 and the tax for the past
year was $.25. During the past three
years the village has paid the debt Of
The library site Of $4,000 with interest
and as the trustees recommend tax OF
only is cents for the coming year, it
goes to show that the village il in a
prosperous condition.
The April meeting Of the Montpelier
Association of Congregational Ministers
was held in Montpelier Tuesday. The
programme included papers on the fol-
lowing subjects: "The Congregational
Church of Washington County" the
Rev. +. A. Poole, of Barre; %The Church
lof Today and Amusements,p the Rev. j.
NV Coffin of Berlin; @The Minister'S
Responsibility in Recruiting the Minis
TRY" the Rev. d. H. Strong, Of Will
Jamestown; The Attitude of the Church
Toward Marriage and Divorce" the
Rev. DR.. w. s. Hazens of Mortified.
Charles r. Harris of Rutland has re
turned from Atlanta, Ca, where for tht
last three months. he has been acting al
assistant manager for the Mcconnell Ii
brary Association The work OF the as
sociation is purely plilanthroplc. TIT
purposes Of the association is to brin!
about the establishment Of libraries ii
the small towns in the South. DurinI
the last year libraries were established
in 240 towns Mr.. Harris says that al
though he was strongly urged to go Of
with the work, he viii not return to tn
South, MS Mrs. Harris prefers to live il
Vermont
( Albert II. Copeland Of Chenoa, III.
who left MiddIebury 81 years ago fol
4 the West, is at the Logan House ii
| Middlebury for short stay. Mr.. Cope
land comes 70 town solely for the plr,
pose of visiting old friends and recalling
lold times. He was formerly the ex'
press agent and one of the earliest tele-
graph operators here and also kept O
book store and news room. Mr.. Cope
land sold the first daily papers that
came to town regularly. He was also
he thinks, the first man in the world to
run railroad train by telegraph. He
is rs years old and extremely vigorous
for his age.
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