The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-03-13
ABOUT THE STATE.

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Items of Interest Cleaned from Our
Exchanges.
w. o. Brigham, who has held the Of
flee Of oyerseer Of the poor in Bakers
field for twenty years, refused to serve
any longer. He is succeeded by G.
Fay Brigham.
The executive committee of the Fu-
neral Directors and Embalmers' associa-
ton of Vermont met at the Bardwell
House in Rutland Friday. 1t was de-
eided to hold the annual convention at
Bellows Falls June 2s-30.
Mrs. Frank Yelinek has returned to
her husband and children at their home
in Bennington. It is thought by many
Of the neighbors that she has been at
the home q some friend in town and
has not been away as reported.
In vieW Of the fact that the state
ment has been made that the town of
Groton paid only S2s for the support
of the poor during the last fiscal year,
it may be of interest to state that Wa
terville did not pay one cent for such
purpose.
AT a recent meeting Of BrattIeboro
Lodge, No. Jog, 4. & "A. NJ, +. w. Ghilds
presented to the lodge Roman coin,
representing the age OF more than 1740
years. The coin was genuine money of
that period and not Imitation. It was
found in one Of the ruined cities of the
Holy Land,
The bronze tablet which Is to be
placed on the old Constitution house,
Windsor, has arrived. The inscription
reads as follows: "The Constitution
House. In this building was held July
2-s, l77T, the convention which adopted
the constitution of the free and indie
pendent state of Vermont, the first in
America to prohibit human slavery"
At meeting Of the Brattleboro Uni
yersaIist society Monday evening it was
voted unanimously to extend cali to
Rev. Frank L. Masseck Of Spencer,
Mass. Mr.. Masseck preached at the
UBiversalist church Sunday for the sec
ond time since the resignation of the
Rev. r. * Marvin and on both occa
sions gave general satisfaction Word
has been received since Monday that
Mr.. Masseek will accept the call and he
will probably begin his duties about
April /.
George II. Edison 81 st. Adams and
of the class Of 'T6 OF Norwich Universe
ty, has just presented the university
with a very valuable collection Of min.
erals. Mr.. Edison has one OF the finest
collections of this kind in the state
Fred G Davis of the class Of % of
the university, who has been member
of the metropolitan water commission
OF West Boylson, Mass, for the past 10
years, has accepted position as assist
ant engineer With the United States re-
elamation service and Is now stationed
at North Dakota
According to II. w. Clements self
registering thermometer there have been
80 days on which the zero mark was
reached on Merchants Row in Rutland
AS it is much warmer among the build
ings than outside the city it i safe to
say that there were fully 50 days when
the temperature was at least 50 de-
grees below the freezing point in the
suburbs. January had the greatest
number Of zero days of any month, H.
There were six in December, 10 in
February, and so far there have been
five in March. There were Is other
days during the winter when the mer.
curry was within six degrees Of zero.
The case of the Rev Philippe Girard
Us. Mrs. Settle Prior, Church street
milliner, Burlington, an action for the
recovery of damages OF $1,000 for all
legged SANDER, will be tried at the COM
ing term OF Chittenden county court.
A year ago joint action was brought
by the priest against j. r. McAIahon
and Mrs. Prior for alleged false impris-
onment In this action the priest was
not successful. The case grows out
of actions alleged to have occurred at
the time Father Girard was arrested
on suspcie9 Of having robbed st. Mary's
cathedral. G J. Ferguson has represent
ed Father Girard, but he has Withdrawn
and r. " Taft succeeds him.