The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-25
MONTPELIER.
E. C. Getchell Must Wait for River to
Freeze Before Moving House.

Freeze Before Moving House.
The Montpelier city council held it's
regular meeting Wednesday evening,
with the full board in attendance. Sew
eral licenses and permits were granted
and the request of i. G. Getchell for
permission to move building on State
street was refused, as it was found that
at one point the street is out one foot
wider than the house and traffic would
be tied up. He viii have to wait until
| the river freezes over and move the
building upon the ice. A warning was
called for the holding of a city meeting
December 8, at which time it will he
decided whether the city will issue not
over 100000 for the purpose of build
ing schoolhouses and buying land for
Fairgrounds. This opens the whole
school matter again, as the city has
once selected site and repudated it
and once refused to issue the bonds.
| A son was born Tuesday to Mr. and
Mrs. James Taity of Hillside avenue.
1t has been learned that Ernest Broth
ers, who tried to commit suicide in the
Plattsburg Jail, lest he be sentenced to
life imprisonment for alleged forgery,
obtained the poison in st. Adams, where
he was arrested, and kept it concealed.
He is recovering.
That M. A. Nelson puts his automo-
bile to practical use on his farm will
be testified to by those who saw him
bring in load of hogs in it Wednesday,
which he delivered to II. O. Kent. Large
numbers of the farmers in the West use
automobiles extensively in their farm
work
AIRS. Eliza Comstock was installed
as warden and Irwin l.. Henson as vice
warden at the regular meeting of Mont
/ pelier lodge, N. i. @. p. last evening
| by Judge Scott Of the Barre lodge, who
Is district deputy grand warden. After
the installation, program was rendered
and dancing enjoyed.
The inmates of the Washington coun-
| ty jail, which number %, enjoyed
] Thanksgiving feast yesterday, as well
as the inmates of Heaton hospital, and
the well-to-do remembered well those
less able to supply their homes with
those things which 90 to make the day
one of happiness and pleasure.
As usual, the attendance at the
| Thanksgiving services in the chuches
yesterday was small Rev. DIR. Flint
preached at Christ Episcopal church,
where communion was celebrated and
union meeting was held at Bethany
church, the sermon being preached by
Rev. /. j. hamburg, pastor Of the Bap-
list church.
The number of telephone subscribers
in Montpelier is steadily increasing.
april !, 1900, there were 459 and April
| /, 1910, 1926. Many visitors daily in
spect the new quarters of the telephone
company in the Blanchard block Three
connected with the local board. while
| it viii take care OF $50 lines with the
present equipment and the ultimate
capacity is 1000 lines.
The golden wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cooper. which
was observed yesterday at their home
in West Berlin, was a very pleasant
event. The Thanksgiving dinner was
held in the ladies' aid hall and about 45
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and Mrs. Cooper were presented a purse
of $l47 so, besides mantel lamp, sill
Yer ware, hand painted china and EN-
broidery. In the evening, an informal
reception was held in the hall, which
was open to the public and was largely
attended.
Mrs. Ann Dillon, who would have been
80 years old next month, died Wednes-
day at the home Of her grandson, John
Dillon, in Wrightsvipe. Mrs Dillon
came from Ireland at the age OF l6
years and lived at East Montpelier until
few years ago, when she went TO
plake her home with her grandson A
daughter-in-law, Mrs Jane Dillon of
Montpelier, and five grandchildren sur
vive her, Edward W. and Ernest +. Dill
lon of Montpelier, John Dillon of
Wrightsville, Mrs. Charlotte Berry and
Mrs. +. r. Plaisted OF Montpelier. The
funeral was held this afternoon from
her late home, Rev, H. 4. Flint officiat-
ing, and burial was in the North Branch
cemetery.