The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-22
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
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A moving picture showing Mrs. wood
row Wilson, late wife OF the president
and Miss Jessie arriving at the railroad
station at Windsor on their way to their
summer home among the hills OF Cor
nish, n. H., has been presented to Pres
ident Wilson by the Gsumot company
The Washington representative OF the
company was instructed to get in touch
with the president through his score
tary, Mr.. Tnmulty. When Secretary Tu'
multy conveyed the offer TO the presi-
dent the latter was so pleased that ne
asked if he might have two copies OF
the picture.
The Waterbury high school is to add a
commercial course to its curriculum this
year. The pupils allowed to enter will
be limited to twelve. Miss Irene Paris
of Rutland will have charge of the work.
st. Johnsbury people are getting
anxious about the federal building that
has been promised them Senator Dill
bingham, who has been in Vermont for
O few days, promised to do what he
could for them in Washington and upon
his return sent this message: Have
seen the secretary Treasury depart
lnent) this a. m. and secured assurance
that the postoffice site at ST. Johnsbury
will be inspected in September"
William Getsky brother of Mrs. r.
Fl. Abram of As Chestnut avenue, Rut-
land, and New Yorker, has written
some interesting letters to his sister
concerning his return from the war zone,
Mr.. Getsky was taking a trip through
Denmark, Sweden, and Norway just pre-
yious to the war and first learned of ii
at Bergen, Norway. Money was hard to
obtain and Getsky could not get his let
ter of credit cashed. He obtained pas
sage on a boat that crossed the North
Sea to England. His trunks he left in
Germany and came away without them.
He reached Liverpool with the equiya
lent of $l.36 in American money and
found that the Celtic was sailing the
next day. Mr.. Getsky managed to OBJ
tain a steerage ticket and found that of
the 500 Storage passengers 300 were
wealthy Americans,
Bennington is to have a new town
farm house. II was so decided at the !
town meeting held Wednesday night. i
There was a large attendance and the
discussion became general A dissatis- |
faction with the present methods Of rum |
ming the farm seemed to be the senti- |
ment of the meeting and committee of |
five was selected by moderator Judge |
Holden to study the matter. The men |
appointed to this committee were Rev /
George S. Mills, Robert f. Healy, Miss
Susan Rogers, DR.. Z. A. Tobin, and
committee has had time to look into
the matter and make some sort OF de.
cision special town meeting will be
called. The system used at present does
not vary radically from that used by
the towns throughout Vermont.
Mrs Hannah Swan of Rutland cele-
brated her Goth birthday Thursday by
receiving calls from many friends who
took gifts to the aged woman. She has
been unable to walk for three years be-
cause infirmaties due to rheumatism but
she retains all her faculties. Mrs Swan
is native of Stockbridge She has no
blood relative, her nearest of kin being
a daughter inlaw.
Rutland may get the state Office of ..
the New England Telephone and Tele /.
graph company which is now located in
according to L. n. Whitney, .
soI ip%a fnr I
the company. The company may have :
offices in the new Wright and Young !
building now in the process of construc
ton at the corner of West street and !
Merchants Row but this cannot be veri /;
led.
There was a hearingt before the YER /
mont public service commission at Proc /
or Thursday afternoon on a petition of a
-esidents of Proctor to abolish a So i
allied dangerous grade crossing, known {
Is Whites crossing and situated two 7
niles north of the station II is esti- il
mated that the change would cost v
lround $4,000. States Attorney B. /.
Stafford represented the state at the
rearing and Edwin w. Lawrence of Rut- +
anu dppedftu lpE hulldHu ldllipnhs q
m which line the crossing is located. G
Four hundred people gathered on Main =
treet in Stowe to see the old home week 0
ports on Wednesday. The exercises
,pened with band concert. Rain at
intervals interfered with the program G
nd not all the planned events were car &
led out Some Of the sports that were q
ulled off, however, were a potato race, u
hundred-yard dash, a sack race, an "
range race, doughnut race, and a can Q
lie race. In the evening a dance in the a
kelley memorial hall was attended by =
5 couples. y
Willis A. Ferguson, son of the late +
lark A. Ferguson, and lifelong resi- n
ent of Bristol, died Wednesday evening 81
{ l0:30, after a 10 days illness with ;;
rights disease. Mr., Ferguson was IS =;
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