The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-19


auderstood that the temporary ap
aa..nt IS made hy Judge Mar
.a oi recommendations from Wash
s,oa ah.eh leads 10 The belle
II Mr Caflsnter Nill later b
aaun a iof The permanent position
DR. Carpenter has been a prominen
i,moclat ia the county Tor scyera
years. IT. is graduate of bostoi
university Law school lie has been
tWn agent and counsel for th,
Gown of Hraiil,hoio for scvera
years
Mediation proceedings with a view
ITO settling the strike OF the earned
lof the Barre aud Montpelier Trae-
ton Co.. will be opened early this
week The Tenney company has
declared In favor OF arbitrating the
trouble and General Mgr Howard
4 4 Sands will arrive tn Montpelier
on Tuesday 10 complete arrange.
n ,nts with Organizer j ii. Reardon
.eider OF the strikers for the selee-
don Of the three arbitrators. The
BOARD will attempt 10 reach an agree
ment satisfactory 10 both sides and
h- public The board will consist
oi three members. one representa-
live of the company, a representa-
i've OF the earmen's union and a
ehiM disinterested party 20 be sell
eeted by the other two. Manager
.araVec is so confident that the
strike viii be brought TO a peaceful
close within few days that he
wishes TO say that the men will he
oask at their Jobs before another
week has passed.
There are 222 prisoners at the
stlte prison at Windsor, 81 women
and POI men. The number is the
.argest ever confined at the prison.
Last year the high mark was reach
ed In February with 219 convicts.
The burial of the body of Rev. H..
VI Douglass, former pastor OF the
Baptist church at West Haven. took
.jlace at that town Sunday morn
ing. He served the West Haven
hurch for II years, but for three
ears had been pastor at Bernards-
own, Mass, where he died after a
Jrief Illness. Mr. Douglass was we'll
known In Baptist circles and was a
graduate OF Colgate university In
order that he might render himself
more useful to the people he ac-
quired a conversational use OF the
F.ench, German, Italian, Spanish
and Swedish languages. The rapidly
with which he mastered foreign
language was phenomenal
Charles H. Thompson has resin
ed as contributing editor OF The
Advance, the new progressive paper.
He asserts that he is too busy to con
tinue the work.
Bert Pollard. who froze his feet
very badly few weeks aga In Bond
Vile, has had to have eight toes
removed. The flesh had dropped
from some of them, leaving the bone
bare.
Lou A. Foster, who is serving a
sentence in the Windsor state prison
for killing Ossie Prouty inlIalifax
last fall, has been made assistant
editor Of the new prison publication.
The Monitor.
While walking on South Prospect
street. Burlington. last week. Mrs.
Charles II. Stewart, aged So years.
was taken suddenly III and was as
sisted into the home OF II. s. Pease
by young man who was passing. A
physician was called, but before his
arrival life was extinct Death was
caused by fatty degeneration OF the
1eart
Thawing out steam pipes with a |
gasoline lamp A. II F'assolo acci- |
IDENTIFY set fire to the woodwork OF |
the draughting room at the Excel |
sior Granite Co.'s plant at Montpel-
Ter last week. The prompt work of
a bucket brigade prevented serious
damage.
Mayor Estee OF Montpelier sug-
sests for the city a planning commits
sion to consist of five representative
citizens who shall be empowered TO
make critical inquiry into every
,ity department and to report the re-
suit OF their survey TO the voters.
He makes the recommendation In the
city report.
Ernest n. O'Brien OF Rutland, re-
cree In bankruptcy, has denied the
Of Rising a. Nelson OF Paw
ct for order that the receiver for
he bankrupt Vermont Slate Co, OF
ifatNille, N. Y, turn over 70 the
petitioners slate TO the value Of
'2.lS0.39, alleged to be due them on
ontract. The referee found that no
-tthal title TO the slate had been
'asa5d and that the slate due Rising
Nelson had not been segregated
rom the restof the slate at the
narry.
The goth annual court OF the
oclety OF Colonial Wars In the state
[ Vermont will be held In Burling-
on on Monday. February 20, Lunch |
on Is TO be served In thu gnci1ty ,