The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-04

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
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The Barton fair is to be held Aug %
% and p.
Barton has organized local chapte
of the Red Cross society.
The annual Lake Champlain Yacht
club regatta will be held Aug. s.
A series OF summer field meetings ii
to be held in Vermont under the auspices
of the state grange,
A small black bear was seen this week
on the public highway near the home Of
Frank Dutton in Townshend.
The Remington Welfare association is
presenting Julius Caesar" in piece OF
woods in that town this week.
Rev. Hervey Gulick of Charlotte has
accepted call TO the pastorate of the
Bridport Congregational church.
James NJ. Shepard, for IL years one of
the rural mail carriers at South Royal
ton, died there Sunday OF heart disease.
Twenty five books have been contrib
uted by townspeople to the Riley E.
Wright free public library in Coventry.
Miss Isadore Foss of Barton has re-
ceived the appointment of librarian at
Winchendon, Mass, and assumes her du.
ties Sept. /.
j. Lamere of Ludlow. graduate of
Middlebury college, has been engaged as
principal of the West Rutland high
school, succeeding l.. L. Grow, who re-
signed
Miss Ina Rust, for six months pastor
ut North Hyde Park, has been obliged
because of ill health to give up the
work, and has returned TO her home in
Chicago.
Police Officer Levi Vincent of the Bur
lington force has arrested William Wood
ward an army deserter of two years ago,
and has claimed his reward at the mill
tary post.
The directors of the Brattleboro Me
mortal hospital have appointed William
A. Shumway treasurer to succeed the
late Wiford H. Bracket. He will begin
his duties at once.
Dustin Connell, formerly employed in
a Rutland garage, has been arrested and
taken to Massachusetts, charged with the
theft of Boston automobile that was
recovered in Proctor
Antoine Therrian of Highgate Center
is in a serious condition as the result of |
having been thrown from a horse which |
he was riding, striking on the back Of his
head and neck. The man is partially I
paralyzed.
Considers BILE difficulty is experienced in
Rutland because of the scarcity of la.
borers. Fred H. Remington, who is put
ting in the new brick pavement, has
force of IL men working where he could
use so if he could get them.
Wayland Mills and Kenneth Partlow,
who went for little fishing expedition
in johnson a few days ago, caught with
a pole which they cut from a nearby
bush trout which measured % inches
in length and 10 inches at the largest
Edwin r. Bigelow of Stowe has gone
to Sangue Head, Marblehead, Mass,
where he will attend the ninth reunion Of
Master Bigelow's Boys" The assoca-
ton includes group of men who were
Mr. Bigelow's grammar school pupils be-
tween 1870 and 1876.
Rutland's preparedness parade, post j
poned because of inclement weather con- 4
ditions on July 4, will be pulled off on v
of the Rutland carnival week. {
The name of the parade has been changed, {
however, and it will be called the Yer @
mont statehood parade c
Isaac Williamson, the Middlebury man
who was last week placed under order to
pay his wife $40 alimony each week,
was again before the court Tuesday be- d
cause he had failed to comply with the b
order. He is also obliged to keep off the G.
streets after o'clock at night. Ii
Mondays electrical storm was very c
severe in Cambridge, where the residence @
If Charles Tucker was struck and badly Y
damaged, a barn was unroofed for Will
ey brothers, two cows were killed be-
onging to Earl Prior, one for Mr.. Bogue
md one each for B. j. Buker and NJ S.
dawley. d
The sale of celluloid United States r
Tags being conducted by the young ladies
If Brattleboro under the auspices of the
Board of Trade has netted total of $l65
10 far. The sum will be used for the
benefit of the treasury of Company l, h
7. n. G. e
Thomas Curry, known also as Thomas c.
Reeves, who left his home in Hinesburg N
o days ago, has been found at Starks-
'oro and brought back to Hinesburg by 4:
hc Mack brothers who have cared for III