The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
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The open season on trout closes to
night
The Rutland hospital is at presen
oyercrowded.
Charlotte reports ruined potato an'
grain crops as u result OF the dry wealth
err.
contemporary reports the road be
tween Burlington and st. Adams in q
terrible condition.
Forty.seven automobiles parties stoppet
at the Hotel Bardwell in Rutland one
noon this week for lunch.
The ST. Adams Rife club claims the
largest membership OF any such club in
the United States. There are ESQ mem
bers.
Miss Emily Miller of Newark, y. j.
died Monday at the Lodge at Basin Har.
Dor, where she had been passing the sum-
mer, after a five days illness.
Mrs. Mary Dryer Lonergan aged So,
died at her home in Chester Tuesday.
She had lived in the town IS years and
was the Oldest resident of Irish birth.
William II. Phillips, who died recently
at Amherst, Mass. was the first man
to read the Morse telegraph code by
sound. He did this while an operator
in Bennington.
Bishop Il. r. Brewer, Of the Montana
diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
church, died at Helena Monday night,
aged II years. He was born in Berk-
shire, January 20, 1889.
Webster B. Wickham, who has been
associated with the United Marble com
pany in Rutland, has been made eastern
sales manager for the company. He will
open an office in New York at once.
The first field day of the Maccabees of
this state was held Monday with Queen
City review of Burlington. The latter
branch was awarded the state banner
for the largest net gain in membership.
The address of Theodore \. Vail at
the recent annual meeting in Lyndonvlle
of the Vermont Forestry association has
been issued in pamphlet form In this
address Vail appeals for conservation.
The military minstrel farce, Navy
Cut Plug given by the boys of kamp
Kill Kare at st. Adams Tuesday, re-
suited in gross receipt OF $3.50, which
will be turned over to the Co. b, v y.
G. fund.
The Vermont association of Life In
surance Underwriters held their annual
meeting on the steamer Tieonderoga on
Lake Champlain Tuesday, 50 being pres
ent. H. J. Daigle of Burlington was
elected president.
Lunenburg was the scene Tuesday Of
a meeting OF officers of the United States
Hay Fever association, who have been
investigating the merits of the village
as mecca of immunity for persons sub
jet to hay fever.
Three ministers participated in the re-
cent wedding of Miss Ruth Crowley of
Craftsburv to Edwin b. Gordon Rev.
G.. Z. Gordon, father of the groom, DR..
Flagg now of Craftsbury, and tte father
u. lr;J
part in the ceremony.
Charles Tennison and Dana Baker of
Brandon, who took Dr. L. A. Bettinger's |
automobile from garage and ditched
it while on a JOY ride were fined $40 and
IS, respectively, and paid costs aggregat |
ing $25.2S when arranged in court Tues /
day.
At a special cinomatograph of Silas !
Mariner to be given at the Grand theatre /
in Rutland this week, the clergy, the /
city officials, the school commissioners
and members of the Parent Teacher as
ISOLATION have been especially invited
to attend.
Fully $50 survivors of the Civil war
with members of the Sons of Veterans
and Woman's Relief corps gathered at
the Vermont soldiers home in Benning
ton Tuesday for the annual meeting Of
the Bennington County Veterans asso-
citation.
Three men from a Rutland engineer
ing concern have gone this week to Ca
naan, this state, near the Canadian line,
to commence survey of the state
boundary from there to the Massachu-
sets border. The work will occupy the
remainder of the year.
The body of Mrs. George F. Edmunds,
wife of ex-senator Edmunds, whose
death occurred last Thursday in Los An
aeles, Cal, is being brought to Burling-
ton by the family physician and is ex
pected to arrive Friday night. Services
will be held Saturday or Sunday.
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and John
Burroughs, together with four attend
ants to do the rough work, will spend
some time in Vermont on Joint vaca
ton to be spent in the Catskills and in
the Green mountains, fishing. They will