Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-10
VERMONT NEWS

Anna Barbary, aged 20 years, Bur-
lington, is under arrest, having been
indicted by the United States grand
jury charged with having sent obscene
literature through the mails. 1t seems
to be a case where another girl took a
soldier friend away from the Barbary
girl and in trying 10 win him back the
girl wrote some things on postal card
about her rival which did not stand the
test of the postoffice. Judge Harland
B. Howe admitted the girl to $50 bail,
which she furnished, and her case was
continued
Because the warning Of the Shell
burne March meeting was not posted
in time to make the meeting legal for
next Tuesday, the election will not be
held until March Is.
B. F. Moore, of Newport, and Mrs.
Harriet j. Lance, of Orleans, widow of
the Rev. G.. D. Lance, former promi-
nent member of the Vermont Methodist
Conference, were married in Boston
last Tuesday.
Mrs. E. C. White of Hyde Park, for
% years register of probate for the
district of Lamoille, has completed
work in that capacity. Mrs. White
and her husband, the late Judge White,
systematized the records to a fine
degree. Mrs. White is said to be can
didate for the office of town clerk.
Barre GRANTEES susceptibility to the
art of the carver is shown effectively in
a rock-faced memorial erected over the
remains of John Bunny, the movie
comedian, in cemetery at Brooklyn,
N. Y.
March l was the 93d birthday of Mrs.
Margaret Drugg, the oldest resident
of Stowe. There is some question as to
Mrs. Drugg's exact age. Some of her
family feel sure that her age is 81, as a
birth certificate is said to give the date
of her birth as March l, 1919. Her
eldest daughter, Mrs. Felix, is in her
77th year.
John Pecherio of Montpelier was in.
jured painfully when he was thrown
from his sleigh by the runaway horse
frightened by an automobile and hurled
head first against an iron girder of the
Granite street bridge in Montpelier. He
was taken to Heaton hospital, his face
being badly cut.
Ora Kellogg, aged "a years, farm
hand, is in jail awaiting a county court
trial on the allegation that he is the
author of several forgeries committed
in Barre. In default of 81 200 bail the
young man was remanded by Magistrate
H. W. Scott after he had been arraign-
ed on charge of forging the name Of
Murray Cutler, an East Montpelier
farmer. Kellogg was traced to small
Canadian town soon after the alleged
forgeries were committed. Mrs. An
tonic Labrana, Granite street woman
to whom Kellogg is said to have giver
bad check In exchange for liquor, is
under $3.50 bail to answer to an ilega
selling charge.
Much local interest has been aroused
by the action of the Montpelier boarc
of civil authority in striking off the
check list the name of the Rev. Ivan H
Benedict, pastor of the Baptist church
who declined to take the freeman
oath, now required of all voters in towr
meeting, because he could not give as.
sent to all laws on the statute book. Ii
letter to the board he registered his
conviction that "the legislature, which
appeared to compel the board to dis
franchise him as a citizen, is in con
: flict both with the spirit and practice o
democracy to allow the greatest pos
slble autonomy to town units"