The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-02

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ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Two mail carriers are TO be added e
the Burlington force.
An automobile went by sheriG's sal,
in Brandon this week for Sll0.
Twenty.six of 80 arrests made in Rut,
land the past month were for intoxiea'
ton.
OF the II marriage licenses granted in
Burlington in July, II were given Ia
outsiders.
Actual work has commenced on the
Silver lake hydro. electric proposition ad-
vanced by the Hortonia Power company
of Rutland.
Howard Hawthorne of Barnard died
last Thursday as the result OF serious
illness due to eating green apples and
green gooseberries.
Mrs Joseph Monteith Of Richford has
just completed a log cabin quilt trising
sun PATTERN which contains l,l52 pieces,
She is 81 years old.
Bennington boasts of a bicycle club
which has % members. campaign is
under way to increase the membership
to go by September.
Mrs. F. c. Slater of Underhill Center
is being visited by her foster mother,
Mrs. Champion of Texas, whom she had
not seen in % years.
Because he impersonated policeman
at the circus grounds in st. Adams sat
urday Henry Peters of that place was
fined $50, which he paid.
A. A. Prouse of Rutland recently car
ried party OF men from there TO Win
throp beach, Just outside of Boston, in
five and a half hours. The distance is
ls4 miles
Essex is to have a new senior junior
school this fall and State Commissioner
of Education DR.. Milo Hillegas has been
looking the place over and giving advice
about it this week.
From dance at Evansville has started
an epidemic of measles numbering over
25 cases. A young woman broke quaran |
tine and attended the function and all |
the other cases followed.
Sixty-nin licenses for marriage were
issued in Brattleboro during July and |
most of them were to outsiders who We're /
married in Brattleboro on the same day
they received the license.
DR.. Robert Lovett, as an expert, has
been invited to represent Vermont at a
conference of New York authorities in
New York City on Saturday in respect
to the epidemic of poliomyelitis.
A committee from the merchants as
ISOLATION of Burlington will be appoint
ed to study the advantages that their
city would derive from barge canal
from Albany to Rouses Point by Lake
Champlain and one of a system of four ;;
such canals.
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Rev. David Ernest Adams, SON Of Prof.
Charles d. Adams, of the department of
Greek at Dartmouth college, has been
called to the passionate of the Payson I
church at Easthampton. Last summer v
he preached at South Woodbury. and n
East Calais under the Vermont Domestic J
Missionary society, and this summer has ;
supplied at Windsor. He will accept the \
call.
The last meeting of the committee APP 8
pointed by the L. v NJ. alumni to inves-
tigate the alleged anti American activi- II
ties of Professor Applemann, will be held ;
on Saturday. The evidence has all been
turned in and a report on the findings of <
The committee will be made to Mr.. Stew
art OF boston, VINO Is expected nome
from abroad soon. Then it will probably
be made public.
An artificial pond is in the course of ~
near Barber's Pines in the x
vicinity of Bennington. On its shores
there are being built three summer II
amps, bringing the total for that neigh Il
,orhood up to 20, and underbrush and "
rees are being thinned over several acres l.
If ground. The plot will be used as a 81
,icnic ground for Bennington and can be II
cached by trolley. F
Major NJ. J. McDonough and Major a.
lanes F. Bell, United States engineers NJ
# the war department at Albany, n. Y. IL
net members of the Vermont Melon 4
ugh commission in Vergennes this week A
o confer over the approval of plans for p.
he memorial to be erected to Commodore
and the building of the
,hamplain fleet there in lsl3-l4, to be =
rected on the park. 1t is expected to be
omnIetnd this fall