The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-10
WILLIAMSTOWN

The Noman's Christian Temperance
union will meet with Mrs ". y. Jones
Tuesday afternoon az $3.50. The sub.
Iect, Mercy. All are cordially invited.
Miss Irene Mari, who has been en-.
Ployed In the postofiice as clerk for near
~ year past, Is now taking we'll.
earned vacation and has gone 20 Kin
nears Mills, Cue, 10 visit her grandfather
and will be absent for a month or molc
DIR. T.. X. Watson, secretary of the 10.
cal board of health, returned the sth
from Burlington, where lie had been for
several days attending the school for
health officers held under the direction OF
the state board
Principal O. b. Wood. with his wife
and son, Merle. started on Friday, the
Ith, 10 drive 10 Georgia, where he win
spend the summer in looking after his
interests there, the repairing OF some
barns on his farm there being one Of the
matters % be attended 10.
The ten days OF his furlough having
nearly expired, Frank A. Brockway, elec.
trician on the L. 5. ship Alabama OF the
North Atlantic squadron, left town on
the 9TH 10 return 10 his duties on board
ship,
John Lindsay Winchester, head multi.
pler and master OF the key. board at the
Union Granite company's plant at Wat.
erbury spent Sunday with his parents
in town. Mr.. Lindsay no longer pays any
dues 10 livery stables or railroads, as mis- |
Indian motorcycle will transport him
10 his place of business in an hour, or
less ii he happens to be in hurry.
A letter lately received by Henry r, |
Waldo from his son, Everett, private of |
Co, F, Vermont National Guard, now sta
toned at Eagle Pass, Tex, states that he
Is well and the health of the Vermont
men is generally good. About 10000
men are now in camp there, under cond,.
tions peculiar 10 that part of the coun.
try. Not blade of grass is TO be seen.
only ssgebrush, cactus and sand
The days so far have been hot, but the
nights are cool Water is brought 10
camp in iron pipes laid on the top %
the ground, but ice is used TO make it
cool for drinking
goodly delegation from town at.
tended the circus at Montpelier last Sat.
urday, and report big crowd. com.
forta bic day for the event and the big
gest and best circus they ever attended.
In the year 1916. one hundred years
ago, Joseph Woolcut, father of the late
Charles II. Woolcut, was living on the
farm between Adna b. Downs and Franz;
Boyces and had lately bought the
ong slope of land lying to the east from
jhe buildings and this year he planted
: all TO corn The season was so cold
hat very little corn was matured in
own, but this piece, being sheltered
made good growth and ripened wei,
The demand for seed corn for the follow.
ng year was such that Mr.. Woolcut was
bile 10 sell his crop of corn for enough
money 10 pay for the land that it grew
m This incident was related TO the
cribe by man, who as a boy, heard .
lr. Woolcut tell the story.
W. f. Carpenter, who has been for
ONE time in the employ of Cross Broth j.,
RS at Northfeld was at his home over ,
unday. His work there would seem to
e that of an all-round handy man, as M
a painter, carpenter, and had several
ears experience in the care of the saw s,
nd grist mill of Lynde & Cheney, before
Ding to Mortified