The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-11

For "a hours, beginning Sunday at
4. M, no cars run on the line of the st
Adams & Swanton Traction company, OF
account of the snow, which drifted Sc
fast the snowplow could not keep thu
road clear.
Caspian lake, Greensboro, was frozer
over Thanksgiving day, thing that has
not occurred for I'll years at least, &C.
cording to q resident who has lived be.
side the lake for that length of time.
Following the protest of various Rut-
land clergymen against the holding OF
moving picture entertainments on Sun
days, the commissioner of public safety
has issued an order that all such enter
tainments must cease.
Miss Nellie Brennan slipped and fell
on an icy spot in ST. Adams, where chill
dren had been sliding and received con-
cussion of the brain which dazed her for
a time. She is improving now. The ac-
cident happened last week.
Miss Catherine Crozier, assistant ma
trou at Heaton hospital, Montpelier, has
notified the trustees that she is liable to
leave at any time for France, as she has
offered her services to the Red Cross and
has been told to be ready.
Sunday morning around 80 someone
left on the steps at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Hager in Wallingford
basket containing a baby girl, not more
than two hours old. The child has been
nora for and inv firrnf 4I,in frI
low.
John f. Moors, who is in charge of the
Red Cross relief work in Halifax follow
ing the catastrophe there. is a Boston
banker and president Of the pittsford
Power company and an extensive holder
of securities in the Rutland Railway,
Light & Power company.
George A. Wattles,za pioneer in Ben
ningtons knit goods industry, having
been identified with it since before the
opening of the Civil war died in Ben
nington Dec Z He was in his S5th
year. For more, than Is years he had
been foreman of the scanning room at
the H. L. Bradford underwear factory.
$780, s
years recreation worker in Bennington, |
has resigned to become special war |
worker. After Jan. l, she will have
headquarters in Richmond Va, her work
being in connection with the training I
camps and taking in the south Atlantic
division, including the states of Mary. |
land and east of the Mississippi river
The xuifa rf To . (Hfarlr far.
mer pastor of the Congregational church I
at North Bennington, died recently in
Madison, Me-. to which place they went
from North Bennington last May Mrs
Clark took her own life. 1t is supposed
that the reason was a nervous condition
that resulted in temporary mental de-
Next Thursday there will be a flag
raising and farewell gathering at the
Farmers Cooperative creamery in Rich
mond in honor of those who have enlist
ed in the army or navy who are in any
way connected with the plant A service
flag will also be flung to the breeze con.
tanning as many stars as there are sons
in the families of the association who
have Joined the colors.
The plant of the Queen City Cotton
company at Burlington is busy place,
about $4,000 yards of % different kinds
of cotton being turned out daily. Little
of this is for government purposes, but
much of the cheesecloth and muslin is
bought by the Red Cross for bandages
and dressings. About 500 hands are en-
ployed, 300 of them women 1t takes
5000 tons of coal year to operate the
plant.
Winter Short Cnurse in Dairuinu