The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-06

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tion as stenographer in the war depart.
ment at ST 900 year.
Johann Sembach, the noted tenor OF
the Metropolitan opera house in New
York, has rented cottage at Point OF
Pines, Lake Bomoseen, and will spend
the summer there.
Prof. Samuel P. Mills, assistant prin-
cipal of the Newport high school, has
been in Cambridge, Mass for a physical
examination preparatory to entering the
aviation service of the United States.
For stealing two pet rabbits belonging
TO John Z. Holmes of Rutland Peter
Foye was sentenced to 30 days in county
Jail. He stole them for a rabbit stew,
after he found they were not for sale,
but they were rescued before the cooking
process had begun.
Austin Newell of Saxtons River, aged
Is years, who was on probation after an
episode with Burton Bemis and Gladys
and Sarah jackson of Springfield, has
disappeared, and with him went his ia
INV . VI ISL iAc wac tintNh hS int DC
Springfield.
Two vacant houses, with barns and
outbuildings, belonging to Mr.. and Mrs.
Ransom McDougall of st. George and To-
Gated in East Charlotte,were burned to
the ground May 81. The fire was evi.
IDENTIFY of ineendiary origin.
The Vermont ressassociation is to have
its summer outing on the top of Mount
Mansfield. A meeting will be held in
Stowe the afternoon of Friday June 90,
and Saturday evening the members of
the association, their wives and children,
will ascend the summit of the mountain,
where they intend to stay until morning
and see the sun rise.
Henry T. Bolduc, member of the
United States navy, doing duty at New. |
port, r. l., Is seriously i'll there with
spinal meningitis. He is II years of age, |
the son of Henry Bolduc of Rutland and
student at the business college in that !
city up TO the time he enlisted. He first |
had measles, then pneumonia, then pleu-
risy, and finally spinal meningitis.
During the thunder shower Sunday |
afternoon, lightning struck milk can in |
James Gallagher's well in East Burke,
breaking the glass and spilling the con-
tents into the well. The electricity then
followed the iron pipe to the house. where
Mrs. Gallagher received quite shock. In
the same town, the barn of William Kel.
ley was struck and his driving horse was
killed.
Mrs. Nina Adams, formerly OF Middle
town Springs, was shot and killed by
John s. Radley of Green Island, n. Y,
at his home, where the woman boarded.
He then killed himself. The cause of the
act was quarrel over board bill. Mrs.
Adams was divorced from her husband,
who still lives at Middletown Springs,
and Mr.. Radley leaves widow and son,
the latter at the training camp at Fort
Slocum. Mr.. Radley was SO years of age
and Mrs. Adams 45.
Wesley G. McMurray of Williamsburg,
Pa, who was married May rs to Miss !
Emma i. Fischer of Bennington, died at ,
the Samaritan hospital in Troy, n. Y,
June 3, before their wedding trip was
completed. He was taken i'll with spinal
meningitis the day of the wedding, when ]
they reached Troy on a trip that was
also to include Boston and New York {
before the journey was terminated at
Williamsburg.
For many years Station Agent Briggs,
located at Hartford, has been digging up
and transplanting from their native
haunts TO the station yard specimens of
wild flowers, until the garden is very ex-
tensive and perhaps more beautiful than
at any other station along the line of the
Central Vermont railway. long double -
row of hepatieas and blood roots were in
bloom for two weeks and in the hepati-
cas- were no less than III different varie-
ties. The garden is so well planned that 4
some of the plants are in bloom from the J
first days of spring until late in the
autumn.
Miss Marjorie f. Crosby. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Crosby OF Brat
tleboro, treasurer of the Red Cross
DfhHCH oi AndI piaSts iell her post at Il
headquarters Saturday afternoon for :
few moments, and during her absence
was married TO Lyman NJ. Smith Of Phil -
'delphia. son of Mrs. Fred /. Smith of 2
Mr.. Smith and Miss Crosby
we're TO be married in the fall, but as the
groom expects to go to France soon as an
'ngineer, the marriage took place inform
'lly at the parsonage of the First Bap-
list church. Miss Crosby was back at
Ter place Saturday evening. Mr.. Smith
'eturned to Philadelphia Sunday and the
marriage was not announced until Mon
lay.
The Bellows Falls Baptist church and
illsge are having a little tiff over the
trading Of School street. which was su-
HORNED four years ago but has not been
AIKEN up until this spring. Two fights
4 stairs have connected School street
nth the square and the trustees have
low removed the top fight and proceeded
nth the grading. This makes a cut six
Get deep in front Of the Baptist church
nd Will affect Church street and several
esidences. The Baptist church has tax
n steps 10 Incorporate. 30 that il may
ontest the grading. The chairman Of -