The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-27
MONTPELIER
]. A. Chattin's Automobile Nearly Went
Into Winooski River.

name was j. A. Chattin, and that he live
In Waitsfeld, narrowly escaped goin
into the Winooski river Friday afternoo
:, when he attempted TO pass another auto
. mobile and a team at the same time o.
Berlin street. Chattin was coming fron
Barre He got by the team and auto
mobile, which were beside each other
but did not come into the road sool
enough, so the wheels of his machin
went on the leaves and grass with th
result that the machine was throw
against the guard rail. This, for won
der, held, preventing the automobile, al
though tipped on one side, from goint
into the river. There were two othel
men in the car with Chattin All escaped
injury. Ropes were obtained and the
machine was replaced in the street with
out damage, excepting few scratches to
paint.
The body of Mrs. Carrie Peck arrived
from Omaha, Neb,, Friday evening and
was taken to the home of Russell Collins
This morning interment took place in the
Cutler cemetery, with services conducted
by Rev. L. c. Carson of the Church of
the Messiah Mrs. Peck died last Sun
day in Omaha, where she had been liv-
ing for some years. She is survived by
three sons. Russell Collins of East Mont
pelier, Charles Collins of Omaha, Neb,,
who accompanied the body here and Al
bert Collins of Huntington, Ind. She
| lived most of her life in East Mont
pelier
Judge L. P. Slack on Friday evening
issued a temporary injunction in the
case of j. B. and Nellie Reagan against
f. s. Putnam and John Patterson of
Royalton in chancery case pending in
Windsor county court. The restraining
order prevents the defendants from in
terfering with the plaintiff going TO, or
obtaining water from IL spring of water.
The defendants claim the ownership OF
the spring, but the plaintiffs claim it
from a lease which was given them AZ
years ago. improvements have been made
on the spring so that now the matter
is in chancery for a decision as to owner
ship Wilson and Wilson were attorneys
for the plaintiffs, while the defendants
were represented by Charles Batchelder
George Chandler of West Berlin, Mrs
Flora Dow, Mrs. Ellen Hartwell, and
Mrs. George Caustic of Montpelier have
returned from Springfield, Mass, where
they attended the Eastern States exposi- |
tion. They made the trip in Mr.. Chand- |
ler,'s auto Mr.. and Mrs Merrill Lord, |
Robert Thresher and Warner Walker of |
Montpelier also have returned from the |
same place.
Hiram O'Dell, master of Aurora lodge
of Masons, is feeling as comfortable to-
day as can be expected although he will
probably be confined to the house for a
few days as a result of a bad spell suf-
fered during district meeting on Friday
evening, from heart trouble. In the aft
ernoon, as master of the lodge, he did the
work, and in the evening, because OF
the large attendance and poor ventila
ton the hall was hot. He remained
through the meeting and was about to
Hose the lodge in form when he suf.
Tered the attack. Drs. Il. ]. Fitzgerald
and L. A. Newcomb were at the meeting
and attended him, and DIR. J. r. Grimes
was called. giving Mr.. O'Dell a stimu-
ant, which braced up his heart action
10 he recovered and was taken home.
The fire department was called out I
Ibout s:l5 o'clock Friday evening for a
hack burning on Capitol hill, in what is {
Known as the Viles pasture. 1t was .
'wned by James Dobbs and other youths |
If the city. How the fire originated is ;
lot known. The shack was worth about :
100 and was without insurance. The !
apartment staye1 until after the fire I
vas out to prevent grass on the hill =
tarting a fire The shack is half a mile i
rom the water supply, so that it was n
imply case of allowing it to burn.
At 10 o'clock this morning, the com.
nittee on the Liberty loan announced
hat 100000 bonds had been sold and
nth practically full banking day
head of the committee, including the ad- B
itional hour this evening, the indications
'ere very favorable for the committee to
ass the Sl000000 mark. !
John w Peck, who has been suffering "
,r some weeks from fractured leg is :"
BILE to be at the store a little while \,
lch day, although he uses a wheel chair. -
Mrs. Peter Gauthier, who has been =
siting with her brother in East Barre, y
as returned home u
Roy Macmillan has telegraphed his -
other, Mrs. Joseph loyal, that he has 81
llisted in the aviation corps in the 40
tvy at Springfield, Mass, and that he \,
Is been assigned to duty at Fort Slo- hi
i'm, n. Y A telegram has also been d,
ceived from Ralph Lathrop that he has =
zen transferred from Boston to Nor -
TX, Va. hr
New time cards arrived at the local
.ntral Vermont station Friday after D,
on, for a change in the running time 60
trains on the road, to become effective n
t. 2S. As far as could be seen this ~
orning, but one train running into m,
ontpelier is affected by the change, IN
mely, the soundbound arrival and de- clr
rture of the milk train. 1t arrives at IN,
80 in the evening, departing at 1906, Sta
stead of arriving at 1850 and leaving ms
s:ls, as under the old schedule There an
e minor changes on the main line of tn,
e southbound night train, but these sm
not affect this branch. There are also
anges on the Richford branch.
At the meeting OF, the Maccabees held Cr,
$ week, it was voted TO have Hallow- tm
n party at the home of Miss Beatrice ter
app on Court street the evening of J
t. 81 hoI
A. L. Graves. of the firm of Searles, the
aves & Cameron of st. Johnsbury, was 9th
TIE city to-day.
Fernandez and Encanacion ave
leone. v-aro s,,g ~riad q q lO 4hfs Forn | -