The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-11

resulted in about 40 enlistments.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Scudder of Eas
Charleston left for New York Friday
They will sail for Africa as missonar
ies.
r. w. Lawson of New York, bacteri
ologist of the U. S. government, is in
Newport looking after importations oil
cream.
The inmates of the house of correc-
ton, by donating sums from two to five
cents each, have purchased flag, which
was dedicated July s.
Homer Whittemore, an employee Of the
Vermont Box company of Bristol, had
his nose broken recently by piece of
block thrown from buzz saw.
While Mrs. Alfred Steady of Walden
Four Corners was visiting her son in
Hardwick recently, someone entered her
cellar and stole thirty jars of preserves.
Frank Boyd, sentenced to states prs-
on about six years ago, charged with
killing John Potter while both were in
toxicated, has been released and is in
Wilmington.
All the teachers in the Middlebury
high and graded schools have accepted
re.appointments except one, Miss Dor
othea Myer, who will teach near her
home in Boston.
Dr. Clarence c. Guion of New Rochelle,
N. Y, was arrested Saturday at Will
mington for fishing in Lake Raponda
without license. He paid fine of s25
and costs of $3.50.
Among the members of the Red Cross
branch in Wilmington are Mrs. B. s.
Smith aged % years, and Virginia Par
melee Howe, her great-great -granddaugh
ter, aged six months.
The lunch stand and ice cream parlor
of A. l.. Young in Bellows Falls was
broken into Monday night and $35 in
cash, with $50 in merchandise, was tax
en-. Several are suspected, but no ar
rests have been made.
Mrs. Frank Japan received severe |
cut on her head as she was sitting in |
an overloaded hammock on the porch at |
l.. NJ. Ravlin's in South Burlington dur
ing funeral service, when the hammock |
fell to the piazza floor Two stitches +
closed the wound.
K Six carloads OF finished Woodbury.
granite are to be used for the approaches
of the capitol building at Topeka, Kan,
making the seventh state capitol in
which the Woodbury. granite will have
been used-Wisconsin Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, Kan
sas.
Edwin M. Collins, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. H. Collins of Rutland, who joined the
naval reserves, is on the battleship
Georgia at the Charlestown navy yard.
On July 4, he won first prize in 220-
yard swimming contest, the prize being
a gold wrist watch, given by the city of
Boston, which he sent to his sister in
Rutland.
A dog belonging to Leland Dowley of
Brattleboro went mad Sunday and en-
tered the house of Arthur Crouch, where
it tried to attack various members OF
the family, who fought it off with what.
ever implement CHANGED to be handy. 1t ,
was finally cornered in the woodshed,
where its owner ended its life with a
cunshot.
John NJ. Kelley of Williston has sued
the American Express company for ST.
goo for the value of bull calf, which
he purchased in New York on March
so, 1915, and which he alleges died April
of that year of pneumonia because the
express company let it catch cold on its
journey to Vermont. Alleging that the
animal was wholly a loss to him, Mr.
Kelley sues for the cost of the animal
and the medical attendance.
Miss Dorothy Davis, one of the two