The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-15
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Mayor jackson of Burlington is Sc.
riously ill.
DIR. H. L. Pache and H. NJ. Osgood
of Danville caught 204 fish at ElwelPs
pond in Peacham on Tuesday afternoon
Mrs. Josie Morgan of Bristol has pre-
sented a clock to the Baptist church of
Lincoln in memory OF her father the late
William Elliott
William Tracy, son of +. A. Tracy of
Hinesburg, had his face crushed in by
the kick of a horse Monday and was
taken to Mary Fletcher hospital.
Lamoille county wants a county agri-
cultural agent and the Morrisvlle grange
has already appointed committee to
see what can be done along that line.
Rev. w, S. Stanley Post of Biddeford,
Me-, has been called TO the pastorate of
the Congregational church at Norris
vile. 1t is not known whether he will
accept.
Because OF the scarcity of help and the
high price of material, the school direc
tors of Barnet have given up a plan for
erecting new high school building this
summer.
Edward johnson, native of Royalton,
died recently at the home of Thomas
Gerry in Morrisville, where he had lived
for the past ten years. Pneumonia was
the cause of death.
Rev. +, w. Hemenway has resigned
as pastor of the Congregational church
at Hinesburg, to take effect July /, and
has accepted call to the pastorate OF
the Congrega tional church in Charlotte.
Miss Anna Powell, Franklin girl,
who has been on duty at the Roosevelt
hospital in New York, left Boston Mon
day for st. Anthony, New Foundland |
with DIR. Grenfell's party for the sum
mer.
c,irrant bush, which is growing in !
the crotch OF an elm tree about seven |
feet from the ground on the premises |
of the Sycamore inn in Rutland, is in |
full bloom.
J. S. Smith of Wilmington has gone
to Boston to join the lumbermen's unit
which expects to sail soon for England |
He is to serve as checker. The contract /
is with the British government and is
to last one year.
A trade noteworthy because of its
variance from usual automobile trans
actions occurred in Morrisville recently,
when j. Fl. Warren exchanged his new
Overland touring car for three head OF
blooded Holstein cattle. Mr. Warren
has gone to farming this summer
DIN T.. Russell Of Montpelier has
pet woodchuck which follows INN around
like house cat When someone shot
the mother few weelis ago, Mr.. Rus
sell took the baby chuck home and it is
now so tame that it will sit perfectly
quiet on a persons hand. 1t is no
larger than a small kitten. Ii
Six hundred and fifty seven employees |
of the Vermont Marble company at Proc
tor have subscribed and taken $40, 450 /
of the Liberty loan and purposed to |
make $4,000 record before the expira- :
ton of the time limit for subscriptions. {
With the exception of one $500 subscrip !
ton and two $500 subscriptions all were {
in $50 and 800 amounts.
Perhaps the only member of Major
General Pershing's force who is now with I
him in France, whose home is in Yer {
mont, is Clyde McCuen, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George II. McCuen of Burlington. ]
Mr.. McCuen has been in the signal corps {
service for three years and has become
very proficient in his duties.
Miss Alice W. Wilson, who for four
years has been the director OF the Fair
banks museum and instructor in nature
study in the public schools of ST. Johns ,
bury, has resigned her position, to take
effect July /. She will take a course of
study in the philosophy of education at
the summer school at Columbia universe. {
ty. s
Fred H. Perkins of the firm of H. A. O
Perkins & Co., in White River Junction,
narrowly missed death the other day c
when he was nearly caught in a cyclone s
a short distance from the city OF Jack il
son, Mich. Mr. Perkins has been in
Michigan for several weeks buying wool.
He and an assistant were out in an au
tomobile.
In Barton during a recent electrical
storm, the lightning did much damage.
One bolt entered the house of +. r.
Buck, damaging the chimney and smash
ing a hole in the roof. Another killed
seven cows belonging to Judah Blair, r
which were in pasture on the Willough- L
by lake road and, striking large pine
tree, completely demolished il. The
concussion broke Il panes of glass in
the Gilpin house, nearby, and enough
of the electricity travelled on the tele- a.
phone and electric wires to blow out Of
many fuses. a.
Fourth-Class Postmaster Examination. b
The United States civil service COM n
mission has announced an examination ~
TO be held at Randolph, Vermont, on al
July IL, 1917, as result of which il is
expected to make certihcation to ill
contemplated vacancy in the position OF
fourth-class postmaster at Brookfeld,