The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-11
MONTPELIER
Six Enlistments in Navy at Local Office
on Monday.

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Monday was good day in enistments
in the navy through the local office, i
having applied of which six were ac-
cepted. This morning three applied and
lall were rejected. Those accepted Mon
Idav were William Murray, Graniteville;
Albert !. Mayhem of Wells River. John
liz. Hopkins of Lyndonvile, and Harold
IClark of Montpelier. Those rejected were
John Lamere, Wells River; Joseph Che
nev, WiIliamstown; G. j. Farnsworth Of
Lebanon, n. H., T. NJ, Foley of Mont
pelier. B. J.. Doten this morning was
also rejected, while two aliens whose
names were not retained were rejected
on that ground. The report of last week
shows that enlistments at the Burlington
office were above Baltimore, Norfolk and
Raleigh, having a total of rs, of which
Montpelier contributed seven.
| The Redmen have arranged for a
wrestling match in their hall Saturday
evening between Bernard Pembroke of
| this city and j. NJ. Jameson of East
Barre.
At the meeting of the directors of the
Wetmore & Morse Granite company held
to- day, the semi-annual dividend of five
per cent from the profits of the SOM
pany's business in the last six months
was declared. In addition to that, a spe
eiaI dividend of two per cent was also
declared. This makes a total of vi
per cent voted this year The dividend
voted to-day is payable on or before
Jan. |.
A special train of the Central Yer
mont Railway company rested on the |
woodshed tracks of the local yard last
night. 1t was composed of the Pullman
and cars OTTAWA" and Grand Isle" a
day coach and engine and came from
Boston, arriving some time before mid
night and leaving this morning. Among
those in the train were President f. C.
Smith of the Central Vermont and Mr..
Kelly of the Grand Trunk. This is the
formers first visit to Montpelier since
the conference held some years ago rela
tive to the Central Vermont and the Bos-
ton & 3aine railroads. No one about the
local station seemed to know much about
the traD or why it stayed here over
hight inSead of continuing to st. Al
I a. y Stone, secretary of the fuel
id M Htion, was in Burlington to-
ton is still using kerosene stoves, il is
to heat the hotel.
The Washington County Farmers ex
change, Inc, has filed articles of corpor-
alton in the secretary of states office
Its capital stock is $1,000, divided into
900 shares at s. share. The signers /
Of the articles are E. c. Gould, Allen
Smith and A. J. Smith, Cabot; G. 4. II
AT,O4nol,ar. ~ NJ Ill
Naitsfield; II. J. Dodge, Clarence Dodge, H
Merrill Corliss, Berlin; Mark Moody, II
and Mark Ladd, Worcester.
the following officers were
PRESIDENT. Mr.. Moody secretary, MIR. II
'orliss; treasurer, II. ]. Dodge. The ar II
ieles provided for the exchange to han II
ting farms, as Well as to purchase, sell II
nd hold lands or buildings. HI
The grocers met in the city conrt II
Dom Monday afternoon for the pur II
ose of elecing delegates to confer II
nee to be held in a few days, made up of :
eleeates from the towns of the state Il
elative to the conservation of food.
; J. Jerome was elected chairman, after
.HlCH lHt lblftNlll utitltAtS Ntit titIt- III
d: Charles Berry, L. b. Brooks and
I H. Standish.
Thus far no complete list of the re-
-uits from Montpelier has been received.
ol. II. T. johnson asked that the re-
-uiting officers send one to his Office
hich was not done, and Capt. Raymond 4
aine did not preserve list so that the
lact names Of all the men who went
ON here to White River junction for
llistment are not known However.
Iyers futile and George etiquette, who
ent to the recruiting station Mondav,iE
ere enlisted. and with Arthur Mack
I'd Mr. Hudson Of Plainfeld leave to-
ght for that point TO go forward with
Re others 10 Fort Slocum for examina
on. Others who are understood to have
LISTED are L. r. Kelly Of MoretoWn,
no was in the Mexican border service.
,seph Ward Of Mortetown. Robert Law
nee 81 Berlin. Charles &. Japan, Vii
I'M Masters. Philip +. Dorey. F. Pal
anioa, Fred Reopel, John Alitti. Arthur
,mhsrd. George and Winthrop stone
d Oliver Maroelle Of Montpelier; Mel