The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-17
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

7. A. Courtney, for Ia years South
Ryegate granite manufacturer, died at
his home in st. Johnsbury Thursday. He
was Unjust last December and never
recovered.
j. Ii. Kingsbury of Hartford, Conn,
has accepted a call to the pastorate of
the congregational church at Sudbury
and will begin his duties in april.
Thcophie Berard died March in the
hospital at St. Johnsbury, death result
ing from fall on the ice in Island Pond
in the winter, when his hip was broken.
A pet eat belonging to Alfred Matten
OF West Newport returned this week
after being away eight months. The cat
disappeared one day when company came
with children, not liking the children. 1t
seemed glad to be back.
Carl Danforth, Bennington young
man, is a slippery proposition in the
stands of the police. He has twice es
capped while confined in the Bennington
county jail and Thursday escaped from
the officers in Williamstown, Mass, aft
er being sentenced to the workhouse for
80 days for stealing suit case.
An aged woman from Bolton, who
found and picked up in Burlington
store roll of money which another
woman had been seen to lose, stoutly
declared her innocence at the Burlington
police station until her small grand |
daughter said, Grandma, why don't you |
give the lady back her money!" Then |
the woman had to confess, as the child |
had seen her pick it up.
Because the grand lodge of Odd Eel
lows is to have its annual meeting in
Rutland May 1918, the Vermont Dental
association, which was to have met there
May 1913, has changed its meeting place
to Burlington on the scheduled dates.
Rutland hotels expect to have all they
can care for of the Odd Fellows without
any other organization at the same time,
as 900 Odd Fellows are expected.
DR.. William f. Irish, Norwich univ err
sity ex-l3, is located in London, Eng,
at the Military Orthopedic hospital.
Duncan road, Shepherd Bush London,
where he is serving as contract surgeon
with the British medical corps with the
rank of captain. DIR. Irish is the son of
DR. R. L. Irish, n. T. 80, of New York
City, president of the grand chapter
Theta Chi fraternity. Both are well
known in Northfield.
Mrs. George H. Frost, before her mar
riage Miss Anna Spencer, of st. Johns
bury has been chosen by the regents of
the 40 Greater Boston chapters, d. A.
r., chairman of the Colonial Period"
in the great Pageant of Womanhood,"
to be given in the Boston arena the last
week of April. There will be over 1000
persons in the cast. Mrs Frost directs !
over 200 members of the D. A. R. in the
one period, that of Dolly Madison.
Twenty seven members of the Rutland
Womans club have signed a protest !
against the action taken by certain mem I
bers of the club at a meeting held March ,
ID in favor of woman suffrage, after
which telegram was sent to the legis- :
ature giving the impression That the /
whole club was for suffrage. The 81
say the club is not supposed to be con-
iuced or used for political purposes and /
that any such statement purporting to j
,ome from the club as whole misrep- 4
resents the true condition and is unfair =
% the minority, whether large or small. 7
Mrs. Louise Vondette of Rutland is
uing Mrs. Almira Ross and Mrs. Emma
3asette of that city for $1,000 damages
or injuries received when she slipped
IN some ice on the steps of a store con- 81
lucted by Mrs. Ross in building owned f
~ Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Basette Feb. l3 u
II this year, and fell, breaking her hip. h
Mrs. Vondette asserts that she can never r
ecover from the injury. She is 20 years u
I'D. The case is returnable at the Sep F
ember term of court. N