The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

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Cross and is now knitting her 39th pair
George A. Sweeney, an ice dealer in
st. Adams, has commenced cutting ice
on the bay. II is about seven inches
thick.
The Chrysotile Asbestos company at
Lowell has gone into Insolvency and an
auction later will dispose OF property
stored there. ..
The thawing out of frozen pipes with
torches was the cause of two fires in st.
Albans "Wednesday. !. There was practi,
cally no damage in either case.
Appleton T. Miles of Bratt1eboro, who
IA in France in the ambulance service,
has been commissioned first lieutenant
and has signed for the duration of the
war.
Earl W. Reed of Swanton has been Sc
cured as treasurer of the Essex Trust
company, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Roscoe Lynde, who
has gone to France.
Joseph P. Franzoni, for Is years en-
ployed as linotype operator on the
Rutland News, has enlisted in the army
and will make an effort to get into the
printing department.
After Dec 20 all Bennington dance
halls must be licensed, following action
bv the trustees of that town. This is
done so that the entertainments held
in them may be regulated by the trus-
tees.
The Blair Veneer Co. of North Troy
has purchased the H. l.. Baker timber
land in jaw and across the Canadian line,
making 10000 acres of timber land that
the company owns in the northern part
of the state,
George Crockford of st. Johnsbury,
who has been at the front two years with
a Canadian regiment, has won the mill
tary medal for bravery under gunfre.
His brother, Harold Crockford, is now in
q hospital in France recovering from
wounds in the right hand. He left st. |
Johnsbury last April to join the Cana
dian army.
A man who gave the name of Edward !
d. Bell and claimed he was at work for
the Howe Scale works hired room at I
the Brock house in Rutland last week /
and left Tuesday of this week, leaving
the rent unpaid and with new suit
which he obtained from a clothing store
on approval. The man said he came
from Boston.
Notwithstanding the bad weather of
last Sunday, one man walked IA miles
to attend services at the Methodist
church in Morrisvile, and Others drove
five or six miles through the storm. The
reporter for that church stated in Nor
risville papers that most of those living
at distance came to church, while those
living nearby stayed at home.
A well known Brattleboro woman went
into store there and asked for two
pounds of sugar, which the clerk was ty-
ing up for her when he heard her remark
to friend that that would make 100 6
pounds which she had at home The
clerk quietly put the carton back on the
shelf and said, eff you've got % pounds
at home, ! guess we will save this for
someone else" {
Over the mountain from Chester to y
Rutland thousands of Christmas trees ]
have been cut and are lying beside the
track waiting for shipment, which will v
be too late to get the trees to their des-
tination in time for the holiday season
1t is said that the government has de- I
creed that freight cars can be put to a
better advantage than transporting @
Christmas trees this year The loss will y
be great, as the small evergreens are
after being cut except for
Christmas trees. l.
In memory of his son, Westervelt :.
Thatcher Cushman, who was an inmate =
1T one time of the Kurn Hattin homes
1t Westminster, Arthur Fl. Cushman of
he Emerson Photograph company of Z !,
New York, has presented the homes three 2
one for each building, with .
/ complete library of photograph rec
,rds and the promise of set of the new
ecords that are published each month :
&c has also given the homes a memorial
library, $l20 having been sent by him
o buy bookcase and books suitable for ]
he boys the ages of those at the school,
Mr.. Cushman's son died in June, 1915
On the 50th anniversary of his mar
iage, Dec IL, George M. Scribner of
)ueen CITY Park appeared on the streets N,