The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-08

TT. AlDdns pOStoince nave taken out pl :,
200 in Liberty bonds.
The latest casualty list of the Cana
dian overseas forces gives the name
Of Morton Alger OF Jonesville, as being
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is offered to meet need which existed
long before the war, but its need has
Deen brought to public attention more
prominently by war conditions,
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hayes of South
Burlington have given their three oldest
sons, John, Lawrence, jr., and Thomas,
to the service of the country.
Sir Robert Borden, premier of Canada,
has sent to the Vermont Y. M. G. A.
secretary British flag, IL feet by feet,
10 be used at Camp Abnaki this season.
The st. Adams chapter of the Eastern
Star has voted not to serve refreshments
after the meetings during the duration of
the war, this being a food conservation
measure.
Moore & Thompson OF Bellows Falls,
who own one of the paper mills there,
have offered to give second $50 Liberty
bond TO each of their employees who will
take out one.
The more than 1000 employees of cot.
ton mills in Burlington have been given
raise of 10 per cent this week in wages
During the past Is months there has been
raise of 40 per cent.
An ll-year old johnson boy made and
sold from AZ trees $40 worth of maple
sugar and syrup this spring. OF this
sum he put SIS in the bank and used the
rest for current expenses.
. Between $50 and 200 men day go
from Fort Ethan Allen to take baths at
the Y NJ. c. A. bath rooms in Burling-
ton, as bathing facilities for so many
men at the fort are lacking.
L. f. Holmes, marshal of the day in
johnson Memorial day, rode the same
horse that he has ridden in the parade
for 20 successive years, and he has served
as marshal nearly every year of that
time.
Cyril Button, member Of the second
recruit company at Fort Ethan Allen,
died Wednesday at the post hospital
after three days illness with bronchial
pneumonia. He was only 10 years old.
His home was in Thomsonville, Conn.
Alfred W. Webb, who is in ST. Adams
On 10 days leave, is a member of the
t3d battalion of Cameron Highlanders
and has been three times wounded in |
service in France. He has seen 10 months |
Of service and was in the battle of the
Somme.
DIR. Raymond Van Ness Bliss, native
of Georgia, but practieing in Blue Hill, |
Me-, has been summoned to Fort Ben
jamin Harrison, having previously re-
ceived an appointment as assistant sur
geon in the medical reserve corps with
the rank of first lieutenant
So far there are "a cases OF smallpox
in the state. all traceable to Mrs. Ger
trude Hines. Two new cases have been
reported this week, in family in Calais
which was already quarantined. There
are cases in Fair Haven, and one at Scio-
Ia, N. T., was also traced to Mrs. Hines.
The Ford automobile belonging to Leon
B. Newell of Saxtons River, which be.
came missing at the same time that Mr.
Newelrs son, Austin. left home for parts
unknown, was found near Keene, n. H.,
June ), where it had been abandoned.
Nothing has been found of the missing
son
There will be no excursions on Lake ,
-hamplain this summer if the present
plans are carried out, the Champlain {
transportation company having decided /
% cut out all but its regular passenger
'erviee. The Chauteaugay will not be q
nut into commission and the Vermont |
md Ticonderoga will run only on sched- \
lie as rule q
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