The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-03


tive from his town and once senator,
died Friday at his home in Richmond,
at the age of 50 years.
Owing to business pressure and de-
mands arising because of the war, the
better acquaintance trip of the Brattle-
boro board of trade to Portsmouth, N.
H., scheduled for this week, was called
of.
Miss Elizabeth Brown found fine
specimen of closed gentian tGentiana
Andrewsii in bloom in Rutland last
week. This beautiful flower is quite
rare in this part of Vermont and the lit
tie girl is proud of her find.
Raymond Bridges, teacher of science
in the Rutland high school, was one
included in the second draft and he left
for Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, to-day.
He was guest of honor at a dinner at
the Hotel Bardwell Monday night.
More permanent highway work is be-
ing done throughout the state now than
at any previous time during the year,
as the farm work is less pressing. A
large number of concrete bridges have
been built this year to replace the wood
en- ones.
Lois Belle and Mary Catherine, daugh
ters of Mr.. and Mrs. John Z. Wright of
Shoreham are to have double wedding
at that place Oct. IL when they are mar
ried to William Wesley Hildreth of East
Jaffrey, N. H., and Smith Seeley Rey
nouls of Middlebury, respectively.
William H. OBrien died at his home
in Burlington Sunday after a long i'll
ness He was connected with the Rut |
land and Central Vermont railroads for
40 years and was cashier for the Cen
trial Vermont for % years, until his
health failed him three years ago.
Medical inspection in the schools of |
Bennington was voted at a special meet
ing of the school district Saturday night |
When the meeting came to order, there
We're "a voters present and most of these
were women. The number increased
to 81 before the evening was over.
Carl Broadwell left his home in Bur.
lington Saturday and has not been seen
or heard from since. His wife is left
with three small children She has been
in charge of the Montreal house in
Burlington and her husband was
teamster for James Z. eastman.
Wilson, fve-year- son of Mr. and
Mrs. w. j. Samson of st. Adams Town,
fractured his skull Saturday in fall
from height of 20 feet while playing
in the silo. He struck on his head or
the cement floor. He is at the Sher.
wood sanitarium and is fairly comfort
able. :
Mayor ]. Holmes Jackson of Burling- ;
ton has vetoed the resolution of the
aldermen to build 100000 addition to
the Ira Allen school. He gives as his
reasons, the constant demand for war :
purposes the price of materials, great
scarcity of labor and the lateness of
tion he said, 81 do not think we have
the right to spend so large a sum as
$4,000 at the present time"
George Quackenbush, New York i'm
porter, is to erect a 100000 residence
in Bennington, the ground having al
ready been broken. The house is to be
IT'S feet long and 81 feet wide at its
widest part. The first story will be
of stone and the rest of wood. All the |,
floors are to be of red birch and the
principal rooms will be finished in white
pine. The site of the house is 1000 7
feet above sea level and commands
sweeping view of the Waloomsac river a
valley and the mountain peaks beyond. p
Mr. Quackenbush recently purchased two y
adjoining farms and thereby acquired d.
10 acres of land.
Gerald c. King, native of Bellows
Falls, aged 3s, died recently in New
York hospital. King served in the Span CT
sh American war and last February en- o,
listed in the ambulance service and went oil
% France. He proved SO efficient that b,
lie was chosen for special service in Sa- oil
onika and it was there that he was hi
stricken with paralysis of the lower b
limbs. Two months ago he was brought n,
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