The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-29
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Camp Abnaki at North Hero will open

Camp Abnaki at North Hero will open
June 25
l.. X. Smith of Swanton has offered
his yacht Siesta to the United States
government for use during the present
war.
Vermont insurance companies escaped
completely, but losses of New England
concerns as whole we're heavy in the
big Atlanta, Ga, fire.
Col. Fred b. Thomas, commanding the
ist Vermont infantry, had to travel $50
miles recently to inspect one battalion
Of the machine gun company,
The resignation Of Rev. George T..
Tomknson as pastor of the First Bap-
list church of Brattleboro has been ac-
cepted aud he will leave Sept. |.
Four men employed at the Burlington
railway station enlisted in one day last
week, including both night telegraph OPP
orators and two assistant baggage mas
tiers.
Joseph G. Estey, younger son of Col.
and Mrs. r. Gray Estey of Brattleboro,
sails from New York June 9 as men,
Der of the Amherst unit for ambulance
service in France.
The Liberty Paper company, which
was burned out of its plant in Bellows
Falls recently, has leased another build
ing and will remain there. The company
had partially decided to move out of
town.
Edward Doheny of the machine gun
company, lst Vermont infantry, who
was injured last week while on duty
guarding bridge, is rapidly recovering
at the Mary Hitchcock hospital in Han
over, N, H.
About dozen young people from
Stowe, who attended a dance at the state
hospital in Waterbury May Is, are in
quarantine in their homes, as they were
undoubtedly exposed to smallpox while
at JHdt lnstltutioH.
The Chester schoolboys are bewailing
the fact that they will be without a
baseball park this season. The boys
park has been plowed up and in place of
base hits this summer the screeching of
potato bugs viii be heard.
Charles, l4-year old son of Columbus
Davis of Brandon, fell from tree there
Friday and was badly hurt. He struck
on ledge, cutting cash several inches
long in his scalp, closing one eye and
badly bruising one shoulder. He lay
there two hours unconscious before be-
ing found.
The Salvation Army in Burlington is
to set out this week 5000 tomato plants |
and many cabbage plants, besides plant |
ing potatoes and beans, onions and win |
ter vegetables. The Army has secured |
three plots of land at Lakeside and a |
barn nearby is to be used for sleeping
purposes by some of the workers.
Fifty-fve million pike are to be
Champlain Transportation company in
Burlington, which viii be placed on the
Vermont side of Lake Champlain and in
the tributaries. Many million more are
being Matched at Swanton. Pike fishing
in Lake Champlain this spring is the
best for years.
Health officers of the state are search
ing for Mrs. Hattie Lawrence, who left
Fort Ann, n Y, about May 6, headed
for Brsttleboro, after being exposed to
smallpox, Alvin Stone of Fort Ann, in
whose home she had been stopping, hav-
ing the disease. She has not been located
in Brattleboro.
The Billings library at Burlington has
the largest collection Of books by Yer
monters or concerning Vermont of any
Institution in the state except the one
At the state capitol Part of the collec-
ton consists of $500 books given by
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