The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-06
ABOUT THE STATE
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~ Mrs. Harriet Hale, aged IS years, livei
alone at her home in West Bolton and
does her own housework
DR.. Milton LeRoy Morrison, aged so
years, u dentist in Bellows Falls for 25
years, died in the hospital there April
! Of pneumonia.
Porter IT, Dale of Island Pond, con-
gresham from the second congressional
district it to bo the Memorial day
orator at Mortified
AT the sale OF pure bred livestock at
Brattleboro on the final day, c. H. Thorn
AS OF West Rndge. A. H., paid 81 900
Tor Il COW and 81, 100 for her daughters
In double wedding Wednesday, Cor
poral Lawson and Private Leonard Foye
were married to Misses Blanche and
Pauline. Fosburs, sisters, all being from
Rutland.
presented valuable set of 80 volumes
of literature, art and manuscript, and
u large miscellaneous collection, the gift
q DR., c. NJ. Ferrin.
State Engineer II, NJ Mcintosh of
Burlington has assumed the duties OF his
new office and will have general supervis-
ion of al. engineering work of the state
highway department His salary is to
be $4,000 per year
A petition aligned by As Of the teachers
in the Rutland schools asks for Sub
stantial raise in salary" TO meet the
demands of the increased cost of living.
The head of the manual training de-
partment Of the high school asks for an
increase of 81 per day.
An oil portrait OF Erastus Fairbanks,
governor of Vermont in 1852 and 1861, !
has been placed in the art gallery at the !
st. Johnsbury atheneum. 1t was paint. |
ed in Paris and is the gift of his grand |
children, Arthur f. and Philip II. Stone
of St Johnsbury.
Benjamin Morris tried to commit sui
eide at his home in Rutland Wednesday |
by taking part of bottle of oil of mus
tard. His suffering has been intense
since, but does not seem likely to cause
his death, and he is already planning TO
enlist as soon as he is able.
The maple sugar industry in Barnet
and vicinity is somewhat hampered this
spring. Farmers find ii almost impossi-
BILE to get help, some sugar places have
been cut off with the lumber and the
snow is still so deep as to make tapping
impracticable in some places In one
sugar place, GOO trees out of 1000 have
been tapped, and as fast as the snow
lowers enough, others will be tapped
Because he expressed the hope that
every American soldier who was sent
across to Europe would be sent to the
bottom of the sea, a fellow employe of Z.
j. King in the plant of the +. and t.
Fairbanks company in St Johnsbury
gave him slap in the face and when {
the foreman heard of the sentiment ex
pressed Mr.. King finished work for the :
company on short notice. =
The Fairbanks Scale company at St.
Johnsbury has a list of employees who
have been with the company for long
terms of years. Among them are Henry I
L. Byron, who completed so years of )
service last week. Frank G. Perrigo SIS
years, Charles w Waite 50, Henry NJ.
.heney 80, Austin A. Annis At, George {
A. Wright A., Charles H. Horton 43, John
R. Somerville 3d. Edwin L. Spencer 81. {
BY the will of Justus G.. French of 6
Burlington, who died in San Diego, Cal, T
'ecently and whose will was probated
n Burlington Wednesday, the Holden y
hospital OF Hardwick will benefit to the L
mount of $4,000, with which to build
furnished ward of Stowe brick The
Episcopal church Of Hardwick was also =,
eft 10000, the interest TO be used for =
he support of the church. Mr.. French 1t
eft an estate of nearly 100000.
b. d. Bckford, engineer at the Morse
ressing mill in Morrisville, has been Ill 2
ince Sunday from injuries resulting =
rom the bites and scratches of a pet NJ
at The cat was afraid of stranger "a
Tho entered the house, and when Mr.,
'ickford caught the animal and held q
err, she turned on him and scratched 8
nd bit his left hand and arm so badly