The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-31
MONTPELIER
District Board of Appeals Has Certified
a Total of oo5 Names.

| The members of the district board Of
appeals resumed their sessions at tn,
State House yesterday afternoon, and
1t was stated at the office this forenoon
that tonight or tomorrow morning
many names would be certified from
Bennington and Franklin counties and
the Fair Haven district of Rutland coun.
| ty. A total of 995 names has been
certified to the district board by the local
exemption boards out of the required
quota of 1929.
In the investigation of many of the
afFidavits made by claimants for exemp.
! ton the district board is finding that
many of the claims are made without
foundation and the board may at the
end of its deliberations turn these cases
over TO the federal authorities for pros.
ecution.
G. c. Barnes, who has been secretary
to the president of Norwich university,
has been appointed state director of the
boys working reserve. and Emory j.
Newhall of Barre has been appointed
county director of the same organization.
which is under the supervision of the
federal department of labor. The prin.
cipal purpose of the work is to enroll
boys in each state with the idea OF
placing them on farms when demand is
made.
In probate court to-day William
Kingston of Mortified was appointed
executor of the will of Nancy Mooney,
late of Mortified.
Secretary of State Guy W. Bailey of
Essex junction visited his office at the
State House to-day, il being the day on
which his resignation takes effect, and
tomorrow Frederick Fleetwood of Nor
risville becomes his successor by virtue
of appointment by the governor. Mr..
Fleetwood may be in the city to-day (
confer with Mr.. Bailey, but it is not
likely, as he is busy at his Morrisville
office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Brown of Spring. |
field, Mass, are spending week in the
city with Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Luce and
others.
olcutt T. Dodge of Brattleboro, for
mer resident of Montpelier, is spending
, few days in the city with relatives.
Montpelier has 1856 children of school
sge, six to seventeen years inclusive,
md 1879 children of the ages of five to
seventeen inclusive, according to figures
compiled by C. De F. Bancroft, sr., who
taI I
The state law requires only the enumer-
ltion of children from six to seventeen
ears of age but the school commits
toners of this city include the little
mes who are old enough to attend the
Ward six furnishes the
argest number of children, 40. with
ward two second with $50. Both of these
Yards are populated largely by foreign.
rs Ward one has the least number with
ut ISL.
DIR. E. G. Barrett, great sachem, Harry ,
richardson, c. A. Lang and Frank r. ,
,swley went yesterday to Springfield. /,
there they are attending the annual
ieeting of the great council of the I'm +,
roved Order of Red Men.
Richard Jerome and Joseph jaw. cor
erals Of Co. H, arrived in the city last /,
vening for a visit with relatives. They
ere granted thirty-six hours leave and !,
Upect that the remaining 700 of the !,
ermont regiment will leave sometime /
unday for some point in Msssachu- +
tits. either birmingham or westfeld. /.
Mrs. Thomas Lackey and son went :.
TO Holyoke, Mass, for a !,
eeks visit with relatives.