The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-11
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT GEcrIoHs

DTFERENT ELECTIONS
Brattleboro's high school enrolment is
larger by 20 than last year.
Fifteen potatoes, grown in single
hill by II, II. Lawson OF Rutland, came
from potato parings.
Boy scouts and individuals purchased
new community flag, which has been
dedicated by the people of McIndoes.
new wing. costing $4,000, relieves
a congestion which hitherto existed in
the Ira Allen public school, Burling
ton.
Death coming suddenly, removed one
of Rutlsnds best known young dentists,
when DR., Paul II. Blanchard died Sat.
urday.
Twenty or thirty persons will be re-
quired for community orchestra which
Bert A. Brehmer hopes to organize in
Rutland.
Jacksonville was without a town
clerk when Fred +. Smith, aged So, died
recently after a lifelong residence in
that village.
On meadow leased of Mrs. Luella
Hartman of Sutton, the Parker. Young
Co. of Lisbon, n. H., plans to erect a
large sawmill.
OF the 100000 which the Troy Meth
odist conference plans to add to its en-
dowment, the Burlington district will
furnish $4,000.
An arm swelling and violent eruptions
on the flesh resulted from a gray cater
pillar bite received by Mrs. Carrie
Tewksbury of Randolph.
Nearly 100 clergymen and laymen of
the Congregational church in Vermont
are comforting in the Mead chapel at
Middlebury college this week.
Building contractors are securing the
woods of Vermont for men to work in
timber lots where ship lumber is being
manufactured for the government.
When two women narrowly escaped
injuries from bicyclists riding on the
sidewalks Hydeville village fathers be-
gan to enforce the street regulations.
Travellers passing from Brattleboro to {
Hinsdale, n. H., recently saw field ,
in which $4,000 cabbages were growing. j
The plants were set out by machinery.
The sequel to a friendly scuffle in a
Bennington store between J. Russell
Carpenter and John Ryan came when
the formers head went through show
case.
Miss Sarah Nichols, who has gone TO
Panama to do nursing for the govern
ment, is succeeded as head nurse at
the st. Adams hospital by Miss Hazel
Foley.
From a position as agricultural in .
structor in the Montpelier public schools, u
Jerome Fitzpatrick, formerly of Bran 81
Ion, goes to the Vail school in Lyndon h
Center this fall.
William w Green, formerly of Proc :,
or, who died while in the U. s. aviation - :,
'orps, was buried in Rutland Sunday, :,
he funeral services being attended by
oldiers and sailors. e
With building newly erected and
arranged, the trout club
It Lake Wapanacki in Hardwick kept =
,pen house to a large gathering of y
portsmen last week. p
Just before his departure from Fort N
ethan Allen, Capt. B. S. Hyland was o.
resented a silver and cut glass decanter u
nd glasses by the Spanish American IT y.
var veterans of Rutland. al
Writing to The st. Adams Messenger, 81
J. A. Skees recalls an exciting political j.
invention in Franklin county so years a
go. Restrictions were less lax half
entury ago and some of the delegates
oted two and three times.
A telegram from Ottawa, Can, ad- al
Used Mrs Felix Cole that her brother, no
William German, had died in an Eng ne
sh hospital as a result of nine gun OLE
hot wounds received while fighting ca
18th Canadian regiment on the west all
m front. pit
Because it developed that he was not L.
he instigator of the affair and for o.
Their extenuating reasons, Domenico -
[arro, recently ordered committed to
ne house of correction for his part in
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