The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-13
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT ELECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Children of school age in Rutland mum
Der 2,o60, according to returns made thi
week
One thousand pupils, the largest en-
rollment ever, are attending the public
schools of Bennington.
A corn cutter claimed finger on tn,
right hand of William Vaughan, a Pitts
ford farmer, few days ago.
A. q. Racey of Montreal, a prominen,
newspaper eartoonist is to lecture in
Richford for the benefit OF the Red Cross
Fifty years compositor and probably
the oldest printer In the state, A. IL
Cobb of Rutland is seriously i'll of par
alysis.
Seventy.three cars comprised the heay.
lest freight train that ever went through
Barton. The natives made the count
last week.
Golden wedding anniversaries were eel
ebrsted in Jacksonville Monday by Mr..
and Mrs. G. w. Holmes and Mr. and Mrs.
A. c. Griswold.
Bellows Falls has been chosen as a
location for the claims department of
the American Express Co.'s interests in
Vermont and New Hampshire
Intensive service with Connecticut
troops in Arizona last summer caused
assesses which recently led to the death
of Hiram L. Round of Springfield.
Potatoes are rotting badly in the town
of Fletcher and similar reports from 9TH
er sections indicate that the tuber crop
in Vermot is not all velvet this year.
Business men of Rutland, Middlebury
and Brandon were due to meet in the
latter town to-day to discuss plans for
boosting the proposed Otter Creek valley
route.
Mrs. G. W. Stickney, who died recent.
~ in Washington, d. G., was daughter
of Rev 5. P. Giddings, formerly pas
tor of the Congregational church in
Clarendon.
The headline Another Vermonter
Honored" applies to Capt. Jacob Frank, |
formerly of Burlington. who has been
promoted to post quartermaster at Fort
Riley, Kans.
A new church and nine years OF con
tinuous work was the record of Rev /
G.. Il. Garvin, who recently closed his
pastorate in the L. P church at East /
Craftsbury.
AT his summer camp in Mendon Earle
S. kinsley of Rutland entertained the
members of the Vermont Life Under.
writers association at their annual meet.
ing this week
Windham county veterans of the Civil
war entertained prominent members of
the state department, G.. A. Il. at their
annual reunion in Brattleboro Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Capt A. A. Skeels, who has been serv.
ing the British government for the past
two years, has arrived safely in Mon
treal and expects to 60 to his home in
st. Adams for visit.
While engaged as demonstration Tor
a Springfield machine company, Edward
b. Moore received notice that he had
been commissioned first lieutenant in
the Z. s. ordnance department.
DIR. r. D. Worden, who has been prac-
ticing in Montgomery for some years,
has lowered his shinge preparatory to
going to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind,
to enter an officers training camp.
To comply with the formalities Of the
government regulations, the Rutland
county registration board made spe-
.ial trip to Dandy to consult a crippled
nan whose name was called in the draft.
Although kicked in the skull by !
iorse, John Horbitter, contractors $
,elper in Wilmington, underwent a sue. .
'essful operation for the removal Of /,
dome" bone and is expected to reeov- !
n. a
Two of Gen Stephen p. Joslyn's chill. z
lren are in France while the father,
etired army officer, is in Burlington 7
Ferry Joslyn is with Pershing's forces,
md Miss Dorothy Joslyn is in a Red
ross unit.
A large crew of volunteer fire fighters :
vas summoned by telephone when the |,
awmill of Webster Bros. in East :,
Greensboro caught fire one night recent. .
Y, but their efforts were in vain and 2
he mill was totally destroyed. Z Z
Coffee stalks "a inches high, one with q =,
s pods on it and another with 30. are y y
onvincing evidence that there is short o.
at between the garden of +. c. Royce in
.oxbury and his breakfast table. The +
lants are expected to mature in mid
eptember. E
Misfortune attended members of the Al
Dazzle family while at Shar. =