The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-19

were derailed at Shoreham Friday.
Joseph Fisher died at his home in Els.
sex Junction Sunday at the age OF 93
years.
John l.. Selden is to succeed r. W..
Hedges as principal of the Bristol high
school next year.
From card party given in Proctor
recently, 1880 was cleared for the ben
eft of the Red Cross work.
At a cost of 100000 the main street
at Newport is being macadamized, a
Plattsburg firm having the contract.
The first citizen of Rutland to give
for the weeks Red Cross campaign was
Marcellus E. Wheeler, who gave $500.
On Camels Hump, $1,000 young pine
trees have been set out this season,
about five weeks being consumed in the
work.
George Sturgeon has been sentenced
from st, Adams to five months in the
house Of correction at Rutland for chick
en- stealing.
July fourth has been selected as the
day for the formal opening and dedica-
ton of the *. of c." soldiers building
at Fort Ethan Allen.
Albert Larrow of Vergennes has pur-
chased 400-acre farm of w. b. Catlin
In South Burlington, with 81 head of
cattle and horses and all the farming
tools, hay and grain.
L. d. Latham, Milton lawyer, who
recently underwent a serious operation
at the Mary Fletcher hospital, is i'm
proving rapidly. He had been in poor |
health for long time.
At a farewell party, given Rev. and |
Mrs. J. B. Horton at Rutland, they were
presented a $50 Liberty loan bond. Mr..
Horton has been transferred from the
Rutland Methodist church to the one in
Mercer Pa.
Rev. r. A. Stockwell, who has been
acting as pastor of the Universalist
church in Morrisville since November,
graduated from the theological school at
Canton, N Y. June Is and will soon be-
gin his duties as resident pastor.
Clark +. Brigham and Miss Ethel II.
Coburn, both of Burlington, were mar
ried Saturday and the groom's gift to
the bride was Liberty bond The Mer
chants bank, where Mr.. Brigham was
employed, gave him $50 in silver.
Prof. Samuel +. Mills, acting principal
of the Newport high school, left Friday
for Cambridgeport, Mass, where he was
ordered to report on Saturday. He will
join an aviation corps, for which Ae
passed physical examination recently.
= White River Junction has an expert {
enced traffic officer from Taunton, Mass, ]
who will be on duty during the rush
hours of each day. The corner OF North {
Main and Bridge streets is considered
one of the most dangerous places in the i.
state.
Winfield, young son of Mr.. and Mrs. /.
"A. ID. Douglas of Essex junction, was !,
quite badly injured Saturday while at
the home of his grandmother in Willis :
ton. When he hammered cartridge an
explosion took off the nail of one thumb
and the nail and tip of on finger. Some OF
the powder went into his clothes and
into his abdomen.
Warren x. Moorehead, curator of the
museum of Phillips Andover academy, is
to conduct an archaeological expedition
on the Vermont side of Lake Champlain
this summer in an effort to locate old
Indian sites Mr.. Moorehead and
number of men will probably spend all
summer on the work
Burlington's tax rate goes up this
year from $l.s5 to So, although the
grand list is S2ss, APT more than in 1916.
The total increase in state tax is four ]
times the amount of a year ago, the
sum of $1,000 is the increase in the .
school fund; for street lights $500 ex- !.
ira has been set aside and for the street :,
department $500 more than last year. =
Rev. Robbins w. Barstow has ac- 81
cepted call to the passionate of the n