The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-05
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

William Drinkwater of st. Adams
made 90 barrels of cider this fall.
The Rutland Country club voted at its
last meeting to retain its Saturday even
ing dinners.
OF winter birds pine grosbeaks ana
snow buntings have already been re-
ported in ST. Johnsbury.
There are said to be about 200 fam
lilies in st. Johnsbury practically with
Tout coal. Only one dealer there has any
| to sell and that is soft coal.
James +. eastman of Burlington has
passed a successful examination for ma
rine engineer before the United States
steamboat inspectors.
Seventy-five sacks of creeping ever
green were shipped from North Concord,
through the ST. Johnsbury depot, to Mon
mouth, N. j., Monday for making Christ
mas wreaths.
Arthur ]. Colgan, for 90 years an EN-
tploye of the First National bank in Hoo
sick Falls, has resigned, TO accept the
position of cashier of the First National
bank of Bennington
Kenneth and Raymond, young sons of
Cornelius Jarvis of Vergennes, had a
narrow escape from drowning Dec. 2,
when they broke through the ice on the
river back of their home, where they
were skating.
Z. Alden Straw of Stowe has been com |
missioned a first lieutenant in the L. S.
army balloon service. He is only 10
years old, graduate of Stowe high /
school and a member of the class of 1919
at Norwich university. He is at Fort
Omaha, Neb.
| Truman Lockwood, aged IS years, who
| lives two miles from Lowell on the road
| to Burlington, committed suicide Dec. 2
by hanging himself. He was respondent
over failing sight and business troubles.
He leaves his wife, one son, two daugh
tiers and an aged mother.
Miss Ruth Berlin, graduate of the
Memorial hospital at Worcester, Mass,
has succeeded Miss A. N Lentell as head
pital Miss Lentell was recently called
by the government for service at the na.
val station at Newport, r. |.
Robert VI. Briggs Of Hartford, one Of
the Vermont men appointed last August q
for training as aerial observer in the
aviation section of the United States
army, has received commission as first
lieutenant. He will remain at Fort SILL
Okla, as instructor in aerial reconnai
sance.
One of the large boarding houses in c
Burlington is said to have withstood /
the sugar shortage by novel procedure, +
Each boarder was asked to purchase
pound of sugar for the house whenever
possible, with the result that one day 90
pounds was carried into the house by rs a
many people. f
Dr. Albert Kinney left Greensboro Sat .
urday by auto for Maine. When he got :
as far as Danville he concluded the trav- :
cling was not the best for motoring, so |
put up the car, returned to Greensboro
and left by train Monday with his fam
ily DR.. Kinney is to practice in Blue
Hills, Me.
j. G. Brown of Starksboro has been !.
in Rutland this week a silver !
gray fox, which he caught last spring
with another, when they were quite =
young. They have thrived well in cap =
tivity and Mr. Brown has set price of =,
81 900 on the larger of the two. They =
are entirely black, with the tip end =
Of some of the hairs white. 8
Rev. George s. Mills, for IA years pas Ii
tor of the Second Congregational church o.
N Bennington, has been granted six OF
months leave of absence 10 become a cr
naval chaplain attached to the Great
Lakes naval station near Chicago The 81
PASTORS salary viii be continued by the a,
,hurch, as he receives no pay for his re
work as chaplain. Some arrangement will III
be made so that Rev. Mr.. Crath-
IN of the First church can offieiate once Ii
very Sunday at each church. is
OF
When the sleigh in which Mr. and Mrs. ie
Philip Nicklaw of Greenfield, Mass, were =
iding in that city Sunday afternoon was Ga
truck by train, Mrs Nicklaw was in. 81
family killed and Mr.. Nicklaw died the 10
c3b AipiuiHS az HVr piiul. n l.,
uneral was held this morning. Mrs ga
sicklaw's former home was in Leicester Da
nd her parents, sister and two broth ~
RS reside in Brandon. Mr.. Nicklaw for kl
nerIy lived in Forestdale. He was ~ u
ears old. IN
Hattie Freeman, eight years old, daugh. y
err of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Freeman Of -
Iinsdale, n. H., is in the Bratteboro % -.
ospital with bullet in her abdomen. ca g.,
10y Cripps, aged l6, of Chesterfield, n. -,
l., had a repeating rife, which he took ID
nth him to the Freeman home and while IT,
andling the weapon it was discharged, 10
he bullet going through the girls spine, A.
lose to the spinal cord, perforating the ~
ltestines three times and lodging in the -
muscles in the wall of the abdomen She
in a serious condition and peritonitis ]
feared.