The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-03
BETHEL
An Automobile Carrying Dead Woman
Stopped at House for Water for Her.

stopped dt mouse TOT water I0r her.
What seems lawless act occurred
Saturday noon in the adjoining town o.
Royalton when the driver of an auto
mobile with a woman and other passen
gers is believed to have driven by the
office of the health officer and other ply
sicians although he knew that the won.
an had died during the trip and ordinary
decency, not to say respect for law.
would have compelled him to stop long
enough to notify the authorities OF
what had happened The party stopped
at R. III. SINNERS in North Royalton
and asked for drinking water which was
given, when the discovery was made that
the woman supposed to be faint was in
fact dead and the parties said they
would stop at doctors office in South
Royalton. This apparently they did not
do, as DIR. o. j. Ellis, health officer at
South Royalton last evening had received
no information regarding the case. 1t is
said that the deceased person was resi-
dent of New Hampshire and had been
visiting friends in or near Essex juno
ton. DIR. Ellis, feeling that the law has
been violated, is making an effort to as
certain the facts, including the names of
the parties.
Miss Luella Atkinson of Morrisville
is at A. N. Washburn's for part of her
vacation.
Mrs. Charles Palmer of vergennes,
Misses Mildred and Ethel Palmer are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. +. Demers.
Mrs. M. E. Keller and her son, Clyde
i. Carter of Dorchester, Mass are guests
at F. N. Chapman's
Carl B. Spencer is visiting his mother,
Mrs. A. B. Coggswell in Graniteville.
Miss Ruth Davis of Rutland has been
visiting at Charles L. Lilleys.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Smead have moved
from Palmiro Rossi's to Austin .Havey's
and will board at the Bascom house.
Miss Katherine Bartlett has returned
from teaching in Springfield, Mass, Miss
Winifred Wilmot from Maynard, Mass,
and Joseph P. Mccormack from the Nor i
ris high school in New York City.
Miss Ruby Dustin was in Burlington |
for medical treatment last week.
w. NJ. Fisher of Springfield, Mass,
formerly of this place, has rented his
cottage at Barnard lake to Mrs. B. Z. |
biDltf vi NldSss
C. III. Kidder has a new twin Packard |
six-cylinder automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Blanchard, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Regain are visiting in
st. Adams.
Tax Collector w. R. Briggs has been
delayed month in sending out tax no.
tees by an operation for appendicitis,
from which he has now recovered suffi-
GENTLY to allow him to work. Taxpay-
ers will soon receive their notices and
will have till Aug. 81 to save their 8 per
cent discount.
James Turner went last evening to
Fort Ethan Allen, intending to enlist in
the National Guard. Several young men
from Rochester went on the same errand.
The Eastern Tale Co. last week gave l.
notice of an increase of wages affecting
all its employees in Rochester and
amounting to an average increase of {
about 1919 per cent. :
Walter Winot of Rochester, who had
been working at the tale business in !.
Canada, was here yesterday on his way
to Woodstock to register under the con-
scription law. He was accompanied by !
Mark Brown, Canadian subject, who
also is well known in the Rochester tale ,
zone.
r. A. Pierce made his first regular
stage trip to Barre and return yesterday,
having E. A. Treadway of Detroit, Mich,
summer boarder at the Bethel inn, as a
'ound trip passenger. He was welcomed
warmly on his return before o'clock U
With a full supply of copies of The Times d
or its many readers. :.
Yesterdays paper should have said l
hat Robert E. Bundy and Miss Gladys &c
Wilson, whose marriage engagement was
were Middlebury college n
raduates in 1914, not 1904. "
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Crozier and Miss r
iartha Crozier of Lebanon, n H., have A
een visiting at B. G. Bundy's. al
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Z. Wallace and Miss Il
largaret Wallace spent Saturday and 81
unday at the Wyman cottage at En- Ia
ED, n. II.
Mrs. Annie Abbott and Miss Mary Alb ds
oft returned yesterday from Boston,
here Miss Abbott has been seriously "
several weeks with septic sore throat
nd complications. She is teacher of IN
everal years standing in the public II
.hools of Somerville, Mass.
Fifteen of the American Realty Co.'S ds
len, mostly apparently Russians, took
he evening train for Boston yesterday, us
aving found chopping in the upper
1hite river valley too monotonous for to
ty men.