The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-21

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT ELECTIONS
Judge Wendell Stafford, former Vel
monter, has written volume of wa
> poems.
Cold weather FASTENED the flight q
many birds from the vicinity OF 81
Johnsbury.
Shippers Of grain, hay and feed ar
advised 10 be on the lookout for speeu
lation sharps,
Some of the sportiest duck huntinl
in years is being enjoyed by hunters il
Addison county.
John Lynch, sometimes crier at fedora
court sessions in st. ,Iohnsbury, died re
Gently at the age of &C.
Lieut.. Clyde Seleck of Rutland hs
been commissioned a captain in the 0tl
field artillery at Honolulu
Returning home from a short visit
the family of Alvah Clark of Wolcott
fund their house and barn in ashes.
j. M. Cady of st. Johnsbury has re-
ceived an appointment as assistant pur,
chasing agent for the Philippine Islands
DR.. H. Nelson jackson of Burlington
with the medical corps at Fort Sheridan
ILL.,, has been promoted to the rank OF
captain.
DR.. James Lang, who died recently in
Pasadena, Cal, at the age of Sc years,
was a former pastor in Barnet and
Peacham.
There is chance for Vermont lum.
berjacks, as the second forest battalion
Is to be recruited for service abroad
in the near future.
A four.acre field of winter wheat in
Putney has given good returns and agri-
culturists argue that tire cereal should
thrive in other towns.
The panels of a pulpit in st. Andrews
church at st. Johnsbury have been dec
grated in memory of Daniel Dean Pat
terson by Helen Patterson.
Vermont is to have two wheatless
days per week if the plans of Federal
Food Director James Hartness are car
ried through to completion.
The poliomyelitis quarantine in North
field was raised Wednesday, the order
being signalized by the reopening of
churches and places of amusement.
Raymond Lapoint an alleged bicycle |
thief, who is said to have been operat
ing in the vicinity of Manchester, was
arrested in Bennington this week.
With 30 chatter members, Caledonia |
county farmers have organized branch /
of the, Federal Loan association, and APP
plications have been made for loans of |
$50, $50.
In the absence of time -honored agri-
cultural exhibits in this state, fairs along
the New York and New Hampshire bor-
ders have attracted many Vermonters
this fall.
The home in Omaha, Neb., of the late
George Joslyn, a former Vermonter, who
gained wealth and prominence in the
west, has been opened to the soldiers at
Fort Omaha.
M. J. Hapgood. Vermont legislator,
and sometimes hailed as the inca of Peru,
to deny the statement that he is an enc
my of dogs.
Three saddle horses among a number !
being shipped from Camp Tele Wauket ,
in Roxbury, slipped away and wandered .
about for whole day before they were !
discovered. =
Pisgah lodge, cosy little hotel at the ,
south end of Willoughby lake. has closed
It's doors for the season and the hostess,
Miss Clemma Seaver, has gone to Sim !
mons college for study.
George Peck of CastIeton tried to ex-
ract a bullet from his rife, but the
yun exploded, the Grant missile striking
lis mother in the thigh, only flesh
wound, however, resulting.
U. S. Marshal A. P. Carpenter and 1
Deputy Sheriff F. L. Wellman of Brat 7
leboro have gone to Chicago with Jo-
eph Burahny of Burlington, who is 3
wanted by Illinois federal authorities
Forty-four years ago c. W. Preston
# Mortified Falls began his career as
drummer" and one of the few mer- L
hants now doing business with whom he r
ealt is Carl Richmond of Mortified.
H~~os~1o co. !