The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-15
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chittenden county has called 90 mo
registrants to fill the required quo
of 80
Lyndon institute opened this we,
with an attendance quite as large
last years registration,
Excessive heat caused the death
Frank j. Field, formerly of Cornwall,
Browns Flats, Cal, recently.
An association of business men in Bri
toll has set out to ascertain why the /
cal telegraph Office is not re.opened.
When a second case of poliomyelit
developed in st. Adams, the city father
postponed the reopening of the schoo
to Sept. "a.
When he resigned last Sunday, Re
s. I. Simpson completed two year
pastorate of the Presbyterian church
South Ryegate.
A government building at Newport fol-
merly used for OBTAINING struggled alien
migration officials,
A total of 4,7s2 cars passed Ger
tain street corner in White River juno
tion during four days of survey mad
by a traffic officer.
A monster turtle, captured in the Yves
river by County Warden Metcalf, ha
been turned over to the Brattlebor,
fremen for a mascot
Rutland firemen who answered n
m. call from the county Playground
Thursday morning blame fireworks for {
brisk grandstand blaze.
A team owned by Contractor j. L
eastman of Burlington took first prize
in an exhibition at the Clinton county
fair in Plattsburg this week.
More than 1000 cases of beans were
packed by a Waterbury concern this
season, despite a shortage of labor caused
by the poliomyelitis quarantine.
Rutland is to entertain the Joint an
nual Vermont Library association and
the Vermont Free Public Library com
mission next Thursday and Friday.
A real tramp printer of species long
since supposed to be extinct in Vermont,
blew into the Office of the New and Citi-
zen, Morrisville newspaper, last week.
Perley M. Stoughton, sometime report
er for the Burlington Free Press, is off
this week for Italy to fly for the allies,
having qualified for the aviation serv-
ice.
Theodore N. Vail of New York and
Lyndon has accepted an appointment to
the Library War Council, organized to
furnish reading matter for the fighting
men,
A power saw and stick of wood in
a Rutland coal yard formed combina-
tion figuring in an accident which result
ed in the amputation of two fingers for
Henry Elkey.
Huge bouquets of gladioli from the
Squires farm in Clarendon are decorat-
ing the otherwise sombre walls of the
county court room at Rutland during the
September term.
Fair Haven admits it is the sportiest
town in Vermont by announcing a box.
ing match between George Cohen, of
northern New York fame, and Kid Casey,
a Vermont fighting man.
Isaac Bartlett of Granville, a graduate
of the agricultural college at the Uni
versity of Vermont, is the new county
agent in Addison county, succeeding Jo-
seph E. Carrigan, resigned.
Two Rutland young men, Chester Sea.
mems and George Jones, were aboard a
government transport attacked by sub |
marines last month, according to letters |
just received by their parents.
Announcement Is made of the engage
ment of Miss Frances Scratchley, daugh-
ter of Rev. and Mrs. p Scratchley of |
Poultney, to Capt. T. K. Brown of the
u. s. cavalry, recent West Point grad
uate.
Lieut.. Gov. Hulburd of Hyde Park has
received word of the safe arrival in San
Francisco of his son and daughter, Rev.
and Mrs. Perry Conger, who have been in
Russia and Siberia for the past two
years.
Despite the vigilance of military po-
lice, municipal police and the sheriffs,
booze was to be had by soldiers in the
vicinity of the battery, Burlington, this
week. Homemade stood the soldiers
$3.50 pint.
Worshippers assembling for the Hill.
west campmeeting in Montgomery had
to enclose the sides of their tabernacle
because of the cold weather. With the
meetings under way the pastor preached
on luke warm conversions, their causes
and consequences.
A new ferry recently established be-