The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-04
MONTPELIER
Two Restaurants Agree to Two Meatless
Days a Week.

Two of the local restaurants hav
signed the blanks sent them by Foo
Administrator Hoover. asking that the,
observe meatless days twice week ant
suggesting that Tuesdays and Thursday
be those days. The request that the res
taurant and hotel owners do this is nice
ly clothed, stating that the administrator
hopes they will cooperate so that NJ
order will be necessary to put the ar
rangement into effect. The request in
dicates that unless cooperation takes
place the order will be made which viii
bring those who do not sign of their own
initiative under the same regulation
The above owners put the regulation into
effect Tuesday.
Commissioner of Education NJ B. Hill
legas has mailed to those who bid the
first time on the new dormitory at Ran
dolph Center the specifications for the
new bids, and Monday afternoon papers
carried advertisements that bids would
be accepted until Dec. IA. The old plans
were changed by the removal of one
wing. The original bids were $4,000 in
excess Of the appropriation.
John Docherty will not go to Scotland
to visit his relatives because the federal
government will not give him passports.
Mr.. Docherty had planned to spend the
winter with his family and completed
his arrangements accordingly but when
he applied for passports he was refused
on the grounds that passports are being
issued only to persons going to Europe
for commercial purposes and not to per-
sons going there for visit. Senator
Dillingham's effort to assist Mr.. Docher-
1y failed.
Judge n. B. Howe of st. Johnsbury,
who was in the city Monday evening on
his way to Burlington to hold a special
term of United States district court,
said that Vermont has been very lucky
in the number of cases that have been
carried into the district court. based upon
the efforts of persons to avoid military
service, there having been but four cases
before him. He has been sitting in New
York quite little of late and states
there are a great many cases before the
court in that state.
The second consignment of sawmills
from the Lane Manufacturing Co. of this
city has been shipped, as a sequel to the
II mills which were sent by the company
to England known as the New England
sawmill unit, which was used in cutting
the timber in that country for trench
work. The second five mills shipment
went to France and the third one was
completed few days ago. 1t was sold
to firm representing the government
and has gone somewhere in the United
States to be used in the cutting of tim !
Der for some purpose connected with the |
governments interests.
w. II. Jeffery, secretary of charities |
and probation, arrived at his office Mon !
day evening after putting in a day at |
Groton in which he took over seven chill |
dren upon behalf of the state-all from /
one family. He is not making public the
name OF the family because these chill !
dren have yet to grow to man and wom-
snhood and it is not his policy after
starting them on the right road, to put !
a block in their way. Two of the chill
dren are to go to the industrial school
at Nergennes as delinquent children,
while the other five go to home tenn
porarily and will be placed permanently
a little later, it is expected.
County Agent Forts H. Abbott left
last evening for Rutland. where to-day
he attends tn. annual meeting of the
Rutland County Farm association, at
which he is to he one of the speakers.
Rev. J. B. Reardon speaks this evening