The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-25
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Windbam county court granted IL di-
vorces in the April term.
Frank Howard of Burlington caught a
l4Ha-inch brook trout in Browns river
recently.
Mrs. Philema Drown observed her 95th
birthday anniversary at her home in
Kirby May Is.
A preparedness rally in the town OF
Brookline, which has 3S registered voters,
had an attendance of So
Frederick Grace died at his home in
Rittsford early in the week of blood pois-
oning resulting from an liberated tooth.
Five people have lost their lives by
drowning at the same spot in Wolcott
where Mrs. Harry Silloway and daughter,
Helen, were drowned last week.
Sheridan council, No. 42l, of Knights
of Columbus, of st. Johnsbury, has voted
to invest rs per cent of its surplus, or
$3.50, in liberty bonds.
The ship Chicago, on which Rev. G. A.
Adams of DanWlle sailed for France
from New York last week, contained
about $50 other ambulance drivers.
Rev, Walter Bradford, pastor of the
Congregational church in Benson, re-
signed last Sunday, to take effect June
!. He has accepted a pastorate in Bris-
toll, Me.
A soldiers monument is to be dedicat-
ed at Danville May 20. Rev. George A.
Martin of st. Johnsbury is to be the
principal speaker and Governor Graham
has been invited to attend.
Dr.W. Fl. Munsell of Wells River, who
has been a member of the state dental
society for 81 years, has never missed a
meeting of the society in that time. For
80 years he was treasurer.
Superintendent of Schools N. j. White
hill of White River junction is recover
ing from an acute attack of grip. This
was the first time in 25 years that he
has been off school duty because of i'll |
ness.
X. Roberg, former resident of st. |
Adams, but serving in Europe with |
Canadian troop for the past two years, is |
in hospital in England, recovering from |
wounds.
Miss Minnie Bliss of Morrisville, who /
has just graduated from the Lowell,
Mass, business college, has enlisted in
the navy and has been assigned to duty
as stenographer and typist at the
Charlestown navy yard.
Leon II. Baxter, director of manual
training in the schools of st. Johnsbury,
has rendered his resignation to take eff
feet July /. He is to take charge of the
industrial work in the new 3o-room ju-
nior high school of Lynn, Hass.
Miss Florence NJ Pettee, formerly SUI.
pervisor of art at the Castleton Normal
school and more recently holding a sim
liar position at the Montclair high school,
has resigned to devote herself wholly to
literary work, in which she is proving
very successful.
w. p. Wheeler son of Col w. c. Riv-
ers, commanding officer at Fort Ethan
Allen, is one of the successful candidates
for admission to the military academy |
at West Point, and will enter there next
month. He graduated last June from
Burlington high school.
The wild geese which had settled down
on Lake Sadawaga in Nottingham {
and were eating up all the green vegeta.
ton in the vicinity, left Wednesday of {
their own accord, One day more and
the game warden was planning to take I
some means to drive them off.
Joseph Kelley, an employee of the
American Realty company in Mendon, {
IF grain being drawn to the camp May .
%, and lay beside the road until officers
we're summoned. Kelley has a broken
eg. The matter is being investigated. i
Miss G. A. Gutchell, who is in Vermont :,
rom her home in Hartford, Conn, on
pedestrian tour, returned to Stowe from
l7-mile hike to the top of Mt. Mans
ield on Tuesday. She found the snow
n the road from one and half to three 4
eet deep above the halfway house. The
LIQUIDS at the summit were so dense that
he was unable to go above the summit
louse. Several different sorts of plants =
re already in bloom at the tip-top. Her
ext walking trip will start from Bur
ington, when the weather is propitious.