The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-07
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

DTfEnENI SECTIONS
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In seven days, 300 employees of tn
Vermont Marble company of Procto
have subscribed to Liberty loan bond
totaling $22,650.
Prices said to be the highest since tn,
days OF the Civil war were offered a
Pownal this week for fleece wool. Sixty
cents pound will be paid for medium
or grade wool and So cents for fine wool
Capt Stuart A. Howard commandan
and professor of military science and tao
tics at the University of Vermont, has
been ordered by the war department tt
duty with the 6lst infantry at the close
of the present academic year.
NJ. s. DEMO met with an accident q
few days ago while using the corn plant
err at his home in West Salisbury. The
whiffletree gave way, letting him down
over the planter and two deep gashes
were cut in his lips and chin. Seven
stitches were taken to close the wound
The senior class of the Bellows Falls
high school has voted to buy $50 Lib
erty loan bond with the money in the
treasury which remains from their
Washington trip fund, The interest on
the bond will go into the treasury of
the Athletic association.
Elmer f. Doe, who has been connected
pany at Orleans, has bought the Nation
al Flooring company's mill at st. Johns
bury and the old Pillsbury- Baldwin
property there and will start wood
working industry. He will manufacture
piano boards and other things.
Among the young men who registered
Tuesday in st. Adams was Yves Emf
Anan, a native of Bowdowallec, France,
who had served in the French army a
year and half and participated in the
lighting along the Aisne river in the
present war. He was discharged from
service because of deafness and then
came to the United States.
As part of the registration day pro-
gram in Stowe, the church bells were
rung and the fire alarm sounded, but the
residents failed to realize the import of
the signal and thought the town was
burning up. The fire company hurried
to their post, the citizens all turned out,
and even the mill shut down at once so
that the workmen could assist in fighting
the flames.
Rev. II, L. Garfield, who resigned the
pastorate of the Universalist church in
Woodstock several weeks ago and was
asked by the parish to reconsider, has
announced that he will terminate his
work with the church on July |, There
have been differences between pastor and
people on account of his pacifist sympa-
thies. This is Mr.. Canfed's second pas
torate in Woodstock, representing total
of IA years.
The school children of Rutland are to
unite in purchasing Liberty loan bond, |
the interest and principal of such bond |
to be used for Red Cross work Boxes !
are to be placed in each public school |
room in the city and therein the children |
and teachers are to place their subscrip- |
tions. The boxes will be collected June !
IA, when it is expected at least 800 |
will have been received from the 1000 |
school children, and the bond win |
be taken out the next day.
In the house of E. j. Powers in East |
Franklin, electricity played queer pranks
during the severe storm of Sunday. A
tall maple tree standing near the house
was struck, from which the current en-
tered the building by the chimney, tore
open the stove door in the parlor and
splintered board about three feet long
in the floor so that the splinters stood
upright. Another bolt seemed to come
Town the corner of the building and into
IN adjoining room, knocking piece from
he piano and splintering the floor, while
n third room, the four posts of bed
IN which the baby of the family was
wing were split. The house was also
set on fire in chamber and was extin
yuished only by lively work.
The State School of Agriculture Com
mencement