The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-24
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
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HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
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Forty cases are set for hearing at thu
October term Of Vermont supreme court
Sixty more registrants have been called
in Chittenden county, making a total OF
$50 examined.
Hereafter all recruits received for the
navy at the Burlington station will b'
sent to Norfolk, Va, instead OF Newport
RI.
A Chittenden county jury In the .aSC
of Charles Smith vs.. Frank Wood found
that the plaintiff had been slandered $50
worth.
Fred J. Sullivan, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
T.. w. Sullivan of Rutland has been conf
missioned second lieutenant in the signal
corps.
From the sovereign grand lodge of in
spectors, Frank l.. Clark, a Rutland man,
recently received word of his election IS
SD degree Mason.
Using a 22.calibre rifle, some Rutland
youths were using barn door as a tar.
get Just as man emerged from the
barn, a bullet flying within few inches
of him.
Children placed stones on the street
car track in Rutland to see the dust fly
when the cars hit them. The result was
that one car was derailed but no one
was hurt.
One hundred u. S. signal corps men
are to be trained at the University of
Vermont under direction of Lieut.. Wes-
son of the U. S. signal corps and Profs.
votey and Freedman of the university
faculty.
Admiral Charles +. Clarke has sent
word that he may soon make his annual
visit to the Lake Mansfield Trout club in
Stowe. The club is to keep its doors
open some time longer despite reports to
the contrary.
Adelbert Hart of Tinmouth left his
automobile standing in the street in
Rutland Friday and reported to the po-
lice that it had been stolen. Half an
hour later the car was found on Mer
chants row, where it probably had been
left by its owner Mr.. Hart probably
forgot where he left the machine.
Charles Murray, formerly of Walling
ford, was escorted to Rutland Friday
and made TO register for the army. Muir
ray says that on June he tried to reg
lister but was not given any assistance
by the board where he applied, and he
let the matter drop. Murray is under a
suspended sentence of two years for non.
support of mis- wife and two children and |
only recently returned to his old home
A family consisting of parents and
two small children was found in Rutland |
last week living in a room absolutely |
without furniture, with no fuel and al |
most nothing to eat. The woman is soon
to need the services of a physician. She
and her two children have been sleeping
on the floor with no protection under
them and no coverings. Neighbors have
given them food The husband and ia
Their has been out of work until few
days ago. The case was brought to the
city's attention by the Salvation Army.
George De Wolf Deans, an agent for
the New York Central railroad, who died
in Burlington sanitarium on July 26,
left "the sum of $40 and no more" for
his wife, Gertrude F. Deans, STIMULATING
that the bequest be paid so days after
his death. To his faithful friend and
stenographer," Margaret Dorothea Kiln
GEL he willed 81 900 and large diamond
ring, and to his devoted, loved friend
and nurse" Mary Susan Hill, who also
was named as executrix, he left the resi-
due of his estate. The man asked that
his remains be cremated and placed in
silver jar the value of which is not to
exceed $780,