The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-05
MONTPELIER


the help, older men Dumping" younger
ones. M. @. Sawyer, who has been run
ming ON the way freight, has taken the
Barre yard, while Engineer Kane has
taken the mixed, which causes Engineer
Rivett TO, take spare running and prob
ably firing regularly. The rear end
crews have been similarly changed
around.
Miss Elsie Forgue has returned from
q visit with Mrs. W. Roehell and Mrs.
V. Curdella In Hardwick
w. H. Jeffrey of the board of char
tiles will send this week little Italian
girl from Barre to Mary Fletcher hos
pitel for a long treatment Of curved
spine which resulted from infantie pa.
ralysis. A Milton child has also been
sent to the hospital, while In few days
Moretown child IA to be taken to the
hospital. This work Is being done with
the funds that have been placed In Mr..
Jefrey's hands for removal Of defects in
children.
Miss Ethel Mcneil has gone to An.
napolis, Md, where she begins her du-
tics az d Red Cross nurse.
R. w, Simonds, who has been in Bos-
ton, Is in Burlington to-day relative to
some industrial hearings.
Miss Laura Keegan Is taking vaca.
tion from her work In the library refer
ence bureau,
Miss Eleanor Lowe, Mr., and Mrs. Ma.
son s. Stone and Mrs. Gertrude Berry
have gone by automobile to Northamp
ton, Mass, where Mrs. Berry resumes
her duties as house mother at one of
the cottages connected with Smith col
lege.
Miss Agnes Lynch has resumed her
work In the weights and measures Office
and Miss Eileen Burns is taking her va
cation from the same office. Mrs. Ken
meth Kirk IL assisting the Office during
the vacations.
At the meeting of The board of civil
authority last evening 10 names were
added to the check list.
The assistant judges of Washington
county, who have charge Of the county
courthouse, have notified the Washing
ton county local exemption board that
the court will need all the available
space in the building In the coming term
Of court, so that the local board is com
pleting plans to vaeate the room which
AZ mas OCGuptcu ia tHt AGku-
larly and has taken the matter up with
B. E. Bailey, so that it Ia expected that
the work viii be done in the federal
building; there being two rooms that
! appear~~to BE available for the board.
The date Of the moving has not yet been
announced.
Miss Ethel L. Bush of Kennedy, N. Y,
has been engaged by Montpelier sem
mary through the state educational de-
partment and viii teach the model class
for teachers as a part of the teacher
training course of the seminary, II is
new course of study for the students
who are taking the training course. Miss
Bush will take pupils of different ages
from schools in nearby towns and, using
| one room in the seminary, will teach
| these as a rural school should be taught,
giving the students in the training course
la chance to watch the process of teach
| ing rural schools. Miss Bush is a grad
uate Of the high school in jamestown,
N. Y, and the state normal school at
| Fredonia, n Y. She has taught four
years and is especially adapted to pri-
mary teaching. The model class Is
new feature in instruction and will be
watched by the educators of the state
with interest.
The First Congregational society of
Montpelier and the Bethany Congrega
tional church society are to consolidate
and have filed papers in the secretary
Of states office for that purpose, after
which the church will be known as the
Bethany Congregational church of Mont
| pelier.
Adiutant General Fl. T. johnson has
received an order from the war depart
ment authorizing his department that it
may drop members Of the local or dis
! trict boards, may appoint new members
or may add TO the membership of the
board at any time that the efficiency Of
the board Is not 100 per cent or such
part of 1t as appears TO the office to be
right. This means that the government,
now that it is to pay the local board
members substantial sum, expects good
service.
Fred Baker Of Randolph has paid
fine q 81 and costs for selling short
weight in delivery of ice, the case having
been tried Wednesday before a justice
In that town The complaint was lodged
by residents Of that town with the
weights and measures department, who
took it up with the authorities in Ran.
dolph, resulting in the prosecution.
In probate court hearing has tax
en- place relative to the settlement Of
the trustee account of G. G. Putnam, jr.
of a fund created from the estate of G,
lC. Putnam, sr., in favor Of Harriet Put
nam. II w Kemp was recently appoint
ed trustee of the fund and the hearing
was for the purpose of locating the Sl0,-
900 which is supposed to be turned over
to Mr.. Kemp. 1t appears to have been
lost or has disappeared. The hear@g
was not completed. In the settlement Of
the Mr.. Putnam, sr.'s estate, the fund
was set aside, but it Is not settled
whether it was turned over to the first
trustee.
| L.. c. Moody, clerk of Washington
county court, is notifying the attorneys
that court will be formally opened Sept.
10. and then take recess until the 10th,
and that the jury will not come until
the following day. This change will give
time to complete the repairs now under
way in the court house The change is
made because the attorneys and Others
will be engaged in different matters the
week Of Sept 10, including registration
for the draft, which takes place on the
18th
No less than 500 cars were stopped in
Bellows Falls last Sunday by officers
stationed at each of the five entrances
to the village, who questioned each
chauffeur as to whether the trip was for