The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-27

fats are bare and loaded teams have
had 10 change to wagons.
The Congregational and Methodist so.
cicties Of Wolcott are considering the
idea OF uniting for services.
AZ Monday nights meeting of the
board oil civil authority in Rutland, 90
women took the freeman's oath.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlow Sanders oh
served their 5gth wedding anniversary
At their home in Brandon Feb. %.
The sugar situation in Rutland is said
10 be the worst that il has been nj ALL
There was practically none in the city
Saturday.
The annual interscholastic meet Is 20
be held in Brattleboro MAY 25,2and every
high school in the state will be invited
TO send a team.
There are IL houses on one street in
Nergennes where the service water pipe
is frozen, and il is thought the main
pipe also is frozen.
Clifford r. Stetson, newly chosen pas
tor of st. Paul's church of Rutland, is
TO be ordained there to the Universalist
ministry March %.
Those who have seen the south end of
Willoughby lake recently say that is a
sight worth seeing The north wind has
piled drifts, ranging from 10 TO 80 feet
In height.
Miss Laura Sweet has been engaged by |
the public welfare association of Ben.
nington as supervisor of recreation work |
there She filled similar position last |
year at Glens Falls, n. Y.
William Baker, employed at the plant |
of the Fire Clay company in Rutland
was caught under load Of $50 pounds
of clay when conveyor containing it |
overturned recently. His left side was
hurt.
The roof of the highway bridge across
the mouth of the West river at Brat
tleboro was blown off by the high wind,
landing on the ice below. The roof is be.
ing salvaged and some of it may be
used in the construction of a new roof.
OF 7l2 cases of absences from school
investigated by the truant officer in
Rutland, he found SO cases of truancy
81 being old offenders. But only two
necessitated confinement in institutions.
The offenders were mostly between the
ages of eight and II years.
The old Mech homestead in Shell.
burne, which has been in the family
since 1850 and contains 300 acres, was .
sold recently to G. d. Ordway of Bur
lington and P. j. Hodgkins of Charlotte ,
The place will be turned into modern
dairy. ,
Ernest Elmer narrowly escaped death =
in Milton Boro recently when, as he WIS
returning home with load of sawdust,
The sleds slowed, the load tipped over S
md pinned him against tree, with the
'awdust on top of him. His back and
hips were badly injured.
Victor I. Space, rBattleboro boy, has 3
zone to Macon, Ga, hoping to get pi- o
ot's license and remain with the avia- u
ton college there as instructor. Space
was an ambulance driver in France un. o
til it was required that drivers enlist "
regularly, when he failed to pass the ex
animation.
John c.. circuit of Chester, University "
IF Vermont, 1910, for four years assist ~
and secretary with the Boston chamber
If commerce and during the last year :,
With the New York Merchants associa-
ion, has received a commission as cap
ain in the quartermaster's corps, ma ~
ional army. He assumed the duty Feb, y
g. !.
G. N. Patneaude, an employee Of the sS
Maple Syrup company at Essex a
Junction, was badly injured Feb. 81
ghen he was steaming barrels. The G.
team was so dense that Patneaude mis- AZ
ook the catch basin for the floor dip and
topped into hole five or six feet deer,
training the muscles of the left arm,
nd tearing the ligaments of the shout
err.
Edith Putnam, l4-year-ol old daughter of De
'uy Putnam of West Wardsboro, was my
talking along the road in that place at
gently when she saw fox nearby As ser
he story goes, she ran to tell her father, -
ut found him away from home, so, put r,
ing on her snowshoes and taking club,
he followed the trail for half mile,
vertook the fox, killed it and took it
ONE sfung over her shoulder.
John Wrubel, l2-year-o son of Mr. @.
nd Mrs. Michael Wrubel of Brattle- %
GRO, was seriously injured internally
aturday afternoon when he slipped and
id down an embankment to the Vernon
rect retaining wall, going over the
all and falling 40 feet to the ground.
is face. nose and forehead were badly Nd
-uised, but he walked home, with the sea
d of his brother.
lus
The New York Times last Sunday had evs
halfpage picture of American troops ;tcl
/ their first furlough from the firing die
ne entering the city of Paris. There 10
a fine likeness of Frank Pelkey son 60 60
Mrs. George Calkins of West Rut- -" :
nd. shown in the front line, He en- =
'ted in Co. A of the First Vermont
ID was mustered in at Fort Ethan ger
lien. He has been Somewhere in eou
-ance" for several months You
and
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A patent has been granted Jason A. The
lado, Wallace W. Nichols and John nar
Barney of Rutland for an improve I'll
ent on an automobile windshield. The fo,r