The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-01
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Zebra Graves, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. M, Graves of Bennington has been
promoted to be a corporal and appointed
clerk Of Co. |, 57th pioneer infantry. The
regiment has been moved from Spartan
burg to Camp Merritt, N. ].
S. c. Currier of St. Johnsbury has re-
signed as railway postal clerk on the St
Johnsbury and Swanton run, after many
years of faithful service. Mr. and Mrs
CurTier expect to leave soon for Los An
geles, Cal, where they are to spend the
winter months.
Lieut.. Louis S. Wright, @. NJ. c., Of
Washington, and Lieut.. +, p Reed, Q. NJ
O., OF the quartermaster generals Office
at Washington, are spending a short
furlough at the home of the formers par
ents in st. Johnsbury. Lieut.. Wright re-
Gently received his commission, after
passing the board of examiners at an
officers training school and since that
time has been assigned for duty at Wash
mgton.
Mr.. and Mrs. w j. Hicks of Benning
ton have received word from their daugh
ter, Miss Wilhelmina Hicks, announcing
her safe arrival overseas. Miss Hicks is
Red Cross nurse and is stationed at
base hospital So She is believed to be
the second Bennington girl to enlist in
the service as a nurse Miss Winifred
Casey being the first girl to enlist She
went overseas number of weeks ago
with DIR. Elting's corps of Albany.
M;ss AJ;na nj CronLy ~ JV,nobas+or
N. H. who graduated from the Brattle-
boro Memorial hospital in 1916, has writ
ten Brattleboro friends announcing her
safe arrival overseas She is member
of the army nurses corps and trained at
Camp Devens.
Second Lieutenant Edmund P. Howe
Of Bennington has been commissioned
first lieutenant and made adjutant of
Co. X, of the 57th pioneers Howe was
one of several non commissioned officers
who were promoted from the ranks and
one of three youag men, the highest in
the examinations, who have been made
first lieutenants.
Mrs. James Hunter and son, Kenneth,
Of Bennington, have gone to New York
with the expectation of seeing Mr.. Hunt
er before he sails for overseas duty. Mr..
Hunter, who was formerly a Bennington
tailor, is member of the 57th pioneers,
which has been stationed at Spartanburg,
S. G.
Among the II men who were recently
transferred from the st. Paul, Mimi,
aviation mechanics training school to the
Rockwell aviation field near San Diego,
Cal, was Nelson Hitchcock, formerly an
employee of the Bennington garage, they
all being graduates of the st. Paul
school
Mrs. Fred Hoyt of Arlington has re-
ceived word from her son, Private Frank
Hoyt of the American expeditionary
forces, telling Of his being wounded on
Aug. 5. AT the time he was wounded
Private Hoyt was in the trenches wait
ing for orders to go over the top when
bullet struck him. He had made three
trips over the top prior to this time.
The letter states that he is progressing
rapidly and that he expects to be back
with his company within a short period
Of time. He wrote of seeing another
Arlington boy, Robert Cullinan, and Of
having long talk with him.
A cablegram has been received by Mrs |
Frank Tompkins, wife of Colonel Temp
kins, who, together with her mother,
Mrs. Barr, is spending short time in
Essex Junction, from her husband saying
that he is at the present time in one of
the base hospitals Colonel Tompkins
was formerly the military instructor at
Norwich university at Mortified, but he
is at present the commanding officer of
the l0lst infantry. He has been at Fort
Ethan Allen several times.