The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-15
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The willoughby Fish & Game club HI
planted 10000 brook trout fry In n
brooks and ponds around Orleans.
George b, Drury of the Drury Brick
Tile company of Winooski died May L
after a short illness. Mr.. Drury was
veteran of the Civil war.
Rev. John L. Holden resigned last Sun
day as pastor Of the Congregations
church in Clarendon. He has accepted
call to the church OF Conway, Mass
where he win begin June !.
Mr.. and Mrs George Hier Of Bristo
have received word from the war depart
ment that their son, William r, Hier,
member OF the l02d machine gun battal
ion, is reported missing in action.
The degree of civil engineering wal
conferred upon one man from Vermont
At the commencement exercises of Dart
mouth college at Hanover, \. H., May
IL. He was Robert ID. Scott of Barton
Attorney General III. G. Barber OF Brat
tleboro has announced that he will not
be candidate for reelection, but viii
devote his time TO private practice al
the close of the present biennial period
Feb |, 1919.
Professor RAYMOND H. White, Perey
c. Voter and Arthur r. Davis OF Mid
dlebury college and Rev. Ebert n.
Holmes of Middlebury left for tive'dsy
hike over the ''long trail" passing over
the top of Mount Mansfield.
A limousine from a Brooklyn, n, V,
garage was completely wrecked and the
two occupants. S. T. Reilly and chauf-
feur, were bruised at Manchester May
Is, when the car struck a stretch of gray
Ell road, skidded and finally landed on its
side
The damage done to fruit trees by
last winters cold weather is beginning
to be realized now. +. S. Ball Of New
port reports 1000 young apple trees
killed, as well as all the blackberry and
raspberry bushes. These will grow up
again, but the loss of this years crop
will be no small one.
Lieut.. Ray E. Smith of Rutland, who
is with the medical corps of General
Pershing's army has sent his wife Ger
man helmet, a war cross, piece of
barbed wire, such as the Boche used to
protect the trenches, an empty French
shell and a trench knife. These are on
exhibition in a store window in Rutland.
Fred S. Hartman and Frank G. Ian
dry, each out with their automobiles in
St. Johnsbury last Friday during the big
storm, had the tops of their cars stripped
off by the wind. In Mr.. Harriman's
Journey he came to fallen tree across
the road and as he stopped, another tree,
just behind him, fell across the road, |
blocking travel in either direction.
Hailstones the size of moth balls fell |
at White River Junction during Friday |
nights storm and thousands of dollars |
damage was done along the White river
valley. Fifty square feet of heavy tin |
roofing was stripped off the factory of |
Smith & Sons and blown across the
street and onto the Central Vermont rail
road at White River Junction, breaking /
down electric light wires and doing other
damage.
Mrs. Edith Balch Wright, former field
worker for the Vermont State Sunday /
School association, has accepted a posi-
ton for the summer as Office assistant
with Mrs. Nellie T. Hendrick, general
secretary of the New Hampshire State
Sunday School association. Mrs. Wright,
who lives at White River junction with
her mother and husband, will go to Man
chester, N. H., every other week for the
work of the Office.
RI Rev. G.. Y. Bliss of Burlington, who
made an official visit to the Episcopal
church in North Troy last Friday and
then went to Newport for an evening
service, met with an accident en- route
While on the way to Newport by auto,
with party of four, the car collided
with a gravel team, locking wheels. Two
in the party were thrown to the
ground and Bishop Bliss was bruised on
one cheek The teamster was thrown
some distance, but was unhurt. The
wagon and auto were both badly demol-
shed