The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-29

selection BY children, ending with th'
audience singing America" In thu
evening the allied organization OF The
I G. A. r. will entertain in their hall. A
dinner will be served at noontime &c
visiting friends. The graves in six GENE
teries will be decorated in the afternoon
| At st. Augustine's church mass will
| follow the proclamation of the president
| The State House, National Life lnsur-
ance company and banks, as well as
other public institutions in Montpelier,
will be closed Thursday in observance of
Memorial day.
Notices have appeared on the doors of
the different attorneys in the city that
during Saturday afternoons from June !
to Sept, their Offices will be closed A
similar notice has also been posted on
the door of the county clerks Office
Fitting pre- Memorial day exercises oc-
CURED in the public schools of Montpelier
to-day. II was rhetorical morning in the
high school, so that the selections were
of a patriotic nature fitting to the occa-
sion, while In the Union building and
primary building the principals gathered
the grades in the assembly rooms, where
the usual Friday assembly took place
and programs fitting for Memorial day
were given In the parochial school the
different grades had patriotic programs.
The last few days there have been a
number of enlistments through the army
recruiting office because the young men
who have become of age since June 5 last
wear want to get into the service they
desire, and Friday morning the local of
ticers will send to Albany, n. y, for ex
.an1fIufaa Thpap
elude Clifton Smith and Stacey Clark of
Montpelier to coast artillery, Leon Penn |
brooke OF Middlesex to infantry, Maur-
ice kittridge of Newport to field artil- /
lery, Leonard s. Marsh TO coast artillery, |
Bernard L. Hayward of Williamstown to
infantry, William F. Hoffman of More
town to infantry, William II. Berry Of
West DanyiIle to special service as a
machinist, William z. Young of Barre
a. shoemaker in infantry, while Edward
Swain of Randolph Center was rejected.
Mr.. Hoffman, who was accepted, was re-
iected in the effort to get into the navy
because of height.
Chief Master at. Arms Charles Mitchell
will have the navy recruiting office open
Nav 80. that Young men who have been
rnable to get TO the office other days
nay have q chance. This morning he
Ient to Burlington for examination Vic
or and Ernest Anderson of Barre and
IRA w. Farr of Montpelier. Ernest An
Ierson was rejected some months ago.
nut is trying for the examination again.
edward 9. Walker Of North Montpelier
vas accepted, to return later. He is in
he wooden mill in that town. Edward P.
twain of Randolph Center was rejected
ecause of physical disability He also
1ade application in the army recruiting
flee.
w. H. Jeffrey, state probation officer,
emit to the Mary Fletcher hospital at
burlington this morning two children
Tho came from Berlin and who will I'M
ergo operations to make them physical
I fit for adoption. These two children,
hose names are not announced, were
aken over by Mr.. Jeffrey's department
} days ago. Each had cuts on his head
fused by abuse by the parents. These
ave healed The children have been
iitably cleaned up and look like chill
zen that may have come from as good
family as lives in Berlin. When taken,
lev had coolies and various other trou
es. The boy of the two had one cut on
s head two inches long. where he had
ZEN hit with some instrument.