The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-17
MONTPELIER

Five young men will leave the state
Wednesday from various counties for
Camp Devens, where they will get their
equipment and then return to Vermont
to commence their duties on local and
medical boards. These men take the
places of five who were held for full serv-
ice last week From Washington county
Roy A. Kiddsr of Barre, who has been
employed in Medford, Mass, will go.
Julius A. Wilcox of Montpelier, who
has been assistant clerk of the House of
Representatives for two sessions, will
probably be the next clerk to take the
place of Harry Black, who has been nom
mated secretary of state. Mr.. Wilcox
has seen considerable experience as as
sistant clerk and has earned the promo
tion to the position. His illness of this
summer has not left him very strong but
he will probably recover fully before the
session commences If Mr.. Wilcox is
named as clerk by the House it is very
probable that Roswell Austin of st. Al
bans will be his assistant. Then sec
ond assistant clerk will be appointed.
Col. H. r. johnson, accompanied by
Miss johnson, his daughter, went to
Middlebury by automobile Monday after
noon and the latter resumed her studies
in the college in that village.
j. W. Bates of Moretown was local
visitor yesterday. Mr. Bates takes his
nomination as senator modestly but says
that the nomination of G. w Bulkeley of
that village as the Republican nominee
for high bailiff has caused good deal Of
amusement, Frank Sawyer of the same
village was also in the city yesterday
afternoon.
The board of control will hold its
monthly meeting Wednesday afternoon.
The following figures show the differ
emit classifcations in the Washington
county local board: Native born citizens,
2,97s; naturalized, 900; citizens through
their fathers papers, l54; declarants,
266; non.declarants, 443; total, 4,763, of
which five are eolored
The Rutland district No. was the
first one Of the local boards in the state
to get It's printed list Of registrants into
the Office Of the adjutant general. Chair
man G. " A. Allen brought the list with
him when he came Monday morning.
One of the interesting things that was
found in this list was that la of the men
who have voted for many years were
aliens and have not obtained naturaliza-
ton papers If the lists are checked up
ii is probable that ii will be found in
each town there are men who are not
citizens who are voting each year,
S. B. Bates and II. NJ Mcintosh of the
road department left this morning for
Fairlee on road matters. The latter is
figuring upon the construction of a
bridge near Hardwick TO replace one that
is not considered safe for traffic, while
the latter has under consideration some
improvements of the road between this
city and East Montpelier. The work on
the new international bridge at East
Richford TO Sutton, p. O., is getting
along nicely. The foundations have been
constructed and person can walk across
the river on the woodwork for the con-
crete. The bridge is two spans of 60 feet
each, made Of reinforced concrete.
Alfred Donley and Henry Kirby Of
Mortified appeared in city court this
morning ON charges of intoxication, while
Dennis Sployd of the same village APP
peared on the charge of operating an au
tomobile while intoxicated Kirby plead
ed guilty to the charge against him,
while the other two men pleaded not
guilty, and hearing was fixed for 2
o'clock this afternoon, providing that
Judge Scott could hear the cases, be-
cause Judge Harvey was in cases in
county court. The arrests are the result
of an automobile collision which took
place on Mortified street last evening
Il was alleged that the three men were
running towards Mortified when they
ran into an automobile driven by Will
liam Lawrence, who was driving his car
towards Montpelier. He was showing
the way for a driver Of a car that was
following him. It is alleged that the
driver Of the Mortified car owned by
Mr.. Sployd was swinging from side TO
side in the road and that to avoid an ac-
cident the car of the other had TO take 10
the ditch. This avoided head-on col
lision but dumped the Sployd machine.
They were coming to the city for an
evening ride, Sployd, Donley and Kirby
were brought from the place TO the coun-
ty Jail by the police. They made con-
siderable comment about gentlemen be
ing arrested after they had been put in
Jail. Bail of $500 was fixed in the case
against sployd and 500 in the case
against Donley.