The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-14
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

A serious break in the water main at
Swanton left that village practically
without any water four days last week,
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Lee of Burling-
ton have received notice of the death Of
their son, Raymond, in action in France
Sept. 10.
Miss Margaret A. Powers, 25, who died
in Springfield last week, had been man
ager Of the Direct Importing company
store there for year.
Fay Ketchum, IA, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank d. Ketchum of Hyde Park, COM
mitted suicide last week. He had been
in poor health and was Respondent.
p. A. Clifford, formerly a resident of
Rutland, but for Is years in Elmira,
N. Y, and for five years proprietor Of
the Hotel Rutland in that place, died
Friday.
The man whose body was found beside
the railroad track in West Burke re-
Gently was later identified as Oliver Stone
of Barton, who had lived alone for some
time and was not considered mentally re-
sponsible.
Bernie Elmore of Mill village, on the
r. f. D. from Rutland, on receiving a
telegram announcing the serious illness
of his son at Camp Lee, Va, learned of
the lads whereabouts for the first time
since he left home last summer.
Two hundred and fifty employees of the
Passumpsic division of the Boston 4
Maine railroad operating between White
River junction and Sherbrooke are in
capacitated for service this week on ac-
count of the epidemic.
Thomas Mclaughlin Of Rutland win
probably lose the sight of one eye as
result of hard substance on which a
fellow workman was hammering flying
into the eve. Mr.. Mclaughlin was EN-
ployed in the Rutland railroad yards.
Owing to the epidemic of influenza, the
edict of the state board of health and the
resignation of Rev. c. A. Boyd, general
secretary, on account OF i'll health the
state Sunday school convention, to have
been held at Morrisville Oct. l6, II and
Is, has been indefinitely postponed.
In st. Johnsbury, Joseph Faucher, of.
fee boy for The Republican, died recent
~ of the influenza. He was only Is years
old, but had been wage Garner for sew
eral years and had contributed materially
toward the support of a family of which
he was the youngest.
From the school gardens in Burlington
approximately 2,400 bushels of potatoes
will be harvested and IL tons of squashes.
About 30 bushels of pea beans are
stacked up ready to be threshed. OF the
produce the pupils take three-quarters
and the other quarter is left for the com
mittee to pay for seed, etc, used
f. f. Hovey of Lyndonville has re-
ceived word from France that his son,
Corp. Paul Hovey, member of a saw
mill unit doing service overseas, has met
with an accident which resulted in the
loss of his right hand The accident
happened Sept. ID. He is to be retained
in the service and some work found that
he can do.
During the rainy period just passed.
the water in the Missisquoi river at
Swanton overfowed pastures and mead
ows so quickly that it was with much
hard work that stock was saved from
drowning. While ]. o. Corliss and son,
Raymond, We're trying TO locate some
cattle, the small boat in which they were
riding upset and in the raging torrent 1t
was with difficulty that they saved them.
selves.
A $4,000 fire in Windsor Friday night
destroyed the second story and roof of
the Windsor Club inn, boarding house
conducted by the National Acme Manu-
featuring company. A composition board
was used in remodeling an old factory
into the boarding house and it burned
rapidly. A large number of the com
pany's employees roomed IN the building
and many Of them lost all their personal
belongings. The house viii be rebuilt.
At a meeting in ST. Adams Oct. 10 of
the Central Vermont Railway company,
the following directors were elected
Howard g. Kelley of Montreal, e. C.
Smith of st. Adams, w. H. Biggar of
Montreal, +. ]. Chamberlain of Mont
real, Il. A. Chittenden Of st. Adams, s. Il.
Kilmer of New York, William Nelson
MACPHERSON of Montreal Fl. S. Marston
of New York, Charles p Smith of Bur
lington, James Gregory Smith of st. Al
bans, A. Tuttle of Fair Haven, w. Sew
ard Webb of Shelburne and Frank Scott
of Montreal. At meeting of the board
the following executive committee and
officers were elected: Executive commit. |
tee, Mr.. Kelley, e, G. Smith and Mr..
futile; officers, chairman of the board,
Mr.. Kelley; president, r. c. Smith; vice.
president, Mr.. Biggar; auditor, E. Des-
chanes.
The bail of $500 in the case of State
against Miss Margaret Dewey of Platts-
burg, N. u, who is charged with child |
abandonment, was surrendered recently
and the respondent committed to the
Rutland county jail in default of bail. |
by Sheriff =. G. Fish of West Rutland. |
The girl, who claimed to be the mother
of the child in the case, and her mother. |
Mrs. Mary Dewey, were indicted by the
last grand jury. They will be tried at
this term of court. The mother has been
in the state hospital for insane at Water
bury for observation since her arrest last |
,spriuQ She was recently brouobf 10 tho