The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-17

friends Dr.. Hardness enjoys larg
practice in the city, which he gives up q
enter the army.
| The papers from Boston did not arrive
until into the afternoon to-day, because
OF the breakdown TO engine on thu
Montpelier 4 Wells River railroad, which
occurred this morning at Boltonsille
Fortunately, the breaking of the iourna
on the tender connected with the engine
occurred in a position where the cars
could be pulled back and then pushed
over a siding and finally taken TO Wells
River for connections with the Boston 4
Maine BY an engine from the way
freight of the Wells River road. The
wreeking crew left here a little after ii
o'clock with equipment to replace the
broken journal, after which the mail
train was brought here about 2 o'clock.
Edward Collins, while sboveling snow
and ice from roof yesterday, fell and
received an injury to his skull. the ex-
tent of which Is not known at the pres
ent time. The man was taken TO Heaton
hospital, where an operation was per
formed to relieve the pressure on the
brain
The California agents of the National
Life Insurance company. who were de
layed in their arrival here until after
the annual meeting OF the company were
rendered banquet at the Country club
last evening
The ice races will take place Saturday
afternoon.
The revising Of the statutes Is pro
crossing fairly we'll and those in charge
of the work look for completion of 1t in
a reasonably short time. 1t has been
slow work, for some 1900 extra sections
must be added TO the statutes over those
of the revision OF 1906. These are made
necessary by the enaetments OF legis
latures during the intervening time to
the present The work Of proof reading
is slow at best, because more than ex.
care must be used in order
that no technical points, in the interpre
taton of the law can be made by q mis-
spelled word So exact is the work and
80 fine the print that 1t is the most tire
some to the eve of any kind Of proof
reading. Already 1000 OF the 1900 sec /
lions have been read. As fast as these !,
are read the 20. k.'s are signed and the
type placed In forms by the printer TO |
be used when the final 20. H." Is re- /
,eived This work il under supervision /
If NJ. g. Morse and julius A. Wilcox, I
assisted by Miss Ellen Dutfee. In add
ion to this, the indexing takes the time
II one man and is as important part OF
lie work as any This il under the su
,eryision OF Hale X. Darling, the com
missioner. who also works on other parts
Il the book. He has the bird room of
he capitol arrayed with sections of the
,ook to be indexed, and must edit that
nd proof read it as accurately as the
thers on the book itself. The whole
york will take several weeks yet.
The blizzard of Tuesday and Wednes-
ay has put the state fuel administrator
nd his office force on the anxious seat ,
or again comes the call from st. Johns ,
urv that conditions are bad IN that /
illage and coal is needed. Barton and :
bradford are still in need of coal, but
here il some EN- rout il the train serv /
e does not delay too long, For two i
avs practically no freight has been
loved in Vermont, therefore, the towns q
-hieh needed coal early this week are i
ow figuring pretty close. Mason ,. :
tone of the office force, occupied most
/ Wednesday morning answering tele
hone calls for coal, and did not get a
rance even to open his morning mail
hich brings about 80 letters each day,
it'll about like number at another time
iring the day. Nearly every letter
ust have a reply, so that one stenog ]
Ipher is occupied most of the time ON :,
while another is occu b
ed with The general office work and ID
ing reports which must be closely !,
ecked Mr.. Stone had an interesting =
sit from Mr.. Hall OF the Rutland com "
ittee Tuesday who came in an effort to
t more coal, but finally agreed that y
ltland has received more coal this sea !,
n than in the same length of time last ct
ason. The Cross bakery in Montpel- e
obtained half a ton of soft coal from u
NJ. o'Dell Wednesday morning, This a.
lped out materially. for if they had al
t obtained this, the company would 10
We been forced to shut down its bakery u
d no bread would have been baked &c
ednesday morning. The company takes or
tie stock in the reported increased a.
pply of sugar, but is willing to accept 8
E theory when enough arrives so they u
n see a normal supply on hand.
Hariie kidder obtained marriage H. 81
lse from City Clerk T. r. Merrill p
morning. Harlie, who IS 45 p
airs Of age. has experienced rather e
iicult time in securing one. Something 81
er week ago he applied for license, %
len a local reporter called attention to 2
! city official that Harlie had a guard %
!. This delayed the affair temporarily / %
least. for Harlie left the Office and did ~
appear again until Wednesday fore
Dn. But before going 90 that office be -,
de a visit to the Judge Of probate's
ce for permission from that official to Is.
ure = license. He was advised that i -
: not a matter 10 come Ia the court 80
isdiction, but matter for him and sst
guardian % act upon. Later. Har-
with his father. appeared At the -
: clerks office with the guardians
.tten consent and b. vas eivea 1t