The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-29

ABOUT THE STATE |
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
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Vernon Bullard OF Burlington Is to b
the Memorial day speaker at New Ha
ven
Each teacher in the public schools III
bennington will receive 500 increase
next year.
rhe CRYSTAL Lake lee company Of Bar
ton has raised It's prices five cents ,e
100 pounds.
The Rutland fair. II held in September
will he big patriotic or war fair, with
military features.
Forty persons united with the Uniyer-
salst church in Brattleboro April "a,
4 special service was held that evening.
From the Office of the kurn Hattin
Homes, the home for boys at Westmin-
ster, flies service flag with 81 stars.
Wagner Fred Bonyea of Fairfax, in
the supply company, l0lst field artillery,
France, has been reported killed in ac'
cident.
Mrs. Porter II. Dale. wife of Congress
man Dale, has come from Washington,
d. C., TO their home ia Island Pond,
which has been opened for the summei
Twin sous, Franklin Alvin and Fran
cis Hall Aver, were born April 20 to
Private and Mrs. Ross A. Aver of Bel
lows Falls Private Aver is stationed at
Portsmouth, n. II.
H. G. Robinson tapped 81 naples at
his home in Underhll and made IL;
pounds of sugar and four gallons of
syrup, besides what was used in the
family through sugaring.
The postoffice at West Derby is to be
discontinued April 80 That place being
now part of Newport City, the carrier
service is to be extended, the streets
have been renamed and houses numbered.
The Methodist and Congregational
churches in Wilder have federated A
pastor will be sent from the Methodist
conference TO serve the church for the
coming year,
Two Vermont men were among those
who graduated recently from the third |
officers training camp, 10Th division, |
Camp Meade, Maryland: William f. |
Hayes, Burlington, infantry, William E. |
LaPlant, Newport infantry.
Mrs. L. C. Lloyd and Miss Zelle Mar
quez, who were killed by gas fumes
in the cellar of their apartment in East
Mass. recently, had spent
the summers for many years in Hartland
with Mrs Annie Sturtevant, niece o.
Mrs. Lloyd.
Ray. ye-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Brown of Middlebury, was run over
by an automobile driven by Norman s.
Foote April 25 and the child's leg was
broken four inches from the hip He
Jumped from team in front of the ear
and the accident was unavoidable.
The engagement is announced OF Miss
Lois Redmond, daughter of John w Red
mond of Newport, and DIR, Ernest M
Daland, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Everett G.
Daland of Wakefield, Mass DR.. Daland
IS enrolled in the medical enlisted re-
serve corps and awaits call to duty.
Little Carroll Brideeo of South Wind
nam, who has the whooping cough, and
or whose comfort vapo-cresolenc
amp was burning, overturned it nd
,pilled the liquid into his eyes and ON
lis face, burning him badly. 1t is not
snown yet how badly his eyes are in
ured
The following Vermonters now at
amp Devens, Aver, Mass, have been
hosen to attend the training camp for I
ngineer officers at Camp Lee Petersburg, a
IA: William Fl. Bradley, Swanton v
Harry F. Douglas, Brattleboro, Clarence n
/ Adams, Rutland. t
Francis Carter. the l3-year- son of II
Ir. and Mrs Peter Carter of West Rut- a
and, who was reported to the police a. 2
aving run away from home, has been !
ound in Rutland. The lad intimated L
hat he left home because his father had o
eprimanded him.
On Saturday afternoon, June |, =
marker to celebrate the holding of the =
rst Sunday school convention in the =
Inited States, which was held in Greens. = =
orc l0l years ago, will be dedicated :;
he marker will be unveiled by one of 4
he descendants of Mr.. Hale. in whose I,
arm the first convention was held. y
J. Scott Eastman, one of the oldest a
mployes of the Boston & Maine rail r
Dad, died at his home in Norwich, April d
B. Mr.. Eastman was born in Union Vii a.
ICE in 1910 and had been in the employ in
+ the road for more than 80 years. In Il
une, 1913, the company retired him Il
18th a pension, since which time he hid b
we'd on his farm. He was educated "a re
t. Jolnsbury, and studied for the minis
Y of the Methodist church. Fl
-Four culored women have been added co
, the ranks of the Central Vernon. e,
Iilway employees at the roundhouse in Ia
rhite River Junction. They are EN- err
owed as engine wipers. Shortage of