The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Rutland's quota for the Armenian
Syrian drive is $4,000.
Rev. G. c. Lyon Is to be Pcru's new
pastor, moving there In May
Norman Drake this week picked IL
Pittsford q bunch of fresh clover leaves
where the snow was melting,
Ann Story chapter Daughters Of the
American Revolution, of Rutland ha.
invested 500 in thrift stamps.
As result Of a runaway accident
Michael Heath Of Shrewsbury, who has
been working in Manchester, has three
broken ribs,
Rev. d. r lIurlburt. pastor Of the
North Shrewsbury Christian church for
four years, has resigned and will 90 TO
the Christian church of Assouet, Mas.
The Methodist church at Rutland has
voted TO increase the salary of Rev. DIR.
George r. Price from 81 500 to 81 $500
next year, if he is returned by the
Methodist conference.
Joseph Longe of Chester passed his
Tooth birthday March 10 at the home OF
his daughter, Mrs. II. p. Shatnck. He
Is in very feeble health, almost entirely
blind and very deaf.
Sergt. James N. IIinchey. son of John
T. Hinchey of Rutland, has been promot
cd TO the rank of master signal cleo
trician in the aviation corps. He is in
France.
Howard Mooney of Lyndon, stationed
at the aviation camp at Rantoul, Ill.,,
who expected TO leave for overseas soon,
is i'll with pneumonia at the camp.
At the village meeting in Bennington
March 10, the voters decided to purchase
a motor truck for the street and wat
err department, at cost not to exceed
$1,000.
Word has been received that Pvt. Ed
ward G. Place of Minneapolis, Mimi,
formerly of st. Adams, has been wound
ed in action in France. He was one of
l6 Minneapolis men who were wounded.
Eugene Call, for three years teacher
of the seventh grade of the Morrisville
high school, has resigned and Miss Eta
Smith of Craftsbury succeeds him.
Laurence Sherman, son of Mr.. and |
Mrs. George +. Sherman of Brattleboro,
has written them that he is in Italy, in |
an aviation camp. So far as known, he |
is the only Brattleboro boy to be sta
toned in Italy.
In weekly news picture seen at
movie show in Lyndonville, Ernest Nor
ton and John Bedard of that place APP
peared The picture represented men in
training Somewhere in France" The
Lyndonyille boys are members of a ma.
chine gun battalion.
Frederick Holbrook, Just appointed
director of the Hog Island
works, is a grandson Of the
late war governor of Vermont, by the
same name Mr. Holbrook owns a stock
farm and Naulahka, Kipling's former
home, in Brattleboro.
Abe Shedd, who lives near Lowell
in Albany, was fined 500 for
shooting and wounding doe March Is.
The animal escaped and Shedd followed
it until it got down into the valley, when
he gave up the chase. c. Il. Atkins,
game warden Of Orleans county, was
notified, and after having the doe killed
he followed the trail back and arrested
Shedd
Fear is entertained in st. Johnsbury :
hat Harper d. Topping, husband of
Edna Goss Topping, a st. Johnsbury girl, !
IS in the hands of the Germans, as he !
was member Of Red Cross unit due
n Odessa about the time it was cap ;
ured by the enemy, There were % J
of the unit and III of them
we're Americans. Mrs. Topping enlisted :
few months ago as a Red Cross nurse \
md is now in France Mr.. Topping has
,een engaged in relief work since the be-
,inning of the war.
Mr.. and Mrs Lyman L. Camp observed
heir 50th wedding anniversary at the
Methodist church in Morrisvile the even
ng of March 10. The wedding took place Sc
n Gilmore and of those in attendance =.
My one survives except Mr. and Mrs te
amp, the other being Mrs. D. P. Bragg
# Massachusetts,, now 30 years of age.
fr. Camp is 70 years old and was born
n Elmore. He was educated at the old
Barre academy and then worked for
ime on farms in Barre and Wolcott
lie served as a private in Co. L, Sd
'egt., VT. Vol, in the Civil war, and
7as discharged July 81, 1864. After his
eturn from the war, he bought farm
ear that of his father in Gilmore and
\ 1889 came in possession of the old
While resident of Ell
lore, he held many important town off
IS and represented it in the legislature.
Ir. and Mrs. Camp moved from Gilmore
) Morrisvile in 1908.