The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-18
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

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The @, A. r. OF Rutland will decorat
$50 graves Memorial day.
Roswell NJ Austin of ST. Adams vii
be the Memorial day speaker in Swantor
Mrs, Martha Oatman, 81 years old, i
quite i'll at her home In Newfane witt
peritonitis.
Six trees were blown down in the door
yard OF l.. X. Quimby in Lyndon by I'll,
storm of April TO-
The Kingsley Parent. Teacher associa
tion is 10 cooperate with the RUTLAND
Woman's club this summer in war relic
work.
Allen, l3-year.old son of Mr.. and Mrs
James f. Hosley OF Manchester disap
peared from home May and has moi
been seen or heard from since.
Rev NJ X. Crawford, pastor of st
Barnabas mission at East Fairfield, has
gone to new field Of labor at the mill.
tary post at Fort Ethan Allen.
Mr.. Lyon of Stamford, n. Y, will com
plete the year as principal of the Or
leans high school. He recently graduated
from Middlebury college with the rank
of valedictorian
Rev. William Miller of North Troy has
accepted a call to the passionate Of the
Congregational church OF Essex Junction
and will assume his duties there the first
Sunday in june.
Insurance adjustment on the property
of the Vermont Milk Chocolate company
in Burlington is progressing favorably
and as soon as the insurance is settled,
the work of clearing away the debris
will be commenced and then rebuilding
win go forward.
William A. Best of Morrisville, assist
ant paymaster in the U. S. navy, has
been promoted to first lieutenant in the
navy, which is the same Office as cap
tain in the army. He still holds the po-
sition of paymaster, but has been pro-
NOTED to the higher rank.
Charles o. Laymon, publisher of the
NldiuWlCh bdLeLtt III 1921 ana 1920, Qleu
ut the General hospital in Buffalo, n.
y, May 3, after an operation. Mr.. Lay.
mon was located at Port Allegheny, Pa,
where he owned The Reporter. He was
go years Of age
f. l.. Fiske, son of Judge and Mrs.
Frederick L. Fiske of Vergennes, has
been commissioned a second lieutenant in
the aviation section of the signal corps.
He was married Christmas day to Miss
Harriet Myers of Westmore.
DIR. Thomas s. Brown, superintendent
of the Mary Fletcher hospital since Sep
TENDER, 1914, has resigned, to go into
service as a captain in the medical re-
serve corps. The resignation has not
been acted upon and it viii be several
weeks before it goes into effect.
Rev. Asa Fl. Edie, pastor of the Meth
odist churches at Hinesburg and Starks-
boTo, last winter cut 90 cords of wood
and this spring has sowed one and one
half acres of wheat and planted an acre
of potatoes. The minister is also leader
OF the Edie orchestra and an automobile
repairer.
The motive for the suicide of w. L.
Lane of Mount Holly, who deliberately
walked in front of flyer on the Rutland
road at Manchester is unknown. Lane
was 80 years old and veteran Of the
Spanish American war He had been to |
Albany, N. ", to see about enlisting and |
had the papers in his hand when killed. |
An automobile driven by Mrs John |
Moloney of Rutland struck four year old !
Frederick Reardon, son of Mr.. and Mrs. |
Timothy Reardon of that city, Wednes- |
day, and the boys leg was broken. No |
blame is attached to Mrs. MoIoney, as
the boy was playing in the road and, in |
answer to the call of a playmate, started |
to cross to the other side directly in |
front of the car.
David Spier of Greensboro got bad |
fall during the storm of May 10, as he |
was helping man in Danville extri-
cate his cattle from a barn which had |
been demolished by the wind. Mr.. Spier
fell from a height of IL feet, hurt his
one hand.
During the electrical storm of May 10,
bolt Of lightning struck the barn of
+. G. Harvey of West Dover, entering
the peak of the roof passing down
post, through the hay NOW to a point
over the horse stalls, where it burst,
knocking two horses down and killing
one instantly. The other has since
been totally deaf.
Some one by means of rake and a
hoe reached in through the window of
c. Z. Perry's home in Williamsville one
night last week while he was asleep,
pulled his trousers from chair out of
the window, ransacked the pockets and
left the trousers and empty bocketbook ,
on the ground outside.
Horace Hescock of Wilmington is in so
serious a condition that his recovery is
doubtful following a shock which he re-
ceived from lightning during the storm
of May 10. Lightning struck a big tree G
in the yard and, following the roots, en- {
tered the house, doing considerable dam
age.