The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-24
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS


Burlington Ia planning for a biz
Fourth Of July celebration, but Their,
will be no fireworks.
Hiram Thompson. who IA IS years old
works every day in the garden of his
home in New Haven, and has one OF the
best gardens In that town.
Over / 500 quarts OF strawberries have
been picked from the garden at the state
prison NJ Windsor so far this season.
Ten bushels have been eaten at the insti.
tuition.
DIR. and Mrs. d. NJ. Bump observed
the 50th anniversary of their marriage
at their home in Salisbury June H. Mr..
Bump is SO years old and Mrs Bump
Is 81.
ii. NJ Landon, proprietor of the Noun.
tain View dairy farm in Florence, recent.
ly slaughtered a three.and.a. half year.
old Holstein steer that dressed $50
pounds. The meat, sold at 10 cents
pound, brought $l52.
Thirteen young Burlington women
have formed Red Cross motor unit, one
member to be on duty each day of the
week, and to do anything in the line of
assisting along Red Cross lines or any
other patriotic line.
There are less inmates in the state
prison at Windsor now than at any time
FOR several years. One hundred and
thirty-two men and 81 women are now
imprisoned there, total of 1853. Often
times the number has exceeded 200.
Edmund Cherrie of Newfane, who has
been student at Curtis high school,
Staten Island, n Y, has passed the
mental examination for entrance to the /,
naval academy at Annapolis. He re-
ceived 100 per cent in the algebra ex-
animation.
In Addison county court few days |
ago, Frank Jerome and William Jer
ONE of Ferrisburg pleaded guilty TO
harboring Mildred St. Peters, Edith
Hughes and Clementine Devoid, who
had escaped from the industrial school
at Vergennes The men rowed them
across the lake to the New York side.
Both men pleaded guilty and were SEN
fenced to not less than one year nor
more than three years at hard labor in
states prison at Windsor.
A pilgrimage to the old church at
Rockingham, Bellows Falls, is an annual
event which attracts 800 or more people
This year the pilgrimage will be on Sun
day, Aug 4. The sermon will be preached
l.. To-, 20 l
the South Congregational church in
Springfield, Mass, and an address will
be given by Charles H. Darling of Bur
lington.
Mrs. A. o. Ferguson of Burlington re,
ceived injuries last week for the treat
ment Of which she was taken to the
Mary Fletcher hospital She was visiting {
in Shelburne when she fell through
trap door into the cellar about seven I
feet, landing on her head and shoulders. (
She was badly bruised and it was
thought she had broken bone in her
ankle
Although Justice Carl s. Hopkins Of
has married S45 couples, he
was called upon to officiate at new q
variety lasb week, WHen ne married TWO
leaf mutes. They were Willis j. Kin c
:ella of Lawrence, Mass. and Miss Ethel t
r. Ford of Nashua, n II. They were r
accompanied by the brides sister, also :
leaf and dumb. The marriage service l
vas written, instead of spoken, each i
,arty giving assent, and they were pro- i
lounced married by the written word.
The new chocolate factory in Burling /
on must be completed by Aug. Is so t
hat work can commence, if the Vermont t
Milk Chocolate company rs to be able to +
Ill contract which it has taken for +
Il $4,000 worth Of choco at& for the t
Belgian government. To thaS end ma
hinists and builders will devote every h
minute available between now and then G
n an effort to bring the plant to usa-
lie stage. Part of the contract will be a
He'd in Boston and work will begin a
here by next Monday. The burned a
liant at Burlington is not entirely torn fl
own yet, so that it will be huge Job b.
0 get the new one up by the date as al
igned Aside from war orders, the ii
resident OF the company, John Walker, v
as stated that he could close enough or d.
ers to keep the factory running for j
hree years.
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