The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-16


fever and the youngest died last week.
Rev. c. Il. Atwood read his resignation
NJ pastor of the Congregational church
In Guilford last Sunday, to take effect
May l.
A party from Bolton who took a snow.
shoe trip to the top of tamel's Hump
last Sunday state that snow Is seven
feet deep there.
Mrs. Jane Pease, the first president OF
the first Woman's Relief corps in the
state of Vermont, which was located at
Weston. died recently in Weston at the
age OF SO years.
August Rauchmeyer of Springfield,
Mass. who married Miss Pearle Allen of
Brattleboro three weeks ago, died March
II with ptomsine poisoning caused by
eating canned goods.
Harrison =. Thayer son of l.. p.
Thayer of Morrisvile, who enlisted rs
woman last May, has been promoted to
assistant paymaster. He has been on
the U. 5. 5. Michigan.
William III. Wells, one of the oldest
employees of the T.. l.. Chandler company,
in Orleans, died recently of blood poison
ing, after a months illness. lie had
worked for the company since the bust
ness started and was 10 years old,
Keith and Kyle Lawrence, aged y
wears, twin sons of Fred Lawrence of
Morrisvile, voted for the first time at
town meeting last week They have al.
ways lived in that town, but ii was the
first time they had ever been in the town
hall
There are many foxes this season in
Manchester and vicinity, and they are
SO bold that Earle Fowler saw one ON
his lawn a few days ago, 1t was only a
few minutes before the animal was laid |
low with Mr.. Fowler's gun.
A. G. Rice has resigned as a member
of the board of listers for the town of
Rockingham, being also overseer of the
poor, which office is all the responsible
ity he cares to assume. He was elect
ed in 1916 to the office of lister, to fill
vacancy caused by death
Word has been received that Howard
Cady, son of Rev. Gilbert Cady of Chazy,
n. Y, former resident of Middebury,
had been wounded in France, Young
Gady is reported to have lost one eye
and to have been seriously wounded 9TH
erwise. He is now in hospital there.
When water failed to run to the house
from a spring on the land of A. d.
Meacham in Townshend, Mr.. Meacham [
investigated and found that frogs and 4
snakes were the cause of the stoppage. {
He took out over 80 frogs and two t
snakes, and when these were removed
the water flow was all right. s
Rev George Abner Williams, princi-
pal of the Vermont academy at Sax
tons River from 1889 to 1898, died sud
denly of heart failure while attending
Sunday school in the Baptist church in
kalamazoo, Mich. last Sunday.sMr. Will
liams had been professor of Greek in
Kalamazoo college since 1902.
A stampede of 20 cavalry horses from
Fort Ethan Allen caused excitement in
knocked down man and he was so Sc.
verely injured that he had to be taken
home. As the horses rushed wildly
through the streets, the children were
going to the public schools and there
were many narrow escapes.
Seven women at the Home for Aged
Women in Burlington have been very
busy on Red Cross work, two of them,
Mrs. L. w. Ray and Mrs. Arvilla Hyde,
having together knit 50 sweaters, the
other five women knitting 10, They have
been busy on all kinds of work for the
soldiers, as well as the knitting, and
only few days before her death, Miss
an inmate of the home, who
was 90 years old, shipped pieces for
comfort pillow.
Nine year-old Violet Harris narrowly
missed serious injuries or death a few
lays ago when the large roll door of the
barn at her home in South Windhanl
Tell, pinning her beneath it, She could
not get out, but one of her playmates,
Miss Elsie Farr, aged eight years, lifted
t enough SO the Harris girl crawled out.
She was unable to stand at first, but
aside from the nervous shock and few
bruises was not injured
Seventy years of life, together up to
Feb. ! is the record of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Abel of Orleans. They were
married in Swanton, and Levi Corlss of
st. Adams, cousin of the bride, one of
he witnesses, is still living. Mr.. Abel
vas so years old March 10, and has a
arer skin and clearer eye than many
men Is years younger He has voted for
very Republican president since Lincoln
nd hopes for another chance. Mrs. Abel
will be 80 next September and busies
erself about the house. As child she
vas not strong, but has outliyed her
Whole family.
The body found in a deserted creamery
n Pownal a few days ago and thought
o be that of a tramp, has been identified
5 that of NJ. f. Coffey, printer, who
eft Sheburne Falls, Mass, about
nonth ago, intending to go to Sandy
'reek, \. Y When he left the Massa
husetts town he had 5000 in war saw
lgs stamps and S400 insurance in the
typographical union. No stamps or mon
Y were on the body when it was found, -