The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-26

the salvation Army fund.
Ivan Garen, a New Haven farmer, sol
$500 worth Of pork last fall and winter
w. A. Grover of New Haven. a deale
in furs, has shot 10 foxes this season
As sideline, he has 600 hens.
When the funeral of Mrs. II. I, Spoo
was held in Ripton Feb. 10, the snoy
wr7 - soft that teams could not be use
and the hearse had TO be drawn by mel
a distance of about seven miles.
George Hosmer and Samuel Adams o
Chester have purchased of ex.Governo
Fletcher his entire herd of Hereford cat
tie, 90 head Very few Herefords ar,
owned in Vermont or New England.
Mrs. Maxwell Evarts of Windsor ha,
announced the engagement OF her daugh
ter, Sue. TO Shelton Hale of New York
Mr.. Hale is in Washington as assistant
secretary of the war trade board The
marriage will take place next fall
Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro has won
pilots license in airplane solo flight
at Miami, Fla. While awaiting word
from Washington, he is training in ad-
vanced flying and in loop spirals and tail
spins.
The young women of the Rutland Con.
gregational church are to hold sale
soon, principally of livestock, for the
benefit of church organizations They
have on hand eight white collie puppies,
white pig, white rabbits, and rooster.
The Delaware 4 Hudson railroad car
sheds at Rutland were burned early Sun
day morning, the cause of the fire being
unknown. The buildings were oil soaked
and made big blaze, but the damage
was not heavy. One fiat car was de-
stroyed.
Burlington women will figure largely
on election day, as 420 had been qualified
to vote up to Saturday night and had
seen that their names were on the check
list. About 400 in that city are quail.
fled to vote if they look after the minor
details in time.
1t is expected that H. Parker Will
Hanson de Visme, '96, who conducts a
French school at Soisy-sous Etoilles,
France, will return to America and with
his staff will have charge of the French
department of the French school at the
Middlebury college 1918 summer school.
Robert Gordon Young of Minneapolis.
Mimi, son of the late DR.. +. II. Young,
formerly of Bristol. won the highest mil
itary honor conferred by the French
government for conspicuous bravery in |
rescuing wounded soldiers from No Mans |
land during the bombardment of Avon |
court wood in the Verdun sector, France |
Harold II. Carr, son of Mr.. and Mrs. |
Fl. H. Carr of st. Johnsbury, has been
called into the aviation corps, having
been accepted in December, while he was
a student at the University of Vermont.
Since that time he has been at home
awaiting orders. He reports at Cornell
university, where his first training will
be received.
John Seamon, the Ferrisburg farmer
who tried to kill himself, will probably
recover. Although his condition is not
critical he has been taken to the Mary
Fletcher hospital in Burlington for treat
ment, as it was difficult to have proper
care at his farm, which was some dis
lance from the village. 1t is thought that
his temporary insanity was due to an
abscess in his head.
Victor G. Corkran, a son of Rev. d. Fl.
Corkran, a former pastor of the Method ,
ist church in Middlebury, is in hospital
in Scotland in serious condition. He
was gassed in the battle of Passchen-
daele Ridge last November and was
thought to be recovering but grew worse 4
and was removed from an English hos t
pital to one in Scotland. His heart and i
lungs are both weakened. He enlisted :
with a Canadian regiment. Ii,
At the annual meeting of the Valley y
Fair association, which is to be held in :
tomorrow afternoon, it will y
he decided whether the fairs can be kept I,
Up or not. There is now deficit of 81 ,557 <,
nd the members of the association are Il
rying to solve the problem of getting lie
nut Of debt and getting onto a firm foun 9
ation financially. The property of the ~
ssociation is valued at $4,000. ia
While William GravelIe was saving
hlngle al the saWmlll IN Weybrldge, lsu
lis hand got caught and the third finger
II his right hand was taken nearly off. az
several years ago, while working in the e ~,
anne mill, Mr.. Gravelle lost the thumb, =
orefnger and about half of the second :,
niger off the same hand, so that if this "
niger cannot be saved, all he will have
eft on his right hand viii be the little
niger
There was shortage of bread in st. to
Ilbans Saturday, every bakery being o.
old out before night, and one being out 4;
f bread before two o'clock in the after he
Don. This was due to an unprecedent- oil
d call for the article. Since substitute n,
ours have been ordered, housewives are IN
aving so much trouble adapting recipes an
0 fit the change that many of them ho
re buying their bread entirely from 81