The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-15

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
An old folks concert given in Derb.
recently Melted the Red Cross S17.
The town clerks office in Morrisvill'
Is to be closed forenoons for the present
TO conserve fuel.
The checklist in Lincoln bears 3Ol
names, and of these 4 are of women
entitled to vote this year.
Miss Grace Merrill, one of three st
Johnsbury girls who are nursing II
France, has recently arrived there
Ice dealers in Burlington announce
that raise of % per cent viii be made
this summer, the reason given being the
increased cost of labor.
A further reduction of train service
on the Rutland railroad includes the dis.
continuance of the Sunday flyer" This
goes into effect Feb H.
Owing to the coal shortage, the Len
ten devotions in Notre Dame and st.
Aloysius churches in st. Johnsbury have
been cancelled for this year
Harry and Harold Fitzgerald Orwell
twins, were called for examination under
the draft law. Harry passed, but Har-
old failed on account of a short leg,
The evening train was from 6 p. m.
Monday to | a. m. Tuesday in getting
the six miles from New Haven Junction
TO Bristol, on account of snowdrifts.
Franklin Isham, principal of the New
Haven school, is i'll at his home in Will
liston with scarlet fever. Schools in
the latter village have been closed for
ten days.
From Feb. % to Feb, "A the Benning-
ton County Older Boys Conference is to
be held in Bennington, the theme being,
"The Challenge of the War" 1t will be
held under the auspices of the y. NJ. c. A.
The firm of Sawyer & Lathe, dry
goods merchants in Craftsbury, have en-
tered into partnership with j. D. Leavitt,
grocery, furniture and undertaking
business, and the whole will be com.
bined.
Herman A. Peck, who was stricken
with shock as he was driving hack
in Rutland Tuesday afternoon, died the
next day without ever regaining con-
seriousness. He was 20 years old,
Lieut.. George w. Smith, son of the
late Robert +. Smith, proprietor of
Smith & Sons factory at White River
Junction, is seriously i'll with pneu
monia at Camp Merritt, Long Island.
Edwin and Summer Rockwell, we'll |
known captains on Lake ChampIain, are |
in excellent health this winter at their /
home in Alburg. The former, skipper on
the steamer Vermont, is SO and his /
cousin, Sumner, is SIS.
l.. P. Bennett, son of Ira Bennett of |
Woodmont, Conn, who has summer
home near Lyndonville, was one of the
soldiers on the Tuscania, but his father
received word that he was safe in Ire
land
Thomas Mclaughlin, tailor, aged SIS
years, was found dead in his apartment
in Brattleboro Tuesday. Gas was escap.
ing from gas heater in his bedroom.
The man was partly dressed and death
is thought to have been accidental.
Mrs. p C. Jones was badly burned
at her home in Morrisville recently when
the top was blown from syrup can
of hot water, which she was moving on
the stove. Her face, chest and one hand
were the most badly burned.
Stark Smith, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles NJ. Smith of Rutland, died of
spinal meningitis at the army hospital
at Mineola, Long Island, N. ", Feb. IL.
He was member of the 370th aero
squadron and Is years old.
Bernard Bartehs of New York, who
had been held in Brattleboro on suspi-
zion of being German agent, was re-
leased Feb. 13, it having been learned
hat he registered in New York as re, !,
luired and also that he had made out and !
fled QUESTIONABLE as required by law.
A Red Cross party held on the roof !
If The Tavern at st. Adams Tuesday !.
evening was attended by about 100 and |
he net receipts will be $25 Wartime Y
prizes of one pound of coal for the win 7
Ter of the highest score and one lump for T
he lowest were awarded.
An entertainment was given in Rut I
and Feb. IL in honor of the 25th ami
Tersary of the service of Miss Eta Z
principal of the Lincoln school P
n that city. She was presented solid {
liver sandwich plate by members of t
he Parent Teacher association. y
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Duba have sold
he hotel at Highgate Center to l.. O.
I'VE and are moving to their farm in
Berkshire. 1t Bis reported that Mr.. =
I'VE will close the house as hotel,
Though it is a landmark in the town,
aving been a hotel for 10 years.
Lyman b. Keyes, a veteran of the Civil
rar, died at his home in Bennington
'eb. 10 at the age of IS years. He had
cen i'll two months. Mr.. Keyes was in
ervice in a regiment of New York vol
nteers for Is months, being discharged
GLOWING a wound received in action.
The big dynamo for the new hydro
lectric plant the village of Swanton is