The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-27
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS


Two thousand dollars will be eNpend
ed this year Ia Mendon for reforestation
$4,000 young trees being set out ON the
water shed there.
W w. Culver tapped only one tree al
his home in Stowe this year, but he used
four sponts and two buckets and made
fully % pounds OF sugar, which was eN'
eecdingly white and fine grained.
Ernest &. kmhal. who was found
guilty of burglarising the home of Mrs
Martha Scott in Sharon, has been sen
fenced TO not hess than three nor more than
nine wears IN the state prison at Wind
SCR,
The Rockingham hospital in Bellows
Falls has a record Of which all its frien Is
are proud Every nurse, every student
and all the employees, including the cook
and the laundress, are owners Of a third
Liberty bond.
Dr. Herbert c. Phelps died April p a,
the st. Ahans hospital after being in
poor health for some time. He was 20
years old. DIR. Phelps had practiced in
Alburg for many years and for 10 yeas
had lived in Swanton. He was veteran
of the Civil war.
James Lille. pupil in the eighth grade
of Quechee, made IS gallons OF maple
<yrup this season. He collected go sap
buckets and tapped trees on the vii
hge street. He worked mornings and
evenings and has more than 500 t.
ahnw for HIS In hor and skill
c. j. Mcintyre of Orwell recently Sc.
cured through the farm labor bureau the
services of l6.year old lads On Tues
day morning the boy appropriated Mr..
Mclntyre's rifle, supply OF cartridges,
a few minor requisites and Sl5 IN cash
and made an early start for over there
Miss Hilda Woodruff of Milton, daugh
ter of the late Professor Woodruff, prin-
cipal of the Milton school, and n mem
Der of the graduating class in he nigh
school at Essex Junction, has been APP
pointed to a state scholarship in Mid
ilebury college by Senator Martin $.
Villas of Burlington. Miss Woodruff will !
enter Middlebury college next Septem-
Der.
Hastings brothers retapped 600 trees !
in their sugar place at Johnsbury after |
last weeks snow storm and they have |
made 300 more pounds OF sugar They |
tapped the trees on the north side and |
got very heavy run of sap and the
sugar is OF even better quality than
hat made earlier in the season. From
1900 trees they made $500 pounds of
sugar.
Since the death of Frank Greenland,
he l6-year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
rel Greenland of Rutland, who was
lilled by train April %, it has been
earned that the young man. a paper
Joy, had bought Liberty bond and
var savings stamps, besides paying for
music lessons for himself and contrib
lting a considerable amount to the fam
lily income. Within a comparatively
hort time he had sold papers amounting
o upwards of SIS.
The. jury in Windham county court
Tuesday returned verdict for the plain
tiff, Miss Emma J. Bacon of Lynn, Mass,
10 recover 1895 from the estate of her
late sister, Mrs. Ella NJ. Pike of Bel
lows Falls Mrs. Pike died in Bellows
Falls Feb. rs, 1916, and for long time
before her death had been cared for by
oer sister, Miss Bacon, who left her
lressmaking business for that purpose
An order left by Mrs. Pike by which
he bank was authorized to pay Miss
Bacon $1,000 was disallowed by the court
and then Miss Bacon put in her claim for
81 200 for services.
Miss Anne Peck, st. Johnsbury girl, I
who was one of the first American nurses '
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