The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-29

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The annual meeting Of the Franklin
County Medical society was held at thu
81. Adams hospital to-day.
Rev and Mrs c. r. Hill Crathern oh,
served the 25th anniversary Of their mar
riaee at the parsonage in Old Benning-
ton May %,
George w Fox, the senior member Of
the firm of Fox & Eaton, which leases
many theatres. died at his home in Brat
tleboro May %,
The insurance on the plant Of the Yer.
mont Milk Chocolate company in Bur
lington, which was destroyed by fire a
few weeks ago. will be settled this week
and work will begin al once on the clear
ing away Of the debris.
George Smith % years old and Civil
war veteran, attended the Memorial serv.
ices in the Congregational church in
Sharon last Sunday. He served in a
Maine regiment during the war. An
other veteran present was Nelson Snow,
rs.
VI. NJ. and c. r. Taplin of Orleans haxe
bought the entire holdings OF the Silsby
Lumber company in Lowell, consisting
of LOO acres of real estate, one OF
the best equipped sawmills in the state,
a gristmill many buildings and all the
personal property.
Because he tried TO start balky horse
by hitehing one end of a chain around
the animals neck and the other to an
automobile, and then starting the car,
William B. Standish of Springfield was
fined IS and costs of S8.05. for cruelty
TO animals, which he paid.
Mrs. ID. V. Reed has at her home in
Stowe cotton plant which was raised
from seed planted in July that has
been blossomed for several DAYS. The
blossoms, which are white when first
opened, resemble single hollyhock bios
soms. They turn pink after opening.
Albert Morey, while moving scenery
at the Colonial theatre in st. Johnsbury
last week the night the "Flo-Flo" com.
pany played there, fell and was so badly
injured he had to be taken to the hos
pital The girls in the "Flo-Flo" com.
pany made up purse of 1924 for him.
John W. Hernon, IL, who had been
missing from his home in Bennington for
two months, was located in Troy, N. Y,
Nav % through his subscription TO the
third Liberty loan. A Troy paper print
ed the list of subscribers and the young !
fa1I 49,, ~
He had been working in a collar shop in
Troy, but returned home with his ia
Their.
Miss Myra Campbell, a school teacher
in Stowe, was badly bruised and received
a cut an inch and half long near one
temple last Sunday afternoon. when a
horse which her brother was driving to
take her from her home to her school
ran away. A younger sister had one
ankle bruised in jumping, but when the
teacher jumped her feet became en-
tangled in the reins and she was dragged
some distance.
Sophy, the two-month- old daughter of
Andrew Matesuvitch. died last week in
the Russian orphanage in Springfield,
where she was taken after the death or
her mother and two sisters in the fire
of April at the home of the family.
The child, then four weeks old, was tax
en- from the house in her crib and re-
,eiyed no injuries from the fire, but a
month later had an attack of pneumo-
MIA, which caused her death.
Gordon Ryea of st. Adams has re-
,eived telegram stating that his broth
II, Fred Ryea, has been killed in action
n France. Ryea. who was about Is
years OF age, formerly lived in St. Al
BANS, where he was employed at The :
Tavern. He enlisted in the machine gun
but was turned down on ac-
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