The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-01
MONTPELIER
New State Building May Be Turned over
to the State Tomorrow.

Finishing touches on the new state
building are being made by the repre-
sentatiyes of the George Kelley Con
struction company to-day, and Mr.. Jor
dan, who has charge OF the work stateu
this morning that he expects TO turn ,he
building over TO the state Tuesday. lhefe
is a little work to be done inside, but
This is not in the contract and Is due 10
some changes that were made, as well as
j uttle decorating which the weather IS
not suitable for at present. The matter
az anproaehes to the building and grad
ing the lawn is not part OF the con
tract. so that it will be done by inc
state as soon as the ground can pc
worked. Nov will come the allotment
of rooms to the departments that - 70
occupy them. Ii Is understood none nave
been assigned. OF course, the supreme
court and state library will go to the
biiIdinr The matter of the geological
department is not settled, The law pro
yides that il shall be jointly with the
library. but there is some opposition 70
tbis 80 that conclusion has not been
reached. II is expected that the state
educational department will have suite
on the third floor. but 1t was stated
few DAYS ago that it was not settled
The fire department WAS called out at
about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon Tor the
first time this year owing To grass hre'
A hoy named Brock who was ON the
sidebiI back of the State House, dropped
a match, with the result that the grass
,yas soon on fire. The fire ran with
great rapidity to the top OF the hiil' but
stone wall stopped it from gong INTO
Hubbard park. The department was
called. There were also several men IN
the vicinity who assisted III putting out
The fire, brooms being used for the pur-
nose. The wall helped materially. The
grass was very dry and burned very last
Easter services held in the churches OF
the city were attended by large audi
ences Sunday Special programs were
conducted at some time during the DAY
AZ each church. Cantatas and preaching
suitable for the occasion were part III
these. In nearly every service some anu
sion was made by tine pastor to the great
hattie in Europe. aud nearly every pas
tor in the course of his prayer asked the
Almighty TO bring success to the aiiied
armies.
The members of Company ! have ar
ranged to give dance to raise some
money to defray expenses The dance oc'
ours Friday evening.
Many who enjoy sugar from paddle
went TO the sugar bush of Edgar Cum'
minns towards East Montpelier Sunday
afternoon.
+. d. Sloan is suffering with a cold,
and while he is off duty Officer Fred Des-
laurier is taking his place
The northbound night express was
about five hours late in arriving at the
local station this morning, so that the
branch passenger train did not wait Tor
tbe connection but went to Barre, leav-
ing one car here. so that the freight crew
might handle the passengers coming to
this city. The lateness was due to de-
railment of two freight cars in a tram at
East Granville during the night. The
northbound train waited at Bralntree
until the track was cleared.
William McCaskell has gone to Port
land. Me. where he commences work as
a travelling salesman for the Armour Co.
The war chest fund this morning
amounted to S44 400.
Commissioner of Education NJ. b. Hill
legas and Judge l.. r. Slack of the com
mittee OF public safety went to Wash
ington, ID. C.. last night to attend con-
ference.this week on the state represen-
tatives OF the council of national dc
Tense. Mr.. Hillegas has been offered the
appointment in Vermont to take charge
OF the boys working reserve work, which
is well organized here, for the plan that
was used last year viii be followed.
namely, that of enrolment IN the
schools. He viii take the matter up with
the council of national defense while IN
Washington and probably he viii take
charge OF the work, because it harmo-
nizes with that which i being done IN
the educational system Of the state.
Secretary J. G. Brown and Mason ).
Stone. members of the public safety
committee. left on The night train for
BOSTON, where they attend a conference
Of representatives of the New England
committees. relative to the plans 10 be
carried out during the coming summer.
II. w Simonds. commissioner OF in
dustries. and Miss Laura Burbank, secre-
tarv Of the department, left this after
noon for St Johnsbury, where, to-mor-
row. they have several hearings in whish
p. L T. Fairbanks s company are de-
PENDANTS.
FIbert Montgomery. who was IN the
city nsurt Saturday on the charge OF IN