The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-26
MONTPELIER

A special meeting Of the city council
took place Friday afternoon when the
water committee made "a report upon
the matter of the raise in pay for Frank
Abair, a long time employee in that de-
partment. Supt j. j. Chimney is Ill and
.Abair asked for raise of over S., which
did not strike the council very favor
baly, in view Of the fact that the time
Of year when there is but little to do
has arrived As a result of the confer
ence tie salary of the foreman OF the
water department, which work Mi.
Abair Is said to do, was fixed at $4 a
day, which is a raise Of $3.50 week
over what he had been paid. He was
given raise at the beginning OF the
city year.
Mrs. David Burns has gone to Spring
fed, Mass, to see her husband.
Poor Judgment on the part Of the driy-
err OF K. G. Gould's automobile Friday
afternoon narrowly resulted in COLI
sion between the automobile and the
freight train on the Central Vermont
railway going to Barre. Mr.. Gould said
that he was told train was coming,
but thought ii was on the other track.
He admitted seeing the fagman, but
claimed his flag was not in the air while
others disagreed with Mr.. Gould. Mr..
Gould was driving pretty fast, for safety
around railroad tracks, according to
those who saw the accident and the dis
lance which his wheels slid when the
changed his mind and tried to stop, go
ing on the track, showed he must have
been going fast. Joseph Derry, who was
engineer, saw that an accident must
take place and used the emergency
brake, which slowed the train enough so
that Gould's car was only pushed around
little. One mud guard was bent lit
tie and the front end of lthe ear dam
aged. In the car with Mr.. Gould were
David Murray, County Agent f. Fl. Alb
bolt, and 0. G, Pitkin. Mr.. Gould lives
in Cabot.
Three Montpelier men, Commissioner
NJ. B. HiHegas of the state department
Of education, George B. Young and Rob
ert w. Simonds, commissioner of labor,
have returned from Boston, where they
attended at Ford hall conference of
New Englanders called to consider plans
for the united war work campaign which
Is to be launched Nov. ii in behalf Of
the following organizations: The Ma
tional Catholic War Council, the Saliva
ton Army, the Y. M. @. A., and Y, w, G..
A., the Welfare Board, the American Lii
brary association, and the War Camp
Community Service.
News was received here last night of
the death of Clinton Childs, who had
been employed at Bellows Falls, and it
was expected this morning that the body
would be brought here for funeral and
burial. He is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
TT. p. Childs and had lived in the city
until going to Bellows Falls. Besides
his parents, he leaves sister, Mrs Will
liam Carlo, formerly a telephone oper-
ator in Montpelier, and younger broth
er. Neder He was born in Moretown
Is years ago. He had been employed
in munition plant. He was Ill week
with pneumonia. He formerly worked
at p. j. Jerome's store in Montpelier.
Twenty men in Montpelier on Friday
evening attended meeting at which Q.
A. Simons of the American city bureau
explained the purpose OF j. b. Wilbur
and those associated with him in the
effort to secure better roads and other
improvements through concerted effort
in legislature, 1t Is hoped to obtain
10000 petitions or affiliations with the
project through the signature Of cards,
one Of which is for an improvement in
the auditing system Of the state. The
board of trade agreed to cooperate in