The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-05
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DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Lieut.. Max Gilfllsn, son Of Mr.. an
Mrs. Charles j. Gilfllan Of 81. Johnsbur,
has been cited for gallantry In war sers
ice.
Mr.. and Mrs George A. Snow, while N
stroll Saturday afternoon in Sharon
gathered nearly a quart OF field straw
berries.
Miss Evelyn Rivers OF Ware, Mass.
and Herbert Bulger Of st. Albans wer'
married at Our Lady Of Mt. Carme
church in Ware June g.
The Congregational church al upper
Waterford was re.dedicated last week
The building had been thoroughly re-
paired and many improvements made.
Lieut.. Hugh II. Hanrahan, Rutland
physician, has been ordered To report fol
duty at Camp Jackson, s. G. He will
leave his practice 10 the care OF his IA
Their DIR. John ID. Hanrahan
Community canning will be feature
Of the war work which Brattleboro will
undertake this summer, and Miss Lucy
Swift of Middlesex, home demonstrators
for Windham county, will be in charge
Harold Handy, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. A. Handy of Springfield. has received
an appointment from Senator W. T. Dil-
ingham TO the military academy mt
West Point, where he will report June
ID.
At the end of the present term, the
teaching of German is to be abolished IN
the Rutland schools, the school board
taking action on a petition TO that effect,
which was signed by 30 citizens.
John Walker, president of the Yer
mont Milk Chocolate company OF Bur
lington, estimates that year will be
required TO replace the factory that was
DESTROYED by fire a few months ago.
P. L.. Culver, formerly ticket agent at
Burlington is now located in st. Adams,
where he will have his headquarters,
having been appointed travelling auditor
for the Central Vermont Railway com
pany.
Burtis Brassaw, the trusty at the
house of correction, who escaped with
Leo Lahounte, also imprisoned there, was
caught at Ferrisburg, but his companion
is still at large. Brassaw was in for
theft and Labounte for burglary.
Fred Hoffman resident of Wheelock |
and a former assistant judge of Gale |
iona county, was married to Mrs. Es- |
telle Hutchinson Goss, also of Wheelock, |
at st. Johnsbury, May 20. Judge and
Mrs Hoffman left at once for Portland,
Ore.
Joseph Lawrence of Grand Isle, who
attempted to commit suicide at Camp
Devens May rs, is in a critical condi.
tion and his father and fancee, Miss
Tassie, have gone to him. Temporary
insanity is believed to have been the
cause of his act.
Men in several departments in the
Howe Scale works in Rutland have asked
for an increase in wages. 1t is under I
stood that in some branches 81 day {
extra is demanded. The men fix upon
June 10 as the time when they expect an
answer. There was an increase in wages I
|
about six months ago.
The University of Vermont farmer y
cites, numbering ten, who are located
on the estate of Rudyard Kipling at G
Brattleboro, at present are engaged in !
spading up the turf and grass around I,
5000 apple trees and have charge of the 8
grounds gardens, poultry. etc. There are !
400 acres to be hayed this summer in I
which they will assist.
The class of 1918 of the Mary Fletcher e
hospital training school for nurses grad
uated Saturday evening. There were ID t
members of the class, one of whom is al n
ready serving her country as a military g
nurse, and three more of whom will en- 5
ter either the army or navy corps as b
nurses. Another one is already under g
appointment as Red Cross nurse The C
Mary Fletcher training school has a sery
ice flag bearing % stars.
After she had received word that her
husband Lieut. Eben Bull, had arrived
safely overseas, his wife, who was stay
ing at Fair Haven during his absence, re-
ceived word that he was dead in Ho.
boken, N. T. There was much mystery
NJ HTtt over the dUdH. until II was I'll
learned that the notice of his safe ar al
rival was given on the customary post
card, mailed i'm this country as soon as I
It was learned that the ship had safe
y made her harbor, and that Lieut. oil
Bull died of pneumonia while on the sea
m route for France His body was
brought back to this country He was
married to Miss Margaret Walker of
Fair Haven only one week before he OF
allied. The funeral and burial took w
,lace in Fair Haven he