The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-05
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Ten young women enrolled in one day
last week in Burlington for the student
nurse reserve.
A town service flag is to be raised at
Underhill Center on Aug. l6. A list of
80 names has been prepared so far.
Clarence L. Holden, Bennington man,
while playing tag with his children,
slipped and fell to the floor, breaking
two ribs.
Charles H. Dorr, H-year old Provi-
dence, r. l., boy, recently made bicycle
trip from that city to Bennington in
two and one-half days.
The Standard Oil company is building
a 600-foot pier into Lake Champlain,
after which gasoline and kerosene can
be received direct from Albany.
Pvt. Franklin Bell of Lunenburg, who
had been in hospital in Rouen, France,
for seven months, has recovered suffi-
GENTLY to work in warehouse near
that city.
Mr. Gustin, superintendent of the
pulp mill at Mt. Mills in Wilmington,
caught trout weighing four pounds and
eight ounces last Friday. The fish was
I'll inches long.
Because of the decrease in lake traffic,
the boats on Lake Champlain viii be
withdrawn at least month earlier than
usual this season The companies affect.
ed claim to be losing money every day.
Swanton is to have new industry, a
mill being under construction there for
the manufacture of feed by the Lapelle
Poultry Food company, which was
burned out in oswcgo, N. Y, recently.
William Dudley Policy, owner of the
st. Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN, who, with his
wife, sailed from San Francisco July 81
to do magazine work in the orient, ex
poets to go with the allied armies into
the Siberian Intervention.
Rev. j. II, Hoffman, a former pastor of
the Congregational church in New Ha-
ven, recently accepted call to the
church at Thetford and comes there
from West Brookfeld, Mass, where he
has been for several years.
The barns of William McCabe in I'M
derhill were struck by lightning and
burned last week They were filled with
hay, Mr.. McCabe having only one more
day Of haying to do. George Stevens
had two cows killed by lightning the
same night.
The kind of spirit which is demon
strated in some parts of the country was
shown Thursday when an automobile
went down Church street in Burling.
ton bearing a sign Soldier or Sailor
Going My Wayi Get In The automo-
bile was that of Otto NJ, Won Schorer,
who has a summer home in North Hero,
and who lives in Maryland,
First Lieut.. John P Kerrigan of West
Rutland, member Of the medical re-
serve, was severely wounded in action
in France June %, according to a tele-
gram received last week by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. P F. Kerrigan, of West
Rutland Lieut.. Kerrigan is 81 years
old and was called into service April 10,
1918, going overseas early in June.
Mr.. and Mrs. Napoleon Heon of St..
Johnsbury have received word from their
son, Arthur, who is in a German prison,
to the effect that he is well, although at
the time he wrote he was confined to
the hospital with wounds received the
day he was captured. The letter was
not received until three months after it
was dated and was the first word they
had received of his being wounded. al
though they had heard from the war de-
partment that their son was prisoner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney w. Hill of Isle
La Motto, parents of Rolley w. Hill, who
was on the Covington, which was sunk
June |, have heard nothing from him
and are very anxious. They have com
municated with the war department,
which is unable to give them any infor-
nation. The transport was sunk off the
coast of France. Young Hill had been
writing home regularly but has not been
heard from since the sinking.