The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-04

over Z,uuU people attended the second
annual field day Of the employees Of r. n
I. Fairbanks & Co., at St. Johnsbury
Labor day.
The order for surgical dressings re.
ceived by the Essex Junction branch Of
the Red Cross in its latest quota Ia five
times larger than any previous order,
A barn owned by Mrs Melina Hodges
Of Wallingford was burned to the ground
last Monday, with 45 tons of baled hay
and large quantity of unbaled hay The
loss is about $4,000
Raymond A, Briggs of Randolph, a
student in the University of Vermont,
has been commissioned second lieu
tenant at the fourth officers training
school at Camp Grant, III.
Miss Marion Thomas, daughter of
Isaac Thomas of New Haven, Conn, for
mer principal of the Burlington high
schools, sailed Aug. ~ for France TO
join Smith college unit at Chateau
Thierry.
First Lieut. DeVere H. Harden, the
first American officer to be wounded in
France, who has been visiting his wife
in Burlington, has now gone TO College
Park, Nd, where he has been sent as
an instructor in the signal corps.
A union of churches was effected at
Whiting Sunday, when the Baptist
church accepted an invitation to join
with the Congregational church in wor-
ship and work for the ensuing year,
with the intention of making the union
permanent if the temporary arrange
ment proves a success.
Middlebury college has become mem
Der of the American University union in
Europe. The union maintains club for
American college men in Paris and has
headquarters at various oenters for the
assistance of college men on furlough.
About 100 American institutions are rep
resented in membership.
One hundred and fifteen Vermont
farmers have been granted loans by the
Federal Land bank of Springfield, Mass,
for the purpose of increasing the eff
cheney of their loans. The total amount
of money now in loans in Vermont is
$400, 455. Two hundred and eleven more
Vermont farmers have made application
for loans.
The village of Athens has made the
best record Of any village in Vermont
for church attendance. There are but
$50 people in the community, yet the
average attendance at the Methodist
Episcopal church for Is months has been
over so or one-third of the entire popu-
lation. On a recent Sunday there were
rs present or one.half the population,
Frank Barrows of Middlebury has re-
ceived word of the death of his son, Har-
old, in a hospital in France He was
wounded July 80. Harold was "a years
old and went overseas in April. He en-.
listed Feb 20, last. His mother died
several years ago, but he leaves his ia
ther. two sisters and brother, Lucius,
who is in service in France.
Miss Ruth Mongeon, aged 20 years,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Mongeon
of Winooski, died at her home Monday
of typhoid fever, the end coming very
Unexpectedly, as it was but short time
before her death that it was learned she
had the fever, She had been feeling some
what i'll for few days, but not enough
so to call a physician, and when, at the
last, one was called, it was too late to
save her life.
Fred Wheldon of Guildhall, aged 20
years, who jumped from moving train
near Cuttingsville depot as he was being
taken by Sheriff Richard Battle Of Es.
sex county to Rutland, where he was to
serve sentence at the house of correc-
ton for larceny, is still missing. Only
his hat was found when the train was
stopped It was found that as he
jumped he crashed through the fence of
cattle guard, breaking the heavy
boards, and how he escaped death is a
mystery,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. p Boynton Of Ripton
have received word that their son, Lew
ellyn, died in Vancouver Barracks,
Wash, Aug 81 He went west June 81,
being one of two young men who en-
listed when Gov Graham called for two
laborers for special service from Addi-
son county. He was % years old and Is
survived by five brothers, two sisters and
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Boynton also
received word of the wounding in action
Of another son, Ray H. Boynton, July 80
He was a member Of Co. M, Attn in
fantry and left fer France about May o.
In an automobile collision in Burling-
ton Monday evening, Miss Madeline
Whittemore was the most seriously in
jured Of the parties, having cut on her
left temple to the bone and multiple
cuts and bruises about her hands, knees
and body. The ears in collision were
those Of Mayor j Holmes jackson OF
Burlington, in which Miss Whittemore
was one of the passengers, and that OF