The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-11

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Mrs. Diana Fish, aged 81, died at he
home in Benson recently.
F.B. Noble, for IA years ianitor of th
Hyde Park nigh school, has resigned.
l.. r. Nichols fell on the ice in Bran
don last week and fractured several ribs
The library at pittsford is to be close,
two afternoons week to conserve fuel
The first carload of chestnut coal to b
delivered in Nergennes this winter cam
there last week.
The North Congregational church o
st. Johnsbury has hung out service
flag with 33 stars.
In the death of George w. Shores. tn,
last one of the Civil war veterans wa
taken from CRANKY.
r. +. ID. Carrier w. c. Curtis. on
route of AL miles. in Jeffersonville, ha,
sold $40 worth of war savings certif
Gates and thrift stamps.
Rev. +. c. Taylor. a former pastor al
Hyde Park, has returned to Vermont
after several years absence and has tax
mn Oh ~ NJ 4 AaInaInrr,-
Five members of the family of John A.
Fassett of Rutland were very i'll and
narrowly escaped asphyxiation Tuesday
morning when gas escaped from their
coal stove
Miss Bernice H. Ballard a teacher for
some years in the schools of Burlington.
died at the Mary Fletcher hospital
"Wednesday after severe operation for
appendicitis.
Wayne, five. year old son of Mr., and
Mrs Fred Campbell of Morristown Cor.
ners, has just completed a knitted muf
fer, az inches long and 10 inches wide
for the Red Cross.
Two Newport boys, aged II and Ia
wears, were taken off the train at St
sIohnsbury Wednesday at their parents
request. They had $50 between them
and had set out for Boston.
Rev. Duncan G.. Porteous, former
pastor of the Methodist church at East
Burke, and since then at Lancaster, n.
H., has resigned the latter pastorate and
will take up Y M. C. A. army work.
After five years shutdown, work has
been resumed cutting soapstone in the
Davis quarry at Chester. The stone will
be shipped to the Union Soapstone COM
pany in Boston, to be used in their plant.
G. H. Cambridge, principal of the Shell
burne high school has resigned to &C
cept a similar position at Chester. Miss
Bertha NJ. Field, four years a teacher in
the Burlington high school, is his sue
cessor
For the second time in ten years the
Rutland railroad has declared dividends, |
On Jan. %, two per cent dividend win /
be paid on the preferred stock. In 1917 |
a two per cent dividend was paid, the |
first since 1907.
DIR. Royal Hatch, native of Straf-
ford, and a graduate of st. Johnsbury
academy, died recently at his home in
Wellesley, Mass, He graduated from
Dartmouth college i'll 1900 and from the
Harvard Medical school in 1904.
Rev. George c. Boorn. who resigned
n 6 ~ |
salist church i'm Rutland, has accepted a
call to the pastorate of the Universalst
church in Woodfords, Me-, and will also
have charge of All Souls church in Port
land,
At Rev. V. M. Hardy's in Morrisville
Sunday, Dee 30, at 1890 p. M, the Their
mometer standing in his south piazza,
shielded by glass window. partition,
registered 20 degrees above zero, while
at the north side of the house the Their
mometer there at the same time reg
istered ii below zero
Miss Helen Stockwel of Lyndon has
Just discovered a sister, unknown TO her
before, Mrs. Marion Wright of Water
bury. Miss Stockwel was adopted by
Mr. and Mrs. Dorman Stockwel when
she was seven years old and did not !
know she had a living sister until in
quires by Mrs. Wright brought them J
together. +
The boiler of the furnace in the church
at Dorset froze during the recent cold y
spell and the damage was SO great it will
be some time before repairs can be com ,
pleted. In the same town Quincy Jones $
froze his hands quite badly. He was ?
driving and when his horse started sud o
denly he was unable to put on his gloves
for few minutes, during which time his b
hands froze. c
A Mendon woman beyond middle age.
hearing from her son, an enlisted man =
at Camp Greene. Charlotte, n c.. that :
he was suffering from the cold for lack of
a sweater, walked the four miles to Rut-
and, not owning a team, purchased the
warn and then walked back to her home. !
She had no knitting needles and her hus- !
band whitfield some for her out of wood ;
The sweater grew apace until late one
night when the yarn gave out, with the
not quite completed. The next
her husband walked to Rutland
md back for the warn TO finish il and o