The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-13
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Twenty-seven new members joined the
Bristol Business Mems association the
first of the week,
| Miss Mabel Hamilton of Randolph has
been added 10 the faculty of Derby acad-
envy as teacher Of elocution.
About 30 men who work in the shirt
factory at the house of correction In
Rutland are sick with the grip.
Reuben c. Christie, aged % years, died
suddenly at his home in Barton recently.
He was very active up 10 the time OF his
death.
Farmers around Bellows Falls consid'
er the sugar season over and are gath.
ering their buckets and pulling the
spouts.
The buildings OF Mrs. Albert Musgrove
in Morgan were destroyed by fire the
first of the week, together with II head
of cattle, one horse, two hogs, household
furniture and farming tools.
Rev. A. s. Charlton, who for four years
has been pastor OF the Methodist church
in Williamsville, has resigned and with
Mrs. Charlton will move to their farm
in Marlboro, where they will make their
home.
The Vermont and New Hampshire
Sunday School association are TO unite
again this year for their annual con
vention, which will be held AT Dart
mouth college, Hanover, n. II. The con-
vention will be held from Aug ) to IL. |
Miss Edith r. Gates, daughter OF eN
Governor C. w. Gates, and Lieut., Merle |
II. Davis of the United States coast ar
tillery were married Saturday at the |
Gates home in Franklin by Rev. Levi |
Wild of Royalton, former pastor.
A reception was rendered Rev. and |
Mrs. j. Frederick Virgin at the Epi %
pal parish house in Brattleboro recent
v. Mr. Virgin is to become a national
field commissioner for the Boy Scouts
If America Next Sunday is the last
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Earl W. Bradley, principal of the jun,
or high school of Concord, has resigned /
o accept the principaship of the junior
enior high school at Essex Center. Mr..
/ Concord and take up the work at f.
ex Center in September.
,f h. Dali lsaII !
lines has rented five acres of land
which will be known this summer as :
amp Liberty, and this tract is to be =
ivided into 40 gardens. After the pro
rietor has prepared the land, a charge
f. $40 will be made to each one who
ants a section. If any surplus funds
amain, the money is TO be turned over
D the Red Cross.
Mrs. Sarah Ford Briggs of New York,
ho had summer home on Isle IA
Iotte, committed suicide Tuesday morn
lg after she alighted from the train at
lburg, cutting her throat with razor :
he had come to open up her cottage /
,r the summer, it was supposed. She :
as about so years old and had suffered
uch from nervous trouble.
The annual log drive of the Interna-
onal Paper company is being gathered t
the boom at Sharon and already '
900, 900 feet are there The rest of the a
i've, 100000 feet in all, is scattered K
trough the White river from Sharon to a
$ source and within week the drive p
i'll be loosed from the Sharon boom y
to the Connecticut river. The drive d
lis year is three or four million feet o.
rger than last year q =.
According to John b. Perham OF Viii ci
lmstown, prices during the Civil war
some instances were much higher than IL
the present time, while others were
uch lower. The following items taken
ON the day book of the late Col JUS A
s Edison of Brookfeld, made out in =
"a when gold was worth $3.50, are an
ample: Flour $3.50, sugar pc, maple
gar l4c, green tea $3.50, eggs zoe a
zen, butter 45c, kerosene 81 40, cotton III
9TH soc per yard, print 42c, spool "
read l5c, beans &c per quart, beef &c, al
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Among recent orders issued by the IN
II department were number of pro- ri
,tions of second lieutenants in both the on
antry and cavalry arms of the regular tel
nv. The new first lieutenats. with o.tc
! assignments, who are from Yer 10
mt, are as follows: To Both infantry, or,
rold w. Batchelder, Hardwick: to see an
! cavalry, Jason b. Hart, Proctors A.