The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-28


grinding 100 bushels day.
The Rutland library begins its new
year with Sl.067 ON hand.
The University of Vermont alumni i'm
Washington, d. G., held meeting there
last week.
Phe Springfield hospital cared for 224
patients in 1917, and its total expendi.
lures were $s,Si4.65
Rev. G. c. Cornell, pastor of the Meth.
odist church in Panton, has left TO take
up Y. NJ. c. A. work.
Mrs. Pauline Fales, aged 50 years,
died at the town farm in Middlebury
Feb. 20. So far as known she had not
relative surviving.
The case of Rev. Clarence II. Waldron
of Windsor, for seditious utterance, is to
come up at this term of United States
court at Burlington.
Arthur l.. Trip has resigned as super
intendent of the Brattleboro Street Rail
way company after having been in its
employ for 20 years.
cake mailed to one of the Rutland
men last August while he was stationed
at birmingham, Mass was received by
him Nov | somewhere in France.
Asa Burnham of Brandon died at
Camp Travis, Tex, Sunday He was born
in Ferrisburg and was 10 years old. He |
enlisted last July at Haverhill, Mass. |
Fred Patch of johnson nearly lost his |
span of horses by drowning one day last |
week, while driving along the highway
where the road was flooded. 1t was only |
by great effort that they were saved
The Breckenridge bakery in Rutland
has had to close temporarily for lack of
sugar. Conditions in Rutland in regard
TO sugar have not improved in the last
week and very little is to be found in
the city.
Ice cutters on Lake Champlain are be-
hind in cutting ice, so that at the pres
ent time the crop is about $500 tons
short and cracks are appearing i'll the
ice which are so extensive that it is diff
ficult for the cutters to continue work
Leo j. Casey, a Burlington boy, has
made the debating team of Holy Cross
college and will meet team from
Georgetown university on March % Mr.
Casey is freshman at the college and
to be q member of the debating team is
recognition of his ability.l
The names of 1856 more Burlington
women were added to the checklist at
a meeting Tuesday evening This makes
nearly 1000 out of a possible l400 A
final meeting of the board of civil au-
thority viii be held Friday night, when
it is probable still Others will be added
A sister of Joseph Pinset of Sutton.
who was a teacher in Lille, France, at
the time the Germans took the city, has
disappeared and no word has come to
her people in all the months since. 1t is
feared that she was among the many
hundreds rounded up by the Germans
and deported.
During the high wind of Tuesday. the
memorial window and frame in the front
of st. Lukes Episcopal church in Bran.
don were blown out, causing much dam
age. The window, l0x20 feet, was very
valuable. Later investigation showed {
that the frame was not as firmly fixed as
it should have been when the church
was built.
William R. johnson, tramp, was ar. !
rested in st. Adams Feb. 26. 1t is al
legged that he slept in barn in Georgia
Ia,, ,,.,It T.. =. |
istration card from Ridgefeld, Conn. in
dicating that he belonged in that town
He did not know whether he had been !
called for examination in the draft or G
not.
Hiram NJ. Marsh of Bennington, ac-
cording to dispatch from Springfield, !
Mass, on a recent trip to that city,
took a fat roll of bills out of his pocket 7
in lunch room when he ordered a meal ]
and after paying for it tore into small g
pieces $50 in money, despite the protests r
of the cashier. He was arrested on the v
charge of drunkenness
Sergt ]. B. Hathaway, a brother of d
Mrs. Jennie Smith of White River juno b
tion, has recently returned from France, a
where he saw service for two years and 8
nine months, Ia months of which were
spent in the trenches. He was wounded
in the battle of the Somme Mr.. IIatha-
way says the Canadian authorities fig
tre that about 10000 Americans are ~
fighting with the Canadian army n'
d. f. Hunt, for the last four wears p'
chief clerk of the railway mail service a.
for the district of White River Junction, u
has gone TO France, where he has been 81
appointed to position in the postal NJ
union. He will be attached to Ameri- "
AN headquarters. Mr.. Hunt offered his o.
services for the position, which he ex- -
poets TO hold until the end of the war.
Mrs. Hunt will remain in White River 10
Junction. ~
Frederick Smith of West Rutland who ia
attempted to commit suicide while at
home on a furlough from Camp Dew
ms, Aver, Mass, Feb. IL. was released
rom the Rutland hospital Tuesday aft
,rnoon and that night was taken back
% camp. He has partially recovered
rom wounds which he received when az
le shot himself with a revolver. His NJ
actions are not normal and his stories en-
ire conflicting. TO
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A fire Tuesday badly damaged the
house in West Rutland known as the ru
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