The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-31
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S. J. Cray has been in the mercantile
business in Bellows Falls 80 years.
After serving II years Of life SEN
tence for murder, William Fairbanks was
pardoned by Gov. Graham last Monday
Private Lee E. Dewing Of Orleans was
not missing in action in France but was
In hospital, having been wounded on
July IS. He was located by the Ameri-
can Red Cross.
The Bdsows Falls street car line is
employing women motormen, Miss Mary
Powers making her first trip last Sat
urday. Supt. Sanford reported that she
was doing we'll
Rev A. G. Wilson begins tomorrow
his eleventh year as rector of Imman-
uel Episcopal church in Bellows Falls
He has served the longest of any Bel
lows Falls clergyman.
A hardwood floor in the house of j. W.
Severance in Rockingham was thrown
against the ceiling when lightning struck
the house last Saturday. The building
was considerably damaged The house
was struck last year
While Walter and Harry Rogers were
shingling the Sawyer Rogers house in
Panton the staging broke and Harry
Rogers sustained sprained ankle. Wal.
ter Rogers back was so badly injured
that he bad to be carried to his home
One "fresh air" girl from New York
City, who has been spending the sum
meEf about Bellows Falls, gained seven
poands during her stay in Vermont, and
adl the children showed evidences Of i'm
proved health when they left Wednesday
for their homes.
DR.. w. r. Hazelton of Bellows Falls
sustained broken leg when the automo-
bile, in which he was driving, struck a
telephone pole and fence and then turned
over on its side. Dr. Hazelton was try
ing to turn out for two lumber teams be-
tween Bellows Falls and Saxtons River.
The moulders in the Howe Scale Co.
works in Rutland are still idle, their diff
fculties with the company not having
been settled. 1t is understood that a
representative of the federal department
of labor has been asked to come to Rut-
land to settle the trouble.
While riding on horse in the battle
zone in France, DR.. L. j. Callahan, a
physician of the town of Manchester,
had a narrow escape from death, as a
bullet from German gun killed the ami
NAL he was riding. Dr. Callahan was not
injured, but companion, riding only
few feet away, was fatally injured.
First Lieut.. De We're Fl. Harden, the
first American officer to be wounded in
France who has been visiting his wife in
Burlington on a leave of absence for sew
eral days, left Thursday night for Wash
ington, D. c., and College Park, Md,
where he win take up the duties of in
structor in the signal corps. Lieutenant
Harden was honored in Burlington by
the Merchants association, the signal
corps and mechanical school and other
organizations 1t is probable that he viii
receive advancement to the rank of cap
tain soon.
The speed of the times was demon
strated Thursday when a Burlington
woman tried to get copy of birth
certificate A little over year ago
she married man, who is now overseas,
and a child was born. She is now look
ing for the allowance due for the sup.
port of the child, which is allowed by
the government It was noticed that
her name was not the same as that on
the birth certificate and the lady mod
estly explained that since her husband
had left she had secured divorce and
\ was married agan. Thus in the lapse
of 10 months this woman had been mar
ried, child born, was divorced and
still following the curves of her affec-
tion, had married again.