The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-20
ABOUT THE. STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS


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One case of mumps has developed al
Fort Ethan Allen
The annual meeting of the G. A. II.
department of Vermont, will be held in
Burlington, April % and %.
There was a reduction of Bennington's
debt during last year Of Sl,0ll.sl. The
amcant of the debt is now S6,ls5.22
The women of the Eastern Star in
Brattleboro have purchased knitting
machine, for making socks for the Red
Cross.
AT a meeting of Rutland aldermen re.
Gently, ii was voted TO purchase motor
truck for the street and water depart
ments, at cost not TO exceed $4,000.
The members of the First Congrega
tional Unitarian church in Burlington
have unanimously voted to ask Rev.
Charles j. Staples to withdraw his resig.
nation and to remain.
w. +. Pierce of Bellows Falls, who
has been farming on quite a large scale,
has found it necessary to sell 10 head
of cows because he cannot get help to
assist in the work.
Mrs. c, c. Barney, teacher in the
Brattleboro schools, slipped on the side
walk and fell while on her way to school
Monday morning, fracturing one leg just
above the ankle.
The list annual meeting of the Yer
mont Methodist conference will be held
with Grace Methodist church, St Johns.
bury, April 23-2s, Bishop Edward Ii.
Hughes, ID. ID. LII. d., presiding.
Miles Teachout has been absent from
his home in st. Adams since March 0,
and no word has been received from him
since. The family has offered reward
for knowledge of his whereabouts.
Rev. Dr. Russell L. Dow. pastor of
the NJ Z. church at Bennington, has
been appointed temporary superintend-
ent of the Burlington district, to fill
out the term of Rev. B. NJ. Kent, de-
ceased.
George n. Pitts, veteran of the Civil
war, died in Rutland March Is after a
long illness. He served in Co. B, l4th
Vermont Volunteers For % years he
was resident of North Clarendon.
William c. Horton, who is quite an
authority on birds, reports that the first
bluebird to be seen in Brattleboro this
spring appeared March II. The earliest
date on which he ever saw one in that
vicinity was March 4, 1908.
Rev. Paul Z. Meyer, the pulpit supply
at the Sharon Congregational church for
the past year, has been given call to
become its permanent pastor. The call
was accepted by Mr. Meyer, under GER
tain conditions, which will be met.
Arthur G. Levy, son of Joseph Levy
of Rutland has been commissioned
first lieutenant in the 22d United States (
infantry, having been transferred from
Fort Leavenworth to New York where !
he is at present in command of a com
pany which is guarding the enemy alien |
zone of that city.
G. Maurice ingalls,, for ten years teach I
err of wood carving and furniture de-
sign, construction and decoration at the
Providence, r. l.. technical school, has
succeeded Frank Cain as teacher of that /
department at st. Johnsbury academy
Mr.. Cain resigned to accept position
in Newark, n. J.
Samuel Bowling prominent Vermont
Mason, and for nearly all of his life
resident of Rutland, where he was EN-
ployed by various manufacturing plants
as a woodworker, died March Is at the
home of his daughter in Rotterdam, n
Y, aged IS years. He was survivor
of the Second Vermont cavalry and he
spent four months in a rebel prison
The dead body of newly born male
child was found in pasteboard box
on the highway about two miles from
Springfield Sunday afternoon by Arte
J. Fairbanks. Mr.. Fairbanks had seen
the box by the roadside every day for
week, but had not investigated until
Sunday, An investigation will be made
The family of Merrill Underwood are
left in Rutland without funds and
brought into a peculiar condition. Mr..
Underwood, Canadian, had lived in
Rutland for nine years, but had never
been naturalized and thus never voted.
Recently he was called to Canada bv
the sickness of relative and while there
was drafted. The family is without
funds and the husband is detained in
Canada.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Phyllis H, Lang, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Percy Lang of Waverly, n. Y,
10 Stanley C. Fits, son of the late At
Lorney General Clark C. Fits of Brat
Ileboro. Mr.. Fits has seen service in
France and just now is with the food
in Washington while
waiting an appointment in the aviation
service.
RUTLAND SOLDIER DEAD.
Grant Hill Cutler Died of Pneumonia !