The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-08
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Enos H. Sherwin of Morrisville has
announced his candidacy for the posi-
ion of assistant judge of Lamolle
county.
A party of Rutland berrypickers
brought to that city last Sunday five
bushels of red raspberries. They were
picked on Mendon mountain.
The freight business of the Rutland
md Central Vermont railroads at Bur-
tington has been consolidated, John d.
Burke, formerly yard master of the Rut-
and railroad, assuming control OF both.
F. A. Dougherty; agent for the Central
Vermont railway, will be agent for both.
Miss Kate Roberts of Fair Haven went
yesterday to Camp Mcclellan, Annis-
ton, Ca, where she will be married to
Lieut.. Russell Royen of Chicago. The
officer recently returned from the front.
He was sent back to the United States
as an instructor. He belongs to the
Rainbow division
Thaddeus Forrest, who lives with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Forrest,
In Middlebury, while caring for the
horses Sunday evening was severely and
perhaps fatally injured when one Of the
horses kicked him and tranrpled upon.
him. He was badly bruised and kicked
about the head and arms.
Raymond Guyette, the corporal who
spoke in several places in the state
about June | under the public safety
committee, has gone back to France to
Join his regiment or to take an officers
training in one of the schools there,
which had not been decided when he left
his home in Hartford, Conn.
AT a recent meeting of the board OF
education in Rutland, it was voted to
discontinue schools in two buildings the
coming year. 1t had been previously sug-
vested that one building might be closed
but the committee made it two, One
Of the teachers, Miss Ellen E. Dunn, has
been granted years leave of absence
to work in Washington, D. G.
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The 3I0th cavalry at Fort Ethan Al
len has been ordered to Camp Jackson,
s. c., having been changed into the ar
tillery branch of the service. The 3l0th
Is composed largely Of registrants from
New York and Massachusetts,. When the
cavalry departs, the post will be in pos
session of the 9th battalion, United
States Guard, which has been camping
in tents.
w. Grant Thomas Of Burlington, now
In the mechanical training school at the
University of Vermont, was arrested on
Tuesday on the charge Of violating an
automobile ordinance The alleged vio-
lation occurred early Sunday morning on
the East Middlebury road, when an au-
tomobile containing two students of the
school is said to have run into the car
Of G. p Frary Of Bristol, seriously in
Turing Mrs. Frary and demolishing both
automobiles. The car alleged to be Thorn
as is still in Middlebury, where his trial
will take place.
Much feeling has been caused in Bur.
lington, South Hero and nearby places
because of the action of the selectmen Of
Milton and Colchester in closing the big
IRON UtIuRe htIOno btiS lSdLuohlS iifCi u
travel, This is the direct road from
Montreal to Boston, and its closing is q
great detriment to a number of towns
which it served. The bridge was built %
years ago by the towns of Milton, Col
chester and South Hero, but later the
legislature released South Hero from any
further obligation as to it's upkeep and
threw the expense onto Milton and Col
chester. These two towns rebelled be
cause they felt South Hero was getting
fully as much benefit from the bridge al
they did; and, although it is stated by
signs on the bridge that it is unsafe
South Hero people consider it more 9
scheme to get even with them than 6
case of necessity. State Highway Com
missioner Bates has been appealed to, but
can do nothing, as the bridge is not un
der state control. Grand Isle county has
financed ferry proposition that cost
about $4,000 and established hotel ia
cilities at a cost of $4,000 more, both o.
which are adversely affected by crossing
the main avenue to the island towns.