The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-08
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

DIFFERENT SECTIONS
B.'F. Magoon Of Stowe tar2ed ~
trees last week.
Charles Landon, 80 years old, Is Thu
oldest man In Middlebury. He was ou
Tuesday and voted
One Orleans man has knit 30 pairs o.
service socks for the Red Cross thi'
winter and another man is close SECOND
In the race.
Henry A. Thomson, for seven years q
mail carrier in Springfield, died Marcl
after an illness with pulmonary alb
scesses. He was ~ years old.
Miss Leila Flint of ST. Adams has
been engaged 10 succeed Miss Margaret
Gilmour as teacher of domestic science
at Peoples academy in Morrisville.
Rev. Charles Waite, formerly pastor
Of the Congregational church at Essex
Junction. has accepted a call TO the pas
lorate of the Congregational church at
Hardwick.
r. c. Bacon, about 80 years old, who
kept books for w. X. Bush in Benson,
and Joes j. May, II, who lived in the
same place, were found dead in their
beds March 4.
The condition of Frank A. Fairbanks,
who was seriously hurt last week when
he fell from load of hay in Spring
field, is unchanged. There is little chance
for his recovery.
c. f. Randall, proprietor of the Hotel
Randall in Morrisville, is said to have
paid S7l2 for wood alone for heating from
Dec IL to Feb. 25, and besides that got
a sled load or two of coal.
Miss Mildred Vincent, who graduated
from the Rutland high school in 1912,
has been appointed one of the tutors for
the children of Joseph p. Tumulty, sec
rotary to President Wilson.
Mrs. Margaret Drugg observed her
95th birthday anniversary March l at
the home of her niece, Mrs. w. H. H.
Felix, in Stowe. Although her health
is rather feeble, Mrs. Drugg is about
the house.
As Mrs. Willis Cady was alighting
from train at Mortified Falls few
nights ago, she tripped and fell to the
foot OF the bank at the rear of the sta
tion. She was badly shaken up, but not
otherwise injured.
Charles C. Morse, one of the oldest |
members of the Masonic lodge in Nor /
risvile, died in Pasadena, Cal, recent
~. He was member of the lodge for
over 40 years and formerly edited the |
Lamcille Newsdealer in Hyde Park.
The teachers of Salisbury presented
Supt. j. d. Whittier a silver loving cup
engraved SALISBURY, 1918" upon his
leaving the work in the schools. The
teachers of the North Bennington graded
school district presented him with a So
gold piece.
The new II. W. Putnam Memorial
hospital in Bennington will be opened
for the treatment of patients some time
next week. it is expected. The surgeon
in chief will be DIR. James p Marsh of ,
Troy, N. Y, and DR.. John Trotter of
Troy will be assistant surgeon. The en- !
tire cost of the hospital and equipment, !
with grounds will reach about 100000.
Charles III. Forbush, cashier of the
First National bank of Springfield, died I
March 5 after short illness with pneu /
inonia. He entered the bank when a :
young man as a teller and in few
years was advanced to the position of :.
cashier, which he had held since. Mr..
Forbush had Bright's disease and had
been in poor health for more than a year.
He was AZ years old.
George " Simpson, while returning 4
from Hardwick to his home in Green's
boro recently, met with an accident
which might have proven fatal. As he
turned out for load of pulp wood, the
horse went into deep ditch and snow
md, after upsetting the sleigh, freed it
elf and ran. Mr.. Simpson was thrown
INTO rock, his head striking it and
him unconscious. He was
,adly bruised.
As a patriotic measure, appropriations s.
we're pared at the town meeting in Nor "
isville, and one of the ways suggested, a.
Though it was not decided, was that K
# disseminating three courses at Peo- Oh
lies academy, that of agriculture, do b,
nestle science and the commercial
curse. The matter was left with the a,
chool board, the vote being taken to h,
ct the opinion of the voters. n,
Armand Bleau, aged Is, met almost Al
lstant death Wednesday at the wooden fl,
ills in Winooski, when he fell through n,
vo floors down the elevator shaft,
rking on his head and fracturing his sI
Gull. He had worked at the mill only 4,
alf day. He intended to take the te
evator, but someone started it and he ia
Iiled TO get on. Young Bleau was a be
'usin of Napoleon Bertrand, who met W
,ath at the mills Nov. 20, when he fell IT
to one of the carding machines. pl
BURLINGTON MAN PAROLED. III