The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-27
BETHEL
Freeze Came Just in Time to Avert Sc
rious FTeshet.


The third thaw of the last two weeks
ended abruptly yesterday morning after
IN all-night rain, The change came Just
IN time To save the winter roads Tor
large amount Of hauling which remains
To be done, and the general opinion =
that Il serious freshet was also aNerteh'
So rapid was the rise of water that Ice
had gone out of some of the smaller
streams aud traffic was cut OIL all day
on the new road near G. &. Morse's, where
the brook overlooked, flooding the high.
way for some distance. Travellers still
hnd the option OF the parallel roads by
4. NJ. savers and l.. II. Chamberlain's.
Miss Irene Cushing has been ut home
few days from jackson college.
Since the sugar card system was
adopted Feb. /, i62 cards have been Is.
sued, representing 1878 persons. Total
receipts of sugar by six dealers during
the four weeks has been 3,D5l pounds,
almost exactly the amount required TO
give each person half a pound week.
The last 500 pounds came yesterday ny
the courtesy of Mr.. Hewitt OF South
Royalton. The above applies only toI
graduated sugar. Perhaps one-third the
quantity OF brown sugar has been sold
during the month regardless OF the cards.
After IL years service as bookkeeper
at the Office of the Woodbury. Granite
company, w X. Briggs has resigned,
and is with i. A. Graham at the hard, |
ware store.
ID. A. Perry of Barre was here yester-
day on his way TO conduct the Bailey
auction at the Clinton Smith farm IN
Royalton The auction was well attend
ed and successful. Native seed wheat,
corn and buckwheat brought fancy
prices Sows sold rather low.
Miss Bertha Rogers went Saturday to
Northampton, Mass, for Il visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Haskins of Brad
ford were here last Friday To see their
son. Scrgt Harold w. Haskins of Camp
Devens.
Mrs. John Rolrke of Maiden, Mass, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Il. A. Davis.
Gardner A. Adams died Feb - at the
home of his son, Ernest &. Adams, in
Barnard, aged 20 years. He was i'll six
months with heart trouble. The funeral
was held yesterday, Rev. Louis |. Howay
and burial was at Barnard
village. The deceased was born in Bar
nard ana lived most OF MS lie tnere. (
His wife, who died 10 years ago, was
lmogene Ward of Barnard. He is sur ,
vived by his son, daughter, Mrs. w. ID.
Peacor of Montpelier; a brother w. L. q
Adams of Barnard, and two sisters, Mrs.
F. b. Markham of Bethel and Mrs. p. j. :
Babcock of Lebanon, n. III. :
S. Frank Lyman, a member of Daniel
Lille post, No. 81, G. A. r., is with his
ION, Frank Lyman, in Pomona, Cal, for ="
he winter. On Feb. Is a dinner party T
vas given by his son in honor of Mr.. =
lyman, who that day reached his S0th =
A feature of the dinner ),
vas a strawberry shortcake made from =
he first berries of the season.
Mrs. Eliza Ware of Gaysville, after IL i
1eeks' treatment at the sanatorium, has a
sufficiently to return to her d
wn town, where she will board at
harles III. Arnold's.
Whooping cough has developed in the
antilles of +. ID. Gibson, Domenico De-
icco, Nicola Palmetto and Angelo
iampo.
Ernest Bulen was in Burlington yes I,
erday to apply in United States court u
or his final citizenship papers. ,'