The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-19
MONTPELIER
Closing Order Is Being Quite Generally
0beyed.

is that Vermont h abiding by THE orde
and cooperation is being given. Local.
the indications are that store condition
will be about normal The stores /
II some instanceSeXpect To close, while 9th
3 ers will be open but will not use heat
The Partnerships expects TO close; th
h laundry Is closed The National Lif
will be closed Monday, but work Satur
= day afternoon and possibly little long
v er each day. The Lane shops are shu
down. The clothes pin factory is opernt
Il ing on its waste products. No objection
& TO the Knights of Columbus campaign
has been made as vet and the local com
5 mittees are handling the matter.
Commissioner of Education NJ. b. Hill
i, legas to-day sent out 10000 tags TO b,
r attached To shoyels as set forth in the
q letter advising the children how to tag
shoyels on tag day, for which Jan. 3C
{ has been set apart Mr.. Hillegas also
!, sent out letter to each superintendent
, and principal asking their cooperation
in the matter.
H. Il. Clark of Groton was in the city
! Friday in connection with the water
power in which he is interested in Grot-
on, Barnet and Danville. His company,
like several others in Vermont, is suffer.
ing from want of water TO operate tho
plant. The water is very low in all of
the ponds and the company fears that IL
will be unable to furnish power much
longer. The officers hope that the water
in their ponds will ne. freeze 50 but they
will have enough to supply electricity
for lighting purposes. Mr.. Clark has
been in the development OF electricity
Tor many years and this is the first con-
dition like this that he has experienced.
The low water is due to the excessive
cold weather in December, which froze
the streams deeply.
| Edward p. Carey on Friday afternoon
was offered promotion in the employment
of the Western Union here TO the posi-
! ton of office manager, which he accepted
| by telegraph in the evening He will as
sumo his new duties az soon as the Office
is transferred from Raymond Ledden,
who is to 90 to the Burlington office
Mr.. Carey has earned the promotion. He
commenced work some eight years ago
in the Office as messenger boy. Dur
ing the spare minutes connected with
that work, when the office was in the
Central Vermont station, he studied OPP
Grating, with the result that when still
young he was engaged as operator and,
excepting for short time when he was
employed in Montreal, has been in the
employment of the company in their To-
cal office; that is to say excepting when |
temporarily employed az manager for |
the company in some other office during |
the absence of the regular manager. AT |
times when Mr. Ledden has been away /
he has been the acting manager here, so
that he does not come to his new work
without experience He is a well-liked
young man, enjoying the confidence of
the public in his effort to handle its bust
ness, and his friends in Montpelier feel
very gratified that the company has
shown its confidence in him by the pro-
motion.
+. II. Dewart. who has had a great
deal to do in the preparation of the sur
yeyor generals papers and the pnbllea-
ton which was authorized by the leg
islature three yers ago, was at the
secretary of states once Friday, reading
the final proof on them and arranging
for the publication which follows. The
papers contain many of the valuable rec
ords in the early history of the state.
Mrs. A. w Spalding left this morning
for Burlington. where she was called by
the illness of Mrs. A. A. Niles, her moth
err. who was operated upon at hospital
in that city yesterday
Gov. II. f. Graham did not reach Brat
tleboro Friday evening. The train serv-
ice was so poor that he only reached
Windsor He left here ON the New Eng !,
and States Limited. but the Boston &
- I,,,, t.,,, Il
not wait for connections and he could =
rot get out of White River Junction un- =
ii o'clock in the evening. He reached
Windsor about time to go to bed; there :
With he wired the Knights of Columbus 4
at Brattleboro that he would
,e unable to reach their town He went =,
0 hotel and was called in time to get ~
Jack on the night sleeper arriving here
bout o'clock this morning.
Local railroad employees at noon had III
ot obtained q working timetable con- VI
ected with the changes which go into q
fleet Sunday, but the preliminary in te
provides that the branch train b,
rom Barre will connect Sunday with the ef
nilk train and will run to Wiliamstown al
fter the evening mail on week days, W
citing to that village about 7:45 p. m, L
on time, and leaving there for Barre IL
t sos o'clock p. m The forenoon train pr
ill be run as it hes been. No connec
ion win be made by the branch train :
18th the weekday northbound milk train.
arre outgoing passengers will have
ing wait in Montpelier for the south -
ound trains in the evening, the branch
rain leaving Barre at 4;45, while the ~, us
outbound local will not leave Montpe- in
err Junction until about 600. th
State officials are looking over the thi
roof of the general laws, to govern hs
lemselves accordingly when these take pie
feet. Under the laws of 1917 the gen Pc
al laws, which are the revision of the &
lblie statutes become effective Feb. | at
nd will be published March /. b no
The American Fidelity company has =
ought suit against the state of Yer J
ont in chancerv court in Washington l,a s,
untv asking the court to order the -
ate to pay over to the plaintiff the 7
inns of money necessary to lquidate T o
rtain business for which this money e eas
as held as a guarantee. Under the laws ele,
Vermont the sum of $4,000 was de- No
,sited with the state treasurer as pro-
ction of the policyholders. The com via
nv alleges il has insufficient funds to cas-
Get its liabilities unless it can secure and
csc funds. II sets up that the salvage -
S167, 7567o. which is not enough to -
V the liabilities of S3l9.26l.3a.