The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-18

recently in Essex Center,
Three young pupils in the Bristol grad
ed school died recently within a period o
10 days.
II. c. Flood, who was injured at tn,
gymnasium in Brandon last week, does
not improve.
Col j. b. Jersey, Norwich. 1855, il
commanding officer at the balloon serv'
ice school at Omaha.
Raymond Howe of South Nindham
lost his index finger on his left hand
while working in mill recently.
Private Homer A. Howe, Norwich uni
yersity. has been commissioned second
lieutenant OF engineers at Camp Deyens.
St. Johnsbury had another successful
community sing Tuesday, when 700 gath.
cred the leader being Miss Ella Brown
ell.
There has been falling off OF 30 per
cent. in attendance at Middlebury college
within the last two years, owing to
the war
A herd of registered Hosteins belong
ing TO Wallace Robinson OF South Hero
was tested few days ago and 20 were
condemned.
W. II. Bradley, Swanton, due in the
next draft, has enlisted at Camp Devens,
and been assigned to Headquarters Co.,
30lst infantry.
Conductor Michael Powers Of the pas
senger train service on the Central Yer
mont railway is i'll at his home in White
River junction.
Paul p. Jones has resigned the prnci
palship OF the Stowe high school and
has gone to Antrim, n H., to accept
similar position.
Principal G. l.. Greene of the state az
ricultural school at Randolph Center ex
poets to leave for France as soon as the
school closes, May 3.
Rev. Glenn Atkins of Detroit, for
merly of Burlington, has been granted
4 leave of absence and leaves about May
] for Y NJ. c. A. work in France
Mrs Joseph Boudro, who died March |
u of peritontis at Rutland Center |
left five boys, all under six years OF age |
and the youngest eight days old
Fay Chamberlain OF Goshen has re-
ceived word that his son, who enlisted in
the LIST vi. regiment last summer, has
been seriously wounded in France No
particulars were given.
The general education board, founded
by John d. Rockefeller, has made grant
of $4,000 to Middlebury college, condi-
tional upon the raising of 1925 900 iaddi-
tionaI, the entire fund to be kept as a
permanent trust fund for endowment.
Officials and employees of the Howe
Scale company, Rutland, have agreed
upon an increase in wages. The increase
is said to be IS cents. 1t is Rutland's
largest industry, employing some 600
men.
Lack of credit extension, scarcity of
labor increased cost of the latter and
war methods of doing business together
with cash competition and income tax
makes it necessary for the groeers of
Wnooski to go onto cash basis.
OF the 400 ewes brought into the state
from Oregon last fall and sold by the :
First National bank of White River
junction to farmers about there, not one
has been lost during the winter. They
have proved a good investment for the !
purchasers.
w H. Dean of Saxtons River has re-
ceived word from the war department !
I hat his son, VIII Dean, was seriously !
March in France He was i
member of Co. L, LIST Vermont, and was i
the first member of the company to be t
in action. 1
Roger C. Perkins of Manchester, who
was killed at the Key West aviation t
field, graduated from Amherst college t
last June, following his enlistment in the '
naval reserves He was assigned to the il
aviation branch and had only recently e
begun air trips. His age was % years. e
Alfred f. Kiniry, member of the l.
band at Camp Greene, n c., who re- b
a.
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas L. KIM 81
ry, in Bellows Falls, was taken i'll with II
appendicitis soon after reaching home r,
md was operated on at the Rockingham
hospital. o
Mrs. w. ID. Pelle,y who went to
st, Johnsbury with her husband few cl
lays ago, where Mr.. Policy has COM N
nenced the publication of the st. Johns l.
Jury Caledonian, was recalled to Ben II
lington by the serious illness of their
laughter, which. threatened to develop q
nto pneumonia. b.
Edward H. Greene of New York City, e
'orn in Bellows Falls, the son of the late
lefty Greene, * one of the 80 in the al
jnited States having the highest in So
ONE. His is given as $1,000, 900, and his
income tax is S3,200,000, the rate in his di
lass being 81 per cent of the total in al
ONE.
Junius Root. a resident of Richmond,
las been wounded in France, according W
o information received in that town re-
entity. Root was a member of Co. VI of CT
he National Guard of Burlington. He al
-as shot in the leg When the company re
,ft for overseas duty, it was command
4 by William Hudson OF Burlington. A
DIR. A. b. Carter of IyndopviIle has II