The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-09

France, is now reported as German
prisoner.
James Z. McMurrer of Fort Ethan Al
len, an enlisted man, has been appoint.
ed second lieutenant in the quarter
masters corps.
James Sector of Brattlebore, reported
missing in action in France, has writ
ten to relatives there that he is in
German prison camp.
Donald Yates, Middlebury boy, son
of Mr.. and Mrs +. r. Yates, was one of
the crew of the y. S. S. Coyington, which
was torpedoed last week.
Fred O. Billings has announced that he
will be a candidate for senator from
Windsor county on the Republican ticket.
He represented Sharon in the 1915 legis.
lature and is deputy sheriff in his home
town.
Frank D. Meehan pleaded guilty in
court at Middlebury last week to keep
ing liquor at his park at Lake Dunmore
with intent to sell. He was fined $500
and costs of $50, which he made arrange.
ments to pay.
Mr.. and Mrs c. R. Post of Los An
geles, Cal, have come by automobile to
Cornwall, where Mr.. Post was born 90
years ago. He is in excellent health and
has not been in Cornwall for 20 years.
He left for the west in 1888.
The largest apple orchard in northern
Vermont is that on the old Gordon farm
in Grand Isle, on which are 10000 young
trees, which, placed in rows, would make
100 miles in length. About 300 barrels
is the estimate for this year.
Miss Irene Bamford of Springfield has
taken up new occupation for a girl,
that of reading meters for the Colonial
Power Light company in Springfield
and Claremont, N. II. This work has
previously been performed by men,
Julius Z. Warren of Broekton, Mass, has
accepted the position of principal of the
Brattleboro high school, taking the place
of E. B. Smith, who recently resigned to
become principal of the school at Green
field, Mass. Mr.. Warren graduated from
Dartmouth college in 1910.
Rev and Mrs. r. j. Malzard of East
Corinth are passing a months vacation
in Royalton and during that time the
former is supplying the Royalton
church. Rev. ]. F. Whitney, who had
supplied the church most of the time
since March, 1917, is now confined to his
bed with a heart trouble
Jennie A. Hayes, nine -year-old daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hayes of
Goshen, died very suddenly in the office
of DIR. j. S. Eastwood in Brandon Fri
day. She had been i'll only one day and
died very soon after being brought to
the doctors Office Appendicitis is
thought to have been the cause.
The block of S2l 900 of town of Brat
tleboro bonds, offered recently, has been
awarded to Merrill, Thomas, Oldham &
Co. of Boston at 96649 for the entire is
sue. This firm was the highest of five
bidders, all of Boston except the Peoples
National bank of Brattleboro. The town
will pay about AS per cent.
Inc hCiAnc dk the pant Vi buS AIueE-
lean Wooden company at Winoosk was
settled Saturday and the men returned
to work Monday. The trouble was be-
tween the night gang and the night SUI
perintendent and the terms of settlement
were not made public. All the workmen
at the plant struck and the four days
shutdown meant a loss in wages of about
$4,000.
Llewellyn Hughes, son of Isaac D.
Hughes of Poultney, has been gassed ac-
cording to word received from Claire Car
mody, son of Mr.. and Mrs P. J. Carmody
of that place, who stood beside young
Hughes when the gas bomb exploded.
Hughes was unable to get on his gas
mask before the fumes reached him and
consequently is in hospital, though his
condition is not serious,
Miss Lillian Layallee, graduate from
the nurses training course at the Rut-
land hospital in 1917, has gone to Ho-
boken, n. j., and will soon sail overseas
for service as q Red Cross nurse. Her
sister, Alice, and Miss Alennie Antler,
both of Rutland, and both members of
the 1918 class of the hospital training
class, have enlisted and are awaiting or
ders -Four nurses from the Rutland hos
pital are already in service overseas,
Miss Mary VIII, Miss Alice Baird, Miss
Helena Mckee and Miss Elizaheth Grern