The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-25
MONTPELIER
Mrs. Harry Holmes Died While at Din
ner Table.

The funeral of Mrs Lena Holmes, wifi
of Harry A. Holmes, who died Saturday
was held at o o'clock this morning iron
St Augustine's church, Rev. ?. j. Lon
officiating. The bearers were Louis
Jerue, Fred Labershire, Henry Fisher an'
! William Cayhue. There were many rel
atives at the funeral. The intermen
/ will be in the Catholic cemtery. Mrs
Holmes death occurred very suddenly Al
! the dinner table Saturday. She had beer
! in poor health for three or four months
/ and had worried much over her son, who
! is in France. just as she was putting
! some food into her mouth, she wa,
4 seized with an attack of acute indi.
! gestion and passed away before She
could be taken away from the table
Lena Cayhue was born in Montpelier
April 20. 1877. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Cayhue. She had lived in
this city for many years and was mar
ried to Harry Holmes, who, with seven
children, besides her father, survive the
deceased. The children are Clarence, who
is with the American expeditionary
forces in France, enlisted as member
of Co. II Of this city; Mrs. w. Rollins Of
Mddlesex, Leslie, Clara, George, Earl
and Robert, who live at home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Holmes lived for time IN Barre,
but some II months ago moved to their
farm in East Montpelier
The finance committee of the Montpel-
Ter city council is considering the salar-
les of the different officers, For some
wears the cost of living has increased.
but the salaries of the heads OF depart
ments have not been changed, although
the men under them have been given IN
creases i'll pay; and it is now becoming
hard to retain men because they can get
better pay elsewhere, 1t is expected
some report along that line will be pre-
sented to the city council Wednesday
evening. The offices which have been
closed on the right side of the entrance
to city hall can now be used. They
were closed during the coolest weather
because OF the shortage OF coal. The
city court room has been used couple
of times of late and the listers have
moved into their room and commenced
Saturday the folding OF their inventories
to commencing their sea
sons work,
The fire department was called Satur-
UdN AFTERNOON " tht Hpih' W 'hNii'"1
Keegan, where chimney was burning
out.
Mrs. Harry Woodland. formerly Miss
Virginia Towle of this city, has -Eeturned
to the city After her marriage with
Lieut. Woodland in Boston, she went part I
way to Gettysburg. Pa, with him and
then returned to complete her visit IN /
arriving back here the
latter part of the week.
Three more sets of binoculars have I
been received at the navy recruiting OF
Ace from Dr. p. j.. Templeton and Mrs.
Sarah B. Leland of Montpelier and from
". II. Milne of Barre. 4
Albert d. Lane, a minority stoekhoid- \
n. in behalf of himself and other stock
holders. has petitioned the court OF chan
cry to compel Marshall l.. Wood OF the
.ane Manufacturing company to return
or the benefit of the company and
all salary received for the
,ast ten wears by him as president OF
he general manager in excess OF $1,000
or about $4,000. Misapplica-
ion Of company funds is averred by the
,etitioner. while he claims Wood was
illegally in control Of a majority of the
took.
Miss Nancy Puifer, who Is employed
n the Office of the state library, has re-
rived call to 20 into the indexing
FORK in the ordnance department at
Washington, u. c.
Miss Helen Hunting has returned from