The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-06
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Moro than five tons Of maple suga
and syrup have already been shippe
from Londonderry.
W Randall Waterman, teacher
st. Johnsbury academy, is III with seal
let fever. His is the only case In tow
The rails are being taken up from III
trolley line from Rutland 10 Lake Bone
seen and service will be discontinue
there.
Miss Margaret Eastman, who live
seven miles from Topsham, was ali
sent from church but one Sunday al
winter.
Miss Rita Miller is carrying the maj
on one of the rural routes in Greens
boro John L. King having finished worl
last Saturday.
Mrs. George Bailey, who drives tn
stage from North Craftsbury to Wolcott
made the trip every day last winter,
distance of about II miles.
In Gsssetts farmers report this is tn,
best sugar season in years. Mr.. Whip
pie of that town has already made lst
gallons and is not done yet.
Frank Howard OF Dandy, charged will
the burglary of the summer camp of Rol
land Hall last June, was acquitted il
Rutland county court Wednesday.
The First Baptist society of Newport
held their first services in the new church
on Easter Sunday. The pipe organ was
the gift of Mrs. Benjamin Hinman.
After wearing plaster cast for many
months Miss Blanche G. LaValley, who
injured her spine in fall while hiking
in Wilmington, is expected to recover.
Rev. J. Percival Huget, d. d., pastor
of the Tompkins avenue Congregational
church in Brooklyn, n. Y, will be the
commencement speaker at Middlebury
college.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon G. Hurlburt,
who own a large farm in Lincoln, have
gone to Rockingham to assume the man.
agement of the town farm, which has II
inmates.
Rev. c. b. Atwood, former pastor of
the Baptist church in st. Johnsbury, has
resigned as pastor of the Congregational
church in Guilford and will retire from
the ministry.
Word has been received in South Roy
alton of the death of Harold Spaulding
of that place with meningitis at the
state hospital in Providence, X. |. He
was a gunpointer in the navy.
The manufacture of Hanover crackers
at Smith & Sons in White River June.
ton has been suspended for two weeks,
as the allotment Of wheat -four has been
used and the next is not due for some
days.
Reed Lebourveau, young White Riv-
er junction lad, fell while climbing q
tree a few days ago and landed on a
broken bottle, which cut one hip open,
so that number of stitches had to be
taken to close the wound.
Miss Alice Baird and Miss Mary Will |
of Rutland, who recently enlisted for ac
tiYe Red Cross service, were guests of |
honor the evening before their departure |
at banquet given by their sister nurses
graduated from the local hospital
By the will of the late Mrs. Zilpha
e. Axtell of Newton, N. H., the Meth
odist church at Pittstield received $1,000
with which to purchase pipe organ.
Mr.. Axtell was born in Pittsfleld and
her husband also spent his early life
there.
George Osborne, while cutting his
cord" in South Royalton, lost his watch
in the woods on Hubbard mountain last
Thanksgiving day. On Easter Sunday
he went to the spot where he thought
he lost it and found the timepiece, which,
on being wound, ran on schedule time. Il
Asa B. Hebard of Concord, n. H., will
assume his duties as manager of the
plant of Smith 4 Sons
n White River Junction next Monday
For the last several years he has held
position with the New England Tele-
phone & Telegraph company at Concord
Bristol met with real loss in the
leath of Solomon d. Farr, one of the
business men of the town. He was born
n lS45 and at the age of Is years be.
ran as clerk, continuing in the mercan
lie business until his death, since 1860
laving been engaged in the hardware
business with his brother, until the lat
er's death in 1900 and since then con !
inuing alone, His son will succeed. him
n the business.
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