The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-19
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The Bellows Falls fuel COMMITTEES ha
fixed upon siO.l0 ms the price per to
OF egg coal.
T.. C. Rowe shot three coons in an ap
pie tree at his home in Bethel Lymph
one day recently.
Large quantities OF brown sugar hav'
been received in Milton, which has re
lieved the shortage there.
Swanton has nearly ZOO members ~
the Red Cross and has given % men tt
various branches of war service.
w, I. Whitcomb suffered a broken leg
while engaged in a friendly scufile with
one of his customers at his store IN For
estdale on Tuesday.
About 40 pounds of pork, which Cor
hez Foss left in The ice box in the back
kitchen Of his home in North Hyde Park
WAS stolen ON a recent night
Rev. s. A. Woodworth of Providence
In. T., has accepted call TO the pas
horate of the Union Baptist church in
st. Johusbury, and will begin his duties
there Feb. /.
Mail service on the West River road
wil be carried on by team until the
railroad in that section is in running or
der again. Seven villages will be served
hn this way.
Because of lack of fuel the opening
pf the high and graded schools in Or
Deans was deferred still another week
after Jan. 2l, and they will not re-
open until Jan. 2S.
Dennis r. Baker, who had reached the
age of 92 years, died at his home in
Pleasant Valley Cambridge Jan. l6
Mrs. Buker died about 20 years ago and
since then Mr.. Buker and son had lived
alone.
Orlu H. Perry of Syracuse, n. Y, has
been engaged to take the position as head
of the science and agricultural depart |
ments in Swanton public schools, sue
Feeding Mr.. Stanley, who was called to
the colors.
Owing to the difficulty of finding suita
bile wood and the utter impossiblity of
getting coal, with which to run the heat |
ing plant. Manager Hubbard of the Crys |
tai Lake house at Barton has announced |
that the hotel will close to-day.
The railroads supply of coal at New
port became so limited last week that
ii seized carload which had been placed
on the Hood & Sons siding and which
that company had man hired to unload.
The railroad used ii for transportation
purposes.
Mrs Betsy Davis of South Royalton.
90 years old and member of the Red
Cross, has since last August made the fol.
lowing articles sweaters, 2 scarfs, 10
purses mitts, l 3-yard bandage, % pairs
thumbless mitts, housewives, gave 81
toward filling them, besides buying a
5000 Liberty bond.
Negotiations have been closed whereby
the Brompton Pulp and Paper company
Ltd, of Montreal has purchased the pa
per mills in Bellows Falls of the Wyman I
FLINT Sons and in Claremont. ~ H., G
of the Claremont Paper company. Both t
mills have been owned and managed by Y
John w. Flint of Bellows Falls for some
time a
Mrs. A. f. Baker mother of Mrs Y
Frank c. Williams, state bank examin e
er, knitted for the Red Cross between '
Sept. | and Jan. ], fifty-two pairs of c
which is a good record for one
who is Sc years of age. Since the first v
of the year she has knitted three pairs II
of stockings. Mrs. Baker is making her
home with her daughter in Montreal g
The mention of an ancient tombstone q
in a Barre cemetery brings to mind the n
inscription on stone in the Waitsfeld
Common cemetery. The stone is in mem s
DRY of Priscilla, wife of Foster Dana, s
who departed this life May 9, 1909: ii
As you pass by pause and read, as
you are now so once was ], as I am now d
so you must be, perpare for death and OF
follow me-" II
Ormond Cole of Burlington has a a,
unique record as a bank official He has nj
reached his S9th birthday and although Il
totally blind has remarkably clear F,
mind. He has attended every annual lie
meeting of the Winooski Savings bank I'll
Tor the past 80 years and is the only ty
one left of the. original incorporators of al
he bank He is president of the board b.
IF trustees, and for many years was 81
treasurer of the institution al
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Death of Clarence c. Boyle, Jeweler. sc
Clarence c. Boyle, 80, senior member m