The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-22


Not in years have there been so man,
frozen pipes in Rutland as this season
Seventeen men are kept busy most o
the time working on pipes and hydrants
Rev George Pomfrey pastor of thu
Baptist church in West Derby, who re-
signed, to take effect March |, has recon
sidered and will remain. The church has
increased his salary.
Oliver Curtis, who has been in active
service with Canadian regiment in
France, has been honorably discharged
and is on his way to his home in st.
.Johnsbury. He was wounded in the
knee
While saving wood with a circular
saw rig in West Charleston, G. w. ID.
Reed was badly hurt when his frock
caught in the belt His clothing was
torn, one arm was hurt and two ribs
were broken.
Burlington merchants and business
concerns took no heed of Washington s
birthday as to observing it as a holiday,
deciding that it would make up for one
of the heatless Mondays in which they
had remained closed.
Pvt. c. NJ Parkhurst of Norwich, mem
Der of the 30lst signal battalion at
Camp Devens, Mass, died Wednesday
night in the base hospital there as the
result of an attack of pneumonia men
nights following measles.
n ~. Al 4. 4
lightning struck tree between the resi-
dences of J.. A. Garland and A. NJ. Car
penter in Jacksonville and followed the
wires to each of the houses, setting both
on fire and doing considerable damage.
Miss Margaret Gilmour, teacher of do
nestle science at Peoples academy in
Morrisville for the past year has re-
signed and gone to her home in Ogdens
burg n. Y, where her marriage to
James Read of Worcester, Mass, will
take place soon.
Rev. +. A. Stockwell. who went to
Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, in December
to do Y. M. G. A. work, has been obliged |
to resign and on March | will resume |
his pastorate of the Universalist church |
HI hOFTlsFlle, HIS liiTbe HfoHlHS ftdpt I
of absence expiring at that time.
Two deer that wandered into an or
chard in West Bridgewater recently and |
on account of the snow were unable to 20 !
further, were driven by boys into barn
nearby. Later they built yard for the
deer, which have become SO tame that
they eat out of peoples hands, preferring
candy, sweets and tobacco.
The news of the death of Private Gar
diner II. Bennett of Sutton, which oc-
Cured in France, came by telegram from
the war department to his parents only
"A hours after they had received his
first letter. He sailed early in January,
having enlisted from Boston, where he
was at work. His parents live on farm
and he leaves two brothers and a sister,
The death of Thomas Baker in Fargo,
n. D., formerly of Barton, who repre-
scented that town in the legislature of
1878, leaves but two survivors of the
Vermont legislatures prior to 1860 and
these two are Senator George F.
Edmunds of California, who represented
Burlington in 1854 -5-67-S-9, and Stan
ley w. Smith, who represented Addison
in 1859.
Charles Williams who died in Concord
recently, was born in Worcestershire, !,
England, in 1910, and came about 50 I.
years ago to Quebec with the soldiers
who came to guard the ports. After serv-
ing year, he bought his discharge from
the army and married Prudence Crom-
Ill of ;p, |
year he moved to st. Johnsbury and had
since lived in that vicinity.
A new regiment of cavalry, to be
known as the 3l0th, national army, is
to be organized from the various can
comments of the country and is to be
stationed at Fort Ethan Allen inside of !
a few weeks. The regiment will con y
tain about 1900 men and probably will :
take the place of the Second cavalry,
who will be transferred for duty else Z
where.
Mrs. Harry Dane was awakened at /
her home in West Charleston one night =
recently by the smell of smoke, and
found that an oil heater in the cellar r
had exploded. The sacks were burned o
off potatoes, the sill had been badly p
burned and shavings in the bulkhead -
we're blazing. The fire was extinguished
1t once, but the smoke had so permeat
ID the house that much of the paint b
md paper were ruined, as well as some
furniture. n
The horse and cutter belonging to Dan Ie
el o'Brien Of South Burlington. which .
vas stolen from Main street in Bur q
ington. where he had left it hitched =
vas found in Bridport several DAYS later
Harry Russell. aged Il years, was ar
ested. charged with the theft. He will
,e tried later. Russell's home Is in Fer
isburg. and IL is said that he was wear
NC O'Brien's fur coat, which the latter
lad left in the sleigh, when he was ar
ested in Bridport. 1
Officials Of the Vermont Milk Choe-
late company have known for some
ine that sugar and chocolate was dis
ppesring mysteriously from their Bur
ngton plant, but il was not until they
Peter Drinkwine. about Is
cars II ace. with his dinner pail fun
Z pulverized sugar and his pockets full =
4 milk chocolate. that one solIrre q he |
ak was discovered. Drinkwine Wa
med sic. with costs Of Sll = in CITY
surt. Investigations are continuing and
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