The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-16
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

81 JohhsDuty mas ~ stars on It's serV
ice flag
Principal G. L. Forte Of the Pittsfort
high school has accepted position al
the head of high school in Connecti'
cut.
Rev. Thomas Stratton has resigned the
pastorate Of the Uniyersaist church in
Richmond and accepted call to Wood.
stock.
The rebuilt Methodist church at St
Adams will be dedicated on Sunday, the
exercises extending over Monday and
Tuesday.
Work was begun this week on a pub.
ice library and community house which
Elmer A. Darling is to give the village
of East Burke.
While performing his duties at the
plant Of the Adams Paper company in
Wells River recently, Charles Lamphere
got one arm badly crushed.
c. Weston found recently in his wood
lot in Bakersfield his watch, which he
lost while numbering last winter The
timepiece ran perfectly after being
wound up.
Dr. Alfred Z. Cutler dean of the dem
tai fraternity in Bennington, and one of
the Oldest practitioners in the state, died
May ID, following an operation He was
81 years old
Mr.. and Mrs G. H. Hazelton are to
celebrate their golden wedding anniver-
sary Nav % at their home in st. Johns
bury. Plans are being made to enter
tain about 700 people.
NJ. A. Burbank, member of the class
of 1908, University of Vermont, who has
been in France since March, 1916, with
a Canadian company of engineers, has
received the distinguished service order
for bravery by the English.
Mrs. Myles McDonough celebrated her
9th birthday anniversary at her home
in Hydeville May 5. She is in excellent
health, sews and reads without glasses.
Not a person is living in Hydeville that
was there when she came to the town.
Mrs NJ. Louise Bell. wife of the late
ex Gov. c. j. Bell, died Tuesday at her
home, The Belfrey. in Walden. She was
about 20 years olds Two daughters sur
vive, Misses Adine and Jennie of Wal |
den
Daseomb P Rowe, mentioned in re-
cent casualty list from France, is thought |
TO be the first University of Vermont !
man whose name has been found in such |
lists. He enlisted last summer. Rowe |
entered the university from Peacham
academy.
Edward r. HoIbrook, president of the
Burlington Grocery company, has been
chosen to take charge of all the buying
and selling of tea and coffee for the men
in the army and navy of the United
States. Mr. Holbrook will be located in
Washington, d. c., and has already gone
there.
The four year-od daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Baker of Sudbury died May
IL of scarlet fever, baby having died
with the same disease May |. Mrs.
Baker has been i'll, but is recovering.
They moved to Sudbury April and have
been in quarantine most of the time
since.
Frank Stanton was arrested May ID
at Chimney Point, near Vergennes, on
the charge of making an assault with a
deadly weapon on his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Stanton. He will appear
at the June term of county court and
has been placed in the county jail at
for safe keeping.
George s. Angel, a brakeman on a
switching engine in Bellows Falls, was
instantly killed Monday. He had staked
a car loaded with coal and was caught
between the stake and car and crushed
to death He leaves wife and two a
sons. Angel was member of Co. NJ, |
Vermont volunteer militia. i
A man having papers in his pocket Civ v
ing the name of w. R. Lane of Mount b
Holly deliberately sat down in front of n
a northbound passenger train at East q
Dorset Tuesday afternoon and was in v
SANITY killed. He had been sitting near F
The track for over an hour. The man Il
was about 40 years of age. e
Because Benson has sent so many men ID
10 the war that help is difficult to Sc p
,ure, Mrs. j. M. Fowler, wife of Jerry P
Fowler, who runs a sawmill there, has o
been helping her husband in the mill p
)ne day she handled 2,040 feet of lumber ii
inside of six hours, and another day she
handled IS bundles of lath She dons
,verals and does the work of a man. D
Miss Maria Beatrice Anderson of To-
onto Can, and Capt. Herbert Alton Dur
am of North Hero were married at st.
ames church, Boscombe, Bournemouth,
England, April %, according TO word re-
eived by relatives. 1t was while both
we're returning from a trip abroad two 4
ears ago that the two met, and before
hey landed at New York they were
lodged to marry at the end of two
ears Capt. Durham went abroad with
he United States forces and late in the
inter sent for his fsncee to join him
D England. bs
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