The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-22
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

DIFFERENT SECTIONS II
When the bell rings in September, the
school building in Jeffersohyille will
house a senior high school.
Bellows Falls is to be deprived Of its
school superintendent for another year,
u. f. Miriam having decided to continue
as a X. M, G, A. secretary in France.
After pastorates in Fletcher, Wolcott
and Underhill, Charles NJ. Stevens, re.
tired Methodist minister, died in Stowe
Monday.
Just as it was emerging from the end
of covered bridge in East Hardwick,
a hve-ton auto truck from Connecticut
went through the floor.
Col. D. L. Morgan of Rutland, who
was superintendent of the state house
of correction for ten years, is Repub-
lcan candidate for the Senate.
st. Johnsbury's federal employment
office has opened with Arthur Stone as
examiner and Mrs, Marion Adams as
his assistant.
Vermonters are advised of the order
which is to tighten the shipments Of
beef into New England
Five more deer in Wndham county
were convicted of pilfering vegetation
this week. They were summarily pun
ished.
Rev. H, W. Cummings has resigned as
pastor of the Congregational church in
Stowe.
Lieut.. Alfred Z. Cass is now in COM
mand of the radio and telegraph school
at the University of Vermont, as Capt.
William L. Moderhak has gone to Wash
ington.
M. D. Mcmahon of Burlington, named
for the state Senate by Chittenden coun-
ty Democrats, is not a candidate, as he
declares that the path of duty for him
lies in another direction.
The eighth annual orchard meeting of
the Vermont State Horticultural socie
ty will be held in Middlebury and Bris-
toll Aug. 20, when the members are to
look over Addison county fruit trees.
Chautauqua entertainers gathered in
Burlington gave of their time and talent
to the entertainment of soldiers at Fort
Ethan Allen.
Mrs, Lee Riley of Albany, N. Y, has
requested police in Vermont to assist
her in locating her husband, who left
home on the morning of Dec. IL, 1915,
ostensibly for work. He has not been
seen since.
Two Chittenden county officials will
not encounter any opposition to their
election this year. States Attorney Al
len Martin of Essex Junction, who staged
the big Bennington liquor raid, and Pro-
bate Judge J. H. Macomber are the men
Because Frank Howe, he alleges
changed his mind on the constitutional
prohibition amendment, Senator w. f.
Aldrich, a Rutland county man, has
withdrawn his support of the Benning-
ton candidate.
Morris G. Hammond, Rutland young
man recently made major, thereby re-
ceiyed his third promotion in year.
District school superintendent of Yer
mont are in Lyndon for conference of
ten days More than 100 are present
and prominent speakers are addressing
them.
A team load Of hay which soldiers
were driving along an Essex Junction
street took fire and the village fire de-
partment had to be called before the
blaze was extinguished.
Solomon Burt, for thirty years keep
er of general store in Enosburg Falls,
died Monday at the age Of Is.
Juvenile court and then probation were
steps taken by an East Weymouth youth
who went to Middlebury and stole pair
of leather gloves from an automobile
parked at the curbing.
Elmer Montgomery, Randolph man,
came home one night recently to find
tramp asleep in some shavings in his
barn. When Mr.. Montgomery awakened
the man he showed fight, but was over
powered. Next day he paid fine in the
village court,
Lieut.. Wallace Chalmers of Middle.
bury is prisoner of war, according to
word received by President Thomas of
Middlebury college.
Fourteen men jailed for intoxieation in
one day was record in Winooski Tues.
day
William V. Scully, a Burlington man,
has been appointed head of the pur.
chasing department of the Knights of
Columbus in France
So numerous are Catholic clergy Of
Vermont, that the annual retreat for
priests, held in Burlington, has been de-
vided into two sessions
TOURNAMENT AT RUTLAND.