The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-01
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred H. Wells have giver
the Burlington branch of the Red Cross
a knitting machine.
Howard l.. Hindley has been elected
secretary of the Rutland Business Mems
association, to serve during 1918.
Governor Graham has appointed e, y
Smith of Newport as probate Judge for
the district of Orleans, to succeed hulus
w. Spear, resigned
Miss Roa Eaton, former resident oil
Bristol. who has recently returned from
Italy, has been engaged by the Metro
poltan Opera company OF New YORK
Mrs. Frank Childs of Wilmington, who
had been assisting in Mr.. Childs grocery
store during his long illness, dropped
dead March 2S as she was waiting on a
customer She was SO years old. Mr.
Childs is Frustrated by his wifes death
Josiah B. Bowditch, for more than 30
years a Rhode Island newspaperman,
died in Providence, r, l., recently. He
was a native of Fairfield and veteran
of the Civil war. He was an editorial
writer and reporter on the st. Albans
and Rutland papers and went to Rhode
Island in 1881.
Members of the Bellows Falls high
school senior class, which has been spend
ing few days in New York City, hap
pened to be on top of the Woolworth
building when the Jarvis warehouse IN
Jersey City blew up and therefore had
fine view of the explosion, which dld a
damage of $l,500,00o.
A large double barn on the farm OF
Mrs. Rebecca Tracy of Monkton Ridge
was burned March 2S, with two valua-
Bile horses and calf, also farming tools,
10 bushels of seed oats and quantity
of hav. The cows happened to be out
of the barn at the time The loss Is
partially covered by insurance. How
the fire started is unknown.
It is said that Rev. George NJ. Mayer,
former pastor of the Methodist church
in North Bennington and lately engaged
in Y. NJ. C. A. work at Camp Logan,
Houston, Texas, is in solitary eontine-
ment there. charged with being spy
suspect He is the son OF German
Methodist preacher who has pastorate
in the East German conference at ia
maica, L. ].
The st. bloomsbury food administrator
has stopped Henry F, Estahrooks, 81.
Johnsbury grocer, from retailing sugar,
i'm an effort to prevent customers from
getting more than five pounds. Mr.. Is
tabrooks is said to have received car
load of sugar and to have been selling 1t
according to regulations, five pounds to
a customer and 10 TO rural purchasers.
Ii was learned that many families,
through different individuals, We're get
ting from 20 to Is pounds.
A S. 900 fire DESTROYED the blacksmith
shop of Charles and William Tuxbry
in Windsor March 20. The shop was
used by the Tuxburys and over 1t lived
Harry White, who left the rooms with
out extinguishing an oil heater which he
had used for heating purposes. The heat
err exploded and practically destroyed
the building When chimney fell,
Ralph Garten and r. A. Bentley were
struck by Bricks and the former was
seriously injured. At the hospital of
1he National Acme company he recov-
cred consciousness, but he was badly in
iured. One of Mr.. Bentleys wrists was
hurt.
Although the flag still floats over the
house of Charles o. Wilder in Whining
ton, the family are said to be packing
their goods preparatory to shaking the
dust off their feet of such an ineonsider-
ate town. Wilder, who saluted the flag
Wednesday night when urged to do so
by crowd of 200 townspeople and with
kettle of tar and a big feather pillow
in view, now states, it is alleged that he
did so only because of the pressure
brought to bear, and that he would have
saluted Chinese or any other flag pm
der similar circumstances. 1t was large
" at the behest of Mr. Wilder's patriotic
son, Leo Wilder, who is in the United
States navy, that he saluted the flag. 1t
is alleged that Mr.. Wilder had made the
remark in public that he hoped neither
side would win and had also said other
things that were unpatriotic All the
decorations have been removed from the
house except the flag.
Bellows Falls is in line to receive $780,
600 for its hospital, a bequest of Mrs.
Mary J. Arms, who, when she died, left
that sum for that purpose, after the
death of her daughter, to whose use it
was to be devoted during her lifetime.
Miss Arms, aged 60, died at the Brattle
boro retreat March rs, where she had
been an inmate for over 80 years, and
so the money now reverts to Bellows
Falls. The village will accept the fund
and turn it over to the Rockingham hos
pital Another endowment is that left
by Mrs Mary L. Bowers, who died May
Is, 1917, with the understanding that
s.. 900 of her money should go into an.
endowment fund for the hospital provid
ing the whole fund equalled at least S20,-
600 within three years of her death. The
Arms fund will secure the Bowers fund
and will make an endowment OF $4,000
for the hospital, which also owns its
building and equipment clear and has all
its debts paid.