The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-22
MONTPELIER
Meeting Held to Consider Welfare Of the
Boys and Girls.

some lOu persons tnteItNbch ~ wv
welfare of the boys and girls OF Mont
pelier attended n meeting In the audlto
rum Of the high school Monday evening
demonstrating To the Woman's club that
the people Of the city want TO see i'm
provement along certain lines. Primarily
IL was ascertained that the assembly last
evening was in favor of n club for boys
The movement has been instituted by
the Womans club and during the meet
ing, upon motion OF $. {. Hutchinson,
the assembly went On record as favoring
such move. Ii some of those who were
there expected 10 hear some of the awful
things that might exist In the city they
were doomed To disappointment, for
nothing OF the kind occurred, but, rather,
Rev. s. f. Bloomfield, Rev. +. Barnby
Leach and Rev T.. j. Long placed the re-
lsponsibility absolutely upon the parents.
Mr.. Leach said that any curse which ex-
isted was upon the mothers and fathers
Of the boys and not on the owners Of
pool aud billiard rooms. Rev, =, j. Long
said he has Travelled through this state
and many others good deal and that
| Montpelier is the ceanest, best governed
1 city he had seen, that the citizens have
right To feel proud of IL, that undoubted-
| w some wrongs existed here but even
with that he felt the city was rather the
superior of any other in the state. He
claimed the blame is on the mothers and
not the city officials if things are not
what those who had spoken thought they
should be. Mr.. Leach said IL Is matter
of public sentiment. The curfew law Is
useless until the parents want II carried
out. There should be no need of cur
few. Alderman Shurtleff explained how
the pool room and billiard rooms are Ii
censed and that If the people cooperate
by furnishing information the supervl-
sion of them is an easy matter. MIR
Bloomfield said the trouble is with the
homes He urged the community club
room and that girls as well as boys
should have one. He urged the people to
take the matter to the homes. Mayor
Mitchell said that If the people who can
prove that cigarettes are being sold TO
minors will furnish the information to
the police. prosecutions will take place. |
Further, that if they had any complaints
and would furnish the information 10 the /
city council the matter would be taken !
care Of. He was supported by Mr.. Blom-
field who said he had found Mr.. Mitchell |
ready to do everything he could for the |
best interests of the city S. c. Hutchn-
son said that if they could raise s 600 |
for Halifax. 5000 Tor the y. NJ. c. A.
and $1,000 for the knights of Columbus,
they can easily raise the money needed
for the club. G. l.. Haseltine, who was
the first speaker. told the company how
he had found affairs as he had followed
them this winter, because there had been
no Y. NJ. C. A., and that gambling is oe-
curing in the pool rooms and that chill
dren of less than the pool room age were
allowed in the places. Prof Frederic
Edwards said that this city is as clean I
As any he had been in but that there is
A chance for corrections.
Miss Virginia Towle is assisting in the {
office of Gov. II. r. Graham on some spe- !
,ial work
Grover Templeton, who has been i'll
or two weeks. resumed his duties Mon
lay as assistant sergeant-at-arms at the {
state House. I
Mrs. A. ]. Slayton of Moretown was in
he city Monday afternoon.
Col H. 7. Johnson has received infor- /.
nation relating TO the kinds of service !
n which men may volunteer at the pres :
mt time and which is constantly chang
ng. II provides that drafted men may
for induction through their 10. =
al boards into the following branches Of y
he service: Land division signal corps.
medical department infantry into lat
7ermont infantry at Charlotte. n. c.; .
pruce production division, aviation sec .
ion, signal corps; engineer corps, to Van !, y
ouver barracks Vancouver, Washington,
}. c. a
The annual meeting of the Capital y
'oultry association will tale place Fri \
ay evening in one of the rooms in city !;
all. The election of officers and the an
uai report of the show recently held will
e made. 49,. el
The jury in the case of State vs. Fred u
.elson, charged with non support of his y
lmily, was drawn Monday afternoon. e'
he case is set for trial Jan. 81. q
]. Ward Carver settled his account in r.
rebate court this morning as admins -
-ator of the estate of Oliver J. l.. Mat :,
news, late of Barre. =,
Major Harvey GoodeIl, secretary to hs
ov. Graham, has originated blank C;
hch will save materially in the filing of al
formatlon relative to prisoners, DONG M
way with four reports and save one
'urth ON the mailing expenses in the -.
onthly reports mailed to the governors We
lice. The report gives the history OF =.
e man, the place of commitment, orig y
al mittimus. and the pardon data in '''
cad of having each of these informa
Dns on four different blanks, and saves at
duplication of effort in different ways. of
Gov Ii. f. Graham this morning re- tn
ived a telegram which sets forth the sci
" which the members of the medical pa
visory boards viii get. II provides WI
at the physicians, while employed in on
e selective draft, will he paid 81 an -
ur not to exceed $50 in any one day
d not to exceed $3.50 a month, which
the same pay that the members of the -
al boards were given before the change
Is made on the basis of classification. on'
II l.