The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-24
MONTPELIER
L. B. Brooks to Be Candidate for Legisla-
ture Again.

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honor of representative to the general as
sembly. The usual situation in the
party was observed, no one appearing tt
be anxious to go after the honor Mr.
Brooks let it be known that he felt some.
one else should have the honor if such
came to the party. Some nice things
were said of his efforts in the last SEES.
sion of the legislature, i. E. Callahan
b. e. Bailey and Others speaking. An in
formal ballot was taken, with the result
that Mr.. Brooks had substantial lead
over the others for whom ballots were
cast. Others receiving ballots were Rev
+, b. Leach, j. p. Galleher and A. A.
Stebbins, the last two of whom were not
candidates. The former had not been
consulted in the matter. Matters rela-
tive to the affairs of the party were dis
cussed. The matter of selecting two
committeeman was left until after the
primaries. The vacancies are caused by
the deaths of L. n Wood and +. NJ
Bryan, two strong workers in the party.
Mr. Brooks, who was selected, defeated
w. A. Lord two years ago in three
cornered fight from which s. H. Mills
withdrew after couple of ballots.
A conference occurred in the city coun
Gil chamber Friday afternoon, in which
the directors of two Montpelier banks,
two from Barre, one from DanyiIle, Wa
terbury and Mortified banks, met with
the directors of the Washington county
farmers cooperative exchange relative
to the matter of improving banking for
the farmers, more particularly arranging
it so that the farmers can buy their sup
ply Of feed, fertilizers and other supplies
in the winter through the exchange and
pay for them later. Howard Selby of
Springfield, Mass, manager of the East
ern States exchange, explained the meth
cd used in counties near his home Office.
1t il expected that some method will be
worked out in the coming weeks
NJ VI. Wilson of Randolph, who was in
the city Friday afternoon TO attend the
food conference, says that politics is not
very lively in his county, As far as he
knows, the only candidate for senator is
Judge Adams Of Thetford. No one else
seems to want IT, States Attorney John
Sherburne of Randolph viii have no OPP
position. Town politics has not warmed
up much in his home town. There was
no enthusiasm over the nomination of
governor until p W. Clement came into
the fight and now things are more lively.
Captain and Mrs. Edward Sherburne
are visiting with Mr. and Mrs, Robert
Jones. Captain Sherburne has been sta
toned in Texas for two years.
g. H. Perkins Of Burlington was in the
city Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. ?, Anger went to Bur
lington yesterday.
DR. Guy Weleh of Mortified visited in
town Friday
L. M. Beach went to Randolph last
evening TO speak upon industrial educa.
tion on the establishment Of school in
Randolph this fall
Who is the present high bailiff is the
question someone asked the other day,
Waltons Register says Arch Batchelder
OF Plainfeld is, but Arch, who was in
town Friday afternoon, says he is not
and that f. D. Bartlett, who died over a
year ago, was elected, after Mr.. Batch
elders term. Two years ago no nomina.
tion petitions were filed which left the
Office vacant excepting for the law which
reads that an offieeholder shall continue
in Office until his successor is elected un-
less otherwise removed So that prob
ably Mr.. Bartlett held over in the Office,
but he died since the last election and
now no one had filed a petition for the
office The duties of the high baiif are
not very weighty unless the sheriff has
to be executed, and if that takes place
then the bailiff does the job. Some sug-
gestion of changing the law is being dis
cussed by the State House gang.
People coming into the city from
Orange county have been telling of the
copper work that is again under way
there. II appears that the Pike hill
mines are working on full time and about
all the men who can be obtained are
used They are using about $4,000 kilo-
watts Of electrical power a month, lines
having been run from Groton to accom-
modate their needs. Not only is the
company mining but it is removing the
dumps, the material Of which, having
been gone over once il being mixed with
new mined material and run through the
mills again, after which it is concentrat-
ed, and good tonnage is being put out
each day. The old Ely mine is also be-
ing worked again. That is, no mining Is
being done but the material in the dumps
Is being run through the mills. There
they are using steam power to generate
the electricity. This is one of the essen
tails in Vermont which will receive coal
in preference to some of the other indus
tries. At South STAFFORD mining has
been going on in good shape for longer
time than at the two aforementioned
places. All of these mines were closed
for time because the expense of produc-
ton was too great for the profits OBJ
tanned therefrom.
Miss Florence Reed has heard from her
brother, who is with the United States
troops in France. He wrote early this
month and seemed to be well. He in
Quoted from Massachusetts.
Mrs. Inez Bessett is taking vacation
from her work in the bank commission
er's Office Miss Helen Burbank com
mences Monday vacation from her
work in the commissioner of industries
office.
Governor Graham has appointed as
Justice of the peace in Montpelier, J, J.
Chimney, to FIJI the vacancy caused by the
death OF f. M. Bryan, while in Wood
stock he has appointed Eugene A. Thorn
as in place of J. X, Hoadley, deceased.
Armed with a. warrant signed by
States Attorney h. r. Davis, Deputy
Sheriff II. G. Lawson and other officers
went to the house of Mrs. y. Ala on Ber
lin. street about 7 o'clock Friday evening
and raided the house, finding a barrel
half filled with bottled beer and bottle
of liquor that looked like brandy, which
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