The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-09

state.
Arthur L. Trip of Brattleboro haI
been chosen superintendent of streets Il
succeed George +. Webb, resigned, ant
begins his duties next Monday.
The Lake View and Caspian LAX,
houses at Greensboro are being put In
readiness for the summer camping sea
son and viii be opened about June |.
Three Italians in Wilmington were
arrested recently for fishing without a
license and in each case were fined s25
and costs of $685., which they paid,
Max Bogie of Underhill, probably the
tallest man in Vermont, has been 10
Burlington in an attempt TO enlist in
the navy Mr.. Bogue stands seven feet
and two inches in his stocking feet.
Mrs. Matthew Daniels has taken the
position as manager Of the Nergennes
Office of the American Express company,
TO succeed DIR. W. G.. Watt, who has been
called for service in the medical reserve
corps.
Ten Young women from the state agri.
cultural college at Burlington began
work Monday morning at the Scott farm
in Brattleboro as unit of the Woman's
Land Army of America, which will assist
in farm labor.
John Bartlett, native of South
Salisbury, died at the Soldiers home
in Bennington May ). Five members Of
his family served in the Civil war, all
now deceased except his brother, David,
who has been at the Bennington home
since 1913.
Everett n Dexter, three. year-old son
OF Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Dexter of
Rutland, who swallowed a quantity of
vapo.cres olene during the absence of his |
mother for few moments, died of the |
internal burns resulting at the Rutland |
hospital Monday.
At the commencement exercises at |
Middebury college this week, it was an
nounced that w H. Porter of New York |
has given $4,000 for a hospital for Ad
olson county to be located on college /
land in the village Of Middlebury and 10 |
be under the direction of the president ,
and fellows of the college.
Kalulu Barnes, little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Harold Barnes of Bennington,
was severely burned the first of the week
about the feet and legs. The handle
came off coffee pot which Mr.. Barnes
was carrying and as the little girl was
sitting on the floor near her father the
hot coffee covered her bare feet
Miss Laura Folsom Stanley of st.
Johnsbury and Karl Ayers Davis. son OF
DR.. and Mrs. F. H. Davis Of Lyndonville,
were married May s at the home of the
formers uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles A. Stanley of st. Johnsbury.
The groom is a member Of the gradual
ing class at Norwich university.
As r. Fl. Maynard Of Stowe was hold
ing a fence post for another man to
drive, the head of the maui which the
other was using came off and struck
Mr.. Maynard on the face, cutting cash
from the forehead down on the nose,
where it glanced aside and nearly put
out his left eye. His whole face was i,
much battered.
W D. Policy, who recently purchased
The st. Johnsbury Caledonian and who :
has been engaged to make trip around
he world to furnish material for maya
,ine articles, will leave st. Johnsbury ["
May 30, going by automobile to San 4
Francisco, Cal, and sailing from there
July 81 for Honolulu. He is to be &C :
'ompanied by Mrs. Policy.
The ten men who have been search I
ng the ruins of the Vermont Mix Choco- !,
ate company's plant in Burlington ever e
ince the fire for the bodies of John
1rowley and Perault Companion were
Monday, the bodies being
ound under a mass of bricks, timber
nd iron Funerals and burials took
lace the same day.
Carroll " Smith, the first Stowe boy
n the American expeditionary forces TO
eturn from France, is in military
ospital in New York in a serious condi-
ion. Young Smith was sent back to
he United States in February, after be-
ne confined in hospitals in France two
ionths with rheumatism, followed by i
cart failure. Since his arrival in this h
ountry he has been too i'll to come to !
towe.
A nephew and niece of D. W. Steele :, -
nd Mrs NJ. A. Stockwell of Highgate ~ a.
led at their home in Marlboro, Mass, ~
lay OF arsenical poisoning. They were -
ebert, 4, and Catherine, 2. children of VI
Ir. and Mrs. James P. Steele. How q
ley obtained the arsenic that caused .
leir death is unknown, as the parents
lid they had none in the house. Two
her children in the family were not al
cted.
One of the largest timber deals ever
1t through in Guilford was made when
,el Flagg sold the standing timber on an
'out so acres of land to the s. A. Smith spl
anufacturing company of Brattleboro. pr,
is estimated there are from 100000 a
100000 feet of first growth timber me
ere, mostly pine and oak. The Smith !
mpant has three years in which to ha,
ear the land and the logs will be drawn
ON Guiford to the eompany's mill in ].