The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-28
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Rutland City's quota for the fourtI
( Liberty loan was SgS5,000 and the cit,
raised Sl,3l0800
A brick addition to the shoddy mill o
the John T. Slack corporation in Sprinp
Held viii be used for a carbonizing plant
The janitor at Hardwick academy las
week cut down II young naples on In
campus that were killed by the sever
weather of last winter
Prof Frederic s. Lee Of Woodstacl
has been sent to England and France o.
a special mission by the United State,
public health service.
An overturned lantern set fire to gaso
Inc at sidewalk tank in front of tn,
store Of Isaac Rosenberg in Burlington
recently, and Mr.. Rosenberg was some.
what burned himself in trying to put
out the flames.
Rev. Sanford X. Meek, pastor of the
Baptist ch6fch in Brookline, has sold all
his household goods at auction and with
Mrs. Meek has left for Ohio. They went
by automobile, Mrs. Meek driving the
family car and Mr.. Meek small auto.
mobile truck.
FRANK b. Lawrence of Townshend is
seeking his release from the house of
correction, where he has served about
three years for selling mortgaged prop
erty lie has settled with some of the
creditors and claims he is now wrong
fully held in the institution.
Lieut.. James J. Porter, only son of
William II. Porter of New York. trustee
OF Mlddlebury college and donor of the
$4,000 Porter hospital to be built in
Mlddlebury soon, has been killed on the
battlefield in France. From friends at
the front the father learned that his son
died instantly from the explosion of a
German shell near by.
There is a possibility that the Howe
Scale company of Rutland win have to
cut its working force from one-third to
one half on Nov. | unless the war indus
tries board modifies its order allowing
companies manufacturing heavy scales
only one.half the iron for a given period
that 1t used during the same period last
year.
Harry Wilmore, employed by the Nor
ton Hardware company of Fair Haven
and driving the company Ford truck, got
stalled on railroad crossing there n few
days ago and was struck by d freight
train, which threw him several feet and
badly smashed the car. Wilmore re.
eeived no injuries except bad cut on
the right leg,
Superintendent of Bellows Falls
Schools w, G., McGinnis has been ap-
pointed county director for Windham
county for the United States bows work |
ing reserve and also county chairman of
the victory boys committee for the unit. !
ed war work campaign.
A chinook salmon, 36 inches long and !
weighing 10 pounds, was found dead in
shallow water at the edge of Spofford |
lake, Brattleboro, last week. Ii was
partially covered with fungus but had
been dead only short time A smaller
salmon, also dead was found near the
same spot. A number Of these fish have
been seen in the shoal water of the lake
the last few weeks.
Peter Rousseau and Antonio Cioffi
Rutland boys, were in court last week
on the charge of breaking into a camp
IN Mendon owned by Charles r. Novak
OF Rutland. They admitted the charge
ana were sentenced to the Vermont in !,
dustral school at Vergennes for the re.
mainder Of their minority.
Rutland merchants are considering =
plan Of opening their stores at 0 a. m. +,
every week dgv and cInsipr ~ n - - !
every day except Saturday, and at 10 N,
p m on that day. The plan will be pre-
sented to the war service department of I
tne FEDERAL government and the action of 4,
me merchants will be governed by the
reply received,
Samuel Anton Howard. IT.. Of Rutland
has been recommended as eligible for aD-
pointment as a second lieutenant in the
held artillery, u. S. A., after training :
az camp Zachary Taylor Harold A.
Gardyne Of Montgomery Center has been
appointed a second lieutenant following
a course Of training at Camp Lee Va.
Miss +. NJ. Kittredge of the New Yorl,
botanical garden, who has been in Wood
stock several months making botanical 4
collections for Miss Billings has re-
turned TO New York. Several interest.
ing plants not before reported from this
region have been collected, among them
a rare orchid and fern, but until more
study can be given to some Of the plants
collected 1t will be impossible to say how
many have not previously been found in
the state,