The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-15

ANSF' bOllH IL bldIh Oh 4NUILH Del WICK,
Me, has accepted the call extended to
him by the Bellows Falls Baptist church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlow Sanders are to
observe the Goth anniversary of their
marriage at their home in Brandon on
Feb. %.
Peter Fountain died at his home in
Morisville recently of injuries which re-
suited when he fell as he was repairing
has building several months ago.
Miss Lizzie Stevens of Winoosld,
graduate of the University of Vermont,
has accepted a position as private secre-
tary to Senator Pitts of Colorado at
Washington, d. c.
In West Fairlee, Feb. 4, Edward Da-
Veys, who was driving a team loaded
with lumber for Daniel Russ, fell under
the load in some way and was crushed to
death. He was young man.
Will Hazeltine of Andover tapped a
few trees Jan. IA and has been making
sugar ever since If he had been sure
of the nice weather in the last month, he
would have tapped his whole sugar
place.
< Mrs. Minnie Young of Winooslli hit a
finger with hammer a week agoe and
lack of proper attention resulted in blood
poisoning, so that the member had to be
amputated at the Mary Fletcher hospital
Thursday.
Mrs. Thomas E. OBrien of Bellows
Falls, who was a member OF the ma
tional committee of the American de-
Tense society, has been awarded a diplo-
ma for service on that committee dur
ing the war
Pinkerton detectives are searching for
the man who was supposed to have en-
/ tered the Redfield Proctor home in Proc
: tor, Among the articles which were
taken are fur coat, two suit cases and
some solid silver
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed in the Office of the United States
court in Rutland by George E. st. Pierre
of st. Adams laborer, who has assets
to the amount of $500, all of which are
claimed exempt, and liabilities of S4S5.
Mrs. Ella Shortsleeves of Burlington
has Just received notice Of the death Of
her husband, Pvt. Haultsay J. Short.
sleeves, in France, Jan. II, of myehtis
He was in the seth division and also
saw service on the Mexican border in
1915.
c. w. Davis, an East Thetford bust.
ness man, on his bicycle. aud DR. Brown
OF the same place, in his touring car,
collided the first of the week on a curve
!, in that place Mr.. Davis shin bone was
broken where the auto struck him and he
will be in bed for several weeks.
Homer Gardner was badly hurt while
saving wood on the s. H. Thompson
farm in West Milton last week. The
balance wheel of the circular saw broke.
striking Mr.. Gardner on the left foot
and seyering all the toes, and also in
Jured his left hand so that one finger
had to be amputated.
Louise Miles of Burlington, as trustee
for the late A. NJ Prentiss, the station
master who was recently murdered by a
soldier, has filed a suit in county court TO
recover S32S0J which Is credited on a
bank book issued by the Rutland Saw
ings bank in the name Of A. NJ. Prem
tiss.
New cases of scarlet fever are report.
cd daily in st. Adams and with "a cases
in the city at the present time, the locsk
health officers have consulted DR.. Dalton
OF Burlington of the state board of
health. The disease has confined itself
so far closely to adults and rigid
quarantine is to be placed on all cases
and all suspects.
The silk United States flag which the
people of Bennington purchased and sent
TO Bennington, England, not long ago.
has been received and acknowledged bv
the rector Of the parish in the latter
town. 1t is expected that the compl.
ment will be returned and that a Union
Jack from England will be sent to the
Vermont town, rs the writer of the let
ter of acknowledgment so stated.
The village of Swanton is to contract
with the marble company at PhiIipsblrg,
p, O., to supply the concern with cleo
tricity Twenty miles Of new line would
have to be built by Swanton, with a new
dam and second unit at a cost of SIS
900. Some minor matters will have to be
settled before the contract is signed, but
the voters of Swanton, at a special meet
ing, instructed the trustees to carry out
the deal
Dr. Anton Il. Appelmann, formerly
professor of the German language and
literature at the University of Vermont,
is a member of a commission of Germans
looking toward the obtaining of food
from America, and has been in commu-
ncation with Major Fred Hackett, L.
V. NJ, II, in Coblenz, according to in
formation reaching Burlington. Major
Hackett at the time of the entrance of
American troops in Coblenz, was second
IN command.
Last year in the towns of Ira, Shrews-
bury and Mounty Holly four co-opera-
tive spray carts to prevent blight on
potatoes were owned by % farmers.
These farmers found it more profitable
TO sell their crops to Long Island grow.
4 ers for seed than to dispose of them for
table stock. For seven and one half
carloads of potatoes $500 more was
realized from the Long Island parties
than if the potatoes had been sold at
the same time for table use
Eftord Stevens, jr., who was arrested
about two weeks ago and was confined
in Bennington county jail while being
held for the grand iury charged with