The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-02
MONTPELIER
Miss Frances Morse Held Up and Robbed
of 500 and Iewelry

OF 500 and Jewelry.
Miss Frances Morse, who has mill
linery store on Main street in Montpelier,
was held up and robbed on Main street a
little after ii o'clock Saturday night, the
yeggman getting about 500 in cash and
quite a quantity of jewelry which the
woman was carrying in her hand bag.
Miss Morse had closed her store and was
walking home when the trick was pulled
off. She had passed the Jerome house
on upper Main street when someone
stepped out of clump of bushes and
followed her, grabbing the handbag away
from her but not without a struggle.
Miss Morse hurried to a telephone, mott
flying the police, who went to the locality
but We're unable to gain any information
in the matter. The jewelry originally
belonged to Miss Morse's mother
The fire department was called out
about II o'clock Sunday morning for a
fire in the kitchen of the house of Gerald
Foster on Main street, which was dam
aged about $500 before the department
put out the blaze. Mr.. Foster and his
family left in the morning for Moretown
to spend the day. Neighbofs discovered
the fire and pulled bell alarm, bringing
out the department Through an error
in the recording, one team went towards
the head of College street, while the
driver of light team stopped at the
foot of Spring street, so that to avoid
collision the fire team had to go up
Spring street little way. With all this
delay the department was able to put
out the fire with the above loss of prop
erty. Quite crowd congrcgated.
The trains on the Central Vermont
railway were all late from the north
Saturday owing to the derailment near
Milton. The noon express was detoured
by the way of Alburg, reaching here
about 2:30 in the afternoon while the
evening trains did not getto Montpelier
until about midnight, one of them arrv-
ing little before and the other little
after that hour. The night express was
about an hour late.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Macy have re-
turned from a visit in Randolph.
G. H. Almon left Sunday evening for a
few days in New York in the interest OF
his garage business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. J. Curtis returned
last evening from their honeymoon.
G. R. Bianchi left last evening for a
visit in New York.
Two Of the selections which were sung
by the male chorus at the Msmorlal exer-
cises in Montpelier are quite interesting.
The first, America and Liberty" was
written and composed by w. A. Briggs of
Montpelier. The second, Here's to Our
by Mrs. Mary Estabrook Hale of Barre,
while the music was written by Mrs.
Edwin Lewis of Montpelier.
A shoot which took place at the HodgN
don camp in Perkinsville has been re-
ported among the telephone men who at
tend the shoot. 1t occurred Memorial
day and had been long deferred because
of the war and other things, including
the high cost of material. The result OF
the shoot was, George Collamer 800
points and Henry Hodgdon 220 points.
Standard pistol targets were used
Capt. Raymond Paine has completed
the work in preparation for the demo
bilization of Co |, Vermont Volunteer
militia This occurs June 4, but every
thing has been checked and the supplies
will be turned over to the state in a
day or so. Captain Paine, who has been
10 years in service, has applied to be
placed on the retired officers list of the
state organization and likewise on the
retired officers list of the National
Guard, in which he has served the neces.
sars length of time.
Charles Def. Bancroft, jr., leaves to-
night for Mansfield, Ohio, where he win
be employed by w. A. Hamilton in the
granite business Mr., Bancroft has been
in the newspaper work in this locality
for several years and is well known
among the newspapers in Vermont. lie
leaves that work to enter the granite in
dustry, with good chances of advance
ment, il is understood.