The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-12
MONTPELIER
Street Work Was Considered By City
Council Last Night.

1 Nv iNSuldi Ntly cUHHtli ileeblHS lUpk
place in Montpelier Wednesday evening
when several road projects were under
consideration, some Of which were left
over until the next meeting owing to the
finance committee desiring to make an
amended report. 1t was voted to oil the
usual streets, as well as to sprinkle 9TH
ers, Superintendent Of Streets Witham
explained that the work is coming along
but that in order to get the state money
on piece Of work some other work will
have to be delayed The work on Ter
race street and State street, where the
road has been very poor, vii lbe compile
Jed in day or 50. Alderman Kelly pre-
scented motion that the council instruct
the street committee to lay some per-
manent street by using paving or cement
+, on State street. His motion provided a
way without taking the funds from the
street appropriation but the finance
committee requested that this be laid
on the table until the next meeting.
| Thomas Cory appeared relative to the
| Tabor bridge. He wanted 1t retained,
| but the council had voted to sell it, Dus-
tin Moulton appeared relative to the
| sidewalk on Marvin street and the street
committee was authorized to repair it.
| The matter Of tar walk on East State
street was left until the next meeting.
The city sheriff was instructed to report
| his back taxes, uncolleeted. The finance
! committee reported the expense Of the
| work on the curve at the car barn, of
which the state will pay part. The
matter Of purchasing the Taft property
near city hall for a fire station was
brought up by Alderman Yeti and the
matter will be investigated by the coun-
! Gil, although there is no money this year
| to buy with. A sidewalk will be laid on
Pleasant street The work which the
street department is doing has been re.
viewed with the result that Mayor
| Shurtlef said he had found they are
| hustIing as fast as they can but that
| there is a great amount of work ahead
of them Several big jobs have been
voted but left for more important ones.
The annual dance of the alumni of
Montpelier high school took place in city
hall Wednesday evening. It was attend
ed by about rs couples Landi's orches-
ira of Barre furnished music. The ar
rangements We're in charge Of the officers,
who are. President, w. s. Smith; secre-
| tary and treasurer, II. r. Johnson, and
the dance committee, Clyde Lewis, Miss
Marguerite Hunting and Mrs George
Smith.
Robert Glennie arrived last evening
| for a visit with relatives in the city. He
was recently discharged from the army.
| He has throat trouble and has been in
| q hospital for treatment. He expects to
go to Springfield, Mass, soon to attend
school.
| Arthur Thompson, who suffered shell
shock while in France, has arrived home.
He is still suffering from the effects Of
| the shock and is nervous. He was badly
injured and it was reported some time
ago that he had died in France but this
was found later to be wrong. His cor
poral saw him shot and told friends OF
| his in the l0lst ammunition train that
Thompson was killed. Fred Abby has
returned to Camp Deyens and is expected
back home soon.
The concert in Montpelier viii take
place this evening. The decision IN the
matter was reached Wednesday evening
when it was found that some of the
dates have been changed in connection
with the orchestral work
| The towns in the state are paying the
| interest on their L. $. deposit fund
which the state some years ago loaned
| to the towns AT present there are los
towns that have the deposit money and
| have to paw interest. The remainder
have paid back their deposit money. The
| interest this year amounts to Sl2,S2S.60,
u
| in the los towns amounts TO 1884 r5S4.b3.
| There are five towns in Washington
county, the sums amounting to SILL
O46ST, which is distributed thus: Calais
ST ,o5s64, Duxbury Sl,2ls04, Fayston
Ss4962 Waterbury S5,47l.2l, Woodbury.
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p. j. McAvoy received a telegram an
nouncing the death of 7. H. O'Neill in
Portland, Me, where MFR. MeAvoy went
at once to attend the funeral. Mr..
ONcill, who was known in Montpelier
and was a relative of the late Rev. w. J.,
O'Sullivan, was As years of age He
4 leaves, among other relatives, four sons,
| all in France, and four daughters. Fran
els 0'Neill, son, is well known in Mont
pelier. as is Angela, who came here fire.
quently few years ago.
Fred Blanchard has been appointed adj
ministrator Of the estate OF Fred b.
| Alexander, late OF Montpelier
The marriage Of George A. Reed and
Mrs Leila Hood Devries of Montpelier
| took place about 3 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, the ceremony being performed
BY Rev Charles st. John pastor of
Bethany church. Following the marriage
they left for a wedding trip, which will
include visit in Hanover, n H. Mr..
Reed was some years ago city engineer
( IN Barre, later III Montpelier, and for two
wears has been All engineer in the state
engineers Office at the State House. The
bride is a native of Topsham, but has
| lived in Montpelier for few years.
Carl Low, the German who gave the
officers IN Barre and Montpelier quite
lot Of exercise over a year ago. is again
under the parole Of G. f. Lackey, depu-
ty United States marshal, to whom he
viii report every two weeks Low was
interned in 0glethorpe, Ga, last year aft
er he was alleged to have ground his
thumbs so that he could not give identi-
fieation as required of Germans, Recent
w he was released from the Oglethorpe
| institution and came here to be placed
under parole. He appeared in United
States court Wednesday afternoon, when
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