The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-10
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Dif-
fereDt Sections.

Swanton's new cooperative creamery
Ia to be erected on the ball ground.
Mrs. Lois Lee Parker, Methodist mis-
sionary in India for 81 years, is at home
for brief stay. She attended school at
Newbury and st. Johnsbury and is IS
years old now.
The three hot days of last week so
reduced the stock of ice on hand in Bur
lington that dealers are considering q
refusal to supply any but their regular
customers with ice.
William II. Ryan, stricken with a
bemorrhage as he was returning home,
Saturday evening, died almost instantly.
He was 81 years old and had lived in
Rutland and Center Rutland practically
ell his life.
Miss Maude T. Wetherbree, who for Is
months had been emergency home dem
onstrator for the Rutland county farm
bureau, has resigned, to take effect July
], and will go then to her home in Lyn-
donville.
On the recommendation Of the rector,
Rev. S. Halstead Watkins, the vestry of
st, Paul's church in Burlington has
elected Rev. A. Cyril Drumm of Los An
eeles, CAL, to the curacy of the parish.
He will take up his work in Burlington
about Aug. l.
Robert, Mccormick, native of Yer
mont, aged 81 years, died June | at his
home in Pasadena, where he had lived for
20 years. He is survived by three chill
dren, Charlotte NJ and Charles j. of
Pasadena, and Fl. Z. Mccormick of Chi
eago. Funeral services and .interment
In Chicago.
Fred d. Mabrey, who has been prin-
cipal of the Bennington high school dur
Ing the past seven years, will leave soon
for France. He has enrolled for a year
in the Foyer DIES Soldats, an organization
attached to the French army and which
corresponds to the American Y. M. G. A.
While his nine children were half fed,
and not comfortably clothed, U. S. Wal
ter of Newark was found sitting calm
ly on his front door step by States At
torney James Campbell and A. F. Stone
of st. Johnsbury smoking powerful
r. d. pipe. The result was a session of
court among the brush piles and unkept
yard and the man was sentenced to
three months in the house of correction.
As A. G. Rice was pulling down an old
barn in the rear of his home in Bellows
Falls recently, he found under a floor
five week-old skunks. They were kept
during the day and at night a barrel
trap was set for the mother and the
young skunks were placed in it. The
mother came for them and the trap was
sprung, but the barrel fell on its side
instead of remaining on end, so the whole
family escaped.
Capt Douglas j. Roberts of Burling-
lington has been promoted to the rank
of major in the medical department OF
the army. Major Roberts is one of the
youngest majors in the service, being
only 26 years old. General Pershing
was recently treated at the base hos
pital in Paris and was under Major Rob
erts' care while there Major Roberts
graduated from the medical department
of the University of Vermont three years
ago.
The three-day convention of the north
ern New England conference of the Sew
enth Day Adventists closed in Rutland on
Sunday night. The camp meeting COM
mittee appointed was Pastor Bryant of
Rutland, H. B. Tucer of Concord, +. s.
Hartwell of Barre, NJ. A. Cram of
Bridgewater and Z. G. Farnsworth of
Washington, N. Fl. The meeting will be
held Aug. l425 at some point on the
Connecticut river, possibly at Brsttle.
boro.
A four.year.old child, Dorothy May
Cameron, who was kidnapped in Massa
chusetts three years ago, was restored
to its mother in Burlington Thursday,
where she had been cared for in the fami.
ly of Mrs. Tatro. Mr.. and Mrs. Cam
eron separated and Massachusetts
court decreed that the mother should
have the child and alimony, but the
night after the decision was made known
the father kidnapped the child and fed
to Canada. He settled down there, but
later removed to Vermont and died in
Burlington last fall His mother from
North Adams, Mass, when threatened
with long jail sentence unless she told
the whereabouts of the child, divulged It,
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