The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-30
MONTPELIER

The fire department was called out
about $3.50 o'clock Monday afternoon for
the first time since July Is for a small
fire burning in the hen house of Mrs.
Harry Valley on First avenue. The prop
erty is owned by Mrs. Cantillion. The
fire appeared to have originated from
combustion of sawdust and leaves in the
house, which had been shut UP since
noon, when Mrs. Valley fed the chick
ems, OF which there were about 35. These
appeared to have been roasted. The loss
of these and some $50 damage done to
the property was the extent of dam
age.
The large part of Monday was occu
rpied in probate court with the settle
| ment of the estate of Clara ]. Patterson,
late of Plainfeld Dean Towne object
ed to the settlement and H. w Scott
appeared in his behalf Wheeler j. Batch
elder, the administrator, however, finally
settled his account. Harold Fits of
Barre was appointed administrator, with
will annexed, Of the estate of Emily J..
Waters, late of Barre.
Glen Haekett has been discharged from
the army He enlisted from Montpel-
Ter early in the war, going into the cav
| airy at Fort Ethan Allen. His father
lives in California. One morning, about
the time that this country entered the
war, Mr.. Hackett appeared at the stamp
window of the local postoilice, inquiring
of George Whelan, the clerk on duty,
relative to what he would advise in con-
| nection with the service. He was adj
vised to enlist instead of waiting for the
draft This he did Mr.. Whelan kept
in touch with him, but was surprised the
latter part of last week to see the young
man walk into the office, saying he had
his discharge. He has since obtained his
state pay
Henry Hall Of the auditors office has
gone to Augusta, Me-, in connection with
his new duties in the new financial sys-
TEN, which the board of control is in
stalling in the state offices.
+. H. Halleck Of St. Johnsbury Center
was in the city yesterday in connection
with the farm bureau work
A daughter was born Sunday to Mr.
and Mrs. NJ. +. Densmore at Heaton hos.
ptal.
Raymond Jewett, who has been visit.
ing his brother in the city. has gone TO
New York He is second engineer in
the merchant marine.
Are the hours going to be changed in
the offices at the State House" is the
question that was on the tongue Of al
most every clerk Monday when the news
paper men visited the several offices. 1t
appears that someone started the report
and the clerks seemed to believe that the
newspaper men ought to know if there
was anything 10 it. 1t appears that the
rumor started from casual comment
made. that some Of the clerks were get.
ting into the office pretty late and that
possibly it would be advisable TO change
the morning hour from s to $3.50 o'clock
and the departure Mt evening from to
$3.50 No one on the board Of control
seemed to know anything about it Mon.
day.
Louis Bardis, who has a shoeshine par
Tor and hat cleaning place in Montpelier,
left few weeks ago to visit his home
in Greece and Is now In the army. He
expected to bring his wife back to this
country, but upon his arrival at Greece,
he was at once taken in custody and
placed in the army. A similar reglla-
tion is effective relative to those who 90
back to Italy. Mr.. Bardis will probably
have 10 serve three years
Karl Forsell of Glens Falls, n Y, is
visiting with f. F. Dodge, his father-in-
law, who is very low.
The committee from the Community
club has made arrangements with the
trustees of the Wood Art gallery for the
use Of those rooms which the Y NJ. c.
A. used when it was in operation in the
city The writings have not been drawn
up yet, but It is expected they will be in
a few days The rooms are very suit
able for the Community club. The only
big drawback il the heating plant, which
was a costly affair to the persons who
tried to use il TO heat the building, and
It is understood that this is to be put
in q suitable condition before the final
arrangements are accepted by the Com.
munity club
A divorce has been granted Agnes NJ.
Benedict from Free Benedict, in county
court, and the custody Of the minor child
given to the petitionee
Charles Tobias has commenced work
for the Fenney company as meter man.
G. L. Hunt, attorney for the city of
Montpelier received notice this morning
from the public service commission that
it had allowed the 5000 which the city
expended on the improvement of Tabor
crossing.
j. S. Buttles, commissioner of indus.
tries, has returned from Toronto. Can,
where he has been attending the annual
convention of the compensation commits
sioners of Canada and the United States,
which was attended by 10Y delegates.
The Auto Sales company of Burling-
ton has asked permission of the secre-
tary of state to change its name to the
Ford Sales corporation, This was orig
inally the name, but the company
changed it recently.
The board Of charities and probation
has interested itself in the family of
Michael Good, with the result that the