The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-26
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.

On Feb. 3, in Weston, occurred the
deaths Of Mrs. Addie Austin and her
daughter, Mrs. Wilson Foster.
A plan is on foot in Weybridge to
secure a resident minister to preach in
both the Methodist and Congregational
churches.
Pvt Harvey Cummings, who enlisted
from Richford, died recently of pneumo-
mia, according to word received from
Washington.
The bazaar and fair held in st. Adams
last week, for the benefit of the hospital,
Melted Sl,ll746 total amount of ST.,
1879 being taken in.
While investigating the condition of
ice on Lake Champlain Monday, A. O.
Ferguson broke through, but was res
cned within few minutes.
The Congregational church of Ludlow
has granted it's pastor, Rev. w. j. Ballou,
six months leave of absence He is
to do Y. NJ. c. A. work in France.
Walter Paradee was quite badly hurt
while working in gravel pit at Fair
field last week, the dirt caying in onto
him. BE was unconscious when dug out.
NJ. L. Young of Weybridge was badly
injured last week when one of his horses
got loose in the barn. In trying to get
the animal, it pushed HAM against the
side of the barn, his face striking a.
nail, breaking the bridge of his nose and
cutting an ugly cash under one eye.
Capt. G. S. Sumner, the only st. Al
bans man to win both French war
cross and the American distinguished
service medal has arrived home After
few days leave, which he spent in St.
Adams, he returned to Camp DeveBs,
where he superyises the discharge of the
men of his company.
Carl Billadeau, l6, Raymond Jerome,
IA, and John Jerome, still older, have
been convicted of burglary in Burling-
ton and have received sentence. Billa.
deau and Raymond jerome are to spend
the remainder of their minority in the
industrial school and John Jerome, sus,
peeted OF being the instigator of the
burglaries, was sentenced to six months
at the house of correction ia Rutland.
The body of Lieut.. Harold Y. Adams,
who was killed in an airplane accident
at an aviation field in Mllington, Tenn,
last week, was brought to the home Of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wales f.
Adams of Brattleboro, this week. Lieut..
+. j. Foley of Palmer, Mass, an obsery-
er at the aviation field, accompanied the
body to Brattleboro, He stated that
Cadet NJ. A. Smith of Emporia. Pa, who
was with Lieut.. Adams, was badly in
jured, so much so that at the time Lieut..
Foley left for Vermont he had not re-
covered sufficiently to tell how the acct
dent happened.
Pvt. Leonard Downe, son of Mrs. c. d.
Ordway of Burlington, has just been To-
Gated at st. Elizabeth's hospital in Wash
ington, D. c., after not being heard from
since last June. Word came from Wash
ington that he had been transferred there
from Plattsburg, N. Y, where he had
been treated for shell shock and so for
quite period of time he had been with
in rs miles of where his mot her was,
while she and others were making every
effort to learn of him. II is supposed
that during the time he was at Platts.
burg his condition was such that his
identity was unknown, probably from
lapse of memory, st. Elizabeth's hospi-
tai is also devoted to shell shock cases.