The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-08
ABOUT THE STATE
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ferent Sections.

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A flock of wild ducks was seen going
north at st. Johnsbury on Tuesday.
Mrs. Julia Meade observed her oath
birthday anniversary at her home in
Bradford Feb. 2.
Randall Rhodes of East Jamaica this
week shot a bobcat which weighed 20
pounds and on which he obtained a
bounty of So. ...,
Miss Maude Horizon, who died recently
ly at Grand Isle, left all her money TO
Mary Fletcher hospital at Burlington.
The will was made II years ago.
Harry Benson, 10-year old boy living
at Larrabees Point in Middlebury, last
week caught pickerel through the ice
on Lake Champlain that measured 80
inches and weighed IA pounds.
Rev. Jay f. Ullery, who on Sunday
last completed his 18th year as rector
OF st. Paul Episcopal church at White
River Junction, has resigned the rector.
ship 10 accept permanent position as
instructor in United States army camp
in Florida.
Jones Stevens has received his 10th
appointment as deputy sheriff for La
NOBLE county. Mr.. Stevens, whose home
III in Hyde Park, is the oldest sheriff
in years of service in the county. Dur
ing the 40 years he has served a term
or two as high sheriff.
Miss Bertha Barnes of Essex junction,
while boarding an overloaded electric
car in that place, caught her thumb in
the door and was i0stled by the crowd,
turning it backward, tearing the lga
ments and injuring the nerves, so that
the thumb has been in plaster cast for
three weeks.
r. Fl. Kendall shot and killed in West
Wardsboro recently an Arctic owl, snow
white except for a few brown spots on
IFS wings, which measured four feet
and seven inches from tip to tip of its
wings. 1t was SO rare a specimen in
these parts that Mr.. Kendall sent it to
Boston to have it mounted.
Miss Margaret Stanley, daughter of
Hobart j. Stanley Of Burlington, who
has been in New York the past week
training with about 800 girls in Y. NJ.
O. A. work, will soon sail for abroad
for canteen service. Within the past
few weeks three other Burlington girls
have left for the same work, Miss Con-
stance Votey Miss Mildred Best and
Miss Laura Parker.
In the town Of Nottingham are sew
On men who will have passed the s0th
anniversary Of their birth during the
year beginning April !, 1918. Five Of
the seven are Civil war veterans. Hen
~ NJ, Roberts, one Of the seven. en-
tertained many of the elderly people of
the community at party on the occa.
sion of his S0th anniversary, Jan 20,
when supper was served and a large
birthday cake with so candles graced the
table.
Relatives in Brattleboro have been no
titled by the war department that Sergt.
Louis b. Ouimette of that place was
gassed in France, but is improving.
Sergt. Ouimette was born in Brattle-
boro 80 years ago and after being en-
ployed as brakeman for some years on
the Central Vermont railway, he enlist
ed in the regular army II years ago,
serving in the Philippines and going with
General Pershing's expedition into Mex
leo.
The Federal Packing Co. at Enosburg
Falls is handling an enormous amount Of
milk these days to keep up with its or
ders for the condensed product, which
is being shipped daily in carload lots
TO seaboard ports. Besides what milk
comes in from farmers and the local
creamery, large quantities of it are
shipped in from Whtefeld, N. H., FIRE.
lighsburg and Sutton, Quebec, and near
by Vermont towns.
Miss Georgette Genin, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Genin of st. Adams, has
gone into Germany with the American
army of occupation, stationed at Stras-
bourg A strange feature of her entrance
into Germany is that herr grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs, Francois Hugo Genin, left
Aisace-Lorraine, France, AZ years ago,
rather than submit to the rule of Prus.
sianism, They settled in Canada. Miss
Genin's father came to st. Adams in
order to learn English and has resided
there the greater part of his life
Lieut., Walter Fl. Grein, U. V. NJ, rs,
of Buffalo, N. Y, and Miss Marguerite
Sophia Schranz, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jules Sehranz, were married in
london Nov. IL and after Feb. Is are
to reside at Buffalo Lieut.. Grein has
been in the American aviation service
for some time having gone overseas as
one of the IS engineers picked up by the
government to study airplane engines
He was commissioned while overseas and
for some time had been stationed in Lon
don.
y Asbestos Company Incorporated.
Articles of association of the Asbestos
Mines and Power Corporation of Ameri-
ca, with the main office at Burlington,
have been received at the Office of the
secretary of state. This corporation has