The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-11
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.


A wagon is being used as stage in
Tyson, there being no snow for sleigh
ing.
There are II cases of scarlet fever in
St. Adams. One teacher is i'll with the
disease.
Nearly every slate mill in Hydeville
has shut down for time due to short
age of orders.
Rev. G, w. Davenport preached his
farewell sermon Sunday at st. PauPs
church in Burlington.
Mrs Mary Prindle of Grand Isle, who
will be ~ years old in April, has just
finished knitting a large rug for a sale
10 be held there soon.
Pupils of the Brattleboro high school
conducted tag day canvass last week
and as result more than $500 was Sc
cured for the athletic fund, with not all
the money yet in.
W. II. Yaw, who recently resigned as
chorister of the Methodist church at
Enosburg Falls, after rs years service,
was rendered a surprise at the home of
M. P. Perley Friday evening, when he
was presented purse of $50.
Last Friday the Federal Packing com.
psny of Enosburg Falls put in record
day, the So men and women employed
there receiving and completing at 0
o'clock in the evening the condensing
OF l40,779 pounds of milk
A Vermont soldier in France, while
walking across the battlefield at Chat
eau Thierry, found door key on which
was inscribed New Sherwood Hotel,
Burlington, Vt" He sent the key to the
hotel and the management has framed it,
hanging it in the hotel lobby.
The st. Johnsbury office of the United
States employment bureau did the larg-
est business Tuesday since it was es
tablished six months ago. Many of the
farmers who came in to attend the farm
bureau meeting took occasion to secure
farm help or eft orders for help to be
filed later
As a result of publicity given by the
state press, Miss Lena G.. Ross, deputy
state probation officer, has received Il
applications to provide a home for a lit
tie girl now in an institution. Miss Ross
states that there are hundreds of Yer
mont children left homeless by infuen-
"a cases where the father or mother or
both have died.
During the readjustment of the bust
ness from work on government contracts
to old time contracts, the WinoosA mills
OF the American Wooden company have
been running very irregularly, but yes
terday work was resumed in some de-
partments and Others will follow as soon
as possible, the employees voting unani-
mously for 4S-hour week.
Charles J. Tarbell, 70, native Of
Mount Holly, Civil war veteran and
messenger at the House Of Representa-
tives in Boston for the past Il years,
died at his home in Springfield, Mass,
Friday after a long ILLNESS. In the war
he served with the 10th Vermont volun-
teers and the 26th New York cavalry.
In 1871 he went to Springfield and had
since lived there.
The committee to draft a plan of reor-
ganization for the Valley Fair associa-
ton of BrattlebOro met number of the
stockholders at the Brooks house in
Brattleboro Saturday and presented to
them the new articles of incorporation.
It seemed to be the mind of the stock
holders that they would be willing to
sell out for enough to pay the indebt-
edness of the old corporation and +. G.
Adams was chosen agent to complete
the transfer.
Former Governor Samuel E. Pingree,
now in his S7th year is daily seen
upon the streets of White River june
tion in the best of health, without his
Overcoat and perfectly erect in stature.
Recently Mr.. Pingree entertained his old
time army comrade, Capt. Horace French
of the Sd Vermont regiment, and now in
his SD year; Elias H. Cheney, the live
and active editor of the Granite State
Free Press, Lebanon, NJ FL, in his SSth
year; and Clarence +. Carr of Andover,
n. H., twice Democratic candidate for
governor of that state, at dinner in
Hotel Rogers, Lebanon, N. H. Mr.. Carr
quartet was 33l years.
Word has been received by relatives
in Stowe of the death last Wednesday at
Staten Island N. Y, of Sergt. H. L,
Wright of the medical corps, serving as
chemist at a receiving hospital Double
pneumonia, following influenza, was the
cause of his death Sergt Wright was
born in New York state 80 years ago,
but came to Vermont with his parents
when he was a small child. After grad
Mating from Stowe high school, he took
a course in college of pharmacy and
later was employed as a pharmacist in
Lyndonville, Brandon, Morrisville and
other Vermont towns, At the time Of his
enlistment he was travelling salesman
for a Philadelphia concern.
TOWNS PECULIAR RECORD.