The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-27
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.

Happenings of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.
Edwin Fowler of Sunderland was fined
at Bennington Saturday for speeding
Mrs. Olin Cross was badly injured in
an auto truck accident at Bennington
! Saturday.
The state convention Of Kings Daugh-
tiers will be held Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of this = at Woodstock
Mr. and Mrs. Douglass are to
observe their j0th wedding anniversary
this evening at their home in Stowe.
Rev. +. Fl. Baliou mas returned from
China after an absence of several years.
He is tine son of Rev. H. l.. Ballou OF
Chester.
Apples which had been in the cellar at
the home Of Mitchell Silsby in Lunen-
burg for two years are now sound and
of good flavor
Miss Clara Mailoux, employed in st.
Johnsbury fruit store, cut one finger
nearly off with a banana knife the flrst
of the week
Harry Gale of White River Junction
has purchased the Hartford hotel and in
tends to tear it down and use the mate
rial for building cottages.
One hundred and fifty boys have been
booked for the new camp at Lake Dun
more, in Brandon, this summer. Twenty
two new cottages have been put up and
25 tents are pitched.
Miss Dorothy Erskine of the Rutland
high school faculty is to do playground
work in her home town of Rochester this
summer, the scheme being financed by
the Pierce family of that town.
A brick house and three frame tene-
ment houses in Bennington, belonging to
the late DR.. j. H. Potter. were sold at
auction few days ago for $4,000, Dr.
l.. = Pierce of Manchester being the pur-
chaser.
Mrs Jane A. Bosworth observed her
96th birthday anniversary at her home
Ill ran IldNti putlt ~ hpHC ibn bSNh
confined to her bed for three months, but
on her anniversary day was up and en-
tertaining callers.
The marriage of Arthur Barlow, re-
Gently returned with the YD, who lives
near Jonesvile, and Miss Chaplin of
Montpelier was solemnized at the Cath
Ollie church in Richmond Tuesday, Rev.
A. P. Clermout officiating.
Alex Croto, an employee of the Yer
mont Milk Chocolate company of Bur
lington suffered broken nose and other
minor injuries when he fell from the
top of load to a concrete floor and was
buried beneath several heavy bags Of
cocoa beans.
About Is men and boys began work
Tuesday on the international Paper com
pany's pulp-log piles on the North Wal
pole bank of the Connecticut. The drive
Of about 10000 cords has reached Bellows
Falls and the work of hauling the four
foot logs from the river has begun.
The clothing store of Harry Lazarow-
itz in Middlebury was burglarized the
HlSHb VI bHltt - anu dbout ~ " a. AoN
en- from the cash drawer This is the
sixth break that has occurred within
short radius within the past few months.
No clue to the guilty parties has been
found in any case.
Lieut. Appleton r. Miles Of Brattle-
boro Saturday received from the French
government the decoration of the legion
Sc I ~ ATfInu Nrot
lieutenant in the United States army,
but was attached to the French army in
the field ambulance service. He recently
returned from overseas
George Dickinson of the Bellows Falls
Ice company appeared in court Tuesday,
charged with underweighing ice sales.
Dickinson pleaded guilty and was fined
$40 and costs. He claimed that due to
a rushing business and a shortage of
men, he was forced TO guess at the
weight, thereby causing under weight in
some cases
Henry Manchester died suddenly June
81 at lis home in South Royalton of
heart failure, He was so years old and
\ had been connected with the hardware
business in South Royalton until his
retirement from active life about 10
years ago.
At the marriage of Miss Olga Keteltas
Smith, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. e. K.
Smith of Swanton, Tuesday evening, to
Lieut.. Kendrick James Ralph of Mt.
Carmel, Conn, the brides wedding dress
was the white satin, trimmed with
Duchess lace, worn by her grandmother
at the latter's wedding 7 years ago.
The breach of promise case Of Anna
G. Dyer of Rutland VS.. Charles Fl. Lalor,
we'll known former Rutland hotel man,
in which county court jury awarded
the plaintiff verdict TO recover $4,000
not long ago for failure of Mr.. Lalor to
keep the marriage contract after IS