The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-11
MONTPELIER
Mrs. Sarah W. Lane, Aged 80, Died Sun
day After Short Illness.

| ing IolloWlng four days illness due TO
breaking down incident to advanced age
She was native of Plainfield, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs Ephraim Woolson,
| her father being one Of the early settlers
of that town, while her grandfather was
! the first settler of the town. She was
married III 1886 to Joseph Lane, who
died 10 years ago. During their married
life they lived in Plainfeld and her son,
Herbert E. Lane, now resides on the
| home place For II years she had lived
with Mrs Kidder. OF the five children
born to Mr. and Mrs. Lane three are liv-
| ing. These are Mrs. Kidder, Mrs. Sadie
Hooker of Washington, d. G., and Mr.,
Lane of Plainfeld. The funeral takes
place at 10 O'Clock Tuesday morning
from her late home. Burial will be in
the family lot in Plainfeld
Mrs Fannie S. Little, aged 70 years,
| died at her home in East Montpelier dur
| ing Sunday night She was native of
the town, born Feb. Ia, lS46 daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Sibey, and had
| lived in that town all her life She was
widow of the lste Walter S. Little.
She is survived by three sons, Walter H.,
Fred S. and Charles II. Little, Of East
Montpelier, a granddaughter Edith Lit
| tie, and sister, Miss Hattie Sbley of
East Montpelier. The funeral will occur
at 2;30 O'Clock Tuesday afternoon from
her late home with burial in the North
Montpelier cemetery.
Plummer H. Richardson, aged "a years.
died at his home in Worcester about o
o'clock Sunday morning following a long
illness OF cancer. He came to Heaton
hospital for an operation for its relief,
which failed, and he went back home
some 10 days ago. He was a native of
Vershire but had lived II. Worcester since
he was two years of age. He is survived
by his second wife, Belle Sanford Rich
ardson, to whom he was married few
years ago. Besides her, he leaves five
children, Mrs, Lydia Utton of Chicago,
Mrs, Roscoe Bowden of Maine, Ralph,
Carl and Arthur Richardson of Worces
ter; also three brothers, Calvin Joel and
Alonzo Richardson of Worcester. He was
a veteran of the Civil war and a member
of Brooks post The funeral will take
place at Q o'clock Tuesday morning from
the church in Worcester
DIR. c, II. Burr, with members of the
board Of health in Montpelier, visited
several places the latter part of last
week in which alleged nuisances existed
and in which some have been cleaned up
He was visiting the Clark house last
Friday when the murder took place in
Barre and was ut his office a short time
after the affair took place in order to as.
certain if there had been any call for
him but there having been none he took
other members of the city council to the
Clark home, to see what the conditions
We're, returning TO his office about )
o'clock. Other places visited included
the Ala market, which was found in
good shape, the Monti residence, in which
improvements must be made, and the
Union house on Mortified street, where
the family had not cleaned up after
previous order and which has been re
ferred to the city attorney
Mrs. Hugh Baird, who was in Heatou
hospital for treatment, was carried in
Barber & Laniers ambulance to her
home in Waitsfield Sunday morning.
L A. Walker is in Springfield, where
he is doing some civil engineering for
F T. Ley & Co.
Miss Elizabeth Clement of Rutland is
expected this week to join Governor
Clement, who is here in connection with
state matters.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Cressey of Brat
tleboro this morning lodged copies with
the secretary of state in the suit of the
international Nitrogen company va. the
Sherman Carbide company The suit is
to recover $4,000 for money alleged to |
hax l.. Il.
equip the company so that it can com
plete the development Of its carbide |
business in Nottingham. The officer at
tached all the property in Nottingham |
subject to the attachments held by Ella |
B. Knibbs, Hugh X Mccain, b. b. Fitch |
and the Connecticut River Power com |
pany, the last claim OF which it is |
thought has been settled This is said |
to be a fight between the majority and |
minbity stockholders of the Sherman |
company, which is doing large carbide
business and has a very good plant. with |
probably $4,000 worth of chemicals in /
its laboratory. The plaintiff is home
office in Cleveland, O., and loaned some |
$4,000 to the Sherman company II is |
also said to have taken over other liza
bilities which the Sherman company had |
This was return day in Montpelier city |
court and there was several cases in
which f. Gomez and Higuera Granite Co. /
were defendants. These were Martin j.
Judge against them for Sa; Capital Gar
age company for $l0; Livingston Manu-
featuring company of Rockland, Me-, for
$40; Dorman Oil and Supply company,
S25; Peoples National bank, 500; and
the Kempton Thomas company, $50 No
appearance in the defense had occurred
up to a late hour. The case of Theriault
and Hunt VS.. j. III. Berthelot, So for at
torneys' fees, was also returnable this
morning. The case of State VS.. j. c.
Brown, selling watered milk, was re-
turnable this morning but none of those
interested had appeared at noon. The
state has asked for a further eontin
uance but the defendant would not per
nit it. II is understood that action win
be taken in the case this afternoon.
Edward Colby of Shady Rill died this
at Heaton hospital, where he
was operated upon recently for an intes-
final trouble. He was about 6S years
of age and had lived in Middesex many
years, where he had been successful
farmer. He is survived by his father,
Thomas Colby, almost 80 years old, his
wife and two children, Fred Colby and
Mrs Lucia Moore.
A special meeting of the Montpelier
city council will take place this evening
when the petition of the Standard Oil
company to install gasoline tank will
be considered, The company was install
Ing the tank last Saturday when it was
.alled to the license co1nmittee's al