The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-27
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.

Paul Trudeau, Middlebury lad, while
coasting, was run into by another sled
and his leg was broken.
Rev. Arthur Sargent of Pembroke,
Mass, has been given call to the pas
torate of the church at Post Mills.
Rev. Raymond Wesney of West Ware
ham, Mass, has accepted the call to be-
come pastor of the Advent Christian
church in South Vernon.
Vergennes schools, which have been
closed for several weeks because of in
fuenza, re-opened to-day, but pupils suf-
fering from colds will be excluded.
Mrs. w. A. Pratt, while cutting up
fresh fish at her home in South Stock
bridge recently, struck her left hand with
the meat cleaver, cutting the middle
finger nearly off and also badly cutting
her thumb and other three fingers.
The Valley Fair association has debt
of over $ll 900 on its hands, while the
balance on hand is only 800, A meeting
of the association is to be held in Brat
tleboro Tuesday to consider the situa-
ton.
Mrs. A. s. Carleton, SO, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. j. F. Ho-
bart, in st. Adams, Jan. "a. Among
the children surviving is Alger Carrie
ton, United States councillor on the is
land of Java.
Mrs. Walter Thayer, who died at her
home in Newport Jan. %, left four chill
dren, aged seven, six and two years and
a baby one month old. In Middlebury
George Norton died, leaving wife and
seven children.
Fred 0. Gage, son Of Fred w. Gage, a
veterinary surgeon Of Brattleboro, was
badly hurt recently by kick in the
head by horse, causing conclusion of
the brain. Mr.. Gage, who is % years
old, also has severe cuts about the face
and head, made by the calks on the
horses shoe, and is in a serious condi-
ton at the Memorial hospital. He had
just recovered from an attack of inhu-
enza.
President John M. Thomas of Middle
bury college, who has been chaplain in
charge at Camp Merritt, N. j., has been
assigned to the transport Leyiathan as
transport chaplain and sailed from Ho-
boken last week for France. His duties
will be confined largely to the wants of
returning troops, as he must conduct re-
ligious services, supervise the activities
of the welfare agencies, advise the men
as to their transfer, discharge, drawing
back pay and act as authority on all
military subjects.
Nine of the men living in North Wal
pole, who work in Bellows Falls and who
were arrested short time ago, charged
with trespassing on railroad property,
were given hearing in Che North Wal
pole municipal court last week, and each
was fined 81 and costs The fines were
afterwards suspended, and the men paid
the costs, amounting in each case to a
little over SO. This case was the outcome
of the railroad company's attempt to
prevent the ere ssing Of the bridge owned
Is It's company by men who live in
North Walpoie and wo,S in Bellows
Fails
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mont marble mill in Middlebury and %
gang saws are worked day and night
cutting the marble into specified sizes for
building and monumental work Very
little finishing has been done at the mill
for several years and as a result the
men proficient in carving went elsewhere,
until only one man, William Turrill, an
expert in that line, was left in that de-
partment with the company, which
for some time has confined its work
largely to cutting the Roxbury
dark green marble and saving it
into strips which are used for trim
ming, particularly in bank buildings. Or
ders have now been given to start the
finishing mill again and number of the
old cutters are coming back. At one time
the plant employed ITO men and it is
likely that the number of workmen will
again reach those proportions.