The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-15
MONTPELIER
Board of Trade Reported a Successful
Year; Eltction Held.

\ ear EtSStlon Held.
The annual meeting of the Montpelier
Board of Trade took place Tuesday even
ing in the city council chambers with
large attendance of the members 1t was
the best attended annual meeting Of re-
cent years. The following directors were
elected; G.. n. Akron, H. j. Volholm,
b. A. Sumner, William Mckee. G. O.
Boyles, Harris Yeti and A. Bonazzi The
directors elected the following officers:
President, Mr.. Almon; vice -president, Mr..
Volholm; secretary and treasurer, J. H.
Gowdey, who will be paid a small salary
this year. The secretary's report showed
an increase Of l6 members, only three
designations during the year and one
death, A. j. Sibley. 1t also showed that
one new industry has been obtained and
that they have three under considera-
ton, one Of which will be brought TO
Montpelier il the present plans are com
pleted.
Trouble chasers of the New England
| Telephone company and the cablemen are
having a lot of work to remove the condi-
! lions in the manhOle at the corner of
! Main and State streets in Montpelier.
Water ran into the manhoIe, resulting in
some 200 lines in the cable freezing,
which placed as many telephones out of
working order A cableman from Worces.
ter, Mass, came here to help in putting
the lines back in working order.
But little was done in Washington
county court Tuesday In the afternoon
the court went to Guernsey avenue to
look over the grounds Of the proposed
street which II. c. Bodies wants laid and
which the city Of Montpelier is opposing
Mrs. +. Y. Johnson, wife of Mr.. John
son of Somerset, was taken to Heaton
hospital yesterday afternoon, threatened
with pneumonia.
Mrs. Clark Roberts, who was operated
upon for removal of tumor, is doing
well. She is well advanced in age. Mr.
Roberts this morning stated that the tu-
NOR weighed little over 100 pounds,
Miss Lima Jerd is not recovering from
her broken ankle as well as her family
would like to have her. The ankle had
to be rebroken because the bone did not
knit right the first time, which will de-
| lay her recovery a good deal
The funeral Of Mrs. Willis 0. Chapman.
who died Tuesday forenoon, will take
place from her late he~se Thursday after
noon. Mrs. Chapman, who was a native
of Moretown, and daughter Of the late
| Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Prentiss. had been
very prominent for many years in Trim
| ity church work. She leaves her hus-
band and two brothers, DIR, r. G. Prem
tiss of johnson and DR. r. w. Prentiss
Of Middlebury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Mcclure cele-
| brated their 50th anniversary last Sun
| day at their home on Hill street. They
were married in Sylvester, P. O. They
have one daughter, Mrs. Andrews, living
| in Springfield, who was with them.
Among the gifts was purse of gold
from Mark Andrews, their grandson.
Mrs. Miles Roby, who has been here
for two weeks caring for Mrs. Mary
in, will leave this evening for her home
in st. Adams.
J. b. Estee went to Burlington last
evening. He spoke at the dairymens
association meeting.
James Conner, conductor on the Cen
! trail Vermont railway, was in charge of
crew Tuesday that was using large
derrick picking up some granite blocks
that had Slipped from freight cars on
the line between Barre and Montpelier
The annual meeting of the American
| Fidelity company took place Tuesday
afternoon when the following directors
were elected Charles II. Darling, Bur
| lington, b. B. Bailey, l.. D. Taft, G. l.,
Blanchard, Henry L. Farwell and r. b.
Denny of Montpelier, c. j. Gleason and
Cecil Piatt of New York City. The di-
rectors elected the following officers:
President, Mr.. Darling; vice president,
Mr.. Bailey; secretary and treasurer, Mr.,
Denny. The report of the board showed
good Vermont business and there was
at the end of the year a surplus amount
| ing to $9034l.89.
1T. Col w. J. Goodwin of Burlington,
who was mentioned in yesterdays cas-
ualty list as wounded, had been previous
| Nv reported TO his wife and two children,
who live in that city, as wounded on
| Sept. 20. He was second in command of
the 59th infantry, in which several Yer
mont boys went after the recruiting done
in the state last February. Leo Des-
| Laurier, who was mentioned as having
returned to his company, was a short
| time ago reported missing and then
wounded and finally, the day Of the lat
ter report, he arrived in St Adams, ac-
cording TO the press reports at that time.
Two sessions Of municipal court were
in progress in Montpelier at one time
this morning. They were the Barre city
court, which was trying a civil suit, and