The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-12
MONTPELIER

A. l.. White, secretary OF the state
council of the J. o. L. A. NJ, is arrang-
| ing for the annual convention, which will
take place in Bradford two weeks from
yesterday John Noyes of Washington,
ID. c. junior past national councillor, will
be among the national officers attending
the convention. The fraternity in Yer
mont has done some good work this
year, seven lodges having been organized,
These include Burlington, Essex June
| tion, st. Adams, Winooski, st. Adams,
Waterbury, Newport and Orleans.
DR. G. H. Burr, district health officer,
has returned from the eastern side of
the state, where he was called because of
a complaint that persons were storing
cheese with an odor which was offensive
to the people in the village where the
cheese was kept. He investigated the
matter and it is very probable that the
trouble viii be eliminated He has also
been recently called TO a nearby town
because family has lice in large guam
titles, so much SO that the family was
notified, after investigation, that unless
cleaningup occurred forthwith, q
quarantine for lice would be posted on
the building
A complaint about the condition of
the family of Peter Bolio was made TO
the authorities Thursday, the claim be-
ing made that Mr.. Bolio has influenza
and that the family was selling milk in
the city The district health officers at.
tention was called to the matter and he
| is conducting an investigation.
Parties interested in the settlement OF
| the matter Of the Barre Savings Bank &
Trust company as guardian Of the Mas
| colt minors, who now live in Burlington,
came to the probate court Thursday, ex-
pecting that settlement would be made
and that new guardian would be ap.
| pointed; but no representative OF the
bank appeared TO make the settlement,
so the matter is delayed. An aunt and
| grandmother Of the children represent
| the childrens interests. w. s. Smith of
Montpelier has settled his account as
/ administrator Of the estate of DeMori
Carlo, late Of Montpelier.
| The deed of the Gitchell place on lower
State street was filed in the city clerk
Office Thursday Arthur Chisholm and
wife sold to A. A. Sargent, who, in turn,
sold to Joseph Beisle and wife, The
consideration was about $1,000
! But little was done in Washington
county court Thursday. The divorce
! case Of MAY Gamache VS. George Ga.
mache.was heard, S. FL Jackson appear.
! ing for the petitioner The bill was
granted on refusal to support Cruelty,
because OF the use OF liquor, was shown
| in the testimony.
d. B. Dwinell and daughter of Calais
were in the city yesterday.
Thus far only l43 tickets have been
/ sold from the Central Vermont station
to those who are attending the state
| fair, which is the smallest number of
| tickets that has been sold TO the fair
| from this city in years. Generally more
! than that number would be sold for one
/ train The attendance from Montpelier
has been very small this year. Unfavor-
able weather conditions each morning
have prevented many from going
Linus Leavens, ashland game commits
sioner, was at the state fair yesterday
and made a personal investigation of the
casualty in which nearly all of the fish
that were exhibited there were killed
Tuesday afternoon. He found that there
were 400 fish. They represented every
species known in Vermont waters. Consid
cradle time and expense had been spent
| in catching some from Lake Champaign
| He found that after the fish had died
the management had turned off the wa.
ter, 10 prevent the danger that person:
might be injured from the effects of the
water. Samples of water from the new
reservoir were sent to the laboratories
in Hanover and Burlington to see what
might have killed the fish There were
few fish brought back to Roxbury, but
these were all blind. Even cells were
killed, also the hornpout, which shows
the strength of the pollution in the wa.
tier. Mr. Leavens could not place an es.
innate on the loss of the fish, but il
went into the thousands of dollars
Many were full grown and the best that
/ the state had i'll the hatcheries, tish
which it had taken years to bring up.
! Some of those who went from Mont
pelier to the state fair Thursday say
there was considerable politics floating
about the place. Some of the Montpelier
people saw A. B. Foote of Middlebury at
! the fair, who said that there were about
I 80 of the present body of representa-
| tives at the fair during the day. Nat
urally when persons who are interested
in these matters gather in considerable
numbers, matters connected with the
coming prospective candidates for Office