The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-20
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.


Invent four years ago last Sunday oe-
CURED the big fire that nearly wiped out
st. Adams.
James Martin and Richard Clarke Of
Montpelier caught IA dozen trout in Pot
ash brook in Burlington on Friday.
More fish are being taken from Cas-
plan lake, Greensboro, this summer than
for many years previously. Truman Or
cult Of the Caspian Lake house pulled
out seven pound trout one day last
week, besides a string of smaller ones.
Egbert w. A. Jenkinson has been en-
gagged as associate pastor of the FEEDER
ated Congregational churches of Rut-
land and Clarendon. He began his work
at Clarendon last Sunday. He has been
engaged in war work.
Billy Allen, one Of the best known
showmen in the country, has been Sc
riously i'll in Burlington. with appendi-
citis, brought on by an attack Of indi-
gestion. He has been in the show bust.
ness for the past 20 years.
Fair Haven is to have Tauber-L Lip
ton company shirt factory, the business
men of the place having voted to pur-
chase building therefor. The purchas-
ers decided to form stock company and
about $4,000 worth of stock was taken
at the meeting.
The George Il. Fox estate has placed in
the Brattleboro free library complete
set Of all theatre programs from the
time of the opening of the auditorium
up to Mr.. Fox death They are for
public reference and will show what
noted actors and actresses have played
in Brattleboro.
With an attendance of over 500 at
the evening session, it is believed that
the Windham county Sunday school con
vention, held last week in Brattleboro
Is the largest Sunday school convention
ever held in the state. There was reg
istration of 400, including l6 pastors, SO
teachers and % superintendent.
Charles e. Dewey of Montreal died at
Atlantic City, N. j., Thursday, where he
was on vacation He was general
freight agent of the Central Vermont
with offices in st. Adams, for several
years Later he was transferred to the
Grand Trunk road, with offices in Win
nipeg, Manitoba
Chapman hill in Middlebury which was
given that town by the will of the late
Joseph Battell, is now being made into
a park, carrying out the wishes of the
,,l,a Il u, hn Ia,
come from which is to be used for i'm.
proyement on the property.
Laura Butler, the three year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Butler
TO death Saturday night as a result OF
playing with matches The child was
burned severely on the right leg from
the ankle to the body. Her condition
is favorable
The Vermont Milk Chocolate company
of Burlington and the Massachusetts
Chocolate company of Boston have re-
Gently completed a deal to sell to the
Belgian wholesale confectionery company
Of Leroux brothers every pound Of choco,
late and cocoa on hand in their immense
storehouses, for immediate shipment to
Belgium. A special train loaded with
the product, left Burlington Sunday for
New York, there to be transferred to a
ship sailing to-day.
DIR. and Mrs. Fremont Hamilton and
son, John, will leave Brattieboro the
first week in June for an automobile and
camping trip Of four or five months tx
Seattle, Wash, where they will attend
the sessions of the general grand chap
ter of the Order of Eastern Star july
%, "a and %, and then will go south (
Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal DR.. ant
Mrs. Hamilton will take special camp
ing outfit, will sleep in their tent ant
prepare all of their own meals on the
trip.
Mrs. George A. Joslyn Of Omaha. Neb.
has sent the Greeley memorial commit
tee check for $500 toward paying fol
the house in East Poultney, where thu
great journalist learned the printer
trade. The gift is in memory of her hus
band, who was born in Waitstield, anC
died last year in Omaha Mr.. Joslyl
was head of the Western Newspaper IN
ion, whose stereotype plates are uset
BY most of the country papers in tn
United States.
Clayton Carlisle Of Ludlow, who serve,
in Co. F, 4th engineers, has come hom
i'll with an incurable disease, which /
called Hodgkins disease. This is a gland
ular swelling all over the body, for whicl
no cure has ever been found, and whicl
will ultimately prove fatal. The govern
ment will pay him 500 month as Ion,
as he lives for the total disabilit,
brought about by war service, He ais
will get $57 a month from his war risl