The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-15
MONTPELIER
New Brick Making Industry Seems to Be
Assured the City

| from the granite manufacturers are very
favorable to the new brick project which
| the Board of Trade is trying to bring to
! Montpelier, and it looks as though the
matter was assured The committee has
raised over $4,000 of stock. AT a meet
| ing last evening they agreed to the prop
ostion of the inventor of the brick and
the persons in Montpelier taking stock
will receive preferred stock, OF which
$4,000 will be sold in the ciyt.
William Rivers is suffering with a
sprained ankle received by slipping while
leaving his house Thursday afternoon
The new pipe finder for the water de-
partment has arrived and is now ready
| for service. Commissioner Hayward
finds that the break of few nights ago
| did not lower the water much and he be-
lieved the city may yet be able to get by
without pumping from the big into the
little pond.
| Chief Connolly has received picture
of the man who was shot last week in q
house in Greenfield, Mass. 1t is that OF
a six-footer and had the picture Of a
womans face tattooed on one arm The
| picture was taken after death occurred.
| There was about 5000 in his pocket at
the time of the shooting.
! The Queen City Cotton company has
| filed with the secretary of state an af-
tidayit that the company will increase its
capital stock from S750,000 to 81 100000
The state engineer has the plans for
the Improvement of the roadway be
tween the Pavilion hotel and the state
building nearly completed. This is the
piece of work in which the state, city
and I, J. Heaphy propose jointly to con
struct a permanent piece of road and
| improve condition that is an eyesore
to the city. 1t is understood that the
white placards that have marked the
rooms of the offices in the new state
building are to be removed and suitable
i lettering placed on the windows, which
will be more fitting to the general APP
pearance of so nice a structure.
There was report in Montpelier this
morning of a serious accident in which
Robert Jones was involved on the Shell
bune road yesterday. 1t appears that
a collision did take place but the damage
was confined to breaking one wheel and
bruising a mans hand little.
Hearings took place to-day in the Of
fee of the Judge of probate relative to
the unclaimed bank deposits covering the
period preceding 20 years ago. Those
persons who claim they are heirs of the
depositors have a chance to prove their
claims If no claim is substantated, the
money goes to the state. States Attor-
ney e. r. Davis represented the state in
the matter
Capt George c. Day Of the t. S. navy
called upon Governor p. w. Clement
Thursday afternoon, He also visited
General II. T. johnson, with whom he
was student in Bradford when they
were boys. Captain Day is q Bradford
boy. He was the commanding officer of
the America during most Of the war but
was transferred to another boat about a
month before the America sank at the
New York docks. He is now member
of the war college. His sister accempan
led Him on his visit to Montpelier.
Miss Bernice Price and her eight as
sociates, who have been at Lake Carmi,
have returned home. Miss Price and
Miss Margaret PAYNE of ST. Johnsbury
walked a part of the way. They walked
from the lake in Franklin to Pleasant
lake in Cambridge, where they rested
two days and then Thursday morning
came through Smugglers' Notch and
were to have gone to the top Of Mount
Mansfield but owing to the rain which
fell in that section Thursday they did
not complete the trip Thomas Price of
Middlesex went to Stowe TO meet them
with an automobile.
The laws relating to. the automobile
and motor vehicles for 1919 have been
compiled and published by the secretary
of state Each operator Of an automo-
bile should have at least one copy of
these laws and any person desiring a
copy can have The same by writing TO
the secretary of state relative to the
matter. The secretary this morning sus-
pended the license OF Damon L. Bowen
Of Newport Center for careless driving
in which an accident took place, he hav-
ing run into the rear of a team There
were some Is reports this morning of
accidents, including n. j. BACKYARD of
Bennington running into the rear of a
team in which Mrs. James Marrow was
! injured, and r A. Reynolds while riding
bicycle being injured in Woodstock by
the ear of Elizabeth w, Riley running
/ INTO MN.
The report from the federal govern
ment on the bids on the federal aid pro
iects in Fairlee and Colchester Essex
have been returned to the state highway
commissioner Office and the federal gov
eminent has approved the lowest bids so
that it was expected this morning that
during the day Governor Clement and
Mr. Bates would sign thsm, after which
construction can commence, The Fairlee
Job was awarded to B. Perrin & Co. of
Ashland, Mass, while the Colchester job
went to j. w Duff, who is constructing
some permanent road near Fort Ethan
Allen. The figures on the lrasburg bids
were to-day submitted to Governor Glenn
ent are C. J. GilfIlan, $46Tl244; B. Pc
rini & Co., S4S,635.50; French hill Job,