The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-18

Burlington has but a lO-day supply
of ice on hand and the season so fa
, has been too open for any ice-cuttins
operations Many dealers are getting
ice from Rutland.
Regular train service on the Rutland
railroad viii be resumed again Satur
day and even on Thursday and Friday
two trains will be added, following al
appeal of the Rutland Business Men:
association for improved service.
Work has been commenced on New
ports skating rink and the city coun-
Gil has appropriated $500 with which
to keep it in good shape The site OF
the old Memphremagog house is the To-
cation of the rink.
A surplus of money remained after
the welcome home celebration in Wi
nooski, which it has been voted to ex-
pend in erecting memorial drinking
fountain on the street to the boys who
enlisted from that town.
Slate producing firms in Rutland and
vicinity, the Staso Milling company of
Castleton and the Mahar Bros, Inc,
of Fair Haven, are turning out 200
tons of crushed slate per day, and the
output will be nearly doubled at once.
Additions are to be built to both plants,
Moses p Kirby, assistant track fore
man of the Boston & Maine railroad,
was struck by train at Pownal Sun
day and died that night He was in
specting the track when struck, his
head and one arm receiving the in
juries which proved fatal He was SO
years old.
Frank f. Barber of Brattleboro, who
recently sold his farm to George J.
Perkins of Hardwick, taking in part
payment brick busines. block in the
latter place, has sold the block to Mrs.
Eunice North Of Burlington, taking in
payment two Brattleboro houses and
some money
Rev. J Hall Long, well known
throughout Vermont, and formerly |
pastor in several Congregational |
churches in the state, but who for the
past two years has been engaged in
Y M. c. A. work, has been released !
at his own request and after a rest |
will lecture on the work of Americana |
cation among the foreign population.
In St. Adams city court Dec. Is, |
William johnson pleaded guilty to
breaking into a meat market there and
he was sentenced TO serve year in
states prison. In February, 1918, he
was arrested for yagrancy and served
six months IN the house of correction,
Returning to St. Adams last Saturday
and breaking into the store the next
day.
Ed Coombs. a blacksmith in Car
field. in the town Of Hyde Park, was
found dead in his wagon Monday aft
ernoon when the team reached the top
of hill Only few minutes before
he had been noticed walking up the hill
behind the team. Death resulted from
natural causes. Mr. Coombs was G7
years old,
Guy Jacobs, employed in the log
boiling room at the Richford Manufac-
turing company's plant in Richford, az.
cidentally stepped into one Of the boil
ing watts one day last week and his legs
from his knees down were badly scald-
ed Fortunately the vat was partially
filled with logs, or he would have gone
into seven feet of boiling water He is
recovering.
Rev Henry L. Drew Of Pittsburg,
Pa, who has been given call to be,
come rector of Emmanuel Episcopal
church in Bellows Falls, has not vet
whether he will accept the
call, but he officiated at the church
last Sunday and remained in the place |
a few days, Should he accept, he !
would assume his new duties early in
the new year
A valuable pair of work horses !
owned by A. w. Newton of WalIing- !
ford were run over and killed Tues.
day afternoon by the southbound "hy-
pr" at the crossing near the Walling-
ford Manufacturing companys plant.
The team was driven by John Longley.
who was seriously injured, but 1t is
thought he will recover. This is a bad
'rossing and it is thought Mr. Long
ey did not hear the train until it was P
lpon him. v
Mrs Madeline Parker Coburn. 49, :
year old wife of James Coburn of Wal :
ingford, who was arrested charged
With stealing a fur from q dance hall .
n Rutland, and about whom the dues- =
ion came up as to whether she should
lppear in municipal or juvenile court,
vas finally brought into the latter
curt by her husband Of three weeks I
md given a suspended sentence to the
lermont industrial school at Vergennes
or the remainder of her minority.
Prof. N, n. Love, for several years
Principal of the graded school and dis
rict superintendent at Poultney and
ater superintendent Of the Bennington c
orth district. has received the appoint X
merit of assistant state superintendent
+ industrial education for South Caro-
ina. His headquarters win be at CIau-
on college, the state agricultural and
ngineering university, and his work Ii
gill be the training Of teachers in the /,
ollege for the vocational work speci- u
ed in the Smith Hughes vocational lie
ct. Prof. and Mrs. Love leave for
heir new home Immediately after the dl
christmas HOLIDAYS. n,