The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-06
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Dif"
ferent Sections.

ferent Sections.
Bennington's fire loss in 1918 was not
over $4,000.
Over 1000 persons visited one skating
rink in Burlington on Sunday.
The Green Mountain Rifle club of Rut-
land organized a short time ago and has
DO members,
Rev. DR.. H. P. Woodin of Auburn,
Me, began on Sunday his pastorate with
the Brattleboro Congregational church.
Judge Joseph T. Stearns, who has been
sought as candidate for the mayoralty OF
Burlington, refuses to allow the presen-
tation of his name for that position.
Only COS new cases of influenza were
reported in the state last week. In for
mer weeks the average has been be-
tween 1900 and 300 and often higher
than that.
For one year. beginning April 2, the
Congregational and Methodist churches
of Milton will unite under one pastor,
the church to be known as the United
church.
Amos Ball of Piermont, n H., who
is SO years old, walked four miles to the
railroad station to take the train for st.
Johnsbury last Monday to visit his
nephew.
Rev. S. c. Fooks has resigned as pas
tor of the Congregational church in Paw
let, to take effect March 4. He has &C
copied a call to the church in South Han
son, Mass.
Early in March an honor roll of Col.
chester and Winooski men in the service
will be placed in front of the Winooski
block in Winooski. At present there are
3l5 names on the roll.
ATre. Fred Moore, chaplain of the
Woman's Relief corps at Bennington, fell
{ while coming down the stairs from the
G. A. r. rooms in that place Monday
evening and broke one ankle in two
places.
o. H. Harding of Rutland was among
the % injured Tuesday night on the
Danbury division of the New York New
Haven & Hartford railroad, when a pas
senger train from Hartford struck a To-
connective and caboose near Danbury
warning has been issued by the
treasury secret service men at Washing
ton that counterfeit $50 federal re-
serve not on the New York federal re-
serve bank is in circulation. Silk fibres
in the paper are initiated by pen marks.
Eighty-iive members Of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trsinmen of the south
ern division of the Central Vermont rail
way held a meeting in Brattleboro
few days ago These meetings are held
every month, usually at New London,
Conn.
IN the Rutland City warning for
March meeting has been inserted an ar
ticle asking an extra appropriation of
five per cent on the dollar for school pur-
poses, making a total of SIS per cent.
This is to take care of necessary re-
pairs on the school buildings.
A coal silo in Bennington belonging
to the H. Myers & Son Coal company
collapsed the first Of the week, leaving
pile of $50 tons of the fuel. The &C
cident is a costly one, but the coal com
pany will sustain no loss as the company
which built the silo guaranteed and viii
duplicate it.
Beatrice Reynolds, six ear-old daugh-
ter of Lieut. and Mrs. jackson L. Rey-
nolds of Bellows Falls, came near los
, ing her life Feb. 8 when she swallowed
a strychnine tablet, succeeded in re-
who was summoned, succeeded in re-
storing the child to consciousness and
she will probably recover.
The Burlington water department,
when called to repair a leak in its serv-
ice Monday, found that there was prac-
tically no frost in the ground at a depth
of four feet. Only IL frozen pipes have
been reported there so far this season
and last winter the total number thawed
out was 800.
William G. Hartin of South Burling-
ton, superintendent of the Chitten south
school district, has resigned to accept
a position with d. Appleton & Co., and
Charles r. Beeman of Bristol, superin-
tendent Of the Addison northeast school
district, has resigned to accept a position
with the Y. M. c, A. in educational work
abroad
Two cars on the Bellows Falls and
Saxtons River electric road collided on
a grade Feb 3, and held up traffic for
several hours. The passengers in the
outward bound car escaped injury and
both motormen jumped before the col
lision occurred. Slippery rails rendered
the brakes useless on the car coming
down the grade, which was empty.
The Caledonia county farm bureau
held it's annual meeting in st. Johnsbury
Feb. 4, go members being present. Five
hundred sat down to dinner and after
wards an address was given by Glen
Seavey of Springfield, Mass. The WON
ans department of the bureau held its
meeting at the same time. Since Aug,
I3 $3.50 has been realized as profits in
the exchange.
The 25th anniversary of the consecra-