The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-14

|. A. Paquette of st. Adams was ar
rested Tuesday on charge of embezzle-
ment of American Express Co. funds.
aPaquette was an employe OF the ex-
press company.
The Rutland county jail committee
has accepted plans and specifications for
q new jail presented by Architect A. Il.
Smith. They plan to spend $4,000 on
the structure.
Henry Ryan of Fairfax, a laborer, has
filed petition in bankruptcy in the Of
flee of Clerk Henry Conlin of the United
States court. His liabilities are $2795O,
Rnd his assets amount to $75, all OF
which he claims are exempt
At the Mead family reunion at Jericho
Center last Friday, more than 100 mem
bers gathered to enjoy picnic and the
speeches of several members of the fam
fly. A similar gathering was planned
for next year, and officers were elected.
Announcement has been made that
Henry Conlin, clerk of the United States
tourt for the district of Vermont, will
move his office from Rutland, where it
has been for the past IL years, to an
pffice on the second floor of the new
federal building in Burlington.
st. Adams is to have debate on the
league of nations, staged in city hall
Aug. 23. Senator Martin Villas, an ac-
tive opponent of the league, is to uphold
the negative, while Elmer johnson of
st. Adams, one Of Vermont's leading
advocates of the league, will speak for
the affirmative.
Papers have been filed with the secre
tary of state of the suit of the City
Fruit company of st. Adams against
William Wry and trustees, including h.
r. Hood & Son, Green Mountain Pack
Ing company and Mrs. George Hogan,
TO recover 100000
Townshend. has voted to accept the
offer of Mrs. Kate c. Dillon of Gains
Vile, Fla, to present the town a new
town hall, provided the town would fur
nish a larger site. Land has been Sc
cured, large enough for the town hall
site and for a playground. Mr. Dillon
was a native of Townshend,
The Commercial club Of st. Johnsbury
has hired Lieut. s. Cheney to reorganize
company D of the national guard in st.
Johnsbury Already more than so of the
100 men desired have enlisted, many of
them old members of the company. One
of the chief reasons for forming this
company seems to be desire to keep
open the armory with its fine audito-
rum.
At the meeting of the It'll Vermont
veterans, held Tuesday at Rutland there
were % members present from Yer
mont, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire,
Ohio and New York. Seven members
have died since their last reunion. The
oldest member present was Abner B.
Hale of Fitchburg, Mass, who is Oh
years old and who came to Rutland just
for the reunion.
Mary Johnson Bee a middle-aged
woman living in Burlington, tried a
sensational getaway Tuesday, when the
police drew up in front of her house to
arrest her for breach of peace. She was
evidently expecting them to call, for as
soon as they appeared she jumped out of
b window at the back of the house and
He'd through wood yard, only to be
caught after few minutes chase
Burlington tried new community
experiment Tuesday night in the form
bf community boat ride on the lake in
the Ticonderoga, More than 600 went
and thoroughly enjoyed the evening of
ride, songs and dancing under the auspi-
ees of the war camp community service
"A strong searchlight was carried, so that
the shore all along the way was illu-
mined for those who would enjoy the
scenery.
The Woodstock railway has with
drawn its claims against the federal gov
trnment for higher rates for carrying
American railway express and has de-
tided to do business on pre-war basis.
The road, which consists of Ia miles of
track between White River Junction
and Woodstock, was not taken over by
the government but claimed that it
should receive the same compensation
for carrying express. The road is now
granted an annual compensation for
handling all the business offered by the
American railway express.
Much interest is being shown in Bur-
lnigton over the new housing scheme
gbat ;e baiun avoIvad IN furniSh Bur.
lington with suitable and sufficient hous.
ing facilities. Fifty-fve men are inter
ested in the organization Of realty
company which will furnish the $l50,000
for the work There will be no group
settlements built, but houses will be
scattered over the city wherever land
is available at a reasonable figure. The
houses are to be different on the outside
and are to contain five or six rooms and
have yard.
An ingenious scheme OF getting some
thing for nothing was tried by two cat
Tile buyers in Burlington this week. They
had their truck weighed at one scales
and then took in the two calves that
they had purchased and the man sell
ing them and drove to the next scales
to be weighed again, to prove that the
first scales were sound. On the way one
of the men sat in back and dropped out
l20 pounds Of stone that had been con
cealed in the bottom of the car while the
driver kept Mr.. Pearl the man who was
selling the cattle, busy. When they were
weighed they totaled 100 pounds less than
Mr. Pearl had recorded when he had