The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-06
MONTPELIER
A Great Many Attractions Are Going on
During This Week.

During This Week
This will be about as well filed week
Of attractions as has occurred in Mont
pelier in a long time Monday was given
to the defense in the Williams trial At
10 o'clock Tuesday morning supreme
court win convene, when several opinions
win be handed down by the justices At
the same hour United States district
court viii convene and criminal cases of
smuggling viii occur During the day
the Capital Poultry association viii open
its doors in city hall for its annual eX-
hibit. In the evening Judge w. y. Stat
ford viii speak in the Bailey hall 20 the
bar association. At 10 o'clock Wednes-
day morning legislature will convene, and
the poultry association and the three
above courts will be in operation The
annual bar association meeting viii oc-
cur during the day with banquet and
post-prandial exercises in the evening.
Thursday morning the retiring message
Of the governor win be given the legisla-
ture. The courts will be in session and
the poultry association show will termi-
nate in the evening. Friday afternoon
the message of Governor Clement will be
delivered to the legislature and will be
followed directly by the reception to the
executive in office. The ushers will be
Co. H. T. Johnson, Lieut.. Col Preston
II. Hadey, Majors Aaron Grout, IT, " A.
Allen and Il. b. johnson of the Vermont
Volunteer militia That evening the
Arab patrol will give ball in city hall
which will be attended by Governor
. nd ha fat
Philip Fraser Of Taunton, Mass, has
been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Robert Fraser of Barre street. Although
Montpelier boy he enlisted from Taun-
ton and went into the l0lst machine gun
battalion. He was wounded in service
and viii always walk with limp, the
bones of one ankle having been smashed
by machine gun bullet. lie also re.
ceived injuries to one hip and collar bone.
He laid on the battlefield for long time
and until the Red Cross found him, hav-
ing been left as dead by the army men
carrying back the wounded. During this
time he suffered from the conclusion of
a shell bursting near him. He is making
as good recovery as can be expected.
He arrived in Taunton a few days since.
The resignation OF James j. Storrow of
Boston RS New England fuel admnistra-
tor makes no difference with the condi-
tions in Vermont and does not affect any
other New England state. MIR. Storrow
resigned few weeks ago as MassaChu-
sets administrator and the work has
been handled in his office by another APP
pointce. State Fuel Administrator II. J.
NJ. Jones, while talking with Mr.. Stor-
row last Thursday, was advised that Mr..
Storrow was going to resign and that he
might 90 south for the winter and re-
cover his health. Il is not anticipated
that the resignation win be accepted and
it is expected that the work will be
handled by the secretaries in the same
Office in Boston.
Nine bell alarms aud 81 still alarms is
the total of the number of times that the
Montpelier fire department was called
out in 1918 The loss from fires has been
very small in the last year, a total of
$l7,64I The bell alarms arc Jan. 2, 3,
81, March IL. June 20, July l3, Oct. %,
Nov 3, and 8. Fifteen hundred dollars
of the fire loss occurred in two fires,
Waldo III. Farrar's house in January and
Tafts mill in July, the latter occurring
the night before Chief w. A. Pattee re-
linqushed his services and Chief v b.
Persons took the office. OF the still
alarms As occurred preceding July 10
and II since that date
Mrs. Jennie NJ. Newell, sister of Mayor
Frank W. Mitchell, died at Hayerhill,
Mass. Saturday Of pneumonia She was
a teacher in the high school of that city
and was Al years of age.
A meeting was held Friday to discuss
plans for further development Of the
home service work in Washington coun-
ty. Miss Rowe of the New England di-
vision of the American Red Cross spoke
and was followed by Mrs. Erwin NJ Har-
yey and Mrs. Frank Robinson Of Barre.
A meeting of the Vermont state teach
ers' retirement fund board will take place
Wednesday in the new state building
when the matter of a change in the re-
tirement fund provisions will be under
consideration. Among those on the board
are F. A. Rowland of Montpelier, Miss
Rose Lucia of Montpelier, the governor
and commissioner of education ex-ofiicio
officers, u. G. Mower of Burlington Miss
Caroline Woodruff Of ST. Johusbury and
Professor Locke of Bellows Falls
Daniel Montgomery If Morrisyille ar