The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-07

past rev Gays.
The annual county play festival will
be held at the Woodstock county fair
grounds Saturday, June I,
Rev. Thomas s. ockford a former rec
tor in Mortified, died this week in Port
Leyden, ~ Y. Burial was in Northfeld
Mrs Ockford died about year ago
Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Fletcher of Bel
lows Falls announce the marriage Of
their son, First Lieut. Allen Fletcher,
to Anna, daughter of Mayor Scharles,
Of Niedercorn, Luxembourg, on May I.
Dexter Fl. Hathaway, who represented
the town of Tinmouth in the legislature
Z of 1894, died at his home in that place
June 4 at the age of rs, after a long
illness. He had always been prominent
in local affairs.
4 Sometime Monday night, the store of
Clayton w. Hanks in Middlebury was
entered and S4.S5 in silver was taken and
Is pennies. Nothing else was touched
There have been several of these little
breaks in Middebury.
Walter Mason, an employe of the card
ing room of the Dewey wooden mills at
White River Junction, had one hand TAX
en- off by one of the carding machines June
5. He was taken to Mary Hitchcock hos
pital at Hanover, where he is making
good progress,
James Fl. Marley, arrested by the Rut-
land police for intoxication. proved to
be man wanted for more than that, as,
when he was searched, wine was found
upon his person alleged to have been
taken from the saloon of Louis Ricei
when it was burglarized recently. He
admitted stealing them and was sen
fenced to two years in state prison, the
intoxication charge not being pressed.
RI. A. Hollenbeck's garage in Stowe
was broken into one night this week and
BOYS took his machine for a Joy ride.
When returning it, they ran into the mill
yard and drove into a log, badly damag-
ing the machine. The authorities got
busy at once and as a result William
Goss and Glen Richardson confessed their
guilt. The former was sentenced to
from five to six months at Windsor and
the case of the latter was continued.
When the auto of Martin Turner of
Barnet in which he was riding with his
wife, went into ditch quite near their
home on Monday evening, in which Mrs.
Turner received a sprained ankle, they
left the car where it was ditched and
walked home. Later a car came along
and seeing the Turner car on its side,
lighted match to see If anybody was
under it. The match they threw into
what they thought was water but what
proved to be gasoline. This famed up
and the car was soon enveoped in flames
and was completely burned up.
Edwin Gibson and Robert Badger,
young men who robbed a house in Ac
worth, n H., Sunday, and came to Bel
lows Falls Monday and succeeded in
raising money in local banks on forged
checks, were June taken to Claremont,
N. H., on an order of the prosecuting
attorney for Sullivan county, n. Fl. They
will be given hearing there. Gibson
gave his home as Hartland, VT, and
Badger claimed to live in White River
Junction
Propositions are being considered for
establishing an open zone for deer around
the property of the Connecticut Valley
Orchard company in Brattleboro. The
company has more than 1000 trees and
in recent years has sustained great dam
age from deer. Frank H. Brasor of
Brattleboro, superintendent of the Estey
Organ company, has made similar appli-
cation in respect to his property in MARI
boro.
A $500 damage suit, alleging aliena
ton of affection, was filed in the coun-
ty clerks Office at Brattleboro June by
Alfred L. Poupart against Samuel Boyd,
both Of Wilmington. Poupart is fore
man in bobbn factory and Boyd is a
farmer. He claims that Boyd induced
Mrs Poupart to leave her home on May
of this year. Poupart also filed a pc
tition for divorce on statutory grounds
and asked for the custody Of three minor
children.
Mrs Amy (Weeden) Richmond of
Brattleboro filed a petition for divorce
from Abbott B. Richmond on the grounds
of intolerable severity, neglect and re-
fusal to support Mr. Richardson is a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Scion A. Richard
son, his father being chairman of the
Brattleboro board Of selectmen. The pc
titioner, whose mother is in business in
Boston, asked for the custody of her l6
months old child. The couple at the time
Of their marriage little over two years
ago, were prominent in the social set of
the town. Mr. Richardson is now run
ming a garage in Kentucky.
An appropriation of $235,00O was made
for the administration of the Office in
Brattleboro of Frederick L. Houghton,
secretary of the Holstein -Fresian as
ISOLATION Of America at the annual meet
ing of the association in Philadelphia
June 4, Mr. Houghton was reelected
secretary by the unanimous vote of
about $500 members present. The ex.
tension work of the association is now
done from the Office at Brattleboro.