The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-13

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Brattleboro's annual Valley fair is to
be held Sept. 30 and Oct. |.
The 10Th annual fair of the Brattle-
boro Congregations Sunday school, held
last week, netted $500.
John II. Dorsey and Clayton HI. Ken
ney, both of Rutland, have formed a law
partnership there, under the firm name
of Dorsey & Kenney.
a special town meeting has been called
IN Ludlow to elect collector of taxes
in place Of William Patterson, resigned,
and overseer Of the poor in place Of
M. j. Connolly, resigned.
Marcellus Francis, who lives with his
daughter in Wells, although celebrating
his SD birthday Wednesday, has split
II cords Of wood this spring. He is well
preserved except for lameness.
Lunenbrg lays claim to busy 10
days, town meeting having been held
during that time, one birth occurring
in town. one death, a fire, two parties
and three weddings, all this in addition
to the regular village activities.
Miss Ruby F. Howe, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. W. B. Howe of Burlington, who
for a long time was in charge of one of
The canteens at Camp Devens, sailed on
Saturday for France, where she will
serve as a Y. M. c, A. canteen worker.
A postal card addressed to Miss Anne
liza Patnaude, Middebury, Vt, in care
of Solemn B. Aines, and mailed at 3
p. M, June II, 1909 at Seattle, Wash,
reached Mr., Aines on Thursday, March
6, 1919, nine years and nine months
after mailing.
DIR. Thomas S, Wright, last year the
head of the English department at the
summer school at Middlebury college,
died at his home in New Haven, Conn,
recently. DIR. Wright was head of the
English department of the Sheffield sci
entific department of Yale university.
G. +. EMERSON, who retired from office
in Peacham at the recent town meeting,
had been either road commissioner or
selectman for 90 years out Of the past
% years, l6 of which he had served as
road commissioner He declined to serve
another term on account Of i'll health,
President Benjamin T. Marshall of the
Connecticut college for women, New Lon
don, Conn, has been engaged as speaker
at the graduation exercises of the Brat
tleboro high school Tuesday evening,
June "a President Marshall was pas
tor of the college church at Dartmouth
for several years,
A. E, Smith of Springfield hearing her
three-year.old son scream, rushed up
stairs TO find him in flames The child
had been playing in his nightclothes, and
it is believed he got hold of some
matches He lived but few hours. His
mother was badly burned in her efforts
to save him.
The Caledonia county farm bureau has
organized a big club contest which is
open to any boy or girl in the county
under 10 years old All enrollments must
be filed before June ! when the contest
starts. -Four months will be allowed and
an exhibit will be held sometime in Sep
TENDER in st. Johnsbury at which time
the prizes will be awarded, .......#
Rollo G. Reynolds, for one and one. half
years director of agriculture at the Vail
schools at Lyndonville, has resigned to
enter educational work with the Y. NJ.
C. A. overseas. In September he will
return to take up post graduate work
at Columbia university. His successor
at Lyndonville has not been appointed.
Leon H. Beach, for the last year d.
rector of industrial education for the
state of Vermont, has been given leave
of absence until July /, his services hav-
ing been requested by the government
to do administrative work for the federal
board of vocational education at Wash
ington, in connection with the demobili-
cation of disabled men.
Three petitions in bankruptcy have
been filed in the Office of the clerk of
the United States court at Rutland, two
by father and son. Andrew j. Bedel and
Andrew J. Bedell, jr,, of Barnet have
liabilities of $1,000, the son reporting
assets of $780, of which $3.50 is claimed
exempt. Philip Benjamin Of Berkshire, a
farmer, has liabilities of $4,000 and as
sets of Sl460, of which S465 is claimed
exempt.
Bellows Falls is having another flu
epidemic, four teachers and "a pupils
being absent from the high school Mon
day, while four other teachers in the
grades We're also sick All schools in
Bellows Falls have been closed for the
remainder of the week and no one under
Is is allowed to attend the movies there
OF the cases of illness, the health officer
calls 40 Of them influenza and the others
colds and grip There has been one
death,
The Vermont club in Washington, D.
c., comprising war workers and the Yer
mont State association Of the same city
are planning to consolidate and the mat
ter is under consideration. The two
clubs are planning a sugaring-oH party
in the near future. The Vermont State
association is composed of older residents
of the Green mountain region, and the
Vermont club the younger ones who have
been brought to Washington for war
service.
Fisk G. Rogers, formerly for several
years manager of the Dummerston quar-
Ty, recently has taken the position as
general MANAGER of the Flynt Granite
company in Springfield, Mass, recently
made vacant by the death of M f.
Moore. After leaving Dummerston Mr..
Rogers went to his home town, Monsoon.
where he bought and managed the Cen
fury hotel several years, which he sold
a few years later and went to Spring