The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-24
MONTPELIER
Boys in the Service Are to Receive Med
ais from the City.

Boys in the Service Are to Receive Med
ais from the City.
Mayor Harry G. Shurtleff, who left
last night for Boston to represent the
city of Montpelier in welcoming home
the local boys with the 28th division, be-
fore his departure, dispatched an order
Tor 800 bronze medals of the bar and
pendant type on red, white and blue
ribbon, which will be presented to each
| Montpelier boy who was in federal sery-
ice during the war. The order was placed
with Whitehead g. Hoag and the request
was made that the medals be shipped at
the earliest possible moment. The bar
contains the words "Pro Patria" and the
pendant will contain a seal of the city
in relief with a suitable inscription on
| the reverse side. Authorization of the
medals was approved by the city coun-
| Gil.
A partnership has been formed by
! George p. Barber and Pearl j. Laner to
carry on the undertaking business at II
| East State street, which has been con
| Quoted for the past two years by Mr..
| Barber, the new firm to be known as
Barber Il Lanier. Mr. Lanier, who re-
Gently returned from Florida where he
and his wife have been spending the
winter, has been associated with Mr..
| Barber more or less as funeral director.
N. b. Crittenden, state organizer Of
the Salvation Army drive, to-day an
nounced the following organization for
| this city: Chairman, Former Mayor
w. Mitchell; treasurer, Arthur G. Eat
| on; chairman of prospects committee,
Frank Fl. Tracy; chairmen Of speakers
committee, James B. Estee, Harold d.
Larrabee; chairman Of publicity commit
tee, j NJ. Healey; chairman OF womens
| committee, Mrs. Frank +. Lowe; chair
man of soldiers and sailors committee,
William Cory; city committee, George
| X. Putnam, f. A. Harris, John P. Adams,
Major Lee s. Tillotson, Timothy E. Cal
lahan, Harry Bianchi, Smith s. Ballard,
William /. Mckee, William N. Theriault.
The city's quota is S5l20. The cam
paign starts May 10.
At the regular meeting Of the city
| council last evening the street commit
tee was instructed TO repair the Coun-
try club road. The mayor was author
lied TO accept the proposition Of c. r.
Young 4 Co., of Lowell, Mass, to dec
crate the city hall for 800 for the swell
come home" parade of the soldiers in
| May. A petition was received from Is
, property owners asking for repairs on
| Fuller street. WrightSyile citizens asked
for extension Of street lights from upper
| Elm street TO that community. The
| council voted, 3 to 2, to postpone tenn
porarily the building of the Granite
street sewer. The food production com
mittee announced accomplishment Of the
land at the reservoir used for the past
| two years in connection with the com
munity garden. i. A. Witham was des.
! ignated az street commissioner 20 have
charge of state highway work. The
council voted to give the police depart
ment an extra room adjoining present
| quarters, with reservation Of the room
on nights when ii may be required for
meetings Of the school board The over
seer Of poor will be quartered in the
mayors office. A petition was received
| for a retaining wall on Marvin street,
which was referred to a committee to in
vestigate and report. After a statement
by Alexander r, C. Bowers about boys
under IL years of age being in pool
| rooms after Q o'clock at night, the po-
| lice were directed TO enforce the curfew
law The council voted to finish gravel.
| ing First avenue The full board will
make an inspection Of streets and high
ways Saturday afternoon.
The board of health last night voted
| to engage Angus Mcneil as Waterman at
! Berlin pond under an old order of the
| state board OF health under the same
| terms as last year He will commence
his duties between May and May Is.
License to sell milk was granted to 10
! dealers.
The hearing on 10 applications for liz
uor licenses before the county board be-
gan at o'clock this afternoon at the
| city council chamber at the city hall.
Fifty couples were present at the
Easter ball held at the city hall last
evening under the auspices of Montpelier
lodge Of Elks, Whites orchestra furnish
| ing music. About $40 was taken in and
whatever sum is Melted will be added to
the charity fund.
r. W. Wells and A. L. Smith Of the
University of Vermont extension sery-
| ice talked about hens and their ailments
/ ana TROUBLES TO score OF more OF men
fruit raisers at the city hall last even
ing, the meeting being held under the
auspices of the Capital Poultry associa-
ton with picture slides afterwards at the
Playhouse to further illustrate the sub
| jects considered.
A. Greler and wife have been engaged
as caretakers of the Montpelier Country
club, where extensive repairs are now
in progress.
The police department was called on
to-day to solve the disappearance of five
wagon loads of crushed stone, known
as No 2, from the stone crusher, which
the street department was surprised to
find missing when teams were sent TO
cart it onto the state road building on
| Elm street A circuit Of the Barre street
district showed that 0reste Montavani
had been industriously at work with mis-
wheelbarrow for several weeks stacking
crushed stone around his house. Peace
was declared on the basis of allowing
Montavani to retain possession of the
real estate and paying SIS indemnity.
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