The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-12-07

ding cake Mrs. John w. Peck, sister
of Mr.. Barber, read an original poem
which applied well to the event.
Wills of r. A. Hoar and James T.
Smith, late of Barre, were presented in
probate court yesterday. Emma Holt
of Calais has been appointed admins
tratrix of the estates of 4. G. Holt and
Mary A. Holt, late of Calais.
G. r. Lackey was in Danyille yester.
day. He conducted an auction and sold
off l5 head of the stock of his farm
They went at good figures.
The body of John Grant Pike was
taken to Cabot this morning for flu
neral at ! O'Clock this afternoon, fol.
lowed by burial in the cemetery in that
village.
A. Cousineau of Montreal will ap'
pear before the United States district
court at Montpelier this week follow
ing his testimony in the case of the
Government against Roscoe Rand, on
the charge of contempt of court. Cous.
ineau is alleged to have failed to re-
spond to subpoena served on him
by Deputy Marshall Skinner to appear
in the Rand case TO testify for the
defendant. He went back to Montreal
after the subpoena was served and did
not come to Montpelier as soon as the
officers think he should. When he
reached Newport Sunday night he was
taken from his train so that he ar
rived in Montpelier in his trainmen's
uniform. He is a brakeman on the
Canadian Pacific railway. Rand is de-
claring in his defense that he had
nothing to do with certain smuggling.
A. G. Preble. deputy fire marshal
with " B. Person. chief of the Mont
pelier fire department, inspected the
Ala stoneshed Monday morning and
established to their satisfaction
the cause of the fire which damaged
the she several thousands of dollars
last Friday morning. They attributed
the cause of the fire to spontaneous
combustion in the sawdust. Men in
the shed several thousands of dollars
ing boards during the previous day.
The fire started IN that part of the
shed. The company lose considerably
more than the insurance carried on
the property.
Miss Maude Bailey, a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Bailey of Berlin,
was married at 10 O'Clock Saturday at
the home on the Barre road by Rev.
Frank Bloomfield, to Carroll Marsden
of Lebanon, y. IT. II was a quiet
affair, only immediate relatives at
tending. The newlyweds left shortly
after the ceremony for a wedding trip.
Friends of theirs gathered at the Cen
trail Vermont station in Montpelier
giving them a shower of confetti as
they were leaving the city. The bride
was employed in offices in Montpelier
before going to Lebanon TO reside. The
groom is an undertaken in that town
John +. Riley, jr., of the state for.
estry office left yesterday for a trip
through the state, looking after the
map work that is being done in diff.
ferent sections. including Burlington
and in Lamoille county.
w. III. Jeffrey. who has quite a cab.
met Of relics. has carried TO his office
in the state building one of the bal.
lots cast for Abraham Lincoln at his
second election, with comments on j;
by General Grant, Mr.. Lincoln and
Andrew Jackson. II is a very inter.
esting document and much simpler
than those used to-day
Piano. slightly used. for sale at 9
bareain. 1872 Main street.-adv.
W. G. Hastings. state forester, left
to-day for Harrisburg, Pa, where he
win attend a conference upon forestry
and at which he viii speak relative to
the matter Of government management
of forests.
The Locke Slate Products corpora
flon Of Rutland has filed with the sec
retary Of state a certificate that ths
company intends 10 issue $4,000 eapi.
tai stock and that Of that sum S40,0O(
has been paid up.
II looks now a. though the Senate
/ journals Of the session Of 1919 would
not be completed in time for distribu'
I ton 60 the legislators when they con
vene in a month. The law provides that
/ these shall b completed within = Ger.
tain time after the adjournment o.
/ legislature. The work is done by ths
secretary of the Senate bur this yesr
/ the document has been held up by the
1 index not being completed which had
not been made when Guy W Page. the
retiring secretary Of state, vas takeu
iii last fsIi with typhoid fever.