The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-08

streets as usual this spring.
Miss Margaret Darling of Burling
ton has been engaged to supervise thu
activities of the Girls Community
league of St. Johnsbury and begins hel
duties there Saturday.
Rev. George A. Martin OF Grace
Methodist church, st. Johnsbury, is &c
preach the conference sermon at the
Methodist conference to be held in
Springfield beginning April 22.
Phiibert Denault of Cohoes, n y,
was taken from the Montreal train at
Alburg Sunday as he was bound for
Burlington and was arrested for SNUG
Cling liquor across the Canadian bor-
der. Five gallons of whiskey and wine
were found on his luggage.
Miss Bertha H. Wilder, for six
months assistant TO w. 9. Towart,
pastor of the Baptist church IN Ben
nington, has gone to North Adams,
Mass. where she will remain Jhis sum
mer and next fall will go to Shenan-
doah, Va, where she will teach IN the
religious education department Of a
mission school.
Miss Mathilde Vossler, who resigned
as recreation instructor for the Ben
nington Welfare association in order to
nington in a like work in the army
camps during the war, is now in Con
stantinople with a relief organization
of the Y. w. G.. A. and was one of 10
Americans who helped to care for 20O,-
600 Russian refugees who fled from
the city OF Odessa when that city fell
into the hands of the bolsheviki.
William H. Freedman, professor of
electrical engineering at the University
of Vermont since 1899, with the excep-
ton of the three years from 1910 to
1913, when he was at Pratt institute in
Brooklyn, has gone to New York City,
where he will be the head of the de-
partment of personnel and training OF
the American Telephone g. Telegraph
company Professor Freedman's work
at the university is for the present be-
ing handled by the instructors in cleo
trical engineering.
Michael Wallet of Rutland, who
pleaded guilty to following young
women on the street and making him
self obnoxious, was sentenced in Rut-
land city court Tuesday to not less
than one nor more than one and one
half years in the house of correction.
The immediate cause of his arrest was
his following young woman who
came in on train at 3 a. m, the train
being many hours late. She received
such fright as to need medical at
tendance.
Perry Fl. Merrill of Bristol has just
received word of his appointment to
a fellowship in Sweden for the academ-
ic year l920-2l, with a stipend of ST.
600. He will spend year studying
forestry and forestry methods in Swe-
den. Mr.. Merrill graduated from the
New York State College of Forestry at
Syracuse, N. Y, in The class of 1917. |
He is at present district forester Of
Vermont. Only 20 fellowships are given |
in the United States. Mr.. Merrill will /
sail with his bride for Sweden some
time in July.
W. A. Bentley of Jericho, the man !
who is credited by the United States |
government with having the best and !
most complete collection of photo
graphs of snow crystals in the coun-
try, added 325 new varieties to his |
number during the past winter. Mr..
Bentley reports 20 snowstorms during |
the season just completed. His work |
has become so well known that a film /
company has utilized his photographs |
in a moving picture and some of the |
most eminent professors of the coun- |
try have written articles concerning |
Mr.. Bentley and his remarkable col
lection.
Rev. w. w. Brunk, former pastor
Of the Bennington Methodist church,
where he was very successful. is now
located in Liverpool near Syracuse,
n. v, and family troubles that have
been settled recently were done so in
novel manner Not wishing the noto-
riety. of the courts, justice of the
peace named three neighbors of the
Drunk family, who should act as jury /
on the matter. They did so and decid-
ed il would be better for the husband
and wife to part, so they awarded Mrs.
Brunk 50 900, of which $500 was paid
in cash and 81 500 in a farm mortgage, /
and the youngest child, while Mr..
Brunk has the two other children and
thew are living with him in the par
sonage. Mrs. Brunk took the child as
signed 20 her and left for Florida,
V here she is living with a brother.