The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-24
MONTPELIER
Better Railroad Service Is Being
Sought by Board of Trade.

Apparently Montpelier has become
dissatisfied with its train service be
tween Montpelier and Barre and int
Boston, for at the meeting of the boarC
Of trade a committee, composed q
d. J. Burns, j. W. Taylor, H. o. Ken
and c. G. Fisher, was selected to can
vass the city with petitions that will
be sent to Boston for the purpose o.
opening up the freight and passenger
stations that were operated for years
by the Montpelier and Wells River
railroad and asking also for the re-
sumption of service of the sleeper
which the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad used to run between this city
and Boston, as well as the old suburban
or better service between Barre and
| Montpelier
J. r. Weeks of Middlebury, director
of state institutions, and DIR. Stanley,
superintendent of the Waterbury asy.
lum, were in conference yesterday aft.
ernoon with Gov. P, w. Clement, rela-
| tive to affairs at the state hospital.
Rev. A. w. Hewitt of the state
| board of education was in the city yes
terday and last evening to attend a
conference of the executive board Of
Montpelier seminary on routine mat
tiers.
s. B. Bates on Tuesday commenced
his series of annual road meetings in
Bennington county, !. M Avery, tax
commissioner, also held listers meet
ing in Bennington the same day. Mr..
Avery will complete his series of list
ers' meetings in Burlington Thursday,
Judge Harrie B. Chase has announced
to the attorneys that the case of State
vs.. George o. Hale, charged with muir.
dering H. Lester Morse, will be com.
meneed at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon
of next week, Yesterday afternoon the
jury commission of the county drew 80
more iurymen in addition to those who
have been on the panel this term.
States Attorney Il. r. Davis and AT
torney General + G. Archibald will
prosecute, while Gleason and Wilcox
and w A. Lord will defend. Mr. Morse
was shot on disputed land near his
was arrested Later the grand jury in |
dlcteu MN fOf murder.
W. H. Jeffrey was in ST Johnsbury |
Tuesday to attend the funeral Of Isaac
Marshall, who was one OF his deputy /
probation officers.
The Yankee division bowling team
defeated the Railroad five Tuesday /
evening on the local alleys by a score
of l4l3 to 1869. makig new alley
record. The old record was held by the
Old Timers al l4l2. and while the new
record Is only a point more than the
Old Timers. The latter will try to
beat it in the near future Parry and
were high single string men,
each having 200 pins to their credit.
The trust companies and savings
banks aud the insurance companies
have paid to the state treasurer the
semi annual license taxes which are
lue that office during the month of
February for the next six months pc
led Nearly all OF the institutions
rave paid their taxes and the total
,aid up to and including yesterday
vas Sl.22174469 The corporations
AVE also paid their license taxes.
These are due In the month of Febru
nv for the year which has passed and /
he sum paid, including Yesterdays
eceipts, amount to "a II 1868.
Gov. p. w, Clement has received s
rom the state hospital very nice rug
fhich some of those persons, whose }
ortune ii ia to be in the institution. a
ave made and which was presented to !
i'm for use in the executive office. 1t I
as been placed on that side of the ex
rutive desk which Gov. Clement occu, a
les when here. :
Montpelier post of the American lie n
ion will meet Thursday evening, when !
he matter Of 81 per capita assessment q
ill be considered. il
Miss Laura Corliss Of Randolph has
zen registered by the board Of regis
alton of nurses and the certificate
led with the secretary of state
Charles A. Smith. field deputy state n
rotation officer, has Just returned y
ON three weeks tour Of visits to pro y
II toners and parolers for the board
charities and probation. He reports
at he visited one hundred and TWEEN
mine men who have been paroled =
ON the prisons or placed upon pro-
ltion bv the courts. Every men was
orkig. and no man earning less
AN SIS 4 week, and from that up 10 +.
= so. He visited many Of the homes 90
these men and IN nearly all Of them Dc
und satisfactory conditions. "a
The hearing in the matter of the tn
legged breach Of probation against ~
.dro Ruiz was completed this morn i
2 in CITY court. He was technically !
nnd guilty of breach Of his proba f.,
IN BY loud and bosterous manner, sai
L il appeared from the evidence dur in
? the morning that the occasion was a.
evoked by others. Mr.. Ruiz told SIS