The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-07-03

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Winham county two years and Judge
of Brattleboro municipal court four
years, is candidate for representative
from Brattleboro.
At one st. Johnsbury hotel automo-
bile parties have thus far this season
registered from every state in the un'
ion except Utah, record never before
reached SO early in the year.
The annual field meeting of the Yer
mont Botanical and Bird clubs has
been held at Tyson since Thursday.
Most of the time was given up to hikes
along the various lakes and ponds.
For lack of funds, repairs on piece
of road quarter of mile long on Sal
isbury has been discontinued for this
year This makes the second year on
this small length of road and the work
is still unfinished.
Eighty.six years old and working
hard daily is the record of Charles 5.
Cook of Rutland. He thinks nothing of
doing a hard days work every day at
the Rutland Manufacturing Co.'S plant,
where he works at Grating counters. He
looks to be about so. He served three
years in the Civil war, and was wound
ed.
August Phoenix and son, Joseph, of
North Troy are held under $500 bonds
for appearance in the United States
court following a preliminary hearing.
They are charged with attempting to
smuggle across the line Joseph Lecuyer,
a 20.year-old boy living in Montreal.
Lecuyer is also held under $500 bonds
as witness.
Trafford Teachout of Essex juno
ton, who graduated last week from the
University Of Vermont, has accepted a
position with the f. II. Everett Co. Of
Bennington. on one of the largest or
chards in the country. The orchard COW
ers 600 acres at present with $4,000
apple, 1000 pear, 1000 cherry and 5000
plum trees.
Rev. Edward Pickett Kimball, who
died in Waterloo, la, June s, celebrated
his Tooth birthday anniversary July IS,
1919. His first pastorate was in Wal.
den, where he received an annual sal
airy OF $500 He attended St Johns
bury academy in its early days and
also taught school in Vermont and 9th
er states before entering the ministry.
Lester Fuller, night foreman of the
Boston & Maine transfer at Newport,
received severe electrical shock dur
ing a hard storm there Wednesday.
The B. & NJ. freight Office was struck
by lightning but was not set on fire,
The electric wires were all burned off
and the room filled with smoke. Three
men, beside Mr. Fuller, felt the effects
of the current, but Mr.. Fuller was un-
conscious for a time.
Milton is having a milk shortage be-
cause the dealers are carrying the milk
to the creameries, instead of selling it
from house to house. II is said the
dealers object to the license and cattle
testing order recently given out by the
health board and most Of them refuse
to comply with the law preferring to
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less red tape is necessary.
Mrs. Mary Johnson Sample, who died
in New York recently at the age of 90,
was born at Peschsm When % she
cast her first ballot in a New York
election. She wrote weekly typewrit-
ten letters to a sister When widowed
go years ago she went to work selling
her husbands invention, machine for
cutting and trimming books and placed
many machines in the largest publish
ing houses in the country.
Joseph Batten, alias Anderson, is in
Chittenden county jail, awaiting trial,
on a charge Of using the mails 10 de-
fraud. He was allowed an opportunity
to plead in the United States court,
and it was reported that he was to plead
guilty, but he changed his plea to not
guilty aud will be tried later Batten
had r. f. Brown Of Burlington as his