The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-22
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from
Different Sections,

Assistant Judge c. II. Dana of Wood
bury is in the field for county senator
A little new sugar has appeared il
the market in Bristol at 80 cents q
pound.
Purses offered by the Rutland Fail
association in 1920 race events will ag'
gregate over $4,000.
Sidney " X. Fairbanks of st. Johns,
bury has been appointed secretary ia
Hon. Robert L, Johnson, ambassador TO
Italy. He was married Sunday in Bos-
ton and will sail to-day.
Ella F. Dow of Belmont has won a
verdict for ST 500 from Alexander Rice
of Worcester, Mass, getting the value
of 5000 feet of lumber at S25 per
thousand and S75 exemplary damages.
Enosburg Falls maintained a skating
rink during the winter, but at the end
of the season found itself with a short
age of SOFAS, which represents the
amount put into q warming house.
The little daughter go Nelson Valyou
of Essex Junction put 25-cent piece
into her mouth. 1t slipped down her
throat and lodged and she had to be
taken TO hospital to have it removed.
Timothy Neville, for more than 40
years Vergennes druggist, died there
Thursday. He was for many years
treasurer of the public school funds
and was active in church and civic in
terests.
Bella Dexter, S4 retired building
contractor, died in Rutland Friday,
after long illness Two of the Rut-
land school buildings and many other
blocks and residences were erected UNI
der his skilled supervision.
Rutland is now facing a run of
measles in the city and hereafter any
one who attends a theatre there and
happens to sneeze or cough will be
asked to leave, lest it be the beginning
of an attack of measles and expose
the rest of the audience
Raymond L. Coleman of Lyndonville,
a brakeman on the Boston & Maine,
was arrested in Boston last week,
charged with having cocaine and NOR
phine He was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Hayes, and held
in $1,000 for hearing on March 30.
T. w. Lawler, who died suddenly re-
Gently at West Stewartstown, n. H.,
from an apoplectic shock, was resi- |
dent of McIndoes Falls, but the fam |
lily was spending the winter months
at West Stewartstown, where the |
daughter is teacher. For over 40
wears Mr. LAWYER had been chief ac-
countant and auditor of the different |
branches of the Van Dyke estate oper-
ations.
Edward r. Young, aged 6S, the old
est engineer on the Boston 81 Maine
railroad out of Bellows Falls, with
only one exception, died at the Rock
ngham hospital March Is, following
an illness of nearly two months with
a complication of diseases. Mr. Young
had been with the Boston e. Maine
railroad for 46 years and had been an
engineer for 40 years.
Two captured 3.2-inch German guns,
model 1885, and carriage have been
turned over to officers of Westminster
and the village of Bellows Falls by the
office of chief of ordinance in the war
department at Washington. A letter
to Colonel Thompson says: These
cannon are loaned under the provisions
of the act of Congress, approved May
%, 1890, and should future service de-
mand they are subject to return to the
government The gun coming to Bel
lows Falls will be placed on the north
half of the armory lawn.
The minimum wage of Rutland
teachers is hereafter to be $3.50 year,
with an increase of $500 for those who
have taught in the city schools for 10
wears or over. In the high school, I'M
der the schedule now existing, the sal
aries range from S7s733, which one
teacher receives, to $500, which the
principal receives The Brattleboro
school board has voted increases aggre
eating $4,000 and affecting 10 per
sons The increases range from $3.50
to $500 year. with an increase of
$500 being given to the principal. This
will increase the school tax TO 100
cents on the dollar