The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-02


died at his home in Edgwood, R. l.
preached in Leicester for two years.
No arrests were made in March in
Rutland During license, 30 to 40 ar
rests a month were not at all un'
usual.
A full blossomed pansy was picked
in. the flower bed of Miss Clara Coburn
in Sutton March 20, with most Of the
bed still covered with snow.
Asa Davis. elected as town road com
missioner of Milton at the town meet
ing, has resigned and Wilbur G. New
ton has been appointed in his place.
Donald Page, who has been spending
the winter in Cuba, has returned to
his home in johnson and brought with
him two negroes from Cuba to work
for him on his farm.
School opened in Waterville last
Monday. was in session two days and
then closed until April II as the roads
were in such condition the pupils
could not get to scfool'
The house and tenement situation is
said to be very serious in Rutland. II
is almost impossible to find suitable
place to live for the rents one is able
to pay. Rent profiteering is very APP
parent.
William Rogers of Lyndonville suf-
fered shock several weeks ago, when
one side was partially paralyzed, and
last week Tuesday morning, as he was
eating breakfast, he suddenly became
blind.
The sugar house of William Taft in
South Starksboro caught fire the other
day under the arch and burned the
floor until the arch tipped over, the
contents of the evaporation putting out
the fire.
A large maple tree in front of the
house of William B. Johnson in Es-
sex Junction which was cut down be-
cause il had shown signs of decay. was
80 years old and it yielded II cords of
stove wood.
Louis Rush, for so years employed
by the Shepard & Morse Lumber COM
pany of Burlington. has finished work
and intends to retire from active en-
ployment, continuing his residence in
Burlington.
William J, Quimby, one of the alum
nj of Lyndon institute, has presented
the school an annual prize, to be known
as thesQuimby prize, to be. competed
for annually by the grammar and in
termediate grades.
A $4,000 piece of reinforced concrete
paving is to be put in on two streets
OF Rutland this summer, the contrac
tors planning to begin work April Is
and agreeing to complete the work in
$50 working days.
William Brown, for "A years fire
man, has the distinction of being Bur-
lington's veteran fire fighter, both in
years of service and in age. He is GA
and has served continuously since Au-
gust, 1875, with the exception of three
weeks when he was i'll.
T. w. #. Wettleson of Rutland has |
leased for term of years the Hotel |
Allen at Fair Haven and will take pos
session Nav l. Mr.. and Mrs. Wettle- |
son for some time managed the Ho- |
tel Hamilton in Rutland and since then |
has been engaged in newspaper work.
Four members of the same family |
were operated on at their home in Lyn- |
donyille Friday-Mr. and Mrs. Ernest !
Gour and their two daughters, Carolyn |
and Mildred. All had been seriously i'll /
for two weeks with pneumonia, follow |
ing influenza. and pus had formed on
their lungs. Two nurses are attending
the patients.
The voters of Arlington were called
in a special meeting March 30 to re-
scind the vote taken at the regular
March meeting TO erect a graded school
building, but in the meantime senti
ment had grown stronger in favor of
the building. so that the vote of 1877
to 1877 confirmed the previous action.
4
/. Marsh farm in East Franklin, re-
ceived painful injuries one day last
week when his frock caught on the
governor Of the gasoline engine. He
was carried around on the belt. strik-
ing his head on the cement floor. His
little finger was so badly smashed IL
had to be amputated up to the hand.
An injury TO her leg. caused by
sliding accident last summer, resulted
in tubercuar affection Of the leg and
the death of Beatrice A. Torey, aged
II years. on the operating table at the
Melrose hospital in Brattleboro Tues
day. She was the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur +. Torey Of North Hins-
dale, y. H. The funeral was held in
an undertaking psrlor in Brattleboro
because the steel arch bridge between
there and North Hinsdalc was the one
washed out by the freshet The body
was placed in the tomb az Brattleboro.
Marion. three year-od daughter Of
Mrs. &. J.. Robinson Of Stowe. has been
taken TO a hospital in Burlington for
treatment OF and perhaps an operation
on he third finger Of her left hand a.
. result Of playing with a sewing ma
chine and getting a needle through her
finger. She and her brother were work
ing at the machine. the brother run
ming il. when she got her hand under
the presser foot and the needle went
through her finger between the last
JON and the ns breaking of in her