The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-12

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camp at Lake Dunmore, died last week
in New York City.
Burlington Elks cleared between ST.
500 and $4,000 from the minstrel show
held there recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Warren OBJ
served their 50th wedding anniversary
at their home in North Willlston on
Feb. 2.
Citv Grand Juror John s. Dorsey OF
Rutland, whose term of office expires
April /, has announced his candidacy
for denomination.
Charles w Farr, st. Johnsburys
overseer of the poor, will not be can
didate for the office at the next cleo
ton, he announces
Northfeld's first community snow
shoe hike of this season was held on
Monday night. A large crowd always
turns out in Mortified for these events.
Wayne, nine-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jerome B. Ayers of Stowe, may
lose the sight of his left eye as re.
suit of sliding accident near the
Moscow schoohouse. His sled ran into
another one.
Two little sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Ev arts of Ferrisburg obtained a
bottle of oil of wintergreen and drank
it last week while left alone in the
house. The younger child, three years
old, is dangerously i'll.
There is a possibility that an auto
ferry may be established next summer
between Burlington and Port Kent, n.
Y. This would save auto parties com
ing from the south, bound for the
Adirondacks, about 90 miles of travel.
Edmund p, Howe of Bennington, who
has been employed for the past six
months on the editorial staff of the
Rutland Herald, will leave Saturday
for Birmingham. Ala, where he will be
engaged in publicity duties in Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.
The director of state institutions,
JOUn L. w tehSf has AtiuS7tNu WV ~
perintendents of the school for feeble
minded at Brandon and the Vermont
industrial school at Vergennes to re-
ccive no commitments or visitors until
the danger from the influenza is past.
C. NJ. Wallace one of the older resi-
dents of East Ryegate, died Feb. at
his home there. He was veteran OF
the Civil war and the first station
agent in East Ryegate, which position
he held 80 years. He represented the
town in the legislature of 1908.
Senator Dillingham; has written the
secretary of the Commercial club at st.
Johnsbury that the Senate bill increas-
ing the appropriation for the new gov
eminent building at St. JOhnsbury has
been held up as no money for public
buildings will be voted at this term of
Congress.
Walter o. Greene of ST. Johnsbury is
again state champion in the handicraft
work of the Vermont Boys and Girls
club, receiving SIS gold piece and a
cold pin. Ronald p Burrows gets sec
ond place, while Edward B. Farmer
and James C. Puffer are tied for the
third place.
Two Bellows Falls stores were brok-
en- into Monday night, those of Goodno,
Jewett & Bishop and #. E. Shedd. A
little change was taken from each
store, some stamps and perhaps some
goods, the amount not yet determined.
The aforementioned is a department
store and the second meat market.
Although II Is now thought sight
will be spared George Broadwell of
Burlington, his condition is very Sc
rious as result of a fall. He is an
electrician for the Rutland railroad and
was carrying a battery near the Rouses
Point bridge when he slipped on some
ice and the sulphurie acid in the cell
flew, badly burning his right eye and
face.
Town Clerk Lyman s. Hayes of Bel
lows Falls was taken to Syracuse, n.
Y, Tuesday to receive special treat
ment by a fracture specialist. Mr..
Hayes tripped on a chair several weeks
ago and fractured his left leg about
four inches above the knee and has
been In the Rockingham hospital since
that time, but the bones have not unit
ed, which necessitated expert treat
ment.
A. B. Mattison, 40, and John T. How
ard, 81, died in Rutland Tuesday of
pneumonia, following influenza. For
ty-four new cases were reported that
day to the district health officer, DIR.
B. T. Colby, who charges the phys-
clans with not enforcing the quaran-
tine. Orders have been issued that all
persons dying from influenza or pneu-
monia shall have private funerals.