The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Nottingham on
Dec. % celebrated their COLLEEN wedding
anniversary at their home in Shore.
ham
Russell Brown, l0-year-old son oil
Charles l.. Brown of Castleton Corners
mas made about $40 from trapping this
fall.
Durham Brothers company OF Brat
tleboro served five-course turkey din
ner to 100 statesmen, employees and IN
vited guests at the Brooks house New
Years night.
Archie L. Goodrich of Rutland, who
was married recently in Perkinsville to
Miss Ella Hoyt, is the fifth member OF
the band of the LIST Vermont regiment
to wed since the war closed.
Albee Smith, jr., member OF the
class Of 1894 at Middlebury college, was
killed in an accident, the nature or
which is not known, in Los Angeles,
Cal, Dec. l3. He was 46 years old.
Ralph H. Marden, city editor of the
Burlington News for the past eight
months, has finished work there and
zone to Gadsden, Ala, where he will be
editor-reporter for the Times-News OF
that city.
A highly polished cement walk in
front of Brandon bank has caused
so many falls since it became slippery
from winter weather that it has been
covered with board walk. One wom-
an fractured an arm there.
AT the 47th annual meeting of the
directors of the Jamaica Savings bank,
q dividend OF 2A per cent was declared
for the last six months and it was re-
ported that the bank had growth of
about $4,000 during the year.
In Rutland during 1919, ll3 couples
were married, or "a more than during
1918. The youngest bride was l6 and
the oldest So. The youngest groom was
10 and the oldest 6s. Only seven of
the couples were from out of the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Brown observed
their 5Oth wedding anniversary at their
home in Rutland Dec .26, with family
reunion. They were married in that
city and have lived there ever since.
There are six children, Is grandchil-
dren and four great grandchildren.
The Addison County Trust company,
Inc, of Middlebury is one of the two
banks in Vermont which have the nee
essary surplus to warrant its raising
the rate of interest paid to depositors
from four to four and one-half per
cent, and that is the rate that will be
paid.
Hazel Carrier, eight-year-old daugh
Ter Of Mr. and Mrs Leslie A. Carrier of
Bennington, had both arms broken
While sliding one day last week. She
Was inexperienced in steering and is
supposed to have run into another sled.
Two bones in the right wrist were
broken and the elbow bone was broken
in the left arm.
Middlebury had what she considered
almost an epidemic of pneumonia last
week. six cases developing within a
few days. They are all critical, and
one of those i'll, +. Fl. Farnham of Sud
bury, died Friday. He was on his way
home from visit in Morrisyille and
stopped off with a relative in Middle
bury because he was too i'll to go on
home.
George Moore, an employee of the
Middlebury branch of the Vermont
Marble company, was caught by his
right hand while oiling loose pulley in
the finishing department Friday night
and pulled up from the floor. His hand
and wrist were badly cut, and the mus
cles up to his shoulder were torn. He
was found by Noah Wissell, another
employe.
About $1,000 loss was sustained in
Bennington Friday night, when fire
damaged the auxiliary plant of the
Charles Cooper estate. The greater part
Of the loss was in the damage to the
machinery, which viii cause a shutting
down of the plant for nearly month.
The business carried on in the building
was the making of latch needles and
abort 25 persons had been employed at
the plant.
The Bennington Evening Banner,
which for the past year has been 10
cents per week or 81 year, beginning
to-day went up to S. a year and IL
cents a week. Single copies remain at
two cents each. Over 260 papers in
New England and New York state put
a raise in price into effect Jan. 5 and
many others had already done so. This
is forced by the increased cost of print
paper and other expenses.
r. Anderson, alleged proprietor of
he H. Anderson Produce company of
Bellows Falls, made a trip to Spring
Geld, Mass, Dec. %, TO sell the produce
and failed to return, and the large
number of farmers, tempted by the
high prices offered, who sent large
quantities of butter, eggs. veal, pork,
hay, grain and all kinds of poultry TO
Mr.. Anderson at Bellows Falls during
the last three weeks, are more than a
little interested in his whereabouts.