The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-05
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Three hundred and fifty persons reg
istered at the rest room in st. Albans
during the month of May.
Rev. n. S. Hill of Woonsocket, r. T..
will begin his passionate of the Univer.
sallst church in Concord June l3.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Charles Chesley of
Sheffield celebrated their golden wed
ding anniversary at the home of their
son in st. Johnsbury June 2.
0. G. Hardy, an engineer on freight
train from Woodsville, N. H., to st.
Johnsbury, was overcome by the heat
while on duty Wednesday and tainted.
During a thunder shower last week,
Ernest. Roberts lost a bull and heif :
er and Ernest Edgerton lost five cows,
killed by lightning, in a pasture at
Dorset.
Leland A. Wood has resigned as Cal
edonia county agricultural agent to
become treasurer of the Plymouth
Creamery association, with headquar-
tiers in Boston. His successor has not
yet been named.
While opening bottle of soda in a
Bellows Falls store few days ago,
John Barbieri of that place was bad.
ly cut when the neck of the bottle
blew off and inflicted deep wound in
one arm that required hospital care.
Herbert Pierce, teacher of the New
port high school, is to give up teach
ing and return to the practice of law.
He was admitted to the Massachusetts
bar last fall and will take the Yer
mont examinations here next fall.
Yesterdays Boston Globe referred to
the arrest of Robert r. Breyen of Wi
nooski and Henry =. Beers of Richmond
Hill, L. l., for the alleged illegal trans
porting of stolen automobile over
state line. Both were arraigned and
held for the federal grand jury
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac A. Balch OBJ.
served their Goth wedding anniversary
Thursday at their home in Waterford.
For 40 years Mr.. and Mrs. Balch lived
in the west, where he made speciality
of bee raising, which business he has
carried on since living in Waterford.
Mrs. Balch has been an invalid for "a
years.
A special attempt is to be made to
morrow TO find the body of Leon Re
gan, the l4-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Gage of Orleans, who was
drowned about two months ago while |
fishing with two boy companions. |
About 200 men have agreed to go to |
Black river to try to find some trace
of the body.
Next Monday the Vermont School of |
Aviation will open at Springfield under |
the direction of Capt. H. +. Stickney |
and Earl 0sgood of Bellows Falls. |
Three students will commence the
course Monday and others have al
ready been enrolled to commence at
later date. The price for an eight
week course rs S45U.
Mrs Celina Charbonneau, the oldest
resident of Bennington, died this week
at the age Of 03 years. She was very
active until three years ago, when she
fell and sustained injuries which have
since confined her to the bed. She was
born in Montreal and when a child was
chosen from her class in school to sing
before Queen Victoria and the prince
of Wales, who were on trip through
that city.
Ten boys have arrived at the Green
Mountain Home, Inc, the agrieultur-
al and horticultural school at Old Ben.
nington, founded by Edward T. Ever
cit of that place. The students are to
be under no personal expense while
they take the three year course. even
their clothing being furnished OF the
10 students, only two are from Yer
mont-Ralph T.. Headle of Rutland
and James +. Williams of Bennington.
One of them is Thomas d. Bowles of
Seattle, Wash. There is a waiting list
ef 40.
Two nearly new high priced cars
we're badly wrecked and five people
were injured in Bellows Falls few
DAYS ago, when an Oldsmobile owned
and operated by A. l. Bolles of that
place and a Franklin car owned by
Charles i. Davis of Rutland collided.
There was plenty of room to turn out,
but Misunderstanding of signals is
supposed to have been the cause of ,
the accident. All five persons in the
two ears were thrown out and two of /
them were taken to the hospital, but
their injuries proved not serious and
they remained but few hours. The
franklin had just been purchased by
Mr. Davis in Massachusetts and he ,
was driving IL to his home in Rut.
land. II is thought to have been ,
wrecked beyond restoration. The front /,
u the 0ldsmobile was demolished.
A well known resident of Brookfield /.
considers that Diogenes came ahead of
his time for had the seeker after an
honest man been in Brookfeld the 9TH /,
r. day he would have found the object ,
a his search. The reason for the be.
lief is this: The Brookfeld man was ,
iray from home a week ago and on !
HE return found a dead hen laid out
IN his piazza. The Brookfeld man rec y.
,gnized the hen as his property. Sew
.ral days later an automobile wheeled /.