The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-11
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections.

Newport has planned big Fourth OF
July celebration.
A feature of the annual reunion OF
the alumni of the Brattleboro high
school this year will be the dedication of
bronze meromial tablet containing the
names of the eight alumni members
who paid the supreme sacrifice in the
World war.
The new sawmil of the East Concord
Lumber company was burned to the
ground Wednesday morning. The loss
is estimated at $4,000 and it is partly
covered by insurance. The mill was
owned by the Fitzdale Paper Co. and
had been operated only two months.
Thieves broke into the warehouse of
the Addison county farm bureau in
Bristol Tuesday night and stole a
quantity of maple syrup. The syrup
was being pooled by farmers and
shipped out by the farm bureau. Just
how much was stolen has not yet been
ascertained.
Irving Bachelor, the famous novelist,
author of "Eben Holden" keeping Up
With Lizzie" "The Man for the Ages"
etc, delivered the centennial address at
the centennial exercises of Bradford
academy Wednesday. He is an alumnus
OF the academy. Many alumni returned
for the observance of the centennial.
C1aranca T. Rohipoop four vaorz
stage manager of the Boston theatre,
was married Wednesday in Woonsock
ct, r. l., to Miss Laura Hampton. Mr..
Robinson, one of the best known vaude-
vile stage managers in the country,
began his theatrical life at the age of
10 in Burlington, where he was stage
manager, scene shifter, bill poster, tick
ct seller and general utility boy.
Some kind of a pest, said to re-
semble the European corn borer, has
destroyed this week nearly half two
acre stand of small corn at the Elm
Leigh farm in Putney, owned by Miss
Mary I. Andrews. Small worms, sim
liar to cut worms. were the cause of
the trouble. Fred j. Reed of Bradford,
state entomologist, made hurried trip
to the field and specimens of the worms
were sent to Arlington, Mass, to the
federal bureau, for investigation. The
worms appear to be going into the pu-
pae stage and no more trouble is anti
cipated from them this year.
Two draft evaders have been round
ed up in Orleans county, Frank Ar
senneau of Island Pond and Oral Lang
maid of Holland, being the latest to
be taken on that charge Arseneau is
alleged to have failed to make out his |
QUESTIONABLE. A preliminary hearing
in his case preceded his being held in |
5000 bonds for appearance in United |
States court at Windsor at the present |
term. Langmaid is said to have failed |
TO appear for physical examination
when called by the draft board, and he |
is confined in the Newport Jail because
he could not furnish the necessary bail. |
Miss Matte Kathryn Mckenzie of |
Hinesburg, who has been employed in
the war risk bureau in Washington.
d. c., since April, 1918, has resigned her
position to accept position as com
UeTclhi teHcneT unOeT the United
States federal board and left Wash
ington June 18th for Chattanooga,
Tenn, where she will open a federal
school and receive 81 800 year and
transportation. During the past year,
Miss Mckenzie has been a commercial
teacher at the evening session of the
Stewards Business college in Wash.
ington.
In Addison county court Wednesday.
the case Of Albert Houghton. the young
Wallingford man, son of a minister,
and student at Middlebury college,
who was arrested last winter on the
charge of having the previous Novem-
Der broken into the clothing store Of
Clayton M. Hanks of Middlebury and
having stolen a suit of clothes there
from, was taken up and the young
man pleaded not guilty, and since that
time had been under observation as
to his sanity at the state hospital for
the insane. Medical officials from that
pronounced that he is not
insane now and was not insane at the
time of the crime