The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-19
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from
Different Sections.

Different Sections.
Beginning May 20, the Rutland Rail
way, Light & Power company vii
raise its rate from six cents to sever
cents in each zone.
A playground association was formed
in Rutland Friday and officers were
elected. Two sites are under considera
tion for the ground.
William Kendall, who died at hi'
home in Ludlow last week at the age
of 90 years, left one sister who is o.
and another who is SO.
The death of Myron Alexander
which occurred at his home in St
Johnsbury Thursday, was caused by
septicaemia, resulting from a malig-
nant pustule on his nose.
The Rutland Railway, Light & Pow
er company has filed with the public
service commission a new tariff cover
ing trolley fares, which increases the
fares per zone from six to seven cents,
which will go into effect May 90.
Mrs. G. C. Dow on March % observed
her 98th birthday anniversary at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. William
Briggs, in Bristol Mrs. Dow, who is
nearly blind, since last November has
knit blocks enough for a white bed
spread.
st. Johnsbury sugar makers report a
season above the average, as farmers
already have averaged more than two
pounds of sugar per tree, and Saturday
and Sunday were also good sugar days.
The Canadian crop is reported SO per
cent above normal.
Rev. @. NJ Moody, for three years
pastor of the Methodist church in Mid
dlebury, has been transferred to Trim
ity Methodist church of Pittsfield,
Mass, Rev. Emmett w. Gould who has
been in Bristol, has been sent to take
Mr. Moody's place in Middlebury.
Two men, A. Anderson and James
Labshire, were in Rutland city court
last week ON the charge OF non-sup-
port of their families. Both were SEN
fenced to the house of correction, but
the sentences were suspended and they
were put on probation, Labshire has
a wife and l3 children and Anderson
wife and five children.
The union carpenters of Rutland
have presented a demand to contrac-
tors for S71s cents an hour after May
|. The present scale is IS cents, this
having been effective for two years. A
compromise is anticipated The only |
big building job in prospect in Rutland |
where carpenters will be in demand is |
the state armory, for which the con-
tract has not been let.
Fire, believed to have been caused by |
spontaneous combustion, practically |
destroyed a car of cotton attached to !
freight train of go cars in the rail
road yard at Newport Friday. Al
though water was played upon the /
burning cotton, it did not stay the
flames, and the car finally caught fire
and burned up In order to avoid fur
ther confagration, the smouldering
bales of cotton were dumped into the
lake.
By the will of the late Miss Clara
Chedel of Woodstock, the Christian
church in that place will receive $500,
the Woodstock Burying Ground asso-
citation lin trust $500 and the Home
for Aged Women in Burlington the
residue of the estate of every kind
after some requests are paid to Tela-
tves. The residue will include the farm
where Miss Chedel resides, which is
worth probably not less than $1,000
more.
Probably one of the oldest of the
alumni of any university in the coun-
try is Rev. George G. Rice, who grad
uated from the University of Vermont
in the class of ls45. Mr. Rice was born
in Enosburg Falls in 1919 and now re- I
sides in Council Bluffs, Ia, where he is
still actively engaged as pastor of the
Congregational church. Besides his
work in the church, he is managing one
of the largest fruit farms in western
Iowa.
Allen Wilcox, ST. Adams man who,
with his wife, has been spending the
winter in St. Petersburg, Fla, was {
seriously injured recently when he was I
thrown from an electric car in that
city as he attempted to catch his hat,
which had been blown off by the wind
He suffered serious injuries to his head {
and since has been in a critical condi- c
tion at the hospital where he was
taken. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilcox were to
have left for Vermont April 90
The Black Cat Textile company, a
which has headquarters in Kenosha, s
Wis, with large producing plants in u
many parts of the country, including
has changed its name to
The Allen A company. "Allen" for the j
name of the makers and "a" for the A
standard mark of first and finest grade, !.
IS the announcement Of the change
states. The hosiery will still go by the II
name of Black Cat and the underwear 81
in Bennington will still "
be called CoOper's Bloomington. Il
Sheriff Worthen Of St Johnsbury ar
ested William Moffett of WoodsviIle,
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