The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-11-02
MONTPELIER

/ Burton Ward OF Moretown has set
tied his account in the estate of Eliza
beth r. Tubbs, late of that town
James A. Lynch of st. Adams has set
tied his account in the estate of Han
nah Lynch. late of Montpelier.
| Harvey L, Goodell was in Whiting.
ham to-day casting his ballot
The payment of the direct state tax
by the several towns commenced Mon
day, quite large number of tressurers
having forwarded their checks to the
state treasurer.
Negotiations win probably be com
pleted during the day in which @. w.
Currier and Fred Laundry will com.
plete their purchase of the Capital gar
age from Burnell & Faulkner, who
have conducted the same since they
bought it about a year ago from G.. H.
Almon and 7. +. Dillon. They plsn to
make some improvements in the serv-
ice The company is capitalized for
$1,000 and licensed under the laws Of
Vermont. The sellers established the
Montpelier branch OF their business
about the time they opened business in
Burlington and Mr.. Currier came to
Montpelier from Boston, having been
manager since Messrs. Dillon and Al
mon sold out
Voting in the general election start
ed in Montpelier at o'clock this morn.
ing and for the first hour but little
voting took place. Miss Tnez Dingwall
was the first woman to cast ballot
for president. She did the trick at 7
o'clock and was followed by several
other women. One woman, who has
been prominent suffragist, spoiled
her ballot and had to return to the
clerk and secure a second series of
them. The only contest was between
u. ID. Field, Republican, and R. H.
Standish, Democrat, for city repre-
sentative.
Not in many years has there been
so much fall road work under way as
this season and recent Jobs that have
been reported to the state highway
commissioner include: >Msrshfield. 80
rods; Pomfrct, bridge; Arlington. 50
rods of road; Lsndgrove. one fourth
mile; Sunderland, 30 rods; Dandy.
bridge; Wallingford, 30 rods Fairlee,
one mile and half; Nershire, one.
fourth mile.
For sale: Upright piano at bar
gain. 1872 Main street.
John kilonis, Harry Kstron, Peter
Sturgis and Joe Shimkus, all wrestling
stars, at Montpelier srmory election
night, also election returns-ady.
The trolley service at the lower end |
Of state street was impaired for a |
while Monday afternoon by the trolley |
wire breaking near the Riverside |
house.
The advisary committee and the ex-
ecutive committee Of the Washington
County Farm bureau viii hold meet.
ing in their offices in Montpelier Nov. /
?, when the matter of increasing the
dues from s. TO $40 year viii be the
topic Of consideration. The bureau !
needs more funds. II is proposed /
shortly to have campaign for mem
bership here.
Michael Cohan. who was operated i
on at the hospital Saturday for ad
hesions and appendicitis. is making
progress towards q recovery. He has
been feeling mean for couple Of /
weeks and went 10 the hospital Satur-
day for the operation. When asked Lv
the physicians II he was worrying
about the operation. he replied "If /
they could not kill me by running
cannon over me in France YOU haven't
ANYTHING in there that can do IL.
Mick was one Of the youngsters who
went to Frame carly in the war and
suffered wounds TO ono leg. One hip
was run over. which probably caused
the sdhesions discovered SATURDAY..
A pretty good story j. going the
rounds Of offices in the State House
about a state official who PLAYED q
Joke on himself the other dav. A cous
in Of John Heaphy was stopping st the
Pavilion hotel and was enjoying a
walk on the street Nhen one of the
state officials. who apparently wanted
to get IN solid with the ncp governor.
Nr Lavlor. salufinr him
- Governor" The stranger took the
Joke all right. bat did not know uhoi
-uFrrnpT was. ~ he had 20 oorrori W.
state 0Hic;aL The resemblance j. faiT-
Is good hut Alr. State O.fieiaFs excuse
uas that he had never rct Nr Hart
1r-s but oncc before Auyuav. b.
irieuds are having scme fun st his sx-
sense.