The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-09-24
MONTPELIER

The regular meeting of the Knights
| of Pythias occurred Thursday evening
with the largest number attending in
several months. Grand Chancellor Com
| mander James NJ Gall and District
Deputy Grand Chancellor William
Dutllie were present and spoke upon
the plans for the coming year. District
Deputy Duthie invited Montpelier tc
entertain the district meeting in the
next few weeks at date to be an.
nounced later and the invitation was
| accepted. 1t is planned also to have a
similar meeting in Marshield The
lodge had adopted new method in
| increasing its attendance by which the
several who had not been at meetings
for some time were present last eve
| fling.
J. w Bates of Moretown was To-
cal visitor yesterday afternoon.
V. l.. Perkins of Waterbury was in
the city Thursday.
Piano like new for sale at a bar.
gain at 1872 Main street.-adv.
Russell Watson, who has been con
nected with the state forester's office
for several months, left last evening
for Ann Arbor, Mich, where he has
accepted a position as assistant pro-
fessor of forestry in the University of
Michigan and will begin his duties
upon his arrival there. Mr. Wat
son has been in the forestry work
since leaving college, including serv-
ice for the government in Alaska, New
Mexico and other western states. He
leaves the work in Vermont only be
cause the new position offers him more
salary and better chances of advance
ment In speaking of Vermont and
Montpelier last evening, he said, he
had come to like both the state and
city and would not have changed, ex-
cepting as stated above.
How many of the women who have
been nominated will be elected to the
House of Representatives is one of
the matters of speculation about the
State House these days. There is only
one nominated in the Republican party.
She is Margaret Fletcher of Thetford,
while in the Democratic party there
are four who have been nominated
These are Stella Goddard of HYDE
Park, Carrie l.. Hamilton of Brattle-
boro, Lila Crosier of Halifax, Eva
Wilson of Bethel.
Harry A. Black, secretary of state.
is obtaining Il report from the town
clerks SO that within a few days he
VIII be able to tell the total vote in
the state in the primaries last week
and Just how that ia divided. that is,
how many women and how many men
voted in each town in the state.
Traffic was blocked in Montpelier on
the Central Vermont railway for most
of last night because of the deraiIment
OF engine 800, which is used between
this city and Barre. The engine went
off the iron about 5 o'clock. The pas
sengers on the evening trains walked
by the place a short distance to the
station. For the night passenger coach
es we're provided and the passengers
carried between the site and the hInc
tion. A wrecking crew from st. Al !
bans placed the engine on the iron
again.
Workmen, while digging out the
ditch near the western entrance to the |
State House, found nice vein OF tale
in the rock II was of excellent quail /
~ and some of the clerks in the State |
House obtained pieces of the tale.
Miss Margaret Hickey is taking
vacation from her duties in the secre-
tary of states office.
A. E. White has settled his probate
accounts in the estates of Louis Green
wood and Eliza Miller, late of Mont. /
peler
Mrs. Henry Carney has gone to
from where she will sail for I
to make her home with rel.
atiyes. She may later go to Ireland,
but with conditions as they are now in
hat country she feels that il is better
10 live in Scotland