The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-11-01
Funeral for Alfred Dupont,
World War Victim, Was
Very Impressive
LARGE MILITARY
ESCORT TO GRAVE
Rev. C. c. Delaney Gave a
Simple and Appropriate
Address

White River Junction, Nov. 1.-The
body of Alfred Dupont, which arrived
from France recently and which has
been in the N. G.. Powers undertaking
rooms, was buried from st. A~nthony's
Roman Catholic church Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock. There was a large
military escort, being some IS soldiers
and sailors in line. The Windsor Mill
tary band of Windsor furnished mu-
sic. Major Hunt aud Major Brown
had charge of the soldier escort. The
funeral procession marched from Pow
crs' undertaking rooms to the church
and vas escorted by the women of
the Windsor Red Cross organization,
there being some forty women in line,
The funeral services we're conducted by
Rev. G. G. Delaney, who gave a very
simple and fitting and appropriate flu
neral address to the large audience
which filed the church full. There
must have been in the church between
five hundred and six hundred towns
people.
At the cemetery, after the services
at the church had been rendered by
the priest. the firing squad fired the
salute over the body of their dead ON
rade. The services were very impress
sive and vet they were well merited
by the young man who gave up his life
for the sake of liberty and freedom.
His mother and other relatives have
the sympathy Of the entire community.
In these times of lawlessness petty
thieving and burglary, White River
Junction is specially well favored in
having an efficient chief OF police in
the person of P. J.. O'keefe, and the
townspeople should realize this and do
all they can to support the chief in
his efforts to protect their property.
a young man is o awaiting trial at
the December term of court for steal
ing automobile tires and parts. The
chief learned that such a person had
been selling inner tubes for a low price
about town and trying to sell one or
two heavy Goodyear tires and he i'm |
mediately got on the trail, with re-
that he found a large tire hid be-
hind a pile of tile back of the Shep
ard Hardware company's premises, and
presently rounded up the young man
at the American house and invited him
to give an account of himself. He WAS
sent up for ten days under the
act for having ridden into town
on a freight train. Thinking this was
The limit Of his punishment. the young
man began to dicker with the chief and
he mar who was driving the ear To
Woodstock, with the result that chief
IN his return found some more tires
nd in different places, all of which
had evidently been stolen, and the
rouns man is now awaiting trial on
he more serious offense. After being
N the county Jail for a time, he, with
mother automobile offender. had to
,e transferred to Windsor for safe
as the iailer at Woodstock
that they were attempting to
jail.
Saturday night about . O'Clock Chief
nen who were travelling through White
iiver Junction in a limousine car load.
Il with twelve cases of whiskev. The
hief got a tip from someone up at
'outh Rdyalton that there were such
arties travelling through on their way
o'Boston. 70 when they arrived here |
a the village the chief was ready for ]
hem. He Immediately placed them
nder arrest and they're now in the /
own lookup awaiting trial,
Mrs. T. j. BFais, who has been spend (
lg several weeks in Montreal, re- !
homo Saturday. :