The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-27
MONTPELIER

street car. He says he stopped his auto
mobile on the car track and was struck
by the street car, which was gong
| fast.
Frank Chennette of Montpelier has
| purchased from Timothy Corcoran OF
Berlin his l5O-acre farm in Berlin. Mr.
Coreoran has also purchased from Mr.
| Chennette the property at 81 Hill
street, Montpelier. Both sales were
| made through Waldo H. Farrar, u
Montpelier real estate agent.
Midshipman Carl r. Brown of st.
Adams passed the week end visiting
| Midshipman Raymond futile OF this
CITY and Victor Ossola of Barre. Mid
shipmen futile and Brown. who are
roommates, will resume their studies
at Annapolis Wednesday.
Miss Barbara Ondway, after passing
three weeks vacation with her sis
ter, Miss Marjorie Ordway, at Sche-
nectady, n, y, returned to this city
Miss Madeline Massucco left for
Northampton, Mass, this morning to
! continue her studies at Smith college.
John Donnelly left this morning for
Northfield, where he will enroll at Nor
witch university.
Miss Catherine Gilbert and Miss Ber-
nice Richardson left for Providence, r.
l., yesterday, where they will enter
Brown university.
Miss Ina Campbell, after two weeks
illness, has resumed her duties at the
Montpelier Electric CO., as bookkeeper.
Miss Isabel Walker of Barre, who was
taking her place, returned home.
Mrs. Dan Roach and Mrs. c. H. Law
renee returned home yesterday, after a
weeks visit with friends at Clare
mont, n. III.
No wood other than mill waste,
slabs, edgings and kindlings can be
sold by any other measure than the
cord in this state, and violations of the
law will be prosecuted. Deputy Com
missioner Hiram Davis of the weights
and measures department said to-day.
Every cord of wood sold AS cord must
also contain Us cubic feet to come
within the law, Cases of sale by the
cord where the wood was so short that
the cord was well below the required
number OF cubic feet have been report
ed. Sale by the run is allowable If the
run is full third Of cord, or 40 cubic
feet Sale of wood by the load except
in the classes named above Is prohib-
tied.
Ernest Tiemey Of Barre has report
ed TO the office of the secretary OF
state that his Overland ear struck
wagon on country road near here
Yesterday. The accident occurred on a
curve when Tiemey was running about
20 miles an hour. One wheel OF the
wagon was broken.
State Marketing Agent i. G. Mulhol-
land will attend a meeting OF the Ma
ple Sugar Makers association at the
Hotel Sherwood in Burlington next
Friday. when plans for organization
will be taken up and the location of a
Joint warehouse will be discussed. Mr..
MulhoIland recently returned from
New York and Boston. where he in
vestigated marketing conditions for
Vermont dairy products and potatoes.
Boston is now receiving all the Yer
mont milk the city can use, be said,
but New York could use more If the
necessary licenses can be procured
from their inspectors. Only one Yer
mont milk plant is shipping to New
York at the present time.
Two convictions, one for hunting
without license and the other for
the same ofTense and killing gray
squirrels aud partridge during the
closed season, have been reported to
the state fish and game commissioner.
GAYLORD Chamberlain OF Enosburg
Fails was fined $50 and 50 costs for
the latter oiTenses and Frank LaFoun-
tain of the same place was fined S25 and
So costs for hunting without license.
A request has been received at state
headquarters of the American Legion
that one representative from Vermont
be appointed TO attend the funera OF
the unknown soldier. whose body Will
be brought back from France. in
Washington, on Armistice day, Nov.
IL. The delegate will be chosen at the
next meeting Of the department exeeu-
live committee TO be held here on Oct.
7. The government is 10 pay all tray
cling expenses and expenses for days
STAY in Washington. The body Of the
unknown soldier viii lie in state in
the rotunda of the Capitol from the
night of Nov. . until o'clock on the
morning Of Nov II. Burial will take
place in the Memorial Amphitheatre
of Arlington cemetery.
State Highway Commissioner 7. W.
Dix has received word from the Ma
tional Association of State Highway
Officers that the association Is back
ing the Phipps bill introduced IN the
Senate. under which Congress would
intrust the wa. department 20 turn
over to the states 800 five-ton cater
pillar tractors for use on state high.
ways. The bill also provides for the
turning over Of 200 portable machine
shop units used 10 repair the tractors.
The department has at present 1000
such tractors and the association
wishes 10 have Director General Dawes
declare 500 Of them an unnecessary
surplus. One argument advanced in IA
vor of the bill Is the fact that i would
give employment to men who could not
secure work because the states did not
have machinery.
The funeral Of Mrs Julia Wheelock
widow of the late Martin " Wheelock,
was held at the home of her son-in.
law. Rawson C. Myrick, at ? O'Clock
this afternoon, with burial in Green
4 Mount cemetery Rev. George II. Red
ding ofiiciated and bearers were Her
/ bert Wheelock. Frank Dawley, W. ;.
! 49,. 81 4 T Williams all Of