The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-22
MONTPELIER

The funeral Of William II. Brown,
who died Monday, will take place at
O'Clock Thursday afternoon from his
llate home and burial viii occur in Hope
cemetery in Barre. Mr.. Brown was born
Nov. 81, 1875, in Prince Edward island,
| a son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A.
Brown. When IL years old he came to
Boston to live and later came to Barre
and was employed in the granite in
dustry for some years. Nineteen years
ago he went into employment as a
salesman of George Oldham & Sons OF
philadelphia, where he was employed
seven wears and then he commenced
lvork as salesman for Truw & Holden
.,Dout tw, vca-s ayo he went to Cali
fornia for his health and bought a
granite business but his health failed
and he came back east and slowly his
health failed. due to Bright's disease.
/ He is survived by his wife who was
Jennie Campbell of Sherbrcoke. ?. O.
and son, William; three sisters, Miss
Maude Brown Of Natick, Mass, Mrs
Harriet Fleet OF Maiden, Mass, and
Mrs. Alex Sipple Of Rock Island lll.i
two brothers, Thomas Of Somerville
and James Of Prince Edward island.
j. +. Weeks. director Of state insti-
tutions. and F f. Barber Of the APP
preparation committee were at Water
bury to day to look after the state hos
pitfalls needs
The body Of Mrs Abbie A. Foss, who
died yesterday afternoon at Heaton
hospital, was taken to-day to North
field, where the funeral will be held.
She was brought to the hospital last
week. An operation was performed but
Mrs. Foss, who was 81 years of age,
did not rally from il Among other rel
atives she is survived by Mrs. W. >.
Humphrey. a daughter, in Mortified.
Frederick b Bailey OF Berlin has set
tied his account as administrator OF the
estate OF George f. Hill, late of Berlin.
About 40 students of the Burlington
SCHOOLS were in the city to-day attend
| ing Legislature.
A meeting viii take place in the Bal
llev hall in Montpelier at s O'Clock on
Thursday evening, when II is expected
that the Manufacturers Association OF
Vermont will be organized. W. L. Nc
Kee Of this city and James G. Dewey of
onechee have been working on the
lplans for some weeks Notices have
been sent TO many persons but any
person who is in the manufacturing
business will Be- welcomed at the meet
ling Il is expected that board Of ofh
Gers will be elected and temporary by
laws be- adopted which probably will be
made more complete at a later meeting.
Mrs. f. II. Tracy, as deputy sher-
In. went to Nergennes last evening with
a bow. who came from Barre the preyi-
Sus night.
W. +. Dix and r. G. Gilbert Of
Springfield are in the city to-day
Two Barre concerns have filed with
the secretary II state proposals Of in
rrrases in capital stock These arc Cook
and Watkins Manufacturing Co. which
expects 10 increase 40 shares and G.
w. Mcmillan Granite co. which expects
10 increase its stock 80 shares
The American Legion basketball
team i looking towards hard game
"wednesday evening. when they meet
the team of star players from Barre.
Bartlett. having dropped out of the
Montpelier team. il viii weaken the
team 90 some extent bat "Jum" Laird.
who probably will play, il q fast man.
( The Legion team plays the Attleboro.
Mas. Legion team here later The A
tlebaro team defeated the Massachu
sstts state Legion team last Friday
might by = ~c5Tc 81 2 o. .
W A Briges DO broke his left
urist several weeks ago. was down
itoun Monday for q short time and met
uauv friend- uho uere coraTatuIatiHe
him upon his recovery