The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-20
MONTPELIER

A referendum of the members OF The
Montpelier Board Of Trade will take
place to establish sentiment relative
to John Phillip Hills resolution, which
| the. directors ,of that board recently
adopted and which has caused no end
Of discussion in Montpelier in the last
| few days. The directors are holding
up the forwarding Of the adoption Of
| the resolution to the Vermont delega-
ton in Congress until such time as
| the referendum is completed. The res
olution urges support of the Hill bill
| in Congress. The bill provides for To-
cal option districts relative to the
sale OF beer and wine.
A large quantity of home made
booze was found in the Eagles hall
III Springfield Saturday night at a raid
made by the officers of that communi-
ty, and the janitor was arrested,
charged With Illegal possession, to
which he pleaded guilty and was fined,
according to the police officers, 5000
and costs. The police stated that the
officers found boiler and coils of cop
per pipe in the building, which they
seized along with the booze.
Miss Lena Ross, superintendent Of
the house Of correction for women IN
Rutland, who has been in the city rel
ative to her work, as well as visiting
friends, left last evening for her home.
According to information received
in Montpelier, Will d. Gould, native
of Cabot and brother of George Could
Of that town, has met with success in
Los Angeles, Cal. where he has been
for some years. He went to that city
when it was place Of 5000 population
and recently one Of the papers in that
city gave page of space to the story
of the Goth anniversary OF his resi-
dence in that city.
Used piano for sale lat a bargain;
1872 Main street. -adv.
A Montpelier woman protested to
the deputy commissioner of weights
and measures Saturday that wood
dealers have had not been complying
with the laws relative to the delivery
of wood and that she wanted some
wood, which had recently. been deliv
cred at her home measured. II was
done and the measurements showed
the load was six cubic feet short Of
the l2s feet required by law. 1t is
expected that the farmer who sold it !
will make good the shortage. She also |
about quality but the com |
missioner did not have any relief for
her in that protest.
II the present plans prevail, the fu-
neral of Charles A. Reed, who died sud-
denly Saturday morning, will take
place from his late home Tuesday aft
arnoon. Mr.. Read was in poor health I
for many weeks, but Saturday morn
ny arose feeling as we'll as he had been
Tor some days. However, about 8
,'clock he was taken suddenly i'll and
lied shortly after suffering bad spell.
He was native of Berlin, born April /
IL, 1855. a son of Martin and Anna
Reed He was married Dec. "a, 1886,
% Addie Sawtelle Of Berlin, who with
i've children survive the deceased. The
.hildren are j. NJ Reed of Arlington,
Mass. Albert j. of Hartford, Conn,
Mrs. A. p Waluund of Hartford, Conn,
Who arrived Sunday morning, Miss
Harriet Reed of Randolph and Miss
florence Reed Of the insurance COM
nissioner's Office in Montpelier. He
llso leaves a sister, Mrs. j. II. Bero,
i Mortified. He was many years
by the Z. S. Clothes Pin Co.,
man who had many friends in the
ity, always of cheerful nature, which |
nade him an agreeable companion. lie
as always lived in this section, the
asst 20 odd years being in Montpelier.
T. W. Dix, state highway commits
Toner, has gone TO Boston to attend
conference OF New England highway
fficisls in regard to automobile routes
through New England.
J. r. Davie of the state engineers
apartment has gone to Pownal TO in
pect a bridge.
r. w. Myrick, deputy secretary of
tate, was in Brandon over Sunday.
Miss Maude Teachout was in Bur
ngton as the guest of Miss Mildred
rownell on Sunday.
An automobile owned by DIR. II. L.
ierce of Swanton slid into the fiumc
! the Barney Marble company in
wanton on March Is, completely sub
erging the ear and damaging 1T to
he extent of SIS, according 10 re-
lrt to the secretary of state Dr.
ierce reports that he shut off the an
ne and set the brake before leaving
e car short distance from the fiume.