The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-02-08
MONTPELIER
Dean X. Lille to Be Candidate for
Office OF Mayor.


Office Of Mayor.
The name OF Dean n. Lille, retiring
member Of the city council, will 80 on
the ticket for mayor at the March
meeting, az the result of vote taken
at a preliminary citizens meeting held
in the memorial room Of the city hall
last night An informal ballot showed
all but one of the 20 ballots cast for
Mr.. Lille, and the vote was made for
NAL BY motion. The names of George
| l.. Edison, j. w. Gowdey, II. w. Kent
and Chandler Brown win 90 on the
ticket for aldermen The terms Of Mr..
Lille and Lynn Brooks terminate this
year, leaving two vacancies on the
board, As assessors, the names OF Wal
! ter c. Lanphier, W. B. Turney and
Charles DeForrest Bancroft were unan-
/ imously selected On motion Of w. N.
Theriault, the meeting decided to take
no action in regard to school commits.
sioners. Chairman Brown stated that
he was not advancing the claims Of
any candidate when he censured the
work done by the board OF listers
during the past year. He stated that
one hundred names had been duplicat.
ed on the checklist, one name being
on the list in four different places. In
| the voting for aldermen, t. +. Gala
| han received the second highest mum
Der of votes ON the first ballot, but
stated that he would not consider run
| ming for the office. II. M. ODell also
received the second highest number Of
votes on one ballot, but refused to
| have his name considered Alderman
Brooks also stated that he would not
consider running for the council at the
coming meeting.
Blister rust work in Vermont may be
administered by county agents in the
| -ame manner as the farm bureau work
| ii certain bills now before Congress
are passed, according to State Forester
w. g. Hastings This movement comes
from the bureau of plant industry 10
Washington, ID. G.. The county agents
| would be attached To the state agency
| in charge of forests, and would be To-
Gated in every county which had
enough pine TO warrant 1t. A federal
agent in each state would also be q
part of the system. THE bills provid-
| ing for this system have been approved
! TO considerable extent by the com
mittee on the budget, but funds arc
not now available.
| State Treasurer Walter +. Scott ar
rived in the city yesterday.
Miss Julia Carter, secretary OF the
state free public library commission,
has returned from several days trip
to Boston and Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Mary Asenath Clark, wife Of
| Wallace NJ. CLARK, died at her home,
81 Ridge street, at 7.30 last night from
the effects OF shock sustained last
Friday. She was born In Berlin Jan
uary |, 1863, daughter of Truman
and Eleanor Parks Chase. She Is sur
yived by her husband; one son, Ernest
W. OF Peacham; a daughter, Mrs. Lena
Burnham Of Montpelier; sister, Mel
lie Chase; a grandson, Cecil Burnham;
a granddaughter, Catherine Clark; a
nephew, Raymond Chase Of Oregon,
and a niece, Mrs Guy Gilman Of Leon
mister, Mass. The funeral win be
held from the house Friday afternoons
at 2 o'clock with entomhment in Green
Mount cemetery and burial will take
place at Mortified Falls next spring
In probate court. Annie II. Burr has
settled her final account as admins
tratrix of the estate Of Fred II. Burr,
late Of Barre City. The Granite Saw
ings Bank and Trust company have
been appointed guardian of Ruth Cas-
tie Of Barre. The win of Robert +.
Richardson, late of Waterbury, has
been presented for probate. George w.
Wing has been appointed admins
L. Al -. xst tlar III IL.
den, late OF Roxbury, Mass. Ira Rich
ardson has been appointed admins
traitor Of the estate of the late Isabel
A. Richardson, sometimes called lsa-
belle A. Richardson. Lydia A. Litch has
been appointed administrative Of the
estate OF the late Charles w. Litch of
Montpelier. George H. Bruce of More
town has been appointed administration
of the estate Of the late Jesse II. Morse
of Duxbury.
Work on the razing OF the old Mont
pelier and Wells River wooden bridge
over the river here is fairly well along,
most Of the roof having been taken (
down Men from the White Mountain
division of the Boston & Maine, with
employees OF the Montpelier 4 Wells I;
River Railroad company have been en-.
gagged in the work since last Wednes I
day. Another weeks work is expected I
before the job win be completed r. T. .
Trumpus Of Woodsville, N H., is in (
charge Of the work and Hadley Fuller I
ton. supervisor Of the White Noun
tain division Of the Boston 4 Maine I
was here today TO inspect progress. /
The bridge was condemned last SUM
mer.
Commissioner of Agriculture f. s. 7
Brigham is able TO be about his home 4
again in st. Adams. after an illness
with the grippe, which nearly ran into
pneumonia He expected to be out to-
morrow. AIRS. Marion loyal of the I
commissioner of agriculture Office 1
went to st. Adams yesterday 10 see
Mr. Brigham on matters connected
with the department.
Secretary of State Harry A. Black
has been notified Of two convictions in
Bennington municipal court before
Judge William j. Meagher. States At
torney George A. Msthers was the
prosecuting attorney in both cases. b.
T. Slads Of Bennington pleaded guilty
to failure TO register his car and paid