The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-08-26
MONTPELIER

The funeral of the late Coin B
Evans of Waterbury win be held at /;
o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Meth
odist church in Waterbury, with buria.
in the Waterbury cemetery. Harry g
Shurtlef and Charles "A. Smith Of
Montpelier will be two Of the bearers
The funeral Of the late Wesley
Holmes will be held this Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock from 81 st. Pau
street with burial in Green Mount
cemetery. Rev. William s.. Nichols will
oficiate. The bearers will be DR.. r.. Il
Templeton, Rufus Chamberlain, Rufus
Bagley and Edgar Colburn.
The funeral of the late Charles Ed
ward Curtis, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
N. Curtis, was held Friday afternoon
from the late home, with burial in the
Berlin cemetery. Rev. Frank Bloomfield
Of Berlin offieiated.
G. M. Brooks, deputy state highway
! commissioners, has returned after COM
pleting the banding Of poles on high
way route four from Bennington
through Rutland and Burlington to
Highgate. This route is the New York
City to Montreal route agreed on BY
the New England state highway com
missioners. Work has also been done
on route two on the east side of the
state through Guilford, Brattleboro and
st. Johnsbury to Derby Line. This
route is the New Haven Quebec route.
A party Of about $50 grange lectur-
ers from Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts visited the State House
yesterday for an inspection Of the state
grounds. Governor Hardness had to be
In Grafton because Of governors day in
the Grafton Old Home week and Henry
b. Shaw, secretary Of civil and mill
tary affairs, was with him. The enter
tanning of the visiting grangers was
turned over to Dwight i. Dwinell,
sergeant-at.arms, and a good time was
enjoyed by all concerned when the
grangers arrived.
The toll which a great construction
project sometimes exacts In injuries to
men employed on it is illustrated by
the fact that the Rollins Construction
company Of New York City, which IA
doing some Of the work on the Davis
bridge at Nottingham, has reported "a
accidents so far this month. The last
of these Is the report Of the injury Of
George Gordon Of Revere, Mass, who
was dismantling a form In a tunnel ON
Aug. 20, when q section OF the tunnel
fell in on him. His probable inacapae-
ity is put at three months. He suf-
fered a laeerated wound Of the scalp,
a liberation Of the lower left Jaw and a
compound comminuted fracture Of both
bones Of the right leg
Owing to the acute fuel situation
which faces the. state for the coming
fall and winter, the department Of
weights and measures Is taking steps
TO see that purchasers Of fuel obtain
full weight and measure. The depart
has investigated one complaint
recently where short measure of wood
was found and the party who sold the
wood made up the shortage when re-
qnested to do so, Wood can be sold
only by the cord or fraction thereof.
and not by the load. Coal must be sold
by the ton or fraction thereof and not
by the basket. The department viii
any service possible in the way
Of checking up loads Of coal or wood
sed by citizens IN the state and
as far as possible eliminate this branch
Of profteering.
A. T.. Hoyle OF Boston was in the
city yesterday on business connected
with the new National Life building.
Among the general agents Of the Ma
tional Life Insurance company attend
ing the meeting of the General Agents
association here are r. w. Hulburd OF
Hyde Park. c. s. Montgomery Of Los
Cal, Charles A. Cravens of
Louisville, KY, L. J. Zoeckler Of Dav
Ia. G. n. Palmer of Detroit,
Mich, ID. G. Drake of Chicago, G. W.
Alder. of Salt Lake City, Utah. S. T.
Rhodes Of Roanoke, Va, Charles Gam
mons OF Boston. J.. c. Rardin of Hunt
ngton, w. Va, II. A. Vidal of Buff
n. ", H. Hildebrand of Sioux
Fails, S. d., j.. Henry johnson Of Okla
City, Okla, Charles b. Palmer
II Wilmington, Del. G. M. Robinson of
Detroit, Mich, T. T. Rench Of st. Louis,
No, Isaac George Of Baltimore, Md,
s. Gaylord Of Syracuse, n. y,
l. X. Read Of Atlantic City, n. j., r.
4. Stolp of San Francisco, Cal, H. NJ
humphrey Of Goldsboro, n. s.. S. c.
Of Chicago. G. 7. Schneider
# Omaha, Nsb., n. W. Hayward Of
Providence, r. l., J. H. Edwards OF
s. L. Smith of Hartford. Conn,
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