Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-01-30

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Miss Mary r. Lappin left this noon
for st. Johnsbury.
Mr.. Garvey, of Hartford, Conn.,, is
visiting the family of Michael Garvey.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Marion are re-
joicing over the birth of daughter.
w. l.. Pierce, of East Calais, was
in the city to-day calling on friends.
j. O. >Sherburn of st. Johnsbury
went to Burlington this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Brady are
rejoicing over the birth of son born
Sunday.
Miles Eugene Morrison of Chicago,
has telegraphed that he will be in
Barre tonight.
All eX-members of the Bachelors
club are requested to meet with Frank
Merchant this evening.
Miss Maud Zottman and Miss Sadie
Reynolds are expected home tonight
from visit IN Burlington.
James Strachan and William Reid
are to leave this afternoon for Min
neapolis where they will work.
There will be meeting of the
Burns club celebration committee to-
morrow evening at the home of Frank
Merchant.
Remember the Calico ball Friday
evening. Come and help the Ladies
of the Forest Circle to make the affair
a success.
William Turner, Jr., who has been
in Leeds, p. O., for the past few
months, returned home this noon and
will remain here.
The Ladies of the Eastern Star are
to hold a series of afternoon whist
parties. The first one in the series
will be held on Friday afternoon.
DR.. and Mrs. j. Henry Jackson and
two sons, Harry and Or. Fred Jack
son, are to leave tomorrow for New
York from whence they wiz sail for
Europe to remain several months.
City Clerk Burt II. Wells and sis
ter, Miss Lucy Wells, left last night
for Philadelphia, called there by the
death of the son Of their brother,
| Dwight Wells. They will return Fri
day.
The amusement committees of the
f. of A. and c. of +. are requested to
meet at their hall tonight at 7 O'Clock
sharp, to make final arrangements for
the calico ball which is to be held
Friday evening, Feb. >.
The inhabitants of Prospect street
have been greatly annoyed lately by
certain parties who have been rapping
on their windows. Now is good
time to stop that business before any
arrests have to be made.
The meeting which was to have
been held last evening in the Baptist
church will be held this evening at
O'Clock. Mr.. Fuller will speak on
How We Got Our English Bible"
All who haveno other church engage
ments for the evening are cordially
invited to be present.
In regard to the extension of the
mail carrier service in the city it is
impossible at present to give definite
statement as to the exact streets that
will be included, but as Postmaster
Bisbee expresses it, "the greatest good
will be done to the greatest number
and the routes cannot be laid out per-
manently until experience teaches that
which will be best" The idea to be
carried out is that there being MANY
houses in the outskirts of the CITY
that have heretofore not been reach
ed by the service, an effort will be
made to accommodate the inhabitants
of those houses. One of the principal
of these localities is the TERRITORY
around Berlin street.
"What Happened to Jones" the
rollicking farce which will be the
attraction at the Barre opera house
next Friday night is the one play pro-
duced in New York in half dozen
years about which the critics were
unanimous IN praise. There was not
one dissenter among them while they
seemed to vie with one another in
finding substantial words to express
their commentator. 1t was origin
ally booked for but two weeks there
put us success was SO marked that it
continued on, one, two, three hun
dred nights, and still the houses were
crowded to the doors. The manage.
ment announced a "Jones" night at
which only persons by the name of
Jones were permitted to attend and
the theatre was not large enough to
hold the people who clamored for adj