The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-09-05
TALK OF THE TOWN.
Local Happenings Tersely roIa FOR Busy
Readers.

Lycai happenings leIselY Tod Tor snsy
Readers.
4 Jolly.
School umbrellas Saturday At Fits.
Band concert at Montpelier tomorrow
night.
| Abbott's
Dressmaking, Mrs. N. N yassar, GA
Summer street.
! "a Horrible Adventure" At the Pa
Yilion this week.
4 Special sale Of outing flannel at Per
ry's on Saturday.
4 New plaids for fall. See them. Only
l2lsc per yard Ut Vaughan'a
Miss Helen Il. Bradley of Torrington,
Conn, is a guest at the home Of 3. f.
Abbott.
Interest Is due the first of September
on notes at the Barre Savings Bank and
Trust company.
Miss Grace Mcsoriey is taking a two
weeks vacation, part Of which she Is
4 spending In W. Adams
4 @, nv. Ball, who has been visiting
4 friends ia the city, went to Warren, N.
Il HI, today to visit relatives.
{, There win be a meeting Of the Meth
i odist Sunday school board this evening
following the prayer meeting
4 Mrs. Nathaniel Robinson Of Marsh
Ifield IL visiting her daughter, Mrs. A.
| W. Sloeum, at l56 Hill street, for a
week.
The Ida Read w. @. t, u. win meet
/ with Mrs. George on Friday afternoon
at 2:30, and the members win please
make an extra effort to be present.
3. w sayre and son Of Springfield,
Mass, who have been visiting at Peter
/ Iaxson's on Orange street for a few
days, left this morning for Sherbrooke
70 attend the fair.
The Granite City Quoting club will
hold their picnic at Caledonia park on
I Saturday afternoon. Sept. 7. All mem
l bers are requested to attend. Steam
car leaves at 1880 p. m.
I The g. A. Bigelow farm in East Brook
field Is TO be sold at public auction next
4 Tuesday, Sept 10, At 10 a. m. This
farm is well known to many in this
section, and it will without doubt draw
out g good many people at the auc.
tion.
Do not forget the Vermont Commits
sion excursion to jamestown, Septem-
Der IA, 1907. Regular train service to
Brattleboro. Special train leaves Brat
tleboro $500 p. M, via Central Vermont
railway. Low rates stop.over priv.
leges First class accommodations. In
quire Of nearest ticket agent and see
handbills for particulars.
Gilbert Phillips Of this city won the
4 l00yard dash In the race al Piattsburg
Labor day. lie also took second money
Il Ia the quarter mile run, a Boston man
named Britton winning first prize Mr.
/ Phillips and Dir. Btitton ran with the
1 Nergennes hose company which took
first prize in that contest
Two farms in East Montpelier and
the personal property belonging TO the
/ Fri Morse estate were sold at auction
Tuesday, G. n. Barber Of Barre Town
acting as auctioneer One farm, the
Hathaway place, located near East
! Montpelier village, was divided, a por-
/ ton being sold to Clinton Cutler for
1910 and the remainder to Harry Dan
1 iels for S4a5. Il Is understood that both
! Cutler and Daniels were bidding for
someone else. The Daggett farm Of 50
acres was sold to Henry Dancause, OF
East Montpelier for Sl,slo
/ The one play which, seems TO possess
unending popularity is the perennial ia
vorite. Way Down East With its
effective and always natural character
sketches, its absorbing story, strong hui
manity, and highly realistic snow storm,
Way Down East may we'll be counted
i one of the best, If not the best Of all
bucolic plays a fact which explains per
/ haps its wonderful drawing power. The
Il production is guaranteed to be the same
! in perfect detail, and the cast Of the
4 same superior excellent as Of former
seasons. AT the opera house next Fri.
day evening,
County supervisor Of roads r. S. Cur
rier Of this city has just returned from
/ Fayston Waitsdeld and AEoretUwn. Two
Of the Washington county towns, Rox
/ bury and Worcester, have their perma-
nent road work completed, but as these
I are the two towns that failed to raise
a special tax for road improvement,
there was not a largo sum Of money 60
4 lay out in either town. The cities Of
Montpelier and Barre have already done
more than the amount OF permanent
road work than the law requires. Most
Of the towns have been rushing their
road building since haying was done,
ard practically al the permanent work
+ Wjt be completed this month, although
+ Die or two towns are little slow and
/ may have to break into the month Of
/ October