The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-05-28
WILLIAMsTowN.
Williamstown Woman Has Seen HalIey'i
Comet on IT'S Second Visit.

WilHdinatVWu woman mas ottn nai4tY y
Comet on ITS Second Visit.
On Friday morning we aad the pleas.
ure Of a chat with our near neighhor
the mother Of Arthur Freeman Thurs.
day evening. She saw Elailey's comet
again. after an interval Of seventyodd
years Eightysove years Of age, her
first sight Of this comet was when she
was little girl, at her home in Pier
mont, N III She "a able now % recall
facts concerning IFS appearance then,
There was the same excitement. b kind,
then as now; although for various rea-
sons, such as the lack Of daily hewspa-
pera, etc., then, II may not have been
So intense as 81 late. But il is clear
that superstition dies slowly.
Miss Hattie NJ Briggs has just re-
turned from q winters stay in Middle
sex.
Mrs Patsy Elliott and son are to re-
turn to Vermont, from New Mexico, in
June
Edo Boucher, a longtime invalid, has
moved to the Prescott house on the Chel-
sea road.
Washington and Barre are 70 meet in
a wrestling match at our grange hall
this evening
Rev p #. Strong and wife are ex-
peeted home this friday afternoon
from Massachusetts,,
John G. Lane, son Of Gilbert Lane. on
our r. II D. route, No. 2, Is working az
the hotel Otis in Barre.
Jerry N. Hutchinson and Scene" Call
have begun work on the Congregational
parsonage IN Brookfeld.
Miss Elsie. daughter Of Frank H. Mar.
tin, IS With her aunt Mrs William Fol
SOM IN or near Burnett Wis.
A. N. Fellows, having done the springs
work on bis farm in West Topsbam, las
just returned here for little stop
Our tovnswoman, Mrs. Henry F Er-
skiue, plans 70 leave Whittier. southern
California for Williamstown, about this
time
Mrs John Warner and Mrs. Fl b. Wat
son were IN attendance at the recent
Congregational Womans State Home
Missionary meeting at Waterbury.
Il Is said that lady preacher in
Maine has been engaged to supply the
Universalet pulpit here. but That she
is not yet quite ready 70 come here.
f. A. Emerson's daughter Of Troy,
VT. Is expected here soon 70 BE with her
father IN Hiram 8 Drury's family. and
take osteopathie treatment 10 Barre.
Farmer P. C. Hurlbut recently burned
out. win occupy George W. Brushs
house in our village, instead OF Horace
~. Whites tenement house. as FIRST re-
ported TO us.
Mrs Oliver Dickinson tells US that
ner husband, q gardener has once had
good luck in raising sweet potatoes here
hut, as rule. bis efforts in this line
are not very successful
Miss Myrtle Smith and Miss Ethel
Odom, teachers 10 cur village schools.
plan for q memorial Sunday with Miss
Mile J. Drury AZ the home Of the Kim.
bal sisters, in Richmond,
A Mr. Porter Of Boston. an agent for
the owner 81 the Monument house living
in that city was n town yesterday.
to try to rent the house
Appearances Indicate that our Monu
meHt house may not BE- long without an
occupant and we suspect. II such shah
be the case that much credit may be
due our new progressive association,
A little four year.old miss here. who
has one 0f tie most affectionate 81
mothers was recently receiving the pen
aitv Of inexcuable disoheaience. from
her mamma, when she mildly remon
strated "You are not very polite to
your little girl"
Eugene r. Fellows son 81 a. n Eel
lows Il in Orange county now, to col
lect statistics az manufactures and min
ing, required hy the census laws RE
has been working at the same IN Essex
and Orleans counties He goes to Ran.
dolph to-day fer ten Of twelve days
It j. said that TIE old W. IA. witherall
farm, adjoining the old Calvin Flint
place. has been sold "a Bert Cults Of
Barre Cityi and that The old Charles @. (
Staples place, on the Chelsea road. has
been sold To Mn Gilbertson Of Gilbert
sons orchestra. Barre City We hope
It IS all true
One Of our townswomen was lately
telling us Of q visit 10 q ehildrens hos
pital IN one of The suburbs Of Boston, 1
and she was greatly impressed with the
provision for the constant and most
abundant supply Of fresh air for this
hospital. When this woman gets her
new house, swhen her ship comes invl |
she wants her sleeping room on the top
Of the house, with only an overhead /
protection against comets and Aaich like
But how it makes one sign to pass ID
many houses at an early morning hour
and see so few wide-open windows.