The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-31
TALK OF THE TOWN

Amos Frank is confined to his home
on Prospect street by illness.
Men particular about their appearance,
get shaved at Miers' sanitary barber
shop.
For sale-Cottage house, corner OF
Nelson and Hill street, Would rent to
right party. Warren +. Richardson.
The annual meeting Of the Vermont
Poultry association will be held IN the
city court room Friday evening at 1857
o'clock.
Mrs. Louis William and daughter. Ill
lie of Prospect street, left for North
Adams, Mass, to-day for an extended
visit with relatives.
D. affittarsi tenimenti da 4.5-6.7 LOCAL.
con Caldo, Luce Elettrica Gas. Rivol'
gersi ALA Farmacia 1taliana or da Fan
leoni, A Granite street.
The chickens have arrived for the
mems supper at the Congregational
church Friday--one hundred and fifty
pounds strong and they are beauties.
w. II. Ward has about 25 men as
sisting him harvest the second crop of
ice from the river near the mill. The
ice is frozen to a depth OF 10 inches,
and the prospects for good crop are
favorable.
meeting Of the G. A. c. was held
at the home of Miss May Lake last
evening. After the business meeting,
games We're played and refreshments
were served, and altogether very en-.
joyable evening was spent.
Harry i. Ford, who has been at the
head Of the cloak and suit department
at the Homer Fits store for some time,
has resigned his position and left yes
to-day for Burlington, where he will be
employed in Il similar capacity by the
GARRISON Co.
The Philomathian club members were
entertained at dinner last evening by
Mrs. j. W. Jackson, the guests sitting
down at $3.50 o'clock to one OF those
delightful repasts for which the hostess
is noted The table decorations were
most attractive, the very unique place
cards of little Dutch maidens holding
umbrellas that really opened and shut
being obtained in Holland. At $3.50 the
guests adjourned to the parlors to list
en- to especially fine duets by Mrs. Mel
son Ballard and Miss Mildred Phelps,
followed by pleasant social hour. The
Philomathians have marked another red
letter night in their calendar
Miss Margaret b. Owen, one OF the
best demonstrators of the advantages of
the touch method in typewritng, in
connection with the Underwood type
writer company, gave demonstration
in speed this morning at Spaulding high
school. Miss Owen took paragraph
frcm a chemistry book, which she had
never seen, containing long, hard terms,
and wrote nine lines or l06 words in
one minute. She also gave demon
stration of 226 words minute, from
a memorized sentence and another sen
tence containing l27 words minute,
while carrying on a conversation. Miss
Ovens style Of writing cannot be ex-
celled by any operator. She does not
appear to be writing fast but she gets
the results.
An excellent vaudeville program will
finish a three-days engagement at the
Pavilion tonight Both acts are of the
kind that pleases and are well present
ed. The comedy act presented by the
Hunters is combination of singing and
talking, the stories and jokes are all
new and both members are possessed of
good singing voices. Kimball and Don
oyan, the banjo players, are undoubted-
" the best banjo soloists ever heard in
tbp city Their 1Ipta rauUa from pnn-
llar ragtime to difficult overtures. Their
of Poet and Peasant" over
ture. as feature number, will de-
light all lovers of music. II will pay all
who like good music to hear this act,
a. they certainly are experts in their
line. The new program of pictures.
which comes to-day, consists of war
lrama, western story comedy and
= scenic picture, making a program
hat covers a wide range Of variety.