The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-10
TALK OF THE TOWN

See Abbott's dress goods window.
Miss Cecilia Cruickshank of Portland
Me-, is spending several days with her
parents on Blmore street.
II you are not getting milk, cream
butter or eggs that suit you, why don't
yon try the creamery l.. b. Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Evans, who have
been visiting friends in the city for the
past ten days, returned this forenoon to
their home in Williston.
Judge II. w. Scott of Richardson
street, who has been spending several
days in Boston and vicinity on business,
returned home fast evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kemp returned
this morning to their, home in Noyan,
p. O., after spending several days with
friends in this city and Barre Town.
Miss Martha f. Siayton, who is EN-
ployed in the Frank l.. Place insurance
agency in Burlington, is spending a few
days with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. f..
A. Slayton, of South Main street.
Miss Fam Barney of South Barre re-
turned yesterday from Old Orchard, Me,
where she has been passing the summer
Her sister, Miss Edith Barney, of st.
Johnsbury, is also visiting at the Bar
ney home in South Barre.
Donations for the furnishing of the
new boys club rooms ON Washington
street are solicited. Any person desiring
to make such donations. win please no
tify Norman Even or Leigh McWhorter,
who viii call for whatever gifts the do
nors care to make.
White frost made its first appearance
- IL 4 Al
outskirts of the city the mercury in
many thermometers sank to depths not
reached since the early days of last
spring. Many plants and much garden
suff were nipped hereabouts.
Preparations for the Knight Templars'
automobile ride to Mortified this even
ing were completed to-day and by 6
o'clock the parade of Is cars is expected
to be under way. The knights will start
from city square promptly on the hour,
each car to follow three minutes in the
rear of the one ahead. A specially dec
GRATED outfit has been provided for the
members of the st. Aldemar orchestra,
who are to furnish music for the ban
quet and dance at the Mortified house.
Garden marauders among the youth OF
the north end have been reported to
police headquarters for several days and
this morning Officer George X. Garlic
went to North Barre and took three
into custody, bringing them
with him to the police station. Each
Of the trio is said to be too young TO
figure in municipal court proceedings
and it is not improbable that they will
be brought before Judge Frank j. Mar
tin in probate court at Montpelier, un.
der the provisions of special statutory
enactment made at the last session OF
the legislature. A number of fine gar
iens in the vicinity of Berlin street and
farther north have been despoiled and
the latest raid left one mans plot al |
most barren of potatoes. The three boys |
lpprehended to-day are being detained |
1T police headquarters.
City councillors took a mora optimistic |
view of the water situation when it was
exported informally last evening that the |
water in the Orange reservoir had fallen /
'nly three inches between the hours of |
o'clock Tuesday afternoon and I
,'clock Wednesday afternoon. Yester- I
lays registration IS believed to show /
he smallest shrinksge of any similar
leriod of time in several weeks. Coin
.ident with the decreased drop in depth
vas the flooding of the city mains with
water pumped from the. Smith stock
arm on the Williamstown road. II was
eported yesterday that the pump was
lsing practically every drop of water in
he branch. which means that volumes
ire being diverted to the local mains for
he use of individuals as well as manu-
acturers. Meanwhile the basin at
)range will continue gradually to fill,
is believed,