The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-01
TALK OF THE TOWN

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! Tor few days.
Miss Annie Harrington of Burlington
lis passing a few days in the city as the
guest OF friends. :,
Ralph S. Gould of Post Mills, H. H..
Hopkins of Plymouth, n. H., and John
Lawton Of Bolton were among the busl-
ness visitors in the city to-day
Mrs. Mary John and Miss Annie Louis,
who were called to Barre by the death OF
Mrs. Hyder Habeb, left this forenoon TOT
their home in North Adams, Mass.
Miss Marion Kay, who has been spend.
ing the past week in the city, returned
to-day to her home at Putnam, Conn,
where she was called by the illness Of
relative
CITY Clerk James Maekay, A. 2. Abb
bolt and Rufus c. Robinson went to-day
| Nv automobile to Greensboro, where they
will spend few days fishing on Lake
Caspian.
Mrs. John Riddell Of Williamstown,
j. who has been staying with friends here
| for a few days, was called to-day to her
home by the illness OF her daughter,
Mrs. George Gordon.
Harris orchestra will go tonight to
East Barre to furnish music for the an
nua baseball fair. which is being con-
Quoted at the East Barre opera house
! for the purpose of raising funds Tor
the support Of the East Barre A. Z.
during the coming season. The fair will
continue until Saturday night.
Yesterday afternoon at the Granite
CITY trotting park the Spaulding high
school baseball team was handed q com
I - urIa
the South End team and only captured
the game during the closing moments by
score Of 10 to TO- The game was fought
on even terms up until the last few IN
nings when by sudden squirt Spauldlng
forged ahead. Connors was III the Box
for the Spaulding crew and was touched
up rather freely. Levin was on the re-
ceivinp end of the battery. Poll and
Manera composed the battery for the
losing team. Polli twirled an excellent
/ game but was accorded with poor sup
port.
A very pleasant surprise was rendered
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mackie, Ii Richard
son street, last evening, when number
of their friends took possession OF their
home for the purpose OF spending q
pleasant evening with them before they
leave Barre. Mr., and Mrs. Mackie were
presented a handsome suit case, also
box of good smokes which Jim APP
/ propriated as Mrs. Mackie couldn't use
them. The presentation was made by
William Hurry, and the recipients hit
tingly responded. Refreshments were
served and the rest of the evening was
spent in music and song, the good old
Scotch songs predominating. MIR. and
Mrs. Mackie leave for Montreal Sunday
where they intend to reside. Their
friends wish them godspeed and pros
lperity in their new home.
The city furnished free shower bath
to one OF the employees of the New Eng
land Tel. & Tel. Go. this morning when
the big oil sprinkler swung down through
Main street and failed to stay its flow
of liquid dustbane when the tank passed
over manhole in front of the Union
Clothing store Down under the street
a wireman was working on the telephone
eompany's cable line and information OF
the sprinker's presence first came to him
IN the form of generous dousing OF
lol. The man on the box had forgotten
to cut Off the stream as he passed over
the manhole Onlookers say there was
Ia general exchange of words for a few
moments after the amounting perform
ance. but the little incident was closed
when the driver and his tank OF crude oil
were presently lost in a cloud of dust
farther down the street.
DIR. ID. c. Watt, one of the largest
fanciers OF White Leghorns in this vi
cinity. is making extensive additions to
his poultry yards at his farm in Dan
Vile near Joe's pond. To-day. the doc
tor received a shipment of 900 day-old
} l.eghorn chicks which will go to swell
the hen population at his farm. BY
early next fall he expects to have added
} 1000 more chickens of the same strain
The Corning system is used at the Watt
, farm and farmers for miles around have
J been interested in the methods adopted
there for making hens produce. As an
} ether well known local poultry man de-
clared to-day, the hen Ifancier's chiei
purpose should be to keep his birds
} happy. and when his present project j:
fully completed. DIR. Watt expects that
every convenience available will b'
placed at the disposal Of his fancy leg
horns at Danville
A new fireproof safe. one of the largest
the Central Vermont freight yards thi'
, morning It Is to be used in the ofiic,
OF the water superintendent at city hal
and during the forenoon sizeable band
, Of men was engaged in transporting th'
safe 20 IL new location and transferring
two old safes from the city building e
the freight wards. The new deposit
vault i some : feet high and has .
width Of feet. II weighs three ton
and has been placed in the main ONO.
Of Superintendent H. ?. Reynolds quart
ere. u was Manufactured BY the Mos
Her safe Go. Of Boston. and the city give
in part payment the old 3-ton SAT
formerly u-ed BY the government, and I
} smaller safe used until receHtly IN tn
sater Office. The postofiice safe viii b
shipped to Boston. while the smaller on
! has becn purchase ~ Angus 4. Smit'
! Tor nee IN Ms Montreal Offices. To
} water departments neW safe b said L
have cost around s3l5.