The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-18
TALK OF THE TOWN
"Kaysers'a gloves at Fits.

, Adv.
Special cleanup on separate skirts a
Abbott's.
William Daniels spent Sunday will
friends in Waterbury.
S. III. jackson, who has been passing ;
few days at Burlington, returned to-day
to the city.
w. T. Calder Of North Main street
returned this afternoon from a few days
business visit to Montreal.
Thomas Daley of Nashua, N. H., ar
rived in the city last evening and begai
work this morning in the William Mieri
barber shop on North Main street.
"The Good in the Worst of U.s." a
two-reel Eclair drama; "Notoriety," an
|. III. p. featuring King Baggott; also a
good comedy at the Bijou to-day.Adv
Misses Gertrude L. Geake and Emile
Z. Frazier returned yesterday from
Northfeld, where they attended the Phi
Kappa Delta dance, given Saturday
night in Armory hall.
At the headquarters in the G. w
Averill building tonight at o'clock
the directors of the Barre Board OF
Trade will assemble in special meeting
1t is especially desired that every di.
rector make an effort to attend
The exhibit of the Barre evening draw
ing school will continue this evening
from $3.50 to 0 o'clock. The drawings
will be returned on Wednesday evening
between $3.50 and 1880 o'clock instead of
between and 0 o'clock, as was first an
nounced
| Mrs. III. s. Powers of Richmond and
her son-in-law, States Attorney j. Ward
Carver, left this forenoon for New York,
where the former will consult a special
list. Mr.. Carver will proceed to Boston
on business trip, returning to Barre
the latter part of the week.
| Miss Florence Martin, who has been
in the city for some weeks, has returned
| to her home in Plainfeld, and her aunt,
Mrs. Lizzie Robinson, and sister, Miss
Marion Martin, who have been visiting
| in Plainfeld for a few days, returned
to-day TO their home on Eastern avenue.
| War on the tent caterpillar is being
waged by the Barre park commission,
and If the crusade that has been started
against the pest is successful. the end
of the month will see the tents eradi-
Gated on every bush and tree that is
located within the jurisdiction of the
commission. Saturday at Elmwood park,
just west of the cemetery, the commits
sioners began their warfare and by
night the work was well in hand. The
number of nests destroyed was surpris.
ingly large and the number of larve
actually burned with the aid of kero-
sene torches cannot be reckoned. From
Elmwood park the commissioners plan
to carry the war into other quarters OF
the city where park plots are entrusted
to their care. In this work of getting
ahead of the parasites, the commission
ers will welcome the assistance of school
children and boy scouts.
This morning the aldermanic commit
tee of the whole and Mayor w. II. Ward
made their first official visit to the city's
main water source at Orange. The city
fathers found the big basin in excellent
shape after the hardest winter the reser-
voir has weathered since il was built.
Very little vegetable matter of kind
calculated to contaminate the water was
found and the young fir trees set out
last year and in years past for the pur-
pose of replacing leaf bearing trees on
the edge OF the pond were found to be
making fine progress toward maturity.
In Alderman Cooks automobile the COM
mttee motored to the head waters OF
the supply and followed the stream down
to the point where a cement dam was
built last year. The question of replac
ing the plank crossing over the neck of
the pond with an up-to-date iron bridge
is being seriously agitated and if the
necessary negotiations can be made with
the town OF Orange ii is likely that the
bridge will be built this season. 1t is
claimed that dust and other road refuse
percolating through the plank floor of
the present bridge tends to impair the |
quality of the water.
For two hours Sunday afternoon, the |
auto truck from fire headquarters bat |
tied with bush and grass fire on the |
north slopes of Hope cemetery. I'm |
doubtedly small boys who were taking
their first spring plunge in the brook |
below know something about the origin |
of the fire, as developments in the after
glow OF the little coniiagration led the |
fremen to construct a theory as to how
it had its beginning. woman living |
in the neighborhood was the first TO APP
prehend the danger of the outbreak, AID
her message to the fire station was
quickly answered upon its transmission
at 2:35. Canvas coats, brooms and snow
shovels figured in the work performed
by regular and volunteer firemen, but
for nearly an hour the fire seemed to
sweep at will the entire breadth of the
slope, consuming bushes, grass and ref
use in its path. Finally the firemen
solved the problem of combating such
troublesome blaze by building back fires
that soon had the desired effect. BY
4:30 o'clock the last vestige of fire had
been stamped out and the iremen were
ready for the return to headquarters.
The damage will be trivial, although at
one time the fire threatened to surround
a row of fine monuments that border
the graveyard on the north.
Hand in hand, four little Syrian
maids from the Prospect street colony
came down the M. & W. r. tracks Sat
urday afternoon. Entirely oblivious to
the parental warning to keep to the
sidewalk and let the big locomotives
travel the tracks. they beat their way
along the rails, counting the ties as
they went. Near the Depot square
crossing, the quartet of young people
were thrown into panic when little
Lizzie John caught her shoe in a frog.
Farther down the yard one of the big
freighters whistled ominously, and time
seemed to grow rapidly precious as the