The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-01
TALK OF THE TOWN

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Sale lace collars at gle each at the
Vaughan Store.
A special value in scrim curtains sligo
a pair at Perry's.
Strawberry ice cream, made with fresh
berries, at Diversi's.
New white goods including the popu-
lar rice cloth, at Knights.
Dance in Miles hall Saturday even
ing; Davidson's orchestra; soc per cou-
! pie, extra ladies free.
| Regular Saturday night dance in How
l land hall May 2, under the auspices OF
1 Riley's orchestra. Ladies free.
Cattle are coming in pretty well, al
| though we want about 40 more to turn
out. H. J. Smith, 1857 North Main street.
The annual general meeting of the
| Barre Rangers Football club will be held
in the Clan Gordon hall Friday night,
May !, at o'clock. Per order president.
|. Auction sale tomorrow, at Williams
town; the George Beckett harness shop,
! fixtures and stock, some household fur
niture, etc. See ad. page 7, this paper.
10. F. Smith, auctioneer.--Adyt.
The rehearsal of the Choral society
will take place in the city hall, Mont
pelier, the ladies meeting at 1880 and
the men at p. m. The ladies chorus,
Butterflies and the mems chorus in
"Walpurgis Night" will be the principle
works studied.
Daniel G. Praught of Websterville is
spending few weeks at Mount Glenn
ems, Mich, taking the baths. Mr..
Praught, who is a quarryman, has been
considerably troubled with rheumatism
for some time and hopes to be able to
soak some of it out of his system in
this Michigan water. He expects to be
absent about three weeks.
The eighth grade of the Mathewson
school defeated the eighth grade of the
Lincoln school at the Lincoln school
grounds last evening by a score of 4 to 3.
The winning run was knocked in by
Stewart in the ninth. Features of the
game were the fielding of Geals, the
catching of Venetti and the pitching Of
Wilkins. Battery for Lincoln was Las
cor and Humphrey.
The secretary of the state board of
pharmacy has announced the following
list of successful candidates among those
meeting of the board in Montpelier in
April: Registered Pharmacists, Joseph
G. Lambert of Burlington, +. L. Halden
Of Proctor; assistant pharmacists, n. B.
Cook of Quincy, Mass, Hortense Mer
rill of Swampseott, Mass. The board
will not convene again at Montpelier UNI
til June.
The Federals, a newly organized base
ball team from the north end, defeated
the Red Sox team from the same section
in an interesting game of baseball yes
terday, by score of 7 to 6. The fast
work of Reddy Minutti, youngster
from Concord, who is to cover the third
sack for the B. A. c., was the star that
held the Federals from pilng a larger
score. Kingston and Birnie composed
the battery Of the winners and the Starr
brothers were in the points for the los
ers.
Thomas Dineen of Foster street met
with painful accident yesterday fore
noon while engaged at his work on Burn
hams meadow. Dineen, with the assist
ance of other workmen, was attempting
to turn fair sized stone without the
aid of the travelling crane Unexpected
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Dineen and pinned both hands under
meath. Other worlmen removed the
stone from his hands. While no bones
were broken his hands were badly
jammed and ii win be several weeks
before he resumes his duties.
The ladies' auxiliary, A. o. H., con-
Quoted its annual May ball in the How
land hall last evening. There were about
90 couples present. The hall was at
tractively decorated and presented a
very pleasing appearance. In one sec
ton of the hall punch and waters We're
served to the dancers from a tastefully
arranged booth. Martin Riley, jr, and !
John Rowley acted in the capacity OF
floor managers. Riley's orchestra fur
nished music for the dancing, The COM
mittee in charge of the bail was com
posed of Mrs. J. Fl. Carroll, Mrs. NJ w. /
Nelson Mrs. Margaret Nelson, Mrs. John |
Nelson Mrs. p +. Mccarthy and Mrs. |
j. Il. Murphy. The ball proved great |
success and credit in no small measure
is due to this committee, who displayed |
vigor in their preparations for
I he dance