The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-27
TALK OF THE TOWN


II There will be regular meeting OF
i Minnehaha encampment this evening al
Il 1880. Work, royal purple degree.
u w. G.. Venn of Portland, Me-, general
I| superintendent for the |. G. S., and his
/ division superintendent, Il. L. Wallen
\ were among the business visitors in the
\ city to-day.
H Mrs. Clarence III. Kendrick and little
H son, Ralph, who have been spending sew
H eral weeks with Mr.. and Mrs w. r.
H Cooley in East Montpelier, returned to-
\ day to their home on Academy street.
H Francis A. Mcdonnell left this morn
\ ing for New York. Mr.. Mcdonnell will
be absent on three months business
| trip through New York and New Eng
land in the interests of Mcdonnell q
Sons.
| The January circle of the guild of the
Church of the Good Shepherd will hold
a social afternoon with Mrs Oscar An
derson, Maple avenue, Thursday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock Admission, zoe.
Come and have good time.
Clerks, take notice: Regular meeting
of Retail Clerks association in the X. of
p. hall Wednesday evening, Jan. IS, at
1880 o'clock. All clerks who have appli-
cations are requested to appear for mi
tiation. Per order X. Maggiani, secre-
tarv.
| The final game of the as" series
between the A. 0. II. and the G. 0. +.
will not take place on Thursday evening
this week because of the installation of
officers of the A. 0. H., which will be
held on that night. The games will be
played the week following.
Rev. A. H. Bellondi of Boston, for
mer Barre clergyman, arrived in the city
last night for few days visit with
friends. For some years Mr.. Bellondi
was in charge of the Italian mission on
Brook street. He is now engaged in sim
liar work in and about Boston.
A change in ownership of the Gala
CHER g. Watkins billiard parlors at 262
North Main street was effected yester-
day. Henry Watkins has purchased the
interests Of Luke Gallagher and will con-
tinue to conduct the establishment as it
has been carried on since its opening
few months ago.
Friday evening the Apollo club of
Montpelier will be entertained at. the
Vincitia club in the Blanchard build
ing the occasion being the second OF
series of tournaments which the two
clubs are holding during the winter
months. There viii be competitions in
pool billiards, and whist. A buffet
luncheon viii be served.
\ j. NJ. Ward & Sons are engaged in
cutting their second crop OF ice on Peck's
pond in Barre Town. The ice is OF
prime quality and equal in thickness to
| the first crop. gang of 20 men started
work to-day, and by tomorrow night
lit is expected that the large ice house
on the borders of the pond will be filled.
w. II. Ward, the manager, has installed
a gasoline engine, which greatly facili-
1 tates the work of filling the ice house.
There are no horses employed in har-
vesting the second crop
Through its local operators, the ID. A.
Perry Real Estate agency has sold for
Henry Carr the so-called Austin Carr
| farm in Woodbury. to Glenn w. Sanders
of Goffstown, n. H. The negotiations
were completed yesterday and Mr.. San
ders will move his family and household
| goods from Goffstown TO Woodbury. at
once. The sale inelyies rs acres of land,
the farm buildings aud few parcels of
personal property Mr.. Carr has not
announced his plans for the future.
/ St. Aldemar eommandery, No. IL, X.
| r., will make the occasion of its annual
inspection Thursday evening one of the
most notable Masonic functions of the
4 winter. The inspection is to be made in
/ the commandery asylum in the Blanch
ard building but previous to the hour
of review, there will be a big dinner
for the knights in the banquet hall on
the third floor special committee
had charge of this feature of the even
ing and an effort is being made to have
banquet that will be hitting prelude
to. the exercises Of inspection. The ban
quet will be. served at 6 o'clock A num-
Der of prominent mandery men from
distance are expected to be present and
the officers who will conduct the review
are r. Il. Sir William H. Brewster of
Middlebury and Sir George b. Wheeler
of Bellows Falls. An invitation has
been extended to all visiting knights to
participate in the inspection.
Ted BUDDY of West Patterson street,
who was employed as day clerk at the
City hotel until the building was Quilted
by fire last Friday morning, went to the
third floor of the hotel this forenoon in
search of a valuable pin which he placed
on table in his room on the night of
the fire. The. pin was not the first arti
Gle of value that he found, however, as
he had the good fortune TO uncover
pair of partially burned trousers which |
he discarded Just before the fire. In one
pocket were several valuable trinkets, |
while the other pocket revealed a roll of
bills amounting TO SIG, which the clerk |
had secreted in his trousers. The bills |
We're thoroughly soaked, but for the
practical purpose for which money is
designed, they were unchanged. A
search was started this afternoon for the |
$40 which w. II. Snow, the landlord, |
Lost in tho fra