The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-09
TALK OF THE TOWN


III in the city this week to make visi
NJ with relatives.
III A meeting of the Burns club will b.
H held in Clan Gordon hall tomorrow
n night Saturday at 1880 o'clock.
II X. G. Lumey, who has been the CUES
II of friends in Barre for several days, re
H turned to-day to his home in Bradford
II William Keefe returned home yester
Il his mother, Mrs. James Keefe, of Bos
II ton.
II George Milton, former resident o
\ Barre, arrived in the city last nigh
H from st. Louis, Mo-, for an indefinite
\ visit with relatives
Farren Haskill, who has bee,i visiting
at Graniteville for the past few days
passed through the city to-day on hi
way to his home at Tinwick, p Q.
H Fred n. Kempton of South Main street
returned last night from Boston anc
\ Dorchester, Mass, where he has beer
spending several days on business.
Miss Eva M. Norway, who has beer
visiting relatives in East Barre for the
past two weeks, was a visitor in the
city this forenoon while on her way
to her home in Essex Junction.
The committee of household economics
for the Barre Woman's club will meet
with Mrs. Benedict Saturday afternoon
at o'clock to plan for the demonstra-
ton to be held at the next meeting.
c. r. Calderwood, who has been visit
ing his brother, Alva p. Calderwood of
South Main street, returned this fore
noon to his home in st. Johnsbury. !.
The Indian Athletic club will hold its
annual banquet this evening in the Clan
Gordon hall. A ball will follow the ban
quet. Persons are expected to be present
from Montpelier and Northfeld and
Waterbury.
Conductor James J. Kanaly of Mont
pelier is taking a few days vacation
from his duties on the Barre branch.
Conductor Charles Simmons of the Mont
pelier freight crew is acting in charge
of the daily passenger service over the
branch.
Andrew Morrison, who operates a
small dairy in connection with his place
on Batchelder street, this morning
shipped registered Guernsey calf to
the Pike farms in Medford, Mass. The
cali is blooded animal and brought
fancy price.
1 CiNti. VIM mas bttH pass
| ing 10 days vacation at his former
home near Worcester, Mass, and with
| friends in Barre, where he was employed
until recently, went this morning to
Montpelier to resume his duties in the
shoe repair shop of Joseph Yatter.
One of the largest consignments of
cattle and hogs shipped from Barre in
several months left the NJ & w. freight
yards this forenoon for the Brighton
markets. Three carloads of cows, sheep
and hogs We're collected by b. F. Davis
in Plainfeld, Marshfeld, and Orange
county towns.
Ex-Alderman David Dawson of Port
land, Me-, until recently a resident of
Barre, arrived in the city yesterday,
having been called here by the death of
his long friend, William Scott of
Harrington avenue. Ex-Alderman Daw-
son will return to Portland tomorrow.
To-day's guest list at the City hotel
included the following out of town visit
ors: Harry II. Lane, Springfield; Mr.
and Mrs. f. o. Griffith, Waitsfeld; W.
Z. Fenkes, Albany, N. Y; NJ. r. Weiner
and f. Southwark, Cincinnati, O.; the
kinemacolor company; w. E. Myers,
Cabot; L. II. Glynn, st. Johnsbury
f. b. Lang, Springfield, Mass; C. II.
Corbin, Warren, o.; A. H. Gleason, St
Johnsbury.
DIR. d. c. Jarvis OF 50 Franklin street
is carrying his right arm in sling as
the result of painful fall which he
sustained while ascending the Franklin
street hill Wednesday night. On de-
ceptive strip of sidewalk the doctor
lost his footing and fell heavily. A ply
stefan who examined his right arm at
first thought the bone had been broken,
but a closer examination REVEALED only
a bad sprain. DIR. Jarvis is able to be
at his Office, although he will be deprived
of the use of the arm for several days.
A valuable draft mare belonging to
Mayor w. H. Ward dropped dead on
the ice at the South Barre mill pond !
Wednesday and a careful examination
by a veterinarian failed to disclose the |
nature of the animals affection. One
of the tesmsters employed by the Ward |
company had taken the horse from its
quarters in a nearby barn only few |
moments before its death. just as the |
outfit reached the ice, the horse sudden |
ly halted, gave snort and was dead. |
Mayor Ward valued the animal at 1925. |
a 10 days stay in the Barre granite
belt. Mr.. Corbin is one of the most |
widely known retail monument dealers |
in the middle West and is making his
first trip to the quarrying section of
Vermont. This morning, in company |
with local manufacturers, he was taken
on an inspection trip through several
of the larger cutting plants. To-mor-
row he will visit the quarries on Mill
stone hill. Mr.. Corbin plans to make a
short stop in Proctor before returning
to Ohio by way of Chicago.
A satisfied audience of moving picture
lovers saw the first exhibition of kline
macolor pictures in the opera house last
evening. Colored movies" that retained
their clearness in spite of successful
effort to tone each picture in accord
with nature were seen in Barre for the
first time. The company presented a
varied program of educational and reere-
alive films, but perhaps the most inter
esting of them all was the comprehen
sive animated picture of the canal at
Panama in process of construction. The
three canal zone films alone were worth
ones time and the price of admission.
The pictures are loaned by the United
States government and part of their
is to give the people who are
paying for the canal a definite idea OF
what the army engineers have accom-