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

making rooms from the Eastman block
to the Arcade building.
Remember the place where fresh
strawberries come twice day--United
Fruit Store. Tel. 240.
| Thomas Clarity, ST., left last night for
| Quincy, Mass, where he will make a
several weeks visit with relatives.
| The Newman Dramatic club will hold
| a special meeting at the convent of the
Sacred Heart tomorrow night at
o'clock.
The B. A. C. baseball team will prac-
tice Tuesday evening, May S, at Inter
city park. All members are asked to
be present.
"Just Kids" two-reel Eclair feature
"The Race with DEATH" Rex. drama
featuring Bob Leonard, also comedy
at the Bijou.-Adyt.
Regular review of Harmon hive, No. j
L. o. T. NJ, Wednesday evening at 7:3O
o'clock. The record keeper will be at
the hall early to receive dues.
Notice to Granite Cutters-The pro-
posed agr cement, on which Barre branch
took action May 4, has been signed by
effect Immediately. j. d. Will.
At the camp supper at the Baptist
church tonight, there viii be candy for
sale, the money to 60 toward organiza-
ton expenses of the new campfire.
The bird clubs will meet Wednesday
at 4:l5 at Mathewson school building.
Note books have been printed and will
be distributed. Please bring money for
notebooks to this meeting. They will
be only five cents each.
Rev. Hugh McKenna. curate at st.
Monica's church, left yesterday after
noon for Burlington, where he will as
sist in the observance of the forty hours
devotion at the Burlington cathedral.
He will return to the city the latter
part of the week.
The Bonaccord football club has COM
pleted arrangements for social dance
to be held in the Clan Gordon hall on
Saturday evening, May 0, for the bene-
fit of the. club. Dancing will be held
from o'clock until IL. During the
evening supper viii be served.
+. d. Hathaway returned last night
from Newbury, where he attended the
funeral of Mrs. Clarence Knight, Mrs.
Leon Knight and daughter, Dorothy,
which was held yesterday afternoon.
They were the victims of last week 9
sad drowning accident at Newbury and
were relatives of Mrs. Freeman Cilley,
formerly a resident of Barre.
The noted naturalist, Ernest Harold
Baynes, who lectures in Barre Friday,
May 8, has some very fine lantern slides
which he uses. The lecture to be Civ
en- here is "Wild Birds and How to At
tract Them" Among other curious
things which he tells is how to attract
'humming birds with artificial flowers
and also how to stock the flowers with
sweets. The children will all wish to
only 10 cents; adults tickets, 20 cents.
Traffic at the west end of Depot square
was obstructed to certain extent yes
terday when a large granite block which
formed part of Transfers load slid
to the ground and by its sheer weight
defied the efforts of many men to re-
move it from the highway. The mishap
occurred in the early forenoon and it
was well toward dusk before a gang
of laborers with small derrick succeed
ed in lifting the stone back onto the
wagon. The team was bound for Cen
trail Vermont siding to deposit its load
when the stone was seen to teeter and
fall to the ground.
Among those who registered at The
Buzzell hotel yesterday were: II. d.
Marshall, Boston; Aaron Berman, Lit
tleton, n. H.; Il. NJ. Piper, Bangor, Me-;
Mack, Nashua, N. H.; II. d. Merrill.
H. J. Markolf, Rutland; c.
r. +. Best, White River Junction; Les
ter Nichols, Pcterboro, n H.; Sam Con-
sidine, Buffalo, n. Y; c. II. Rowland,
Cabot; II. N. Kimball, Enosburg Falls;
Fred McAuley, Sherbrooke, P. O.; w. II.
Harper, Allentown, Pa.
James Walker and J. K. Prize of Will
Jamestown left this forenoon for White
River Junction, where they will attend
the annual state convention of the Mod
ern Woodmen of America, which con-
venes to-day for a two-day session. Mr..
Walker is a member of the Granite City
camp and Mr.. Prize of the Maple Leaf
camp of Graniteville. A month ago at
the Washington county convention they
Wtit scicSteu dS utiSkdtCS W itpiesfHt
the county at the state convention. The
annual log rolling will not take place,
but will be conducted later in the sum-
mer. Delegates will be selected to-mor-
row to represent the state at the big
convention to be held at Toledo,
Ohio, June 0.
In response to general demand for
service ON Saturday nights,
the Barre & Montpelier Traction &
Power Co. has decided to add an extra
car on its line on the last evening in
the week. Beginning next Saturday
night, the last car to leave Montpelier
for Barre will start from the terminus
at 1890 o'clock. Departing from the
former custom of proceeding only to the
the car will continue through
to Barre. On its arrival in the city it
will make the trip to the south end and
return to City square. There it is to
remain Until the return trip to Mont
pelier is started at midnight. In the past
the last car out of Montpelier has left
1T 10 o'clock, and the last Montpelier
bound car has left this city at HIS. |
If the patronage warrants the retention
Of the new Saturday night arrangement,
It will be continued indefinitely, accord |
ing to statement issued at the trac-
ton offices to-day; if not, the service
will be discontinued at the end of the
month. The late trip to Montpelier will
be appreciated by a large number of
young people who attend the dances in