The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-19
TALK OF THE TOWN
Get our prices on furs. Fits.

4 vaughan store.
| Five hundred yards new girghams for
1 I'VE yard at Perry's on Saturday.
/ You will want some Of that gingham
on sale for 71ac yard at Perry's ON
Saturday; a Zoe quality.
Ernest A. Drown left this forenoon
for Lyndonville, where he was called by
the illness of a relative.
Contrary to yesterdays item in this
paper, the Woodmen's social will be on
Friday at x. of c. hall at p. m.
Harrison s. Taught, who has been Wis
iting friends in the city for few days,
returned this morning to his home in
Burlington.
The defeated C. o. f. "45" players will
tender banquet to the A. o. II. and
officers on Thursday, the 10Th inst, at
$3.50 p. M, at X of G. hall.
| Mrs. Fred Mann of Peacham arrived
lin the city yesterday for an extended
visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Mann Of Wellington street.
Charles Carpenter, who has been
spending few days in the city as the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. d. s, Water
man of Washington street, returned this
forenoon to his home in Randolph.
st. Aldemar commandery will give the
second OF a series of dancing parties
at the Masonic barracks this evening A
dainty buffet luncheon and music by the
commandefy orchestra will be among the
features.
A regular meeting of branch No. ! Of
local Barre Socialist party will be held
Thursday evening, Feb. 10, at 1880 in
Socialist hall, Granite street. Ward
committees please be present to report
on work.
A valuable hand bag and fur boa,
which officers found on the streets not
long ago, still awaits claimants at the
police station. The boa was found on
North Main street soon after the YER
mont fruit store fire and the handbag
was discovered near the M. &. w. sta
ton.
Mrs. Walter M. Randall entertained
"a number of young women at her home,
5 Averill street, last evening in honor
of Mrs. Harvey L. Hodges, who left to-
day for her new home in Wiliimantic,
Conn. Cards were in order and deli
cious luncheon brought the affair to a
close.
Judge II. w. Scott left this forenoon
ut ll:25 for Poultney, where as grand
patriarch of the state assembly of Odd
Fellows, he viii make an official yitita
ton of the Poultney lodge this even
ing Tomorrow night the Judge will
make an inspection of the Bennington
lodge, returning to Barre Saturday
forenoon.
Repairs to the Henderson block. which
was damaged by fire in the Vermont
fruit store on the night of Feb. IL, were
started to-day. Most of the carpenters
operations will be centered in the fruit
store, as it was there that the greatest
damage was done. Fraquelli g. Nanetti
intend to convert the store into an up
todate fruit shop.
Saturday afternoon at 1880 o'clock I
the city council will convene in another |
special session for the purpose of con-
sidering proposals to put the insurance |
OF all city property on a blanket sched- |
ule. A proposition submitted by B. A. |
Sumner of Montpelier was considered |
favorably by the aldermanic property I
at first, but late last week local firm |
of insurance men made counter offer /
that promised several superior eaturcs |
for the city if it were accepted. A num-
Der of Barre insurance men took the !
matter under advisement, decided they I
would like to submit schedule, and |
offered TO insure the city building for
a week. The week expires next Monday
and action on schedule will probably
be taken Saturday.
Peter Corey Of Prospect street has
asked the authorities to aid him in the
recovery of his overcoat, which he lost
at the north end Of the NJ. & w. r.
freight yard yesterday. Mr.. Corey is
one of the sub-foremen of the yard sec
ton and his trials are the trials Of a
section hand. Yesterday he laid aside
his coat during the sunny hours around
noon. The garment was left on a pile
Of ties not far from the spot where the
men were sboveling snow. At the first
blast of the stoneshed whistles, Mr..
Corey went to the pile for his coat.
He found, instead, frock coat of light
Gone was his coat and gone,
also, was considerable sum of money
which he carried in his breast pocket.
Mr.. Corey thinks the thief must have
been unusually sly, as the section gang
was always within a stones throw of
The place where he left the coat.
The Maiden, Mass, Commercial school
yesterday that the semi-an-
ual award for the highest rank in
spelling for the twenty weeks ending
February 3, 1914, was made TO Miss
gladys Mae Suitor of Barre, whose av-
rage rank, including daily marks for
"A daily lessons and four written tests,
vas 1881 per cent. Miss Suitor is a
graduate of Spaulding high school. Miss
Florence Granger, another Barre girl
md also a Spaulding graduate, was
bird in rank with mark of 9s.22 per
emit, and she received honorable men
ion when the presentation of Miss Suit
IRIS prize was made by Prin. Walter
1eroy Smith. The prize won by Miss
sutton was a Webster's Standard Col
egiste dictionary. The Maiden school
'ffers this prize semi-annually because
# the exceedingly fundamental and J
PRACTICAL value of spelling in the work !
# the graduates of the institution.
Card of Thanks.