The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-01
TALK OF THE TOWN

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school vacation.
Robert Anderson returned to-day to
his home at Hardwick, after passing a
few days in the city with friends.
Mrs. David Mercer of the Montpelier
road returned last night from Worces-
ter, Mass, where she has been spending
few days as the guest of her son,
David Mercer, jr.
Miss Francis Davis of White River
Junction arrived in the city last night
| to make an extended visit at the home
Of her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Robins of French street
| George Richards of Bellows Falls ar
rived in the city to-day for few days
visit with relatives. He will leave the
latter part of the week for Montreal,
for a few weeks visit at the home Of
his uncle.
Arthur Lane, who has been express
manager on the Central Vermont line for
some years, has moved his family from
Trow hill to the farm of Orlando Mar
tin in Plainfield, where he will be en-
ployed for time.
| The condition of Robert Hafey, who
sustained serious injuries when an cleo
tric car ran over him at North Barre
last Saturday night, was reported to
be improving slowly to-day. The man
| is confined at the City hospital.
| There will be meeting of the ladies
who served on the hospital campaign
supper committee at campaign headquar-
tiers in the C. w. Averill block Thurs
day afternoon at o'clock As this is
the last meeting of the committee and
important matters are to be considered,
it is requested that every member make
a special effort to attend.
Through its local Offices, the d. A.
Perry real estate agency has sold the
property in West Berlin known as the
| Morrisett place to l.. +. Sanders of
Mortified Falls, who buys for home.
Mr.. Sanders will move at once to the
place, which is now vacant. The prop
erty, consisting of house, barn and
eight acres of land, is sold to settle
an estate.
Among those who registered at the
Buzzell hotel yesterday Were: J. X. Ruel,
Burlington; f. A. Mason, Boston; George
+. Mcleod, Burlington; A. r. Klotten,
Albany, N. "; A. Waters, Hartford,
Conn; A. G. Bigelow, Brookfeld; A. W.
Phillips, Claremont, N. H.; George Car
pentier, Winooski; Harry Daniels, East
Montpelier; Il. l.. Lebheumer, Burling-
ton.
Mrs. ri. S. Clark and son, Herbert, of
Mortified are passing several days in
the city as. guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. +. N.
Kempton OF South Main street and with
etI, aIaf lsturI nd ha
recently returned from an extended stay
in Oklahoma and from Barre they will
90 to Arlington, Mass, where Mr.. Clark
is engaged as commissioner of public
works.
Thomas Davidson of Pearl street en-
rolled this week as student at Goddard
seminary. The presence of Mr.. David
son at Goddard will give a great rise to
Goddard's baseball stock. For the past
few years Davidson has been the main
stay of the Barre Athletic clubs pitch
ing corps. Last summer he played in
the Essex county, n. Y, league. He
will not be able to participate in pre-
paratory school games.
Andrew Janero of Websterville was
brought to the City hospital and was
operated on for appendicitis yesterday
afternoon. 1t was found that gangrene
had developed, but the patient is doing
fairly well to-day. Frank Passera, the
W'illamstown granite manufacturer,
whose arm was amputated Monday
night after it had been terribly LAGER
ated in shafting at his plant, was re-
ported to-day to be getting along even
hpftar than was axppFtpd
A bowling quintet representing Vim
citia club met defeat at the Buzzell al
leys last evening in a candlepin match
with the Apollo club of Montpelier, los
ing two out of three games. The first
game was won by the Apollo club, 432
to Ala and the second also, 463 to 426,
The Vincitia club won the third game
407 to 404. The best bowling of the
evening was contributed by Phillips,
with a high string of lis and three
string aggregate of 306. Levie also
bowled well for Barre. Chamberlain and
Duke were the most conspicuous bowl
ers among the winners.
The candlepin bowling contests of
considerable Importance in the granite
plant bowling circles were held at the
Merlp Bros alleys last evening and the
games attracted one of the largest gal
leries of the season. In the big contest
between the employees of the Presbrey
Coykendall Granite company and the
Dewey Column Works club, the latter
team proved victorious two out of three
games. In the other contest the APP
prentices of Jones Bros. defeated the
joumeyman granitecutters three straight
games. The initial encounter revealed
some very excellent exhibitions of bowl
ing. Colombo of the winning team Sc
cured high single and high three-string
totals. His best single effort was ia
and his three-string aggregate 2l7.
James Brown of the Dewey team also
showed fine style with the small pins.
The Dewey team won by but one pin in
the team total, l,225 to l,224. In the
Jones Bros. clash, McRae proved to be
the stellar performer. He rolled one
single string of l07. ID. Mcdonald won
three-string total with 270.
+, A good-sized delegation of Barre peo-
pie interested in the good roads propa
ganda went to-day to Montpelier to at
tend the annual conference of the road
commissioners of Washington county.
Among the Barre delegation were includ-
ed r. S. Currier, county supervisor of
roads; George A. Reed, city engineer;