The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-09
TALK OF THE TOWN


Perry's on Saturday
Miss Jennie Brink returned to-day to
her home at Waitsfeld, after few days
visit in the city.
Edward Clark, principal of the high
school at Richmond arrived in the city
to-day for few days visit.
| Thomas Kidder, who has been passing
a few days in the city, returned last
night to his home at Craftsbury.
Miss Annie Warden of Lyndonville ar
rived in the city to-day to make few
days visit as the guest of friends.
| Fresh strawberries will be served with
strawberry ice cream at the Vermont
Fruit store to-day and tomorrow.
States Attorney J. Ward Carver and
Mrs. Carver are passing few days at
the home of the latter's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Towers, in Richmond.
Mrs. L. +. Roberts and her brother,
Irwin Potter, who accompanied the re-
mains of Mr.. Roberts to Barre for burial,
returned to-day to their home in Boston.
Supt. Il. M. Roscoe of the city schools,
Mrs. Roscoe and daughter returned to-
day from their former home in Spring
field, where they have been making
short visit.
About so couples attended the social
dance conducted in the knights OF CO.
lumbus hall last evening by the Odd La
dies. Harris orchestra furnished music
for the dancing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard 4. Walker and
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Cook returned
to-day from Middlebury, where Messrs.
Walker and Cook have been engaged in
engineering work for the firm of Walker
& Walker.
Among those registered at the Buzzell
hotel yesterday were: c. f. Wuerth,
Philadelphia; T.. j. Altman, Boston; Il
members of the st. Johnsbury academy
baseball team: r. H. Baynes, Meriden,
n. H.; Howard Bristol, Rome, n. r.;
Roy Burch and wife, Rome, n. Y; r. j.
Mllar, Boston; E. G. Bendell, Albany,
n. Y; II. f. Passig, Humboldt, Ia; Min
ME Hanna, Humboldt. Ia; George Brown,
Boston; James Latham, New York; r.
p. Carswell, Brockton, Mass; II. Per-
kins, Bethel.
Last evening about 80 friends Of A. l..
Pierce, the manager of the Washington
county chain of Direct Importing Go.
stores, gathered at his home on Hill
street to remember him on the 10th an
niversary of his birth. The party was
a complete surprise to Mr.. Pierce. Dur
ing the earlier part of the evening he
was presented handsome travelling bag
by his friends. The evening was passed
in social manner, being devoted to pro-
gressive whist and musical and literary
entertainment.
A number of Barre bird fanciers were
in Montpelier last evening to attend a
special meeting of the Vermont Poultry
association, which was held in the cap
ital city hall. In the absence of Judge
II. w. Scott, the president, A. G. Spell
man of Montpelier, one of the vice pres
idents, occupied the chair. Considerable
business of a routine nature was trans
acted and minor change in the condi-
tions accompanying the award of the so
called Park & Pollard cup was made aft
er a short discussion. Although no def
mite arrangements have been made, it is
expected that the next meeting of the
association will be held in the city court
room here on the evening of May 20
William Brown, who has been visiting
his former home near Aberdeen, Scot
land since last October, arrived in the
city last night from New York, where he
landed yesterday from the Cunard liner,
Franconia, which sailed from Liverpool
England, April 80. Mr.. and Mrs. Do
menico Breami, who have been passing
the winter solstiee in the balmy at
mosphere of northern Italy, came to
Barre this morning from Boston, where
they landed a few days ago from the
White Star liner, Olympic. Antonio
Rossi and A. Arioldi returned to Barre
to-day from New York, where they re-
Gently disembarked. after having made
a winters stay in Italy and other parts
of southern Europe.
The Italian Athletic club seconds got
their first drubbing of the season Thurs
day night at Graniteville, where the long
end of to score went to the fast
aggregation that the Modern Woodmen
of that village have placed on the field
this year. Clark, Fowlie and L. Rulfo
were in the points for the visitors, with
Finnegan and Feeley opposing. Finnegan
had the seconds completely at his mercy
and once the Woodmen got a command
ing lead they were never in danger OF
being overcome. Young Clark failed to
pitch in his last seasons form and to this
fact may be ascribed the poor showing
of the Italian team. The locals plan to
get revenge on the Barre Town outfit be-
fore the season is over and efforts are
being made to match the pair for anoth-
er clash. The seconds will play the Wa
terbury Athletic club next Saturday.
No coal passer, emerging from the
Stygian darkness of a subterranean fuel
depository, was ever any blacker than
q benighted frequenter of the highways
and hedges between Boston and Barre,
yesterday. Evidently teh caller was bit
the worse for choosing John Barleycorn
as travelling companion, but the sorry
appearance of his clothes and complex
ion was due wholly to a misstep that
precipitated him into a pool OF warm
tar and concrete near the gas plant in
Montpelier. The man claimed to have
hailed from Boston and proposed to car
ny his case against the People ct al.
to supreme court if the police did not
make reparation for his unfortunate
plunge into the pitch basin. The off
GERS explained that the man would prof
it better by resorting to cold water.
rather than to law, and in the end he
was persuaded to brushing acquaint-
ance with the garden hose and a pail
of hot water from the reservoir in the
city hall basement. He was changed
man and more cheerful as he left the
station after the cleanup.
Sometimes in the middle watches last
evening, marauders visited the Iilden
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