The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-26
TALK OF THE TOWN


A See the new wool dresses at thu
Vaughan Store.
/ Conroy G. Leayens OF Cambridge ar
rived in the city this morning TO pass
the remainder OF the week with
/ friends here.
i Mrs. Luke Stronnick and two children
lof Monmouth, N. j., arrived in the city
Hast night for months visit with rel
atives in Barre and towns neg-hy.
/ Clarence Little, who has been spend
ling two weeks with relatives in Boston
and other Massachusetts cities, arrived
in the city this morning, returning at
noon to his home in Graniteville.
I George II. Bickford, who is employed
as superintendent of the Woodbury.
Granite works in HardwiclS, returned to
his home yesterday, after spending a
few days in Barre ON business.
| Miss Ethel Hitchcock. who is en-
lpoyed ON the staff Of the Andover,
Mass, Townscan, is spending several
days in the city as the guest OF Misses
Nellie and Gertrude Slayton OF South
Main street.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Evans, who have
been guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. 3. Camp-
bell or North Main street, returned yes
! terday to their home in Burlington. Mr..
and Mrs Charles H. Campbell, who have
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. Camp
bell and other relatives in Barre and
vicinity, have returned TO their home
! in Old Orchard, Ne.
Michael Mclaughlin, who has con-
conducted a barber shop near the corner
of North Main and Seminary streets
since his return from Boston several
months ago, is moving his household
goods to upper Graniteville, where he
will reopen a shop discontinued by him
last summer.
The remains of Mrs Tip-athv Hol-
land, whose death at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. Fred NJ. Kempton, 50
South Main street, Thursday forenoon
followed 10 days illness OF pneumo-
mia, will be taken over the Central YER
mont railroad Friday morning at S:l5
to her former home in Mortified, where
the funeral will be held in the forenoon
at st. Johns Roman Catholic church. The
pastor, Rev. John p. McGarry, viii offi-
ciate. The mternent will be made in
the Catholic cemetery in Northfield-
Friends in this city of Harry w.
Writers, formerly of st. Adams, will be
interested TO learn that he is now asso-
ciated in law partnership in st. Johns
bury with Harlan p. Howe and Leigh l.
Harvey. They win practice law under
the firm name of Howe, Writers & Har-
vey, with offices in the Citizens bank
building Mr.. Writers is a graduate Of
the law department of the university Of
Michigan at Ann Arbor and has been
resident of st. Johnsbury for number
of years. He is well known in baseball
circles around the state and has been
frequent visitor with friends in South
Barre.
George D. Stewart, who has been
spending four weeks with his father.
Duncan Stewart, OF Allen street. left
last night at midnight for New York
whence he is to proceed late in the week
to Oregon, where he is employed Mr..
Stewart is engaged as the foreman of
n large quarry at Dallas, and the pres
sure of business there has called him
back west sooner than he expected The !
quarry produces large quantities OF red /
stone and its most important product is
a crushed stone preparation used almost |
exclusively in street work in most OF I
the cities of Washington and Oregon |
Fifteen years ago Mr.. Stewart was EN- /
ployed in one of the quarries in Barre I
Town. But recently he returned from a |
trip to Boston, where he sought informa
lion concerning the whereabouts Of his
brother, Alex. Stewart, who, it was
learned, met death near Brighton last /
summer.