The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-20
TALK OF THE TOWN
Special coat values at Abbott's.

| Special coat values at Abbott's.
Twenty-three cents is our Saturday
price on enameled ware. G. N. Kenyon
| & Co.
| Before you buy fruit, stop and look at
our prices. We are having special prices
| for Saturday. The United Fruit Store.
Miss Velma Melcher, who has been at
| tending Simmons college, Boston, is pass
! ing the summer at her home on Park
! street.
! Leroy Smith, who is member of the
F., Klark- Urban company, arrived in the
city this morning for few days visit
at his home.
/ Mrs. Edward c. French and grandson,
Oscar Forbes, who have been visiting
Mr.. French in this city, returned this
morning to their home in Mortified.
H. Chester Sargent, student at Wes-
leyan university, Middletown, Conn., was
visitor in the city to-day while on his
way to East Barre for the summer.
A seasonabIe two-piece suit for you
| if you profit by the great reduction sale
on tailor-made garmentss SIS and $40
suits for sl2 and SIG; offer closes Sat
urday night. Joseph Kovalsky, ls2
North Main street.
John Maiden, who has been passing
a few months at Gowganda, Ont, ar
rived in the city to-day to make an ex-
tended visit at his home on Pearl street.
Mr.. Maiden and J. A. Smith left this
afternoon for Burlington to attend the
Vermont Dartmouth game.
States Attorney J. Ward Carver and
County Clerk l.. c. Moody of Montpelier
returned to-day from 10 days stay at
the st. Bernard club in Quebec. Mrs.
Carver has returned home, after visit
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. I. s.
Powers, in Richmond.
Mrs. Il. M. Roscoe and daughter, Miss
Helen Roscoe, of l6 French street, left
this morning for Springfield, Mass,
where they will visit Mr.. Roscoe's sis
ter. Later, Mrs. Roscoe will go to Bos-
ton, where, with her husband, she will
attend the American institute.
A premature attempt on the part of
small boys TO celebrate the glorious
Fourth was nipped in the bud yesterday
afternoon when one of the officers con-
nected with police headquarters made a
thorough inspection of all stores suspect
ed of handling fireworks and finally sue
ceeded in locating the dealer who has
been supplying the youngsters with pis-
toll caps. The storekeeper admitted hav- |
ing dispensed a large number OF the lit |
tie explosives at the rate OF so for one |
cent. He opined, however, that the law |
did not prohibit such sales, but word I
Of explanation and admonition from the
officer convinced him that the course he |
has been pursuing was wrong The Off
,er assured the man that there would be /
no prosecution if he would cease the safe
If the caps until the appointed time. In
some neighborhoods the boys have been
making the nights hideous by exploding
he caps in little pistols.
Because the fire hazard is relatively So
much greater during the summer months,
number of south end stone manufac-
,urers have united in employing 4 night
who viii remain on duty
very night until late in the fall The
proposal TO put on a Waterman was first
discussed last summer when the pro-
onged drought and the resulting water
hortage made extra fire precaution i'm
,erative. For a time in 1918 men were
ngaged to patrol the stoneshed districts
III over the city, but the custom was
discontinued with the approach of win
err. Now a number of manufacturers
ave hired John Paul OF Ayers street to
ravel through the south end manufac
uring district every night throughout
he summer. Among the manufacturers
tho are interested in the protection thus I
fforded are Barclay Bros, Bugbee & Co, {
sobins Bros. J. P. Corskie & Son, Nc
)onnell & Sons, the Martinson Estate
%. and others.