The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-20
TALK OF THE TOWN

MIS-, james LOW OF Liberty htrect ~
turned home to-day after visiting ia
!. few days with her sister and mothe
in South Royalton.
!. A meeting OF the young peoples SO
ciety of the Church OF the Good Shepher
will be held in the church Wednesda
: evening at 1880 o'clock.
Ice skating, Pearl street, Special SEES
sion daily at $3.50 p. m. Admission TO
ladies and children with skates, 10 cents
Open evenings at 1880. Admission, wit
skates, 10 cents.
The Odd Ladies will hold another o
their popular dances in the X. of G. hal
Friday evening, Jan. %, at 1880 o'clock
Bruce's orchestra will furnish music. Ad
mission, gentlemen, 25c; ladies, l0c.
Do not miss the Benjamin auction salc
Friday. There will be sold some high
grade Holstein and Guernsey cows anC
heifers, also two pairs four.year-old
steers, well matched and handy. ID. A
Perry, auetioneer.
The mission study class will meet IN
the home of Mrs. w. w. Calder, Beacon
street, Thursday evening, Jan. Il, at 1890
o'clock. Mrs. Cooper, missionary
among the Indians Of Wyoming for a
number OF years, viii be present and
speak Of her work.
The Barre horsemen were notified to-
day of the postponment OF the Ice race
TO have been held on the Winooski river
this afternoon under the auspices of the
Capital City Driving club. II weather
conditions are favorable the race meet
viii take place Saturday afternoon.
| A number of Barre poultry breeders
are centering their interest this week
on the annual exhibit of the Vermont
State Poultry association, which is be-
ing held in st. Adams. Among the larg-
or exhibitors at the. show are j. r. Cor.
skie, William j. oliver ir., Sherman n
Parker and w. b. Scott. Mr.. oliver
is making a particularly fine showing
of Silver Campines and Buff Rocks.
The special train service provided be-
tween Barre and Montpelier last evening
by the Montpelier 4 Wells River railroad
was appreciated by theatre patrons. The
train into Barre shortly before the opera
began brought ITO persons, and the out
going train carried 200. This train start
ed at the Prospect street crossing, so
that the patrons had but few steps
walk from the opera house door. Dur
ing the past few weeks the patronage of
both the steam lines between the two
cities has increased largely.
John Robin, j. w. Vaughan, L. r..
Rckert, II. X. Bush and George Mitch
ell left this morning for Burlington,
where they represented the vestry Of the
Church Of the Good Shepherd at spe-
cial convention Of the Vermont Episco-
pal diocese which was held for the pur-
pose OF electing coadjutor bishop TO
succeed the late Ri Rev. William Farrar
Weeks. The vestry of ST. John the Bap. |
fist church in Websterville was also rep
resented and the rector Of both church /
es, Rev. w. j. NJ Beattig, went to Bur. |
liugton yesterday to be present at the I
A short service this fore
noon was to be followed by the bust
ness meeting early this afternoon, when
for the bishopric were to be
nominated. The Barre delegates ex-
oected to return home this evening.
The Condors basketball team were
disappointed yesterday afternoon when
/ telephone call about four o'clock from
Waterbury told them that the basket
,all team from that place would not be
bile to play last night. As tickets had
llready betn sold, the manager imme-
lately tried TO arrange with some 9TH
r team. At last the manager consult
d the manager of the Combination
five. He was successful and at the
'huroh street gymnasium last evening the
'ondors defeated that team by score
i ~ 10 %. Both teams showed fine
FORK in passing and many spectacular
askete We're made which brought much
excitement from the audience (which
umbered some over 100 persons. Cor
on and Batcheldor, the forwards for
be winners, showed good floor work and
lso shot well. Halsal OF the losers
layed fast game, as did Jeals who
ucceeded in dropping In five baskets
uring the game. The lineup and sum
,sry; Condors; Gordon RI, Batchelder
!, Carroll c, Nichols C, Rogers lg. r. le
srroll re-. Combination Five; Ingram J
!, Halsal re-, Jeals G, Haskell If, Bjorn =
I. Ross H. Baskets from the floor; II
tRls 5, +. Carol 4, Rogers I, Batchel- y
RI 5, Halsal 2, Gordon 2. Nichols, In
ram. Biorn, Ross Baskets from FOUL a
oss. Referee. Mann. Umpire, Tierney.
ime, two 10 and one l0-minute periods. v
Scarcely ever has = comic opera had a 3
ore hearty reception in Barre than was q
corded robin Hood az presented by %
le De Koven Opera Co. in the Barre 81
lera house last evening before a large =
idience Of Barre and Montpelier people. a.
v Montpelier was unusually well rep y
scented. At the outset the audience ~
as peculiarly n0n-responsiye. AZ II deep II
engaged IN studying the material az
.ets Of the presentation; but AZ the 40
lists came on with their rendition of .,
a but always fsvorite numbers, one y,
"a an in the crowded house burst forth !,
unaffected applause. The soloist 20 -
IN the greatest appreciation was James y
evens. who brought forth the climax IN
bis splendid Interpretation Of Brown M
tobcr Ale" The selection gave oppor. n
nifty for bic baritone which the singer 4
Ok fun advantage Of Not much less 4.
preciated was Miss Cora Tracv's con
Tito IN "Oh Promise Me- while Miss :
! SCOTS rUilicking y Came a. q Cavn- -
= and Harold Blakes tenor and
orga Shields' bass were heard - fns
vantage Phil Branson vac not far Z
hind either with voice on Joke. Pred
aiker tool the part of aFrar Turk. A
z u there uas anything strained BOZ he
.tayul i might b. laid en- part 30 the
{ that b. vas filing ere role 81 tbs
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