The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-26
TALK OF THE TOWN

uIuay AZ DfoWns,
The Peoples National bank has Dc
clared semi.annual dividend of 3la pc
cent. to stockholders, payable July |.
John d. Winslow of Chatham, N. ",
spending several days with his sistel
Mrs. A. A. Northrop of Merchant street
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Frank Perry and tw
sons, James and Arthur, returned yester
day from weeks automobile tour TO Sa
lem, Mass.
Mrs, George Brown and little child o
ST. Johnsbury, who have been passing
several days with the formers mother
Mrs Margaret Mccarthy, OF Brool
street and with other Barre relatives
have gone to Enosburg Falls for visit
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. o. Wheeler and son
Warner Wheeler, of belmont avenue, Mr.
and Mrs. Dennison Densmore and Mr.
and Mrs. H. p. Wheeler were among the
Barre people who went to Woodbury.
pond to-day TO participate in the annual
reunion OF the Wheeler family.
| f. N. Normandeau of Merchant street
arrived in the city to-day from st
bloomsbury Center for a week end visit
with his family. Contractor Normandeau
reports considerable progress on the
grade crossing project which he has UNI
dertaken at that point for the Central
Vermont railroad. Working under him
| is gang of fifty laborers.
r. Il. Mcintosh of Boston, a represen-
tative of the Eagle Oil Co. of Boston, is
passing few days in the Barre granite
belt. Mr.. Mcintosh has closed contract
for installing three dust removing devices
in large north end stoneshed and a
number of other manufacturers have been
interested III a demonstration of the re-
mover as given by Mr.. Mcintosh.
Earl Williams, who recently complet-
ed his third year at Dartmouth col
lege, Hanover, n. H., and who has been
awarded the college letter in baseball,
arrived in the city last evening to pass
the summer with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Z. A. Williams of Washington
street Miss Lamb, who has been at
tending business college in Concord, N.
H., is also at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Williams for the summer.
George S. Harris, formerly member
of the faculty of Spaulding high school
and now teacher of English in the Mont
clair, N. j., high school, has been visiting
in Barre for two days, having come from
his former home in Stove, where he is
spending short time before the opening
of Kamp Kill Rare for boys on Lake
Champaign over which he and Harley w.
Heath and Ralph Perry have charge.
The camp il attended by about As boys,
mostly from New Jersey, and is kept
open until Sept. l.
II. d, Bolton, who is the Central Yer
mont railroads detective bureau, was In |
Barre yesterday showing concern over |
the serious offense of three youngsters |
who are accused of having pilfered a
ride on one of the company's branch |
rains between this city and Montpelier
Two lads from the capital and one Barre
10Y, according to the authorities, frank
ID themselves over the branch on the
ear platform of baggage car one day
his week, and when the alleged offense
'ecame known Detective Bolton hurried
lown from st. Adams and got his de-
Getting machinery under way
Officers for l9l5-l9l6 were elected AT
he annual meeting Of the mission circle
f the Unversalist church, which was
ED at the home of Mrs. George L. Bates
4 Orange street yesterday afternoon.
is a list of those who will
erve the circle in official capacities:
resident, Mrs. c, r. Allen; vice -presi.
ent, Mrs. Brooks; secretary, Mrs. F. 4.
'urr; treasurer, Mrs. Bates auditor,
irs. Robinson; members of the execu-
i've board, Mrs. j. B. Reardon and Mrs.
utler; program committee, Miss Carrie {
Rheelock, Mrs. 0. X. HOLSTER and Mrs.
richardson. After devotional exercises /
nd the brief business session two inter
sting papers on mission topics were read d
nd five ladies who were present as f
nests enrolled as new members OF the
ission circle. AT 5 o'clock supper was
rived on the lawn. {
Barre rural delivery carriers are to /
i've liberal representation at the an 5
lal meeting of the state association, v
hich is to be held in Randolph next \
onth. OF additional interest cen. p
ring around the convention is the fact I
at Earl NJ. Lewis, one of the city car
ers, is on of the VITO men delegated BY o.
e postal clerks and carriers at their il
cent convention in Brattleboro TO APP al
zach the rural carriers with a plan d,
consolidate the three branches OF the =
rvioe under a single state organization. :.
]. Driscoll of st. Adams is the other .
legate and when the rural delivery /:
IN assemble in Randolph they will lis I:
n TO a tentative plan for consolidation (:
blocked out in the Brattleboro con- (:
ntion. City carriers in Vermont num- X
r nearly 50 and the other wing Of the /;
TO which they belong. the ::
stall clerks. has a membership quite |.
large. There are upward of 200 r. II
carriers in the state. x
Another little chapter in the Currier n
TX curbing dispute was written late Il
sterday afternoon when the alderman. z
committee Of the whole gathered on =
II well known mall and met in con y
'ence with a committee Of abutting \
,perty owners. The proceedings were .
ich in harmony with the fine june !.
sther that prevailed and If there was .
ything lacking 10 make the conference !;
moving success. Il was the failure Of =
rrier park ladies to add the basket q
ture 20 the picnic Dr. &. W. Steele, y.
NJ. L. Chandler. q. Il. Narnum. y. B. -
Hard. Fred Becklev. A. A. B0yce, Ho-
r Pitts and n. O. Robinson were pres
% talk over the situation aud while
tangible solution Of the curling prob
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