The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-19
TALK OF THE TOWN
ancy tea aprons Sc al Knlght's.


S. w. Cuptil of Waterbury was bust
Henry W. Knight left yesterday for a
few days visit in North Hero The dry
goods sale which he is conducting on
Pearl street is in charge of Miss Nellie
Marley during his absence.
Ladies' and misses Easter suits and
coats received this date by express. Lat
est New York designs in conservative
models, All colors and sizes, from $3.50
to S25. Also mems, young mems and
boys. Sadlier's, 10 Keith avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Rennie and chill
dren arrived in the city early this morn
ing from New York, where the former
met his wife and children at the pier
as they were landing after an unevent
full trip from Scotland where they have
been passing several months. The fam
lily will reside on Trow avenue.
| Romeo Scampini, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Angelo Scampini of Berlin street, who
has been at the City hospital for several
weeks while recovering from injuries re-
ceiyed in an accident at the plant OF
Comolli & Co., has gone to his home. The
young mans condition continues to inn
PlOft alshVbNh mhoe
eapse before he is able to use his limbs
freely.
Funeral services for Maurice r. Gray,
the little son of Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
Gray of l34 North Seminary street, who
was drowned in Stevens branch Monday
evening, will be held at the house Thurs
day afternoon at o'clock. Rev. j. w.
Barnett, pastor of the Congregational
church, will be the officiating clergyman,
and interment win be made in Hope
cemetery.
Among the visitors in the city yester |
day and to-day were the following peo- |
ple o. Z. Nelson of Worcester, Julius |
Mendelssohn of Plattsburg, n. Y, H. II. |
Knapp of Springfield, Charles A. Murphy |
of Plattsburg, n Y, r. b. Lang of |
Springfield, G. G. Maynard of Burlington,
r. H. May of Essex Junction, +. NJ. Saw
age of Portland, Ne, and p. +. BeaIce
of Brandon.
and members of the aldermanic street
committee conferred with Anthony To-
masi Tuesday afternoon on the proposal
to extend the front of the two stores in
the A. Tomasi block to the street line
1t is reported that the block has settled
some six inches in the middle, and while
the owner of the property is bracing the
building with steel girders, he proposed
to improve the store fronts by exten- I
sions as far west as the iron railing
which borders the front hatchway. At I
The council meeting last night, the COM
mittee reported adversely on Mr.. To-
nasi's request. I
More depredations of the kind commit.
ed by youngsters on Granite street last I
week are reported by the head of the
Louis DeBlois Granite Co, who claims
hat unknown persons entered the com .
,any's shed in Goldshury meadow one
light this week and defaced several me-
norials that were nearing completion.
Thus far the miscreants who did the
work are as much at large as the boys
Who chose Granite street for their mis- \
hief. II is stated that the Granite 4
association is to petition !
he city council in an endeavor to have Z
he city fathers cooperate with other
authorities and the manufacturers in
ringing the guilty ones to justice. 4
Thursday night at the Congregational
hurch Rev. Charles A. Boyd, secretary
( the Vermont Sunday School assoeia
ion win deliver a lecture on "The Poe
nv of the Bible" The lecture will be :
ED at o'clock in order to accommo
ate people from other churches who are
in the Sunday school work,
nd who will thus be enabled to attend
fter their regular prayer meeting. The X
,cture will be followed by about so lam
srn slides with illustrations of the .,
-orthfeld summer school for Sunday +,
,hool workers. Rev. Mr.. Boyd arrived
the city yesterday and in company :
18th G. S. Andrews attended an institute g.
/ the Graniteville church last evening. !
Under the auspices of Goddard semi
lry, DR.. Henry l.. Southwick, president
the Emerson School of Oratory in
oston, gave a reading of the Shskespe-
an play, Richard ILL.," at the Univers :
list church last evening. The speaker
as introduced by O. X. HOLSTER, prin Z
pal of the school, Dr. Southwick re-
ted parts of each of the five acts of 1
ie play in such manner as to bring .
1t most forcefully the character of the
uke of Gloster as representing Shakes
,are's idea of the evil King Richard.
be character, as DIR. Southwick said,
veals only one quality worthy of adj
iration. and that one is the fact that y
is a good fighter. The speakers rem 4
ring of the play, more especially in the :
lloques of the duke himself, could not 4
we failed TO arouse in the minds of Z
e hearers a contempt for the villainous
chsrd which Shakespeare evidently de- l
red them to feel. The play itself, as
e speaker pointed out, is a good ser II
on on the folly of sin and the ultimate g
iumph of virtue; for the earl Of Rich
ond. against whom Richard had plot /:
i. finally wins the battle and Richard sC
killed