The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-03
TALK OF THE TOWN

II Sixty-drawer notion case SIS. Knight
III w. ID. Smith and James Cow were bus
II mess visitors in Greensboro yesterda,
II making the trip by automobile.
H Miss Jennie Foley, who has been en-
H ployed at the Homer Fits store, has re
H turned to her home in Mortified.
H Mrs. Frank Carpenter has returned :
her home in Warren, after spending sew
eral days with relatives in South Barre
Beginning May 0, all the banks o
the city will be closed each Saturday o.
noon, the arrangement to continue t.
November /.
Attorney II. w. Writers of st. Johns
bury, who is attending the May session
of supreme court at the capital, is reg
istered at Hotel Barre for few days.
Miss Gladys Bradford and Miss Lillian
Roberts returned TO the city yesterday
from Mortified, where they attended a
party given by the young people OF that
village.
i J. +. Roberts, janitor of the Blanchard
block, moved his household goods to this
city from Mortified to-day. The goods
were transported in one of the Vermont
Trucking & Sales Co.'S trucks.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. N. Whitcomb have re-
ceived news from Greenville, n. O., of
the birth of a son to Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Stanley. Mrs. Stanley viii be re-
membered as Bessie l.. Whitcomb.
A letter received here from William
McCaffrey, who was employed in the
Drown pharmacy until recently, states
that he has secured position in the
store of Jordan Marsh in Boston.
Mrs. II. j. Conant OF Lowell, Mass,
who accompanied the remains of her
brother, Albert Holden, to this city for
interment at Elmwood, is passing few
days in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George
F. Howe of South Main street.
Thomas Parker and Rollin Brown re-
turned to the city yesterday from fish
ing trip to Lake Champlain, a feature of
which was the taking from the waters of
the big pond of nearly 100 pounds OF pike
and pickerel. Lake Champlain fishermen
have been unusually successful this year,
it is reported.
Fitch R. Wiley Of Park street, who has
been engaged as express messenger on
the Barre branch of the Central Vermont
railroad for several years, has been trans
ferred for time to the main line, having
been assigned TO run from Montreal to
Boston. Mr.. Wiley left to assume his
new duties Monday night.
Clayton Spencer, 1912 graduate of
Goddard seminary, who is nearing the |
completion of four years course at
Tufts college, Medford, Mass, has Sc
cured position as instructor in chem !
istry at the Holderness school in Plym
outh, N. H. Mr.. Spencer, who has been
an assistant instructor in the Tufts
laboratory for the past three
years, viii become a member of the 4
teaching staff at Holderness in Septem
Der. Il
Interest in track athletics is heightened L
by the announcement that the track
team at Goddard seminary is to have the
advantage Of preliminary grilling be-
fore the state interscholastic meet in
Arrangements were complet-
ID to-day for a meet in which the sem
narans and picked team from the
Barre hose companies will compete at the
iranite City driving park Saturday, May
3. Under the direction of Coach Kinney,
EXCELLENT track material is being deyel
,ped at Goddard and fortnight after \
he local meet the schoolboys are expect
ID TO give a good account of themselves
n the state competitions at the Univer
ity OF Vermont Nearly all of the
vents that usually figure in a track
meet are on the program for May 10.
Water meters for domestic use to the
lumber of $50 are to be purchased by II
he aldermanic water committee to meet | II
he demand created by householders who | II
ave made known their desire to change 4 III
rom the fiat rate to the meter system III
{ paying their water rentals. Author III
sation for the purchase of the meters III
as been obtained from the city council III
nd as soon as an adequate supply of the III
evices arrives number of orders for III
leter installations will be filed. The III
ty council has taken the stand that per HI
,ns who have meters installed slreaGy III
ay not remove them without The con- HI
mt of the water committee and super HI
tendent. In several cases since Jan |, Hi
sople who have been dissatisfied with iii
eters have removed them without the iii
1owledge of the water department. III
GREATER, removals of the kind, without I'LL
le SANCTION Oh tlle department, VIII Hi
axe additional costs for the person who Hi
moves the meter. Hi
Old times at Goddard seminary are Hi
vived in the fourth of series of pa. Il|a
RS contributed by DIR. John A. Ridlon lin
Chicago in the April issue of The
,ddard Record. which was distributed
subscribers to-day. Much that other
sc might never have been chronicled
set down in DIR. Ridlon's vigorous III
yle "reminiscences that might have XII
en- lost 10 future Goddard students are I'LL
corded in an entertaining manner and
Q author is entitled TO the thanks Of
cry reader for giving so generously of HI
store of Goddard memories. That the Hi
tie school periodical is not retrogress- III
I is evidenced by the wealth of mis- XII
laneous material in the current num- III
r. Local items seem 10 reflect faith hi
ly current affairs on the ll,top and III
ne Of the original literary contribu-
ms possess much merit. The alumni MI
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