The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-26
TALK OF THE TOWN


Sleighing parties accommodated at
Bancroft inn, Plainfeld; supper served
at reasonable price; free use of dance
hall to parties. W. H. Snow, proprietor.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. Canton of Montreal,
p. O., Mr.. and Mrs. Telles Stone, jr., of
Cambridge and Miss Florence Stone OF
Lewiston, Me-, are at the home of Telles
Stone of east hill, having been called
here by the death of Mrs. Minnie S. Pa
riezo.
l.. d. Roys. who for the past seven
years has been serving as treasurer OF
the Mortified Trust Co with his home in
Mortified, has resigned his position. The
resignation having been accepted by the
board OF directors, Mr.. Roys will asso-
ciate himself with Leon c. Smith at the
Smith stock farm on the Williamstown
road.
Miss Ruth Parker of Spaulding street,
who has been granted a leave OF absence
from her duties as librarian at the AID
rich public library, left the city last
evening for Denver, Col, where she will
visit friends for few days before going
to San Francisco, Cal, for an indefinite
stay in the home Of her uncle.
Trouble on the trunk line between
Barre and Woodsville, n. H., prompted
officers of the Vermont Tel. & Tel. Co.
to dispatch a crew OF men to Perkinsville
Saturday afternoon in an effort to To-
cate the break. Conditions on the edge
of the big woods spanned by the trunk
| line were such as to render precious any
attempt to fathom the forest and early
in the evening the linemen gave up the
! task, returned to Barre and left on the
Green Mountain express for Groton. Ar
irving in Groton they were ordered to
| Woodsville, where an inspection OF the
| line was started Sunday morning. In
| their search for the breakdown the line
men explored the line as far west as the
emergency shack recently erected in the
| telephone lash on Spruce mountain, some
five miles as the crow flies from Perkins
vile.
At the annual meeting of the Grand
Orient in the old city building Saturday
evening the following officers were elect
ed for 1917: Grand orient, Charles
Smith; vice orient, john Gregware; sec
rotary, w. d. Glidden; grand high priest,
Alexander J. Stewart; grand vizier,
Harry Jetfords; grand inspector, George
Coloumb treasurer, John c. Crowley oil
Essex Junction. In years past the Barre
J branch of the Grand Orient lodge at
| tanned membership of nearly 500, but
| removals and deaths have deeimated the
ranks of the fraternity locally. An effort
is being made to recruit new members
with view to meeting regularly.
second meeting of the lodge will be held
| in the old city building Saturday even
ing. when plans for the Forthcoming
Orient celebration will be discussed. 1t
/ is proposed to hold the jollification IN
Graniteville on the evening OF Jan. IL.
The newly elected officers Are to be IN
stalled at once.
| Christmas visitors in the city include
the following people: Miss Hester GoNe'
supervisor of music in the schools OF Ian
caster, n. H.. and George H. Cove, stu
dent in the Worcester, Mass, Polytech-
mic institute, at the home of their par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Cove OF
Eastern avenue; Norton Lebourveau OF
Mineville, \. V, at his home on Wash
inpton street; Mr.. and Mrs. c. Philip
Curtis of Sharon, Mass, at the home OF
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. IL.
Cave, sr. of Eastern avenue; Miss Laura
f. Stoughton of Edgewood, \. j., in the
home of her mother. Mrs. Ellen Slough
ton Of French street; Mr.. and Mrs. II.
Gardner Chase of Enosburg Falls and
Mrs. II. Z. Bevins of St. Adams in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Brown oil
Jefferson street; Mr.. and Mrs. Harry X
Wishart of Chelsea, with the former
mother. Mrs. Barbara Wishart OF Camp
street: Mr.. and Mrs. Francis NigneaulS
and daughter of Montreal, p. q, at the
home of Mrs. Vigneaults parents, MI.
and Mrs. T. c. Carson OF Laurel street;
George Walstrom of Hartford, Conn.,
with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Walstrom OF Essex street; Ralph Rogers,
student at Yale. with his parents, Mt
and Mrs. Frank c. Rogers Of Richardson
street. Nathan Il. BENEDICT Of Boston,
with his mother. Mrs. c. y. Benedict Of
Hall street.