The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-16
TALK OF THE TOWN

| Harry Hayward OF Chelsea was bus
mess visitor in the city yesterday.
Christmas trees delivered at your door,
25c and up, according to the tree. The
25c tree is 4 feet high. w. F. Shepard.
| G. L. Putnam returned TO his home
in Springfield to-day. after spending sew
eral days as guest of friends on Brook
street.
| George H. Walker returned to his home
| in Bethel to-day, after visiting at the
home Of James Rowan OF Laurel street
during the past week.
Joseph and Lawrence Darling of Chel-
sea arrived in the city yesterday and VIII
spend few days visiting friends In
Barre and Montpelier.
Harrison G. Woodruff went to Tun-
bridge to-day to attend the funeral OF
Willard I. King, president OF the Orange
County National bank.
Daniel S. Mills of Milford, Mass, ar
rived in the city yesterday and will visit
| friends in Barre, Websteryille and Gran
iteville over Christmas.
Miss Nadine Rogers arrived in the city
last evening and win spend her Christ
mas vacation from Middlebury college
at the home OF her parents.
| The Misses Elida aud Katrina Tierney
| of Middlesex arrived in the city yester-
dav to visit friends. Miss Katrina Tier
ney was formerly student at Goddard
seminary.
A. w. Hussey, who has been employed
| in Barre as a stonecutter for several
months, has completed his duties here
and left yesterday for Berlin, n. H.,
where he will remain druing the winter.
DIR. f. H. Bancroft and Charles Cor
don returned to-day from Moretown,
where they bought several head OF regis
tered Holstein cattie to add to their
herd of high bloods. The cattle were
bought of Burton Ward of Moretown,
there being seven cows and one tour
weeks old calf.
Miss Flora Macdonald of Basset street
left last night for st. Augustine, fla,
where she will be employed in one OF
the winter resorts until spring. She was
accompanied to Florida by Miss Mona
York of Lancaster, n. H., who has been
visiting at the Macdonald house during
the past day or two.
Miss Ruth Parker of Spaulding street,
librarian in charge of the Aldrich public
library, has been granted leave OF alb
sence from her duties and will leave the
city Dec. % for California, to visit her
uncle in San Francisco. En- route she
will visit friends in Denver, Colo, and
expects to remain in California until
spring. During her absence Mrs. William
Mathieson will act as librarian and the
present staff of assistants will be re-
tanned.
Committees and officers of the Barre
Entertainment association, which was or
ganized recently in anticipation of the
annual convention of the Cemetery SUI
perintendents of America to be held in
Barre in 1917, are bringing their prelim-
mary plans to focus on the last week IN
August, as the early indications point to
the latter part of August as the time
when the superintendent will make their
pilgrimage te the Barre granite belt.
The committees have been by no means
idle. The Champlsin Transportation Co.
has been approached with reference to an
excursion to Burlington and boat ride
down Lake Champlain, and II the nego-
tiations are unsatisfactory, the commit
tees win adopt an alternative quite as
satisfactory, that OF giving their August
guests q motor trip through the White
mountains Of New Hampshire.