The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-09
TALK OF THE TOWN

4 Sixty drawer notion case S.. Knights
May sale laces and hamburgs at the
Vaughan Store.
b. W. Goodfellow of Spaulding street
left this noon for Bethel on business
visit
Mrs. Fred Martin and daughter of
Plaintleld visited friends in the city yes
terday
H, J. NJ. Jones of the Jones Bros com.
pany is passing several days in New
York City on business.
Mr.. and Mrs George Weleh of Groton,
who had been visiting his parents on the
Plainfeld road, have returned 10 their
home.
Miss Hazel Bohonon is critically i'll
with rheumatic fever at her home in
Washington. She was taken i'll while in
training for a nurse at the Barre City.
hospital
In several Of the city churches Moth.
er's day is to be observed with special
exercises next Sunday The custom OF
setting apart Sunday in each year for
the mothers has been observed for several
years.
The May issue Of The Monumental
Retailer, Boston trade journal, con
tains strong editorial indorsing the
national advertising campaign recently
inaugurated by the Barre granite manu
faeturers' and quarries' association.
Attachment proceedings were started
yesterday against the New Barre Granite |
Co, which has shed quarters in Burn |
hams meadow. 1t is reported that the |
attachment which closed the places Of |
business temporarily, at least, was pre-,
ferred by local quarrying company. The |
New Barre Granite Co. was organized in |
1915 with Frank j. Simon as manager.
Week end sporting entries in Barre are
to include a track meet at the Granite i
City park between Goddard seminary and |
the Barre hose company. Both teams are
training regularly for the event. To-day
the management of the Italian A. C. an
nounced Saturday baseball game with
the University of Vermont second team,
which is to be played on the Berlin street
grounds. At the same time Goddard
seminary's team will be playing with
Dean academy at Franklin, Mass The
seminary team, accompanied by Coach
will leave on a Massachusetts
and New Hampshire trip Thursday fore
noon. Thus far Spaulding high is with
out a game for the week end.
The fourth lecture in series of edu- I
eational forums conducted by the Barre
Granite Manufacturers association will '
be held in Manufacturers hall Thursday {
evening, when William Barclay of Bar s
lay Bros is TO continue his talk on "The {
Cost System" Last week Mr.. Barclay {
'poke before an audience of $50 manu-
lecturers and invited guests. His re- 4
marks Thursday evening are 60 be illus !
rated on the blackboard. Refreshments 5
will be severd. The educational meeting
5 negotiating with Edward n. Hurley |
VI the federal trade commission for a
peaker to address the manufacturers in
he near future. It is expected that the o
peaker's remarks will have to do with {
ost accounting s
After June |. according to informa- |
ion received at the Central Vermont I
tation in Barre, mileages issued by the }
boston & Maine railroad will be accepted t
n certain divisions of the Central Yer \
mont road c. V. mileage books will be +
God on the B. & VI. road from Windsor /
o Brattleboro and East Mortified. Mass. Z
nd B. & NJ. r. J. & L. c. and NJ. & w. q
!. railway mileages will be accepted over
be Central Vermont road between East
fortified, Mass. and Brattleboro. and
Windsor and White River junction. The
900 mile books Of the New York, New
aven & Hartford railway will be ac-
opted over sthe Central Vermont road
fter June ]. 4
Alex. J. Stewart and Elmer Bellville Z
,turned 10 the city last evening. bring /
x with them big bag Of fish along
it'll confirmation Of the rumor current
about town that they were
,psized while angling for piclerel of
lore near Milton. Before they could
p persuaded TO tell the story of their r
iventure. Messrs. Stewart and Bellville X
SISTED on displaying some 60 pounds I
Lake Champlain fish which they
ught after their mishap. People living
ong the shore saw the boat overturn
ID had it not been for the promptness
a retired lake captain in putting out
their assistance in a dory, serious con- r,
quences might have followed. A small q
y sized mp the situation when he told str
e Barre fishermen that they looked like -.
utt and JEFF a. they strove to right Tor
r boat while swimming about the bay. wi
,ither Of the men suffered from expo We
re and on the following day they per r.
rmcd a fishing speciality that has never IT
pesred in the real Mutt and JEFF rep -
tore. ufI