The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-04
TALK OF THE TOWN

Notcel All kinds of stove repairs at
II. A. Prindle g. Co.'s. Pearl street.
Factory method, shoe repairing. Char
bonneau's, basement Worthen block ad.
Dressmaking wanted. win go out by
the hour. Mrs. Spargo Beauleu, 7 Sec
ond street.
Rummage sale at Baptist church Sat
urday, Feb. 8, at 2 p m. Second hand
clothing.-adv.
| w. p. Simonds returned TO his home in
st. Johnsbury this morning, after spend.
ing several days in the city on business.
Mrs. B. C. Abbott has returned to her
home in East Corinth, after spending
several days with her sister, Mrs. NJ. l..
Starr.
John McCaskill has returned to his
studies at the University OF Vermont
Burlington, after spending a few days at
his home here.
We buy chickens, hides, skins and
pelts. Pay the highest market price.
Bring yours along. Ii. j. Smith Co., 1857
North Main street.
The company playing "a Pair of Skies"
in the opera house last evening, left the
city this morning for Berlin, N. H., where
the piece is to be presented tonight.
L. d. Partridge of Randolph who re-
Gently returned to Vermont from an ex-
tended trip TO the western and southern
states, has been passing few days with
Ia II parf riJ oF
street, who is slowly recovering from an
attack of pneumonia.
All Granite street manufacturing
plants depending upon the Bolster center
for air were compelled to shut down this
morning owing to break in the com
pressor. 1t was thought by mechanics
working on the compressor repairs that
work may be resumed tomorrow.
Prof. w. S. Burrage of Middlebury col !
lege, who was the entertainer at ladies'
night observance in the rooms of the Vim
citia club Wednesday evening, has gone
to Bakersfield, where he is TO give read
ings from the comedies of Aristophanes
at founders day exercises to be held in
Brigham academy tonight.
Concerning the debate on prohibition
and local option at the mass, meeting in
the opera house Sunday evening, the
Randolph Herald and News, in its edi-
torial column this week has the follow
ng comment; "The prohibition and local
option people in Barre seem to have
pulled off an interesting and good tenn
1ered Joint debate, one side being taken
ly clergyman from Kansas and the other
" an editor from Maine, both being
Prohibition states Generally, however.
hese joint debates produce no other eff
ect than to intensity partisanship As
'ote changers they accomplish little--a
act so fully recognized by campaigners
hat they seldom enter them"
Encouraged by the successful issue of
he joint debate last Sunday evening, the
minister's union of Barre is getting ready
or another mass meeting before the
Ferry bill, so called, is submitted to the /
lectorate on referendum March 7. On
he afternoon OF Sunday, Feb. 20, Nal
ohm r. Patterson of Tennessee, an ex
overnor OF that state, is to speak in the
interests of prohibition. The former ex-
cutive is said to be one of the best
ualiied prohibition speakers on the
latform to- day. People interested in
he outcome of the political question
ave been instrumental in persuading ex
Governor Patterson to come to Vermont !
nd he will fill several speaking engage /
rents in the state before his appearance i
/ Barre Il
A small pile of hoardings, burning !
lerrily around a box stove in the Boil :
ter plant on Granite street last night,
lst such an ominous glare on the win
ows of the shed that a passerby was Y
loved to turn in a fire alarm from box .
at the corner of Granite and River
reefs. The call registered at the fire h
alton a few minutes before 7 o'clock.
hree pieces of apparatus hurried out of (.
he station, but the auto truck and sew
al regulars aboard, arrived first on the
ene of the fire. AS it was seen that y
lie FIRE could be easily extinguished,
hief Gladding sounded the about sig u
II. No damage resulted from the out d
-eak, but had the fire around the stove
ntinued to burn much longer before its NJ
seovery, a large stoneshed area would 81
I've been threatened.