The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-14
TALK OF THE TOWN

II pohVA hdhFas WnlIe snoe cleaner u
Fits.
II Mrs. Frank Hamilton has returned /
II her home in Brattleboro after passing
II few days with friends in Barre and Mont
II pelier.
H Miss Kate G. Allen, who has been visit
II ing with friends in the city for a few
days, returned yesterday to her home il
II Lowell, Mass.
II Pliny Whore Of Willamstown passec
II through the city yesterday on his way t.
H Montpelier, where he will visit his moth
4 er for a few days.
II Mrs. John Boulrice Of Granite street
\ returned yesterday from St. Johnsbury
H where she has been visiting relatives for
H the past two weeks.
\ Mrs. Annie Carroll of Keith avenue re:
| turned to her home last evening after
| spending seyera, DAYS in Brattleboro
visiting with friends and relatives.
| Mrs. w. A. Lebourveau and son, Uric,
who formerly lived in Barre but now re-
side in Dover, N. j., are visiting with
friends in the city for few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nazaire Canton have re-
turned to their home in Montreal, p. O.,
after having been summoned to Barre by
the death of the formers brother, @. n.
Canton Of Maple avenue.
The ladies and pastors union of the
Hedding Methodist church win hold its
monthly business meeting at the home OF
Mrs. b. W. Hooker Thursday afternoon,
June Is, at 2:30 p. m. Ladies please
come prepared TO sew.
/ A number OF Barre marksmen attend
ed the gun club shoot at Curtis park on
the Montpelier road yesterday and to-
day, the competition ending this after
noon. Despite the unpromising bulletins
!sent out by the weather man, the at
tendance yesterday appropriated forty,
many coming from far corners of the
state while there was also a goodly rep
resentation of professional trapshooters,
L. M. Laws Of Barre catered to the
marksmen yesterday and to-day.
Tonight in the council chamber at
city hall the aldermanc fire committee
will be in charge Of competitive exam
nation for candidates applying for the |
vacancy in the regular fire department. |
A number Of applications have been re-
ceiyed and when the papers have been
filed with the committee not more than |
three and not less than two names are
to be presented to the mayor for an
appointment.
Mrs. Jane Carson of Ayers street re-
turned to the city yesterday from New
Haven, Conn, accompanied by her son,
James Carson, who has been a patient in
St. Raphaels hospital in New Haven for
several weeks. MIR. Carson, who went to
Connecticut early III the year to be EN-
ployed in munitions factory, is recov
ering from an attack OF blood poisoning
that rendered his condition serious for
some time
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Rounds and daugh- |
ter, Dorothy, Of Park street left the city
by automobile this forenoon for Castle
ton, where they are to be present at the
graduation exercises of Castleton Normal (
school tomorrow They will be accom-
panied home by Miss Abbie Monkey, a
1915 graduate Of the institution, who will y
pass the summer in Barre. Miss Moxley
has been engaged as q teacher in the Bel (
lows Free academy at Fairfax and will 4
assume her duties around Sept L. An II
other Barre girl to be graduated at Cas- :
Teton ID Miss Margaret Cato, Spauld /
ng high school alumnus. i
Sioux tribe Of Montpelier sent large y
delegation Of its tribal members to Barre r
asst evening to work the adoption de- U
gree on a considerable class Of candidates il
presented by Iroquois tribe at the Red t
Mems camp in Clan Gordon hall. The
Montpelier Red Men were entertained by lw
he local tribe and after the first cere-
nonial, the warriors degree was worked F
" Iroquois tribe. One OF the enioya II
lie features Of the get.together was a p
,rief program of speechmaking, after #
which bountlful meal of corn and ven q
son was served. !,
Owing to the moist condition of the I.
highways, especially those thoroughfares a
lated to receive o& eoatings this season, o
he motor sprinkler Of the STANDARD Oil
%. will not be used antil tomorrow 4,
nd possibly not until Friday. The i
prinkler arrived i'm Barre yesterday from q
burlington, where there were numerous !
claws on account Of rain. The street y
apartment is determined that the daub- /,
NJ shall not begin until every square yard \,
roadway is fit. and TO that end the q
prinkler men have been instructed to II,
old the dauber in tow until they get p,
he word. All Of the streets that are n
, be oiled have been thoroughly scraped. NJ
Ernest Thompson of North Main A.
Lreet, mechanic employed by w. A. NJ
ane on the construction of an office for r
rearson & Lane in Burnham's meadow, If
istained painful injury yesterday r.
hen the left hand was crushed under n
lie of planks. When the young man +
,ported to DIR. J. w Stewart, the physi- +,
an found il necessary to take num- N
er of stitches across the back of the of
fiddle digit on the hand and other in
tries were dressed. II is not thought
y. n rh......aa.. ,rill suffar the loss