The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-21
TALK OF THE TOWN

Il "'hh htAA9 iHNiNtfk Iu NhitHlltiu lhI
weekend visit with relatives.
| Miss Ethel Warden left the city thi'
morning for South Ryegate, where sh,
| is 10 make a stay of several days,
| Harry :. Gage returned this morning
to his home in Burlington, after passing
several days in the city on business.
| NJ, II. Sayory, who has been in the city
for several days on business erran1
left this morning for his home in Toledo
O.
A special meeting of the Bonaccord
football club will be held in the club
pavilion Saturday evening at 1880
o'clock
Manager l.. II. Pease OF the Peoples
Lighting, Heating 4 Power company, has
returned home, after passing several
days in Boston and vicinity on business.
Mrs. Harley Cook arrived in the city
last evening and will visit friends on
fremont street for few days before
returning to her home in Lexington.
Mass.
George r, Ford, publisher of Granite.
Marble a Bronze, has returned to his
home in Boston, after passing several
days in the Barre granite belt on bus
mess.
Harry Wishart, who is employed in
the Orange County National bank at
Chelsea is at the home of his mother,
Mrs. Barbara Nishart of Camp street
for few days.
Frank Stacy, who has been visiting at
the home OF his son, Oscar Stacy, ON
South Main street for the past few days,
left yesterday afternoon for his home IN
Plattsburg, n. Y.
Fitch r. Wiley is spending few days
at his home on Park street Mr.. Wiley
Is substitute express messenger on the
main line, and for the past three weeks
has had run from Boston to Montreal.
am prepared TO carry parties, ball
teams, etc, on trips, also light trucking
with my l2-passenger Stanley steamer
Guarantee prices to be reasonable. Care
ful driver. w. L. Persons and John
Berg. Tel 1912, "a Jefferson street
Mr. and Mrs. George Metcalf and son.
Francis, called on friends in the city yes.
terday, while en- route from their home
in Bennington to Whitefeld y H., where
they expect TO remain until the middle |
of July. The Metcalf family are making
the journey by automobile and will take
two days to make the trip.
The Barre Board of Trade want 40 au-
tomobiles Tor the free use OF those going |
on the better acquaintance trip to Chel-
sea Wednesday evening, July 20. Please
offer the organization the use of your
car. All members of the Board OF Trade,
with ladies, are expected to attend. Free
by automobile from Barre
I,Ia l.,lgl s |
per tickets, starting from park in front
OF opera house at 5:45.
John Soue OF Beckley hill had the
to lose valuable driving
horse considered worth about s250 The
cause Of the horses death was due to
laminitis, disease common to horse.
kind in this zone, it being an inhamma-
ton of the feshy lamine OF the horses
hoof, resulting from overlooking, drafts
Or drinking OF cold water.
Mrs. Thomas Haley of Granteville,
Mrs George Paiment of South Main
street and Miss Rita Paiment of Semi
nary street left Saturday on trip to
Quebec. On their way back they plan to :
visit Montreal and st. Lawrence, the two
former expecting to terminate their stay II
1t the end OF fortnight while Miss .,
Rita Paiment will remain for a longer /.
lime.
On the Berlin street grounds this
evening at o'clock the first of a series j.,
If benefit soccer games will be played /
lnder the auspices Of the Bonaccords and !
he Rangers. Proceeds from the con
est will 60 toward establishing a fund
or the assistance OF needy members. The
cams viii line up much as follows A
cam, T. Findlay, Wilson, Kerr, captain ,
3ooth, Coutts, 1nnes, A. Anderson, Laing, ,
\ Duguid, Mitchell and Nicol; B team,
Ross, Captain Bremner, Webster Watt, j
}issett, tombstone, G. Anderson, Smith. =
Walker, McBain, Seivewright. !
A pair OF young mules owned by Hor "
ce Walker of Chelsea and used to con.
ey market produce to Barre thought
hey would try out some of their coltish II
ranks in the city and see if they could
AIRY them out as successfully as they y
an ont on the farm. When Mr. Walker u
1T them on Elm street near the alleyway
fading to the rear end of Ladd's store,
here he went to gather his egg crates II
aady to load and start on the homeward IN
,urney, the mules started on mad m
iouS uoNH bltn street, grazing Lele- '"
hone pole and ran into the granite wat W
ring place at the junction of Wash
lgton and Main streets, breaking the eli
agon pole, but otherwise not damaging hi
lie wagon. The mules came out little in
lie worse for the experience. W
The display window at the Moore & pc
wens store on North Main street bris.
ed more than ever with ammunition hi
lis morning when two modern shells, tn
lie an lS-inch shrapnel and the other Ca
achine gun cartridge, were added to the pa
Election of Civil war munitions un- w
rthed by Matt. Haley at Vicksburg a
W weeks ago. Moore & Owens do not Il,
lticipate long seige, but a very inter RI,
ting contrast in the missiles of to-day ~.
id the ammunition of a half-century 60,
o is shown and the size of the exhibit ~
guests that the clothiers are thorough
levers in preparedness. In connec =,
IN with the Vicksburg relics, John Il 'ii
ilson of Worcester, who was here this az
EEK for the veterans reunion at Dewey az
rk, expresses his opinion that the an. we
mt rifle uncovered by Mr.. Haley while gei
ting memorial is a weapon of the
pc known as the Belgian rifle. and not Wis
Springfield gun, a view that is shared an,
O. J. Dodge, who is familiar with ing