The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-22
TALK OF THE TOWN
White sale at Ahhottls.

White sale at Abbott's,
j. Il. Roberts of Mortified was Wis
itor in the city yesterday.
Hugh Cole, student at the Univer
sity of Vermont, is i'll at his home OF
Orange street.
Buy your warm clothing at Vaughan's
Sale bed spreads and sheets at the
Vaughan Store.
Neil Hooker, II student at Norwich uni
yersity in Northdeld, is spending the
holiday at his home on Park street
Stereopticon lecture on, Greece
Wednesday evening at s o'clock in the
Presbyterian church. Admission, Zoe.
Angel Fizguerdo, who has been spend
ing months vacation visiting friends
in New York, has resumed work for p. d.
Molla.
The amusement committee of the Odd
Ladies will meet with Mrs. Nellie Ri.
anchi Tuesday evening, Feb p, at I
o'clock.
WaRted-A first class derrickman, one
who understands machinery. Excelsior
Granite Co. Tel. I'm, Montpelier, VT.
adv.
Thirty girls from the convent of the
Sacred Heart were taken TO Montpelier
this afternoon in Papin Brothers barge
for a sleighride.
Miss Esther Fits OF Park street is
spending the holiday as the guest of her
brother, Harold Fits, at the University
Narn,nnt Ia R,,rlinotar
Notice is hereby given that all bills
due me must be settled before March !
or they will be put into the hands of a
collector. II. w. Johnston, Graniteville,
Vt.
Plan to attend the iremen's dance in
the Montpelier city hail. Feb 90 benefit
If the iremen's relief fund. Special fea-
ture concert, admission, 25c. Dancing UNI
til o'clock; music by Montpelier Mill
tary band orchestra of eight pieces; con.
cert and dance. 81.
Two barges, the barge Klondike from
Papin Brothers stable and barge from
the Jones g. Nye stable, were required to /
transport the members OF the sophomore
lass of Spaulding high school to East
last night for their annual
ileighrde. Dancing was enjoyed in the .
nall there and bountiful supper was
served The party returned to this city
It an early hour this morning.
Barre friends of Capt. C. n Barber
will be pleased to learn of his appoint
nent az adjutsnt in the first regiment,
lermont National Guard, the appoint
nent having just been approved. Capt.
Barber is now a professor in the depart
nent of physics at Norwich university, 4
lis alma mater, having been appointed
0 that position at the beginning of the
resent semester of the institution.
apt. Barber is graduate also OF
'paulding high school.
A delegation of nearly 40 ''Dokies'
members of Suadah temple, No. 40, d. Z
}. r. X, of this city left early this aft
rnoon for Lyndonville to attend one of ,
he semi occasional ceremonials of the
emple. Late this afternoon some of the ,
of the evenings doings I
,ere TO occupy attention and the initia ,
ion ceremony was reserved for night Z.
me. 1t was estimated that the temple
lembers present would number nearly
DO many coming from corner of New I
ampshire that ia reckoned in the juris =
ction of Suadah temple. One Of the
lost promising classes of candidates to
Dpear in recent years has been prepared
II the trying trip across the sands at
yndonyille. Much of the equipment
sed in the temple ceremonials was
lipped to Lyndonville this morning.
Flags futtering in a young February
.eeze and drawn shutters and shades in '
ost of the store windows along North
ain street were the most noticeable
Inward signs in Barre that oday was
ling observed as Washington's birth
W. Practically every mercantile estab-
shment was closed Business was sus- =
,nded in a number of offices, and the !
inks were closed. Abstention from .
ork was the order of the day at the
'stofiice, although morning collections
ID deliveries were made and all incom
G and outgoing mails we're assorted. I,
Re rural delivery carriers were given Il
.liday. Sessions in the city schools h
ere suspended, but in most of the stone ST
eds, barber shops and newspaper of 2
es there were the usual activities. In j
veral of the graded school buildings g
sterday appropriate patriotic exercises il
re held. di