The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-03
TALK OF THE TOWN

Buy your summer underwear this weel
at Vaughan's.
Mrs. P. Caranchini was among the bus
mess visitors in the city yesterday iron
Bethel.
Among the Washington visitors in tn
city yesterday were John Webster anC
Rev. P. Weller.
"The Beloved Liar" threereel drama
featuring Thomas Jefferson and Zo'
Bech, at the Bijou to-day.-adv.
Mrs Clyde Reynolds and three children
returned to their home on Hillside ave-
nue. yesterday, after visiting for several
DAYS with relatives in Laconia, \. H.
Miss Violet Ashton, who has been pass
! ing several weeks in the city as the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs James Signorelli of Mer
chant street, returned to-day to her home
in Montreal, p. Q.
Miss Jennie Congo, formerly of Barre,
but now employed in Boston, visited
friends in the city yesterday while en-
route for Berlin. where she will visit for
two weeks at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Congo.
Miss Mildred Grearson of Williams
town is visiting at the home of her
grandmother, Mrs Mary Grearson, OF
Hill street, for few days, and will also
visit at the home of her uncle, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Grearson, of Nelson street.
A daughter was born Aug. / to Mr..
and Mrs. Horace X. Sowles in Boston.
Both are well known in Barre, where
they formerly resided the mother being
remembered as Avis Wheeler and the ia
Their being the son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
J. Sowles
Harold Morrison and George Murray,
IT., of South Main.str1t arrived in the
city over the Central Vermont railroad
this morning with the body of the for
mer's father, William A. Morrison, who
was one of the heat victims in Chicago
last week. The funeral was set for this /
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with interment |
in Hope cemetery. A more detailed ac-
count of Mr. Morrison's demise was
waiting for the young men upon their
arrival in Chicago 1t transpired that
Mr.. Morrison left the stoneshed where
he was employed around 1880 o'clock
n the forenoon, went to his boarding 4
house and stopped for dinner. Soon aft
n the noon hour he complained of the
Excessive heat and physicians were called.
Before an ambulance could be summoned
o remove the man to a hospital he had
xpired. Mr.. Morrison's death occurred
n a week when heat claimed record
lumber of victims in Chicago.
County Agent F. H. Abbott returned
asst night from Montpelier Center with
hree specimens OF the oet family that
e gathered from the field of Fred Strong
n Montpelier Center, Mr.. Abbott
rought them back with him to illustrate
he good points about the different types
t oats. The first is known as the com
ION field oat, which is insignificant in
lie to the bumper oat, which has about
40 oats to the head, while the common
at only yields about so on an average,
nd the stock of the bumper is about
vice the size of the common oat. The
lammouth cluster oat is the third class
nd is about a medium, running about
10 oats to the head and has stock
life larger than the common oat but
ot as large as the bumper These three ;
srieties were grown in the same field
nd with the same care, but under close
Ivestigation Mr.. Abbott has decided
lat the bumper oat will yield about 80
lshels more to the acre than the COM
on oat and Is more than the man.
9th cluster.
Barre granite in the movies is to be
lie IF the primary results of an educa-
onal move to be undertaken by the
iarriers' and manufacturers associa-
ons tomorrow, when Raymond Agnel,
expert einematograph operator in the.
1plov of the c. L. Chester studios OF
aw York. will take his camera to the
arries. With his assistants, Mr.. Agnel r
ans to arrive in the city this evening, :
e party to be registered at Hotel Barre q
lille the industry is being photographed.
Itting Barre's principal industry in the
,vies is one of the features of the edu-
tienal campaign that is being carried
with the nationwide advertising cam
ign in behalf of Barre granite. All
arries on Milestone hill are to be placed
the disposal of the cinematograph
orator and every effort will be made to
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