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

H Only two more days in which to pa,
II your take.
Il Band concert Friday evening. d;45 l.
\ 7;i5, front OF Park Theatre, Barre Citi
4 zens' band.-ady.
H Miss Mary Gowie commenced n vaea
ton OF week from the Smith & Cum
mings market this morning
Regular meeting OF Jumpers, boxers
and derrickmens union in Foresters' hal
Tuesday night az 7;30 Pcroraer seere
\ tary.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Whitcomb oil
Washington street left this morning foI
Woodbury. pond, where they viii be en-
camped for a few days.
Special Tor August fye.ply rubber
garden hose, couch and swing hammocks
refrigcrators, porch rockers, wash wiring
ers Sadlier's Keith avenue.
New guns will be used for the shooting
competition; LIST prize, IS gold piece; %
prize, $3.50 gold piece. Donated by the
Spanish American war veterans at the
Clan Gordon picnic, Aug. II.
II. /. Cutler returned home yesterday
after spending the week end at the Plain.
field camp, Groton pond. Mrs. Cutler re.
turned last night after visiting for sew
eral days with friends in Plaindeld.
James Webb has completed his duties
as driver of the Holmes city delivery
wagon, where he has been employed for
the past year and half Mr.. Webb left
yesterday for Danville, p. O., last night
to visit at his home.
Mrs. Albert Beattie returned TO Beth.
lehem, \. H., last night after visiting at
her home on South Main street for a
week. Miss ANGELA Tierney returned to
her home on South Main street to-day
after taking charge of Mrs. Beattie'a
store during her absence.
Mrs. G. A. Knapp of st. Johnsbury,
who has been visiting friends in the city
for few days, left this noon for Brattle
boro, where she will visit friends and
relatives for a few days Mrs. Knapp
was accompanied by her grandmother,
Mrs Roxanna Meaker OF Summer street.
Barre racing fans got the word" from
Randolph this morning and set out for
the Orange county metropolis in midfore-
noon to attend the race meet due to
open this afternoon. A telephone mes
sage received here last night stated that
thirty horses had been assembled at the
race track and that most Of them would
start at one time or another during the
mee, Among the local people who
planned to be on hand for the first heat
are: Harry w Britton, John Z. Hoban,
James Mcleod, Herbert G. Leonard, John
TroT, and T. j. Mercer.
David Agnew of New York, cinemat-
ograph operator for the Chester Film Co, |
of New York, who was in the Barre gran I
tie district last week to film the quar-
ries, will return to the city in a few T
days to complete his task by operating t
ting plants When the films are com
pleted they are to be used by the Gran.
lite Manufacturers and Quarries' assoeia-
tions for education purposes. Mr.. Agnew
recently returned to America from
France and expects to go back to Paris
in a few weeks to enlist. He has a I,
brother at the front just now and hopes
to be able to join him when his contract
with the Chester Co. expires.
A special committee acting for the
Granite Manufacturers association has
design for the train posters
that are to be used while sixty people
are travelling to and from Cleveland, O.,
this month The slogan that VIII Aver
il is to paint on the four posters, two
'or each accommodation car provided for
he travellers, is Barre, Vermont, Gran
tie For Preparedness Everlasting. On
TO Cleveland" Each banner will be Sc
eet long and 27 inches wide. The Iet-
ers are OF the block type and will be q
g inches high. 1t is expected that the
Pullman cars reserved for the Barre I
travellers will be set out in the local c
-ard sometime Saturday afternoon in or !
Ter to give the committee time to hand I
he posters before the party leaves at
:55 o'clock.
Among the guests arriving by motor
It Hotel Barre yesterday were the fol- !
owing: Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Blossom, Mr. &
nd Mrs. James Mann and Evarts Bios
ON of Rochester, \. Y, Mr.. and Mrs. !
tewart Lansing, Miss Lansing and Mrs. !
!. X. Keever OF Watertown, n. y, A. :,
lana Clark Miss Nellie Stiles OF st, "
Mr. and Mrs. F L. ingalls,,
frs. w j Arnold and Miss Betty Arnold
Burlington. Miss Crockett and Miss !,
ewell of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. j. X. i,
loom and Mrs II. Besselin of Omaha, !,
ebr., Sherman n. Smith of Springfield, !,
lass, and J. NJ. Carroll of Burlington, >,
Ir. and Mrs Il. kanfron and Mr.. and {,
Irs. H. kessel of New York City mir h,
nd Mrs Curtis and two daughters of
eominster, Mass, II, c. Hagerty and Z,
R. Calderwood of st, Johnsbury. W
j. Z. eastman of Burlington has been m
.arded the contract to relay three hun VI
.ed feet of water main on the East dc
ARE road negotiations for the con W
act having been closed by the alder
anic water committee and Mr. Cash NJ
ans local superintendent, ]. c. De- m
rune Several days ago while the per- La
anent road work on the Barre Town co
ghway was in progress, excavators of
emit down into the ground as far as the til
tvs cement water mains. Now it is BIT
opposed to substitute iron piping for ex
e cement conveyor and much of the pa
w pipe will be laid through solid rock.
lpt DeBrune has assembled a gang in
steam drllers on the scene and the to-
,rk is to be pushed forward rapidly. BIZ
for the Wiley street sewer ST.
tensions was completed last week. ds
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