The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-28
TALK OF THE TOWN


would consider one ,half of store. Mrs.
G. +. Millar, phone 6l5,
A regular meeting of 81. Johns court,
G. o. r., will be held Thursday evening
at o'clock. Initiation.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. l.. Carr OF Liberty
street were recent guests OF Mr.. and Mrs
Il. III, Start in st. Adams.
Peter Maberini who is employed in
Springfield, Mass. is passing several days
at his home ON Foss street.
New Years dance at Bancroft inn,
Plainheld Monday evening, Jan. /; first
class supper and good orchestra.
Miss Blanche Haskins has returned To
Boston after passing the holiday recess
at her former home on Trow hill.
The Barre Sewing club for the allies
will meet at the home OF Mrs John c.
Morrison. Laurel street, at : o'clock TO.
night
Raymond A. Ducharme of South Barre
and Miss Matte Ellen Wark of Calais
were married in Montpelier by Rev. Lew
is Carson Dec. IL.
The Peoples National bank has de-
elared semi annual dividend of 3lA per
cent payable Jan. to stockholders OF
record OF Dec. 80.
Wash boilers, clothes wringers and dry
ers, corn peppers, children's II eds and
Jumpers, coal sifters, oil heaters. L. A.
Prindle, Depot square.
Mrs. G. II. Granger returned last night
! TO her home in Randolph after visiting
friends in the city the past two days.
Dwight Granger is spending the week
here.
The mission circle of the Universalist
church will meet with Mrs. II. A. Rich
ardson. Summer street, Friday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock Subject, "Our Vermont
! Work" Let each member bring guest.
Uriel +. Premier, formerly of Barre,
who is employed in Hartford, Conn,
shoe store. returned to his work yester-
day after passing Christmas with his
mother, Mrs. Ellen Premier OF Washing
/ ton street.
| To compete for the 81 900 in cash
prizes that are offered to Christmas club
members it is only necessary that you be
a member of the 1917 club. Come in and
! join to-day and full particulars will be
given you Barre Savings Bank & Trust
| Co.
George Wallstrom, who has been visit
ing with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
| Wallstrom of Essex street, and at the
home of Mrs. Wallstrom's parents in
Montpelier, left to-day for New Haven,
Conn, where he is employed in NUM-
tons plant.
William 0. Jones, formerly employed
in the Barre Times Office and now located
in Syracuse, n Y, where he has a posi-
ton in a printing Office visited in the
city to-day while on his way to VIII |
Jamestown to spend a short time at the
home of James Henry. Mr.. Jones' wife
and child are at her former home in Dux- |
bury during the holidays.
John +. Miles, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. w, |
n. Miles OF Graniteville, who has been
visiting at his home for few days, left |
to day for New York, where he has Sc
cured a position with concern manu- |
featuring monographs. Mr.. Miles came |
to Vermont last week from Fort Wayne, |
Ind. where he has been employed in |
branch of the General Electric Co. since |
completing his duties at the company's |
plant in Lynn, Mass
Tonight at the Spauldng high school |
assembly hall the Tufts college glee club /
win appear under the auspices OF the /
civics department of the Barre Woman's |
club, and the entertainment promises TO |
be excellent, as the Tufts club has fine !
reputation. The Sanbornville On. H. /
Carroll County Pioneer has the follow
ing to say about the club: Tufts col !
lege has the reputat ion of having one OF
the finest glee and mandolin clubs in New
England" After the concert tonight I
there will be dancing.
Nurses at the City hospital enjoyed
their annual Christmas festival in the
dormitory last evening, when an inform
al YuIetide program included Christ
mas tree and the distribution of gifts,
The retiring superintendent, Miss Fannie
F. Pickup, was presented a silk umbrella
by the nurses. Miss Pickup leaves the
city Saturday. Other gifts for the super
intendent, her assistant and the nurses
included many remembrances from peo
pie outside the hospital, for which the
recipients wish to express their graft
tude Likewise, the management wishes
to thank those who contributed gifts to
the hospital during the Christmas sea
SON
A unique showing of Danish footwear
is included in the display of Christmas
offerings at the store of the Tilden Shoe
Co.. the shoes and boots from Denmark
being a part of a collection owned by |
Anton Mekkelsen of this city. At some |
pains, Mr.. Mekkelsen has secured two
pairs of the quaint wooden shoes worn
by the Danish peasantry and people who
have inspected the footgear profess sur
prise that. the wearers should be able to
get about without the aid of skates. Yet
Mr.. Mekkelsen is authority for the as
sertion that the Danish people are as
light-footed as any of the continentals.
In fine pair of dress boots one notes
that the Danish shoemakers seem far SUI
perior TO the American craftsmen in their
workmanship and the discrimination they
use in selecting leather for their wares.
r. T.. Henderson of Wells River was in
the city to-day to be present at the re-
opening of his Pearl street theatre, the
Pavilion. Since the first of the month
many improvements have been made to
the interior of the amusement house and
visitors will be impressed by the change
for the better that has been wrought.
The new management states that an Ell
fort to provide patrons of the house with
high-clas pictures and vaudeville and
tabloid amusements will be made from
the outset After the lease of Roach
brothers expired some years ago, the