The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-12
TALK OF THE TOWN

e. Burr.
Mrs. Fred Greene of Mortified was
shopper in the city Saturday.
Joseph Kennedy was q visitor in Bur
lington through the weekend.
Miss Florence Holland went to he
home in Mortified this morning to pas
the summer
Mrs. ID. j. Lyons went Saturday t.
Chicopee Falls, Mass, where she will Wis
1t friends for few days.
Mrs. Martha Keezer returned to hel
home in Northfield Saturday evening ait
er visiting with friends in town.
Miss Eunice Eager of Fairview street
has gone to Maplewood, N. H., where she
will be employed during the summer
l.. c.. Carter, who has been visiting
friends in the city for several days, went
yesterday TO his home in Bennington
Call l52-W FOR furniture moving and
heavy trucking by auto truck at reason.
able rates. Vermont Trucking & Sales Co.
The ladies aid society of the Pres
byterian church will hold food sale on
Saturday afternoon, June IL. Sale from
80 to 5.
Mrs. H. G. Cady and daughter Paulna,
Of Mortified were in the city Saturday
on business, returning Saturday evening
to their home
Nj. A. c. Demico, who has been a bust
ness visitor in the city for several days,
went yesterday TO his home in White
River Junction.
Among the. visitors Saturday from
Chelsea were Harry Cole and p. d. Sar-
uanf mha uara IN tom,, aha s;nsx tanlo
! for their farms
| Miss Susie f. Currier, teacher in the
Barre schools, has gone to her home in
East Hardwick, where she expects to
spend the summer vacation.
Mrs. George Hutchins of East Barre
passed through the city Saturday for
Manchester, n. H., where she will visit
friends and relatives for week.
Miss Katherine Gilfeather, who has
been engaged as a teacher in the city
schools, returned this morning to her
home in Castleton for the summer.
John Allen, who has been employed
for the past few months in the stone
sheds in Barre, has gone to Quincy,
Mass, where he has found employment, |
Cobble Hill grange will hold public |
social at their hall on Tuesday evening, |
June Is. Ice cream and cake will be |
served at loo plate. Everybody come |
Geddes' orchestra,
Principal Henry Fl. Jackson and Mrs |
jackson of South Main street accompa-
MED number of Spaulding high school |
teachers to Bennington, n. H., Saturday !
for a weeks stay in camp there.
Forrest Bellows of East Barre and |
IL. II 4
boarded the train for Brattleboro this
morning, and will make visit OF a few
days at Mr.. Bellows former home
Representative n. F. Hill of Water /
bury, candidate for county senator, was
a visitor in the city Saturday. He was
accompanied by DR. Foster, who was Sc
curing names to Mr. Hills nomination
papers.
DR. e. J. Foster of Waterbury Center,
president of the Washington County Vet.
Grams association, which is TO have its I
annual reunion at Dewey park in August,
was among the business visitors in the
city Saturday.
George Medcalf of Chelsea visited his
sister, Mrs. Sarah skinner, on Prospect
street yesterday, returning last evening.
Mrs. Skinner and daughter, Miss Beth
Skinner, returned with him to make
few DAYS visit.
Carpenters Notice: All members Of
local 4sl are hereby notified to be present
1T special meeting on oMnday evening,
June IL, at 1880 o'clock, as important
business is to be dealt with, which re-
luirss your presence. Per order Rec. Sec.
Jeremiah Quinlen, who has been pass
ng a few weeks with his brother, Will
lam Quinlen of North Main street, left !
his morning for Boston, where he is to
make few days stay with relatives be-
ore returning to his home in st. John, !
I. B. (;
In connection with the childrens day Q
Exercises at the First Presbyterian b
hurch yesterday, two children were bap- S
lied. At the Congregational church, too, Y
n interesting program of children's day
xercises was carried out and appropri- q
tie sermons were preached by both pas
ors. Odd Fellows marched TO the First a
BAPTIST church to listen to an excellent i
ermon by the pastor, Rev. B. j. Lehigh, a
tho spoke on the topic, Success and a
What Leads to IT. Members of Canton j
linton, as well as the subordinate lodges, In
ere in uniform, and a delegation from
right Star Rebekah lodge accompanied :,
ne Odd Fellows to the church. :,
Torrential showers from a sky that u
rust be over-weary of trying to follow "
lie weather man in his dizzy bid for a X
lin record wrought havoc with hill n
reefs in Barre over night, and early -
his morning employees of the street de- ~
lrtment found themselves hard put toJ -
TO get the walks in passable condition :;
II pedestrians. At Q o'clock last night :,
iere was a heavy shower that subsidized q,
to a stesdier rain, only to reach the -
oportions of deluge around midnight. =.
rom that hour until o'clock this !.
orning, there was a heavy downpour, i ,s
rect lsborers were up betimes and in y,
ost places early pedestrians found that S Sr
Itches had been laid over great holes !"
lllied out by the water. >,
The rain played to empty bleaehers in il,
til ends of the city Saturday, although
oh of Barre's semi-professional teams :
d attractive baseball cards arranged 80