The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

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| CAROLS orchestr.-adv.
| Saturday sale OF white enameled war
in Abbott's bargain basement.
| Mrs. Clara Harvey OF Royalton is Wis
iting her son, W. +. Harvey of Elm
street,
There will be meeting of the /. o. @
L., NJ. L., in X. OF c. hall this evening a
o'clock.
George Beyerle, piano tuner, will be II
Barre next week. Leave orders at thi
oilice,-adv
Regular meeting OF Granite City lodge
|. O, o. L., NJ. o., will be held in X. Of
c. hall Friday evening at o'clock.
Among the Brookfeld visitors In the
city yesterday were Clarence McDermont
any Levi Preston and Henry Hyde,
Donald Salter of North Randolph was
in the city yesterday as a business visit.
or, returning to his home last night.
Mrs. l., l.. Stanton returned to her
home in Providence, X. l., yesterday ait.
err visiting friends in Barre for several
weeks.
Samuel Parady returned TO his home in
st. Johnsbury this afternoon, after at
tending the funeral OF Mrs. G. A. Bart
lett yesterday.
Thomas Robinson of Lancaster, \, H.,
arrived in the city last night and will
visit friends on North Seminary street
for few days while on a vacation,
Miss Lula Cornish, who has been Wis
iting friends in Williamstown for several
weeks left for her home in Chicago, ILL.,,
last night, visiting in Barre while en-
route
Frank Nelson of Summer street has
gone to White River Junction, there TO
make his headquarters for a few weeks
while substituting on the main line as an
agent for the American Express company.
Logon Enighet No. SO, Vasa Orden of
Montpelier anordnar utfykt med sill
SEGA / Dewey park Lordagen den 30; JUL,
Forfrskningar serveras. Dams, och god
musk. ALE Skandinavier och venner
inbjudss.
F. X. Bruggi arrived in the city last
night from Quincy, Mass, where he he's
been employed as a stonecutter for the
past two years and will commence work
in one OF the stonesheds in North Barre
Monday morning
/ am prepared TO carry parties, ball
teams, etc. on trips, also light trucking
with my l2passenger Stanley steamer.
Guarantee prices TO be reasonable. Care
full driver w. L. Persons and John
Berg Tel. 1912, "a Jefferson street.
Tickets for the Community Chautau-
qua, Aug. =, 3, 4, 5, and 6, may be pro-
cured at the following places: The Frank
McWhorter Co., A. P. Abbott Co.. Mrs.
w. f. Shepard Arioli & Dente, Tilden |
Shoe Co., c. F. Andrews, Jackson's coal |
ounce, browns Drug Store, j. w,
Vaughan.
If the necessary arrangements can be
made, the Barre Golf club will send a
team to Rutland next week to participate
in the annual tournament of the Vermont
State Golf association which opens Aug. /
3 and continues to the end OF the week.
In the past few years Barre golfers have
been well represented at the state tour
Silas Matott Of upper Washington
street, who has been detained at home
or several days as the result Of an in
ury received while humping at the Har
'ison Granite Co. last week, was able 10
esume work yesterday An injury to
he pelvis which Mr. Matott received
while moving stone did not prove so
erious as was at first anticipated.
Inquiry developes the information that
he name of the street department en-
,loye who was run over by the city truck
asst Saturday is j. s. Spencer instead
# William Spence, as was reported at
rst. Mr.. Spencer lives in South Barre, {
ut is still confined to the City hospital, {
where. he is making favorable progress ,
oward the recovery of the use Of his +
over limbs. S
Members of the local committee were
usy yesterday afternoon in preparation :
or the Chautauqua which will be held !
rom August 2 to 6. All along the Main
treet from the City square to North
ARE they strung lines of rope with
ne Chautauqua banners of different col
re-, some of the lines running parallel {,
18th the street and others crossing the ,,
rect fastened to the telephone poles :
bove the trolley wires, making very !
ttractive advertisement. !
Carpenters undertook this morning the 4
lsk OF repairing the draught scales in :
ont of the Calder & Richardson coal
flee in Depot square. Three years have
apsed since the timbers directly under 4
lie scales were renewed and they were :
und to have suffered much from decay
has been many years since the side :
atform was fitted with new trusses
Id the carpenters found that sections
the supporting platform had nearly :
from corrosion. Heavy
anking and substantial timbers will
used in restoring the scale supports :
order to preclude the possibility OF
cidents at a point where team traffic
Id pedestrian travel are heavy.
A feature of the flower display at Elm
BOD park at the present time is bios
ming yucca plant, common to Mexico
d southern California, which sends out I
eamy white blossoms over an inch in
ameter of rare beauty. just now there
e at least % blossoms and nearly as
any more are in bud. 1t is also called !
e dagger plant because the leaf stalks 4
E of dagger shape. The yucca plant is /:
a howerbed set out by the civic de-
rtment of the Woman's club. as a me- 4
,rial to Mrs. Marcia Emery, late of !
ashington street, from whose garden I
e plants in this particular bed were
Where the plant men
ned above came from originally is not
own but il was given Mrs. Emery by 4