The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-03
TALK OF THE TOWN

See Abbott's large showing of dresses
Cash paid for old gold and silver. +. f.
Burr.
There will be harvest supper at the
congregational church Friday, Oct. 6
from $50 to o'clock adv.
The annual joint elan fair will take
place in Rowland hall Oct. 26, q and IS
Watch for further announcements.
The monthly meeting OF the ladies' aid
society of the Presbyterian church will
be held on Wednesday evening at 1880
Mahogany piano, good make and in
good condition, used six months. Regu-
lar price, $3.50; will sell for $2l5. +. r.
Clarkson & Co.
Stove boards, stove pipes, elbows,
hampers, coal hods and coal sifters, all
kinds OF stove repairs. f. A. Prindle 200
North Main street.
The woman's association of the Con.
grega tional church will meet Wednesday
at 2:30 p. m. Program in charge Of the
mission department.
Miss Clancy, "the corsetiere." will be
at Mrs. Charles Churchill's, 80 Merchant
street, this week to take orders for Gus
/ tom made corsets.-adv
Regular meeting of Harmon review
I No /, w, B. A. 0. T. NJ, will be held
| Wednesday night at 730 sharp. Guards
will please be there for practice
| There will be regular meeting of the
ladies aid society of St. Monca's church
Tuesday evening in the convent at 1880.
! Important business to come before this
meeting
Miss Julia Boland, ward maid at the
Mary Hitchcock hospital in Hanover. n.
H., is spending a two weeks vacation at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Thomas
Hamel of Church street.
There will be special meeting of the
sbinet of the First Baptist church Sun
day school Wednesday evening at 7
prompt Every officer, teacher and mem
Der of the organized classes is earnestly
asked to be present.
One competition remains to be played
on the Meadow Brook golf course this
season and that is for lady players. The
finals in the novice competition resulted
as follows: D. F. Mcleod beat c. Bisset |
up at the 10th hole; second eight, D. |
Mcdonald beat A. Watt up.
Travelling northward with the speed Of
NAVNbAph ANhui III anu III TIME WIN q uil- !
ferent locale is a grewsome yarn involv- |
ing the wreckage of a Massachusetts, |
touring car with four dead passengers
under the tonneau and the subsequent |
discovery of the outfit by traveller lost |
on lonely road. The story had its day |
in Barre yesterday when it was reported I
that Calais man. motoring across the |
state to Island Pond, lost his way on a
little used highway. Abandoning his car
for the nonce. as the yarn progresses. the
motorist strikes out afoot to explore the
country that lies beyond By chance he
peers over high bank and at the bottom
espies the wrecked auto. Investigating,
he finds the four bodies. all in a state
more or less decomposed. Barre's version
Of the tale indefinitely fixed the locale as
being somewhere below Newport"
Down in Brattleboro. where the rumor
furnished tempting morsel for newsy
folk last week. the mystery car was "
ing at the bottom Of a pit on the road
to Greenfield, Mass. The Brattleboro
Reformer exhausted every clue and used
the telephone extensively before resign 4
ing its attempt TO run down the warn.
Across the river in Claremont. n II. the
were more than mildly in
terested. Unless the same esrful OF ru-
NOR pops up in Morrisville or Derby Line
next week people may begin 70 give cred
snce 10 the story.