The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-16
TALK or THE TOWN

Mr.. and Mrs. Quincy Perry left yes
e terday for Boston, where they will spenC
several days on business.
. Mrs. T. w. Towers returned this morn
ing to Richmond after visiting at tn,
] home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ward Carver
: of fremont street.
Atty. w, r. McFeeters has returned
to his home in Enosburg Falls. after
passing a few days in Barre and Mont,
peier on business.
For Rent-Six-room cottage on Grant
avenue. All modern improvements. Win
rent cheap during winter Call 80 Sum
mer street c. II. Rowell
Stovepipe and elbows, coal sfters, coal
hods, stoveboards, stove repairs of all
kinds, Special sale on lanterns, oil heat
ers. L. A. Prindle, Depot square. 200
North Main street.
Mrs. A. Tumas and children of Gran
iteville passed through the city this
morning, while en- route from their for
mer home in Graniteville to I.es-all
Mass, where she will join Mr. Tumas,
who has been employed in Lowell during
the past month.
Miss Mary Savage, formerly of North
field and well known in Barre, was
business visitor in the city Yesterday,
coming to Barre from Lowell, Mass,
where she now lives. Miss Savage will
return home after spending several days
in Barre and vicinity.
Compressor trouble forced the granite
manufacturing firm of Charles Bianch &
Son to shut down Tuesday along with
number of lesser firms dependent upon
the large concern for their compressed
air. Mechanics are working on the com
! pressor and it is expected that work
will be resumed tomorrow morning.
| Baptist lavmen in Barre are in re-
cept of neatly bound brochure contain
| ing the proceedings of the annual con.
vention of the Vermont State Baptists,
which was held in Brattleboro early in
the fall. Figures are given to show that
the state convention expended more than
$4,000 for philanthropic work last year.
While the baggage car used on the
Barre branch is shelyed at ST. %albans
for repairs two combination cars are
attached to the day and night trains be-
tween this city and Montpelier June
tion and on the Wlliamstown branch
The American Express Co. utilities one
of the cars and the other is used for
baggage transportation.
The Major L. A. Abbott camp. s. of
V, No. a. will observe veterans dayf
Saturday afternoon and evening, Nov Is,
at auxiliary hall in Worthen block All
members Of r. b. Crandall post. Ladies |
of the G. A. R, and auxiliary No. 5, with !
their families, are invited TO attend. Sup |
per will be served from until s. Let |
us all honor the living veterans by at
tending this get-together meeting A /
program has been arranged for the aft |
ernoon.
b, p White Of Maple Grove contends 1
that the early winter remembered by /
older people as coming sometime in the
'40s followed the summer of 1874. as
against the recollection Of another ven
cradle weather student that the autumn
winter came in lS4s and yet another
that summer did not linger
long in 1913 Mr.. White was living in
Calais at the time and recalls wildly the
circumstances in which farmers found
with snow piled high in Oc
tober.
Barre members of the Military Order
Of Foreign Wars will be present this
evening at the annual meeting of the /.
Vermont commandery. which is to be be
leld in the Country club near Montpel-
er. A banquet will be served at
,'elock and brief business session will
be followed by after-dinner exercises.
Jol. f. I. Johnson of Bradford arrived
o-day to assist in completing prepare
fnr ba ]
The speakers are TO include Col Ira L.
Reeves, president of Norwich university,
Congressman Frank L. Greene of the
irst district and Major Frank Tompkns.
Alexander A. Milne and f. It Cut
er have returned from business trip ;,
o Lewiston, Me- where the latter closed :
contract with Mrs. Bartlett, moth {
r-in.law of William Carrigan, formerly :
of the worlds chawpion base >
all team, the Boston Red Sox, for a !
of Barre granite Ex- Manager
AFRICAN, who is now deyoting his time
0 his banking interests in Lewiston,
the business end of the deal A
or Mrs. Bartlett. and closed the con
raet with Mr.. Cutler. Hoyt & Milne
re to cut the monument, which is net 4
} be delivered for several months Be :
1re leaving. Messrs. Cutler and Milne
ere taken out to the cemetery by Mr. /:
AFRICAN and shown the lot where the :
memorial is to be erected. The monu /
tent will be of the sarcophagus type. !
inely hammered Barre granite win fig
re conspicuously in the memorial. 4
A number of Sunday school workers /:
the several evangelical churches in
ARE gathered at the First Presbyterian 4,
lurch Tuesday for the first session of
training school that has been inaugG
ted for the winter months. Rev. q
larles A. Boyd, general secretary of "
e Vermont Sunday School association,
as in charge OF the school and he spoke 81
the subject, "The Psychology OF the
eveloping Life" He was assisted by
ISIS Marion F. Stickney, superintendent :
the elementary department in the A.
ermont association, and Rev. William i
law, pastor of Trinity church in Mont
ler, president of the state association 4
he Developing Life and It's Needs" 81
Is the general topic of the gathering ! [
d widely varied number of interest. sr
? points were forcefully interpreted =
". b. G. Lipsky OF the Heddng Meth !
list church and H. G. Woodruff, -
layman, were in charge JIG
the adult group conferences. The 1t