The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-23
TALK OF THE TOWN

Frozen pudding to-day at browns
Drug Store Telephone MS your orders.
John III, Wilkinson of Rutland arrived
in the city to-day TO visit friends in
the city over the holidays.
James j. Goodwin OF Merchant street
Is able TO be out of doors after, having
been confined TO the house by illness for
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lund and daugh'
ter, Ethel, Of Prospect street left this
morning for Boston, where they will
spend the holidays with friends and rel
atives.
Laws offers the finest line of home
made candy in Vermont. Your Christ
mas will be incomplete without a seec-
ton from our showing of toothsome con.
fections.
w. II. Nugent and two children, Clara
and Burton, OF North Main street left
this morning for Burlington, where they
will spend the holiday with friends and
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs, Thomas Nieol and two
children left the city to-day for South
Ryegate, where the former has secured
work in stoneshed and where the fam.
! lily will reside for time.
Peter Maberini will arrive in the city
to- morrow from Springfield, where he is
employed. He will visit at the home Of
his mother, Mrs Eugenia Maberini, OF
Foss street over the holidays
Arthur w. Premier, who is in charge
of the eastern agency OF Canton Bros in
Philadelphia, Pa, Is passing the holt
days with his mother, Mrs. Ellen Fren-
Ter, and other relatives in Barre.
Roy Premier, formerly employed in the
Tilden shoe store and now employed in
a Hartford Conn, shoe store, arrived
in the city yesterday to spend the Christ
mas recess with friends and relatives.
A correspondent of the Springfield
Mass Republican, writing of aged New
England bankers, refers to Albert Johon-
mott, trustee of Goddard seminary, as
one of the oldest bank presidents in the
East. Mr.. Johonnott is nearing his DIST
birthday and at the present time he Is
acting president of the Capital Savings
Bank & Trust Co. in Montpelier.
To accommodate large number Of
patrons, the lobby OF the postoilice will
remain open Monday and one delivery
will be made by the mail carriers and the
parcel post team There was visible
slackening in the business of mailing
parcels at the Barre postoffiee yesterday,
but each incoming mail brought matter
that in the aggregate will probably estab-
lsh a record locally.
Trainmen who accompanied the Barre
& Chelsea railroad pillow on its first trip
TO the quarry to-day say they encoun-
tered obstacles the like of which they
have not witnessed in several winters.
The storm obliterated all traces of many
landmarks which the train crews use in
reaching the top of Milestone hill and in
some spots drifts six and eight feet high
were moved down by the ploughshare.
Difficulties enough attended the first trip,
but during the forenoon freight traffic
over the airline was restored to its nor
nal proportions, although the high wind
continued to fill in the tracks in sections
especially favorable to snow accumula-
tions and the snowplow was held in read
mess for any emergency.
Tonight in the old city building the
members of the Grand Orient will meet
to consider program of social evenings
for the winter and early spring Officers
will be elected and if the interest re-
Gently revived in the famous lodge may
be reckoned at its face value there will
be a large gathering. Regslia to be used
by the Orient knights in the Forthcoming
ceremonial will be inspected and report
from the scenery committee will be
heard. Much of the Orient equipment
was destroyed in the fire which visited
Amos Halls farm on east hill late last
winter, but everything viii be restored
in time for the ceremonial to be held in
Granitevile on the second Friday in Jan
| uary.
| Despite the unusual prescriptions
| placed upon travel b. the atmospherica
\ turnover of last night and to-day, out
4 going trains over two roads carried many
people from Barre to-day Mr.. and Mrs
John Duguid left at noon for New York
H CITY to spend the holidays and similar
II destination was ahead of Miss Marion