The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
BARRE DAILY TIMES
SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1910.
The Weather
Sunday probably fair,
TALK OF THE TOWN

the city yesterday 40 husines visitor.
II A minstrel show will be given in tn
II uniyersalist church by local talent Fri
III day evening, Sept. l.
III League game at lntercity this after
II noon at 3. Montpelier win face thu
H league leaders, Rutlend. All out.-adv
i w, C. Carpenter of Northeld arrived
Il in the city last night and will visit
his son, Lester Carpenter, over the week
| end.
H Miss Blanche MeNaIly returned tC
Mortified last night after visiting at the
home OF Mr.. ana Mrs. w Lafayette o,
the west HILL
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Drake, who have
been passing week in the city as the
| guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Drake, re-
turned to-day to their home in Glens
Falls, n. Y.
II. f. Cutler aAd son received a ship.
ment of Overland oerJ yesterday, among
Il I'm a model S5.l, onr Of the new 10 :
models that the Overland agents ave
demonstrating.
Alexander Hall, who has been passing
a vacation OF 10 days with friends in
camp at Groton pond resumed his duties
in the Office OF the National Life Insur
ance Co. at Montpelier to-day.
Mrs. Joseph rIpin OF Summer street
and Mrs. Roy Blgbee OF Richardson
street left this morning for Watcrbu y.
where they will visit dt the home .
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene dagnus Tor |
icw days.
| Miss Laura r. Stoughton of Needham,
Mass, who has been making a stay OF
several weeks with her sister, Mrs Geof-
frey Rollins, in Palmerton Mass, is at
the home OF her mother, Mrs. Ellen l..
Stoughton of French street.
Mrs. Mary Daniels, whc is visiting
! friends in the city for Jew weeks, left
yesterday with Mrs James Cow of lab
erty street for caspian AXE, Greens.
boro, to spend the week end with Mrs.
| w. d. Smith at tire Smith cottage
Miss Ida NJ. Cook of South Main street
returned to the city yesterday from VOL
colt, where she has been passing several
days with her brother. George II. Cook.
Miss Cook will resume her duties as chief
operator at the telephone central office
Monday morning.
Arthur Crawford OF Maple avenue
commenced a vacation OF two weeks from
the offices of f. A. Walker of Montpelier |
this morning and left for two weeks
trip through the Province of Quebec, |
part of the time he viii visit relatives I
in Windsor Mills, +. @.
Miss Katherine Corliss Of Boston ar
rived in the city last night and will |
= II f. 4
Spoore of Merchant street for several
days Mr.. and Mrs. c. 4. Spoore re-
turned to their home yes erday after
spending the week visiting relatives in
Graniteville.
Mrs. G. E. Perry, daughter, Dorothy,
and son, Wayne, and her sister, Mrs.
Harry Russell, of Highland avenue, have
returned TO the city after passing several
weeks with relatives in st. Johnsbury
and in camp at Pigeon pond Mrs. Rus
sell has resumed her duties as pianist at
the Bijou theatre.
Mr.. and Mrs G. w. Rarrows and Miss
Robarge of Central street
have been entertaining as guests for scV-
eral days, their aunt. Mrs. William Say i
age OF Plattsburg, N. T.; also Mr.. and
Mrs Napoleon st, Louis and son, Clifford,
Of Plattsburg, n. Y. Mrs. Savage az
companied her daughter and husband
home this morning.
William J. Mcdonald Of John street, {
who is taking a vacation from his duties t
in the composing room of The Times, left
to-day for Springfield, Mass, where he i
is to visit for few days before going to t
- ba Tho of his l..
brother, Thomas Mcdonald, who is en- \
oloyed in department store there.
The Altrurians met at the home of +
Mrs. f. A. Grearson Friday afternoon for
social hour which was in the form of n
surprise for Miss Velma Melcher in hon is
IT OF her approaching marriage. In be I
lalf of the club, Mrs Grearson, in well
hosen words, presented Miss Melcher t
Wallace Nutting picture and Miss Melch /
II feelingly responded. A short musical \
was given and dainty refresh q
nents of ice cream and waters were Y
erved and a social hour enjoyed, after
which all declared by unanimous vote -
hey had spent delightful afternoon. !,
Apiarists in this section are beginning v,
o gather the first fruits of the honey b
eason, although the bulk of the crop al
ill not be available for the market un- in
il early in the fall. In the face of op-
imistic reports from the bee fields of h,
lew York, Michigan and states farther fl
rest, local beekeepers are almost unit b.
l describing the season of 1916 as dis !,
ppointment. Where bumper crops are be
reelected in some of the neighboring r.
tates, it appears that Vermont apiar
It's, at least those in central Vermont, 80
re to harvest a crop that win fall con- "
derably below the average. One of the =,
rgest honey producers in Barre, Judge 10
!. w. Scott, expects to gather scarcely p;
lore than quarter of the honey that =,
is bees produced in 1915. Last year at =,
lis time the production was three times
rger than it is now and unless the bees
ut in lot of union hours from now We
4 until the last rose of summer has fad TN
|, the quarter crop prediction will be- iiii
me a reality. The honey scarcity in ~, a
YES hereabouts is sscribed to the back eie
ard summer. po
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