The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-03
TALK OF THE TOWN

III HFFelhi Values III luuies sulth Nv Az
bolts.
Annual sale ledies' black petticoats at
Vaughan's.
DR.. L. d. Martins Office will be closed
all day tomorrow.
Notice All kinds of stove repairs at
Il. A. Prindle 4 Co.'S, Pearl street.
William H. Mahoney went this morn.
ing to Burlington, to attend meeting
of representatives Of the Swift Co.
William Preston returned to his home
in Springfield, Mass, last night, after
passing the holidays with acquaintance
in the city.
| w. t, Calder of the firm Of Mulch &
Calder has returned home, after spend
ing several days in Montreal, p. O., on
business.
| Miss Lena Barberi left the city this
morning for Boston, where she will begin
a course in instrumental music at the
New England conservatory.
Plan to give your children college
education. A Christmas Club account
carried from year to year win be great
help along this line. Barre Savings Bank
& Trust Co.
Miss Elizabeth Jenkins, who has been
passing the holiday season at her home
in Presque Isle, Me-, arrived jim the city
last evening to resume her duties as a
member of the faculty at Goddard semi
nary.
Miss Lewmina Kicker of fremont
street left the city to-day for Middle
bury, where she is to take up her stud
les at Middlebury college, after having
been detained at home by illness since
early autumn.
Thomas Carroll, jr, of North Main
street left the city last evening ON an
extended western trip In the interest Of
Brown & Carroll, Depot square granite
manufacturers. Mr.. CAROLS immediate
destination is Akron, O., although he
will visit St Paul, Mimi, and Kansas
City before returning to Barre.
The state board of health has tested
the milk from the w. +. Shepard farm
and reports as follows: Total solids 1877
STANDARD ll75l; solids not fat 81
STANDARD s.6l; fat 4 STANDARD 3.25l.
The state board also reports the milk
clean. This report shows the milk to be
above standard in every test. adv.
Frederick Moody of Toronto, Ont, re-
turned to his home to-day, after pass
ing several days in the city as the guest
Of DR. Howard H. Reid Of South Main
street. Mr.. Moody is non.commis-
stoned officer in the Canadian infantry
aud expects to leave within few weeks !
for the Bermudas, where with other
British recruits he is to pass some time .
n training before joining the next Cana
liam overseas expedition. /
Conductor Austin Emery Of st. Adams
arrived in the city Saturday to take .
,harge of the passenger trains over the
Barre branch, relieving Charles Bashaw, I
mother spare conductor, who has re-
urned to st. Adams. The condition Of \
James j. kanaly, who has been detained 4
rom railroad duty by an attack of rheu. !
natism for the past two months, is slow I
Y improving. Mr., Kanaly has been able
o discard his cane and can move about
he house quite freely. 4
Wilbur Rice, a native of Barre. who
fas called here to attend the funeral of
Is father, Isaac d. Rice. whose death 4
ceurred in Springfield last Tuesday il .
assing several days at the home OF his z
ister, Mrs, George Bishop Of 1877 Wash :
lgton street. The present occasion il 2
lr. Rice's first visit to Barre in q years. x
Le lett town as a young man and some .
me afterward went to Altoona, Pa, z
here he is now engaged as the represent *
ative Of mausoleum firm. Some years 2
20 he procured patent on mauso- x
UNI and after selling his rights to >
his services as salesman z
ere retained. !
Mrs. John Patterson Of Eastern avenue x
rs been treating her friends lately to y
rawberry preserves which her mother z
1T up 81 years ago, and which have lost <
me of their toothsomeness during all y
ese intervening years, 1t was Christ <
as day when Mrs. Patterson opened the 3
eserves and her friends can testify 2
at the 81 years had only tended to x
AXE the delieacy Of richer flavor. y
ne strange thing about it il that the z
ampagne bottle in which the straw. Z
rries were preserved had not even been 2
aled, although the cork was driven in z
,htly. Mrs. Patterson left yesterday =
+ Potsdam, N. Y, where she expects to z
end the remainder of the winter with :
sister.