The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-10
TALK OF THE TOWN

| Dance IN Rowland hall Saturday night
CAROLS orchestra.
Miss Nellie Blake left last night fol
Boston, where she will visit friends for q
month
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Benio of New
York City are visiting at j. L. Arkley''
and Mrs. A. A. Northrops.
John b. Kelly Of Liberty street and
Atty f. L. Scott are passing ten days
in Boston and vicinity on business
Miss Ruth Martin has returned to her
home in Littleton, N. H., after making a
two weeks visit with friends in the city
Billie Richie in two.reel l.. F.. O.
comedy, knocks and Opportunities,
also Nadine Of Nowhere" at the Biiou
to-day.-adv.
Special Tor August fve-ply rubber
garden hose, couch and swing hammoeks,
Irefrigerators, porch rockers, wash wiring
ers. Sadler's Keith avenue.
Raymond Agnew of New York, rep
resentative of the Chester studios. ar
rived in the city this morning to resume
his contract of making educational films
in the Barre granite district.
The ladies are included in the invita-
ton to the Board of Trade better ae-
quaintance tour to Berlin Friday evening
of this week, and it is expected that a
large number Of them will attend
Mrs. Avid Alberini, who has lived in
the b. Tomasi block for the past year.
left last night for Boston, where she will
visit friends for a few days before going
to Quincy, Mass, where Mr.. Alberni has
secured employment in a stoneshed.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Healey passed
through the city this morning while on
the Thousand isles, and also Montreal,
P. O., where they will visit Mrs Healey's
brother, Frank Mccarthy, for few days
before returning to their home.
The Barre Hotel Co flung out new
banner this morning in the form of
pennant of the streamer type, which is
attached to a standard and suspended
over the first portico of Hotel Barre.
The name of the hotel appears on the
pennant in bold letters and is well cal
eulated to attract the attention of tour
lists passing up or down North Main
street. Tourist business at the hotel this
summer has been even greater in volume
than last season, when the house was
newly opened.
Charles Palmer, a well known Wash
ington young man, had a peculiar ex
perienee one day this week while return
ing home from Barre by way of VIII
Jamestown. When his horse became
frightened at detached circus poster |
fa. hiS ha VI.
thrown out of the carriage and against |
a watering tub, When the tub over
the young mans left foot be-
came caught between the trough and a |
threshold stone at the edge of the high |
way, several minutes elapsing before he
could extricate himself Palmer sus-
-ained cut over the left eye and shin
Druise The horse was waiting for him
in the dooryard of his home when he
arrived
Agitation for a new motor truck to
be used by the water and health de-
Dartments has died natural death in
.he deliberations of the city council ac
,ording to authentic reports and for
year at least, the truck may be regard
ID as a dead issue Those who opposed
he purchase OF an additional truck be-
ieve they have frustrated move that
would have been only an added burden
o the department while Others who
trenuously advocated the purchase of a
ruek and were for closing the deal at
nee, believe that the water department
5 to be handicapped seriously by the
ack of an adequate draft truck. 1t is
however, that both sides
AVE consented to postpone further agl-
alton.
Charles Steele Adams, a st. Johnsbury
nan and for the past 80 years connected
With the Passumpsic Savings bank, of
which he was the oldest employee, died
tuesday morning after a three weeks
Illness from a nervous disorder. Mr..
adams was born in Barre in 1862 and
vent to st. Johnsbury with his father
rhen he was six years old and had re-
ided in that town ever since. He was :
nited in marriage to Mary A. Brown of I,
at Williamstown in 1856,
nd they began housekeeping in st. ,,
chnsburv. He leaves. besides his wife, 4,
wo daughters, Ruth b. and Dorothy C.,
ne son. Russell S. and one sister, Mrs. :
amuel Hall OF St Johnsbury. He had \
cen a deacon in the South Congrega- ,
ional church for many years, and the
nneral services were held from there this
fternoon. Ii