The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-14
The Homer Fits Company
TALK OF THE TOWN

Christmas cards and booklets at Fits.
Special handkerchief values at Abb
bolts.
Brooch pins, stick pins, cuff links and
fobs at Holmes.
Many of the best cooks in Barre have
their recipes in the hospital cook book.
Get one for Christmas; only soc.
Miss Jessie Freeman, who has been
visiting friends on Merchant street dur
ing the past week, left to-day for her
home in Sharon.
Rudolph Gratz, who has been employed
in the granite industry here for the past
two months, went to Hardwick this
morning to work for the Woodbury.
Granite Co.
Employees in the freight and passenger
station as well as the local yards OF the
Central Vermont railroad have received
SIS increases in pay the increases to be-
come operative Dec. 81.
F. J. Bicknell of Rockland, Me-, pro-
prietor of the Livingstone Tool works
in that place, is staying at Hotel Barre
while passing several days in the Barre
granite belt on business.
Among the guests registered at Hotel
Barre last night and this morning were
the following people: Fred G. Smith OF
Middlebury, Mrs. Mabel J. Terry, Mrs. j.
Renfrew and Mrs. W. w. Terry of South
Ryeeate. NJ. J. Kelliher of Springfield,
Miss Marion Willard OF Ashburnham,
Mass, Miss Fannie L. Shepherd of White
River junction, II. +. Bisbee of Man
chester, A. C. Mason of Rutland, +. j.
Bicknell of Rockland, Me-, c. G. Hamb-
lett of Barton, j. Fl. Atherton OF Burning
ton. Charles H. w. Farnham of st. Johns
bury, Lane b. Alexander of Springfield
C. L. Lambert of Fort Dodge, Tex, }. W.
Knox and j. B. Yandow of Burlington,
Miss Alice Little of Boston.
A meeting OF Barre lodge, No. 1873, n
f. O. p, last evening was prolific oil
much business and there was large at
tendance. Following the initiation OF
several candidates, the following mem
beers were placed in nomination for the
1917 official slate: Warden, Mrs. John
Leslie; vice warden, Mrs. B. n. Cutters;
secretary, Charles A. Spear; financial
secretary, Earl NJ. Lewis; treasurer, A
w. Taft. Nominations were made for
the remainder of the minor offices and
the entire slate will be acted upon at
the next fortnightly meeting of the
lodge. After the business session, So
cial hour was enjoyed and light refresh
ments were served.
Instead of addressing anonymous
threats TO granite manufacturers, pre-
cisian of this town, whose morning beau
tv sleep is usually disturbed by the
screeching OF the 7:l5 whistle chorus, has
turned his attention to advanced mathe.
MATES in the hope that practical for
mula NAV persuade the manufacturers to
eliminate the whistle nuisance. The sta
tistician figures that enough steam en-
ergy is wasted every morning in the
wear, on a basis of 800 working days, by
each granite plant in the stone belt to
furnish operative power for one manu-
facturer to maintain his machinery in
motion two full working days and Sat
urdav forenoon. The man with the for
mula further calculates that a co-opera tive
stoneshed could be operated profitably il
all the manufacturers were to contribute
the energy wasted each day in whistling
and that the money saved on power could
be used in defraying one-hslf of the over.
head expense.