The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-21
TALK OF THE TOWN
Bag dav Wednesday Oct 25

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Among the Brookfeld visitors in Barre
yesterday were L. L. Lewis, William
| Haggett and Orman Freeman.
! Maccabees, Notice Officers and guards
OF Harmon review, No. |, will meet Sat.
urday afternoon, Oct. u, at 2 o'clock fol
the last practice meeting before install.
lation.
Miss Josephine Lahsmme, who has
been passing a vacation OF two weeks
with relatives in this city and Barre
Town, left this morning for her home in
Nashua, n. II.
Glenn George, who left for Windsor
several days ago to begin work in the
machine shops, returned TO Barre yester-
day. where he visited friends before GO
ing to his home in Middlesex.
H. +. Perkins and T. W. Perkins, who
have been visiting friends in East Barre
during the past week, We're among the
city visitors yesterday, while en- route
to their home in Laconia, n. H.
Members of CAROLS orchestra jour
neyed to Richmond last night to play at
the dance that was held there Many of
tie Barre dance lovers motored down to
Richmond TO attend the dance.
Mrs Chester Richmond, who has been
passing several days in Graniteville as
the guest of Mrs. William Alexander,
passed through the city to-day while on
her way to her home in Paterson, \. j.
Edwin L. Scott returned to his home on
Park street yesterday. after spending
several days on the shore of Lake Cham
plain on duck hunting expedition, Mr..
Scott was also a business visitor in St.
Adams while away
At the regular meeting of Winnetta
council, No. 10, Degree OF Pocahontas,
Thursday evening, six palefaces were
adopted into the order, seven were ballot
ed on and three applications were re-
ceived. At the close of the meeting, the
mems circle served refreshments.
The eighth biennial convention OF the
A. O. II. and ladies' auxiliary of Wash
ington county will be held at Montpelier
on Tuesday, Oct, "a. Both branches OF
the order will convene in business session
at 2:30 p, m. At 1880 p. M, in X. of c.
hall, banquet will be served. followed
by social dance, to which all the mem
bers of the A. o. H. and L. A. in Wash
are invited. 1t is expected
that large delegations from Barre and
will attend Members will
receive their tickets at the hall and spe-
eial arrangements have been made in
case a member wishes to bring relative
who is not member OF the order.
What looked as if it might be disas-
tous accident yesterday on Depot square,
was averted as several men on the Cen
trail Vermont platform stopped a run
away team in time to prevent the horses
running on the platform between the
tracks and depot in the rear of the
building. The horses took fright as they
we're standing by the Allen Lumber CO.,
store, the hill engine on the Chelsea rail
Dad putting alongside them until they
started on the run in the direction of the /
CENTRAL Vermont station, bounding on |
he cement walk of the station and the /
wagon hitting the trucks and front /
wheels running onto the scales before /
he horses could be halted.
The members of the ladies' union of the
Jniversalist church held their annual
arvest supper in the dining room of the
hurch parlors last evening with a good
Y crowd, numbering well over the hum
red mark, in attendance. The menu
OF hash and a good substantial
inc of dishes of desserts and dainties.
he committee in charge consisted of II
he chairman, Mrs Mary Allen, and the
october circle of ladies union. The II
uests, who commenced 10 assemble
hortly after the supper hour began,
ontinued to keep the tables well filled
ntil about o'clock Members Of the
aides union served the supper to their
uests and did remarkably well in their
forts to make the entertainment sue
ess. This was the 10th supper that the
'omen of the ladies union have held this
ear, their plans being to hold some kind
a supper that is appropriate for each
lonth of the 1916 calendar. Next month
heir efforts will be centered on a chicken
lie supper to be given by the members
the November circle of the ladies'
Mon on the 22d of the month.
What one of the largest retail monu. I
ent dealers west of Chicago thinks of |
ARE granite is shown in an order which
e recently placed with Novelli & Cal |
,gni for his own family memorial,
ausoleum OF unusually large proper
ons. p. y. Peterson of st. Paul. Mimi, /
as been a booster for Barre granite \
any years and some OF the most not
Die private memorials in the West were
lrchased through him. Nbw he has
,ntracted for a Grecian mausoleum Il
hich will BE- set in st. Paul cemetery 4
Peterson family memorial Stock H
ON the L. L. Smith Co.'s quarries is to II
: used by the manufacturers. The
ausoleum is to have a width of is feet,
myth 20 feet. and height Is feet The \ III
posed surface Of the structure Is TO be
the finest l2-cut work. At the front II
ur Doric columns will be stationed and II
artistic scheme OF carving on the front II
ch is to include the family crest. Spe- II
ieations received BY the manufacturers II
dictate that the mausoleum Is to be one II
the most beautiful designs ever cut in
e Barre district. u