The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-09

II business Nlsitof IN the city yesterday
II Social and refreshments at the l.. A..
| A. 0. H., meeting tonight. All members
H invited.
Frank Minard is i'll with pneumonia
at the home of his sister, Mrs. James
Hills of Elm street.
j. c. Booth left the city last evening
i for Boston, where he is to make bus
mess risit of several days.
street went to Burlington yesterday for
few days visit with relatives.
Skating as usual at the Pearl street
rink at p. m. Admission, l5c, ladies
Zoe. Remember the carnival Friday
night.
Rev. John Bjork. who has been quite
seriously i'll at his home on West Patter-
son street for several days, was reported
TO be much improved this morning.
Mrs. Vttoria Barr of Cottage street
left the city last evening for Llano' Tex,
where she expects to make visit OF sew
eral weeks with her son, Samuel Barr.
"The Tenement House Evil" the sec
ond nstallment of Graft" featuring
Hobart Henley and June Novak; also
two other pictures, at the Bijou to-day
adv.
| Norman Gordon of Richardson street
left to. day for Hanover, n. H., where he
will be the guest of his brother, John
Gordon, during the winter carnival at
Dartmouth college.
ID. W. Mcdonald OF Perry street is re
covering from threatened attack OF
pneumonia. Mr.. Mcdonald was stricken 4!
with severe cold last week, which later |
developed into the grip.
John McCaskill, who has been spending |
the midyear vacation at his home in this |
city, returned to Burlington to-day |
where he will resume his studies at the |
University of Vermont.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison j. Lander of High
land avenue and George w. Lander of
South Main street went this morning to
Burlington Mr.. and Mrs, Lander will
remain for a visit of several days with
relatives.
The infant child OF Mr.. and Mrs.
James Canton of 70 Prospect street died
this forenoon around II o'clock, after a
brief Illness The child was IA months
old. Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Miss Edith Coburn Moves. who gave a
reading of "She Stops TO Conquer be
fore the Barre Womans club in Rowland .
hall last evening, left this morning for
her home in Boston, after having been
the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Wishart OF Perry street.
William i. Ross Of Maymont Sask.. !
who has been passing several days with
his son, Edwin Ross, and with relatives
in WebsterviIle, left the city this after
noon for his former home in Leeds. p. q. :
where he will visit relatives until March
l. when he viii return to the British :
Northwest He was accompanied to-day r
Dy his brother, Charles Ross of Leeds. N
who has been making two weeks visit
n this vicinity. n
Cards received here from John stew III
trt former resident of Barre, whose III
afc arrival in California was chronicled III
few days ago, state that the Stewart III
,arty was held up for time in Nevada
" snow drifts Is feet high. Mr.. Stew III
rt's comment on western weather was III
made apropos of news accounts of the III
mild weather which was experienced here III
n the East in January, III
Charles 7. Partridge, grand chaplain OF Hi
he grand chapter of Vermont Masons, HI
Tho was in the city last evening to at III
end the meeting of the third capitular II
istrict returned this morning TO his iii
ONE in Woodstock. He was accom- VII
anied as far as White River Junction VII
v n. J. Stannard the grand high priest HI
t the state chapter. who reviewed the Hi
aremonials at last nights meeting. It'll
Closely on the heels OF the announce iii
tent that the Presbrey Coykendall com Hi
any has completed plans FOR ll0-foot
Stension to its manufacturing plant in Hi
re north end comes the rumor, we'll HI
rounded in certain quarters, that well I'LL
nown Granite street company is seri-
Isly contemplating the erection of II
NV shed. This time rumor connects It'll
-etentious plans for a new plant with Hi
le star Granite company. which has TIL
zen doing business for several years at III
lie west end of Granite street. II is IIl
ated that the growth of the company's I'LL
lsiness has been so marked in recent Nh
,ars that more adequate shed facilities III
Q imperative. g. Valli and c. Lam XII
rti are the principal owners in the III
mpany. III
"Wolfe Tone the red fox captured Hi
i've by James Hastings in the woods of It'll
arren last November, broke his letters Hi
st night and did good bit of prowing III
the vicinity OF Mr.. Hastings home on ~
orth Main street before he submitted Hi
capture. Kind treatment and excel u
nj care have combined to tame the fe -
cious attitude assumed by Sir Reynard
medistely after he began life in the A
y, and il was thought that he would IA
urn any opportunity to escape. But a
e wanderlust proved too much for
Wolfe Tone and he pursued an exeit-
? course around the north end before
reats of solitary confinement or some
her salutary punishment had the de-
ed effect. Once they cornered the ami =
H. its captors had little difficulty in -
Iding him back to his cage.