The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-19
TALK OF THE TOWN

\ Cash paid for old gold and silver. F. f
Il Burr.
H Judge II. W. Scott and Mrs Scott anC
| children, who are passing 10 days al
| Highgate Springs, will return to the city
| Monday.
Lost, last evening, from Hardwick tc
Barre, two automobile tires for Ford
car. Finder apply to f. NJ. Laws, Barre
for suitable reward.
Miss Florence Robins returned to her
home on Washington street this morning
after visiting friends and relatives in
Burlington and Plattsburg, n. Y, during
the past week.
Tomorrow night at Intercity park
Viola Dana in the Edison five-reel fea-
ture, Children OF Ewes" also Musty
Suffer comedy, Just Imagination" Show
starts at p m.adv
Mrs. Kate McKane left this noon for
Montpelier, where she will visit friends
for two days before going to New York
City, where she will spend the remain
der of the month of August.
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Angel and
daughters, Misses Rule and Christine,
of East Brookfield passed through the
city this morning while EN- route for
Waterbury, where they will spend the
! day on business.
Through c. A. Clark Montpelier agent
/ for the D. A. Perry Real Estate agency,
the Involvement house on Berlin street,
Montpelier owned by Mrs. Elizabeth
Crossett of Jefferson street this city, has
been sold to A. Forgues and wife of
Montpelier. Mr.. Forgues intends TO live
in one of the tenements, and rent the
other.
Cards received here from the Barre
party sojourning in Cleveland this week
state that the delegates from this section
are having lively time, and newspaper
clippings indicate that Barre granite is
getting a pretty generous hearing from
visitors at the convention of national
monument retailers. The Barre visitors |
are registered at the Hollcnden hotel and |
will leave for the return trip to Vermont |
tomorrow afternoon See. H. p. Human |
will go from Cleveland to Kentucky and |
Georgia, and a majority of the other
delegates will enjoy a days outing in
the Thousand Islands, arriving in the
city early Tuesday morning.
This weeks collection of uncalted-for
above the average accumulation for seven
days. Accounting of the pieces of mail
that are deadwood now, so far as the
postofiice attaches are concerned, show
that no fewer than l47 letters have not
been delivered. Postal clerks ascribe the
of mail matter of this kind
TO political advertising, which has flooded
the mails for the past two months. None
of the envelopes containing political verb
iage bears any return instructions, and
so most of it is consigned to the dead
letter office after proper notice has been
served on those to whom the letters have
been addressed
Barre police lent their assistance yes
terday in bringing about a complete re- {
union of a couple from Lebanon, n. H., {
who were stranded here in the city and
appealed 20 police headquarters for as t
sistance. According to William Burns, I
the husband in the little expedition, his I
wife left him fortnight ago. Something c
told him that she was in Burlington, and I
when he arrived in the Queen city on !
Thursday his wife was ready to accom- 7
1any him back to Lebanon. Burns said !
he was thoroughly penitent and proved o
[ when he informed her that he was U
without the necessary fare to see her c
through to New Hampshire. They got ,
Is far as Montpelier when their money v
ave out. and after they had spent the n
,est part of the day at the police station
lere. Chief Sinclair negotiated with a
ormer employer of Burns in Lebanon
nd sent them on their wav.