The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-08
TALK OF THE TOWN
Look for shea's ad. on page 4.

during the winter,
Skilled tonsorialists do your work in
painstaklng manner at Ross Depot
square barber shop.
Diaries, notebooks, Line.a.Day books,
loose.leaf books in large variety Mt
browns Drug Store.
IL. X. Huntington has returned to the
city after Il stay OF several weeks III
White River Junction,
William Taylor, who has been working
for IL. l.. Douglas for the past two years,
has moved his family to Rouses Point,
~. Y.
Mrs. Hugh Cushman of Morrisville has
arrived in Barre to join her husband,
who recently began work as lineman
for the Vermont Tel & Tel. Co.
The annual meeting of Col, j. B. Mead
circle, No. |, Ladies OF the G. A. X, Fri
day afternoon ut 2:30. Election of Off
GERS. A full attendance is desired.
Now is the season for farmers to be
dressing beef, veal, etc, for their own
use. We want the hides will pay best
prices for same II. j. Smith & Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Varnum, who have
been visiting at the home OF Mr.. and
| Mrs. guy r. Varnum of North street,
returned this morning to their home IN
Jacksonville.
/ The newest blouses, made after French
designs and in such charming variety
that you will find several just suited to
your needs. Call and see them. Mrs.
Shepard Co., Inc
| Miss c. NJ. Swift, who has been guest
in the home OF Dir. and Mrs. d. c. Jarvis
OF Orange street for a few days, went TO
her home in AIiddlesex Thursday after.
noon for a visit before going to Detroit,
/ Mich, to enter Grace hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs Michael Mcdonald and
little daughter of South Main street left
the city this morning for Cambridge,
1 Mass. where Mrs Mcdonald and child
will remain with relatives until after
the holidays Mr. Mcdonald will return
TO Barre.
Manager J. b. Eames of the Park the
atre, who was removed to the City hos
pital week ago, following a long con-
| linement to his room at Hotel Barre, is
recovering steadily from an operation
which he underwent soon after entering
the hospital
In Clan Gordon hall this evening the
fourth OF series of private dancing as
semblies will be given by the Italian
Gaety club of Barre and Montpelier.
Invitations to the number of more than
one hundred have been issued by the
committee. Riley's orchestra will play
for the dance. which is to take the form
of a confetti lance.
Miss Gladys Wilson of Bethel, former
! ly member of the faculty at Spaulding
! high school, contributes interesting ar
ticles on "A Fire Company in Porto
Rico" and "a Trip from Meyague to
Vega Baia" in the Randolph Herald and
News this week Miss Wilson is now
engaged as sehoolteacher in Porto
Rico.
The building Just south of the South
Main street bridge has been leased by
the automobile repairing firm OF Harvey
& Mower for the purpose of establish
ing therein an automobile paint shop.
Carpenters have been engaged in making
| interior improvements with view to
creating an atmosphere as near dustles-
as possible Harry W. Clark, well
known local painter, viii have charge OF
the business for Harvey & Mower,
One of the most enjoyable social gath
erings of the series planned by Nincltla
lodge, No 10, X OF p, took place in
Castle hall last evening when the Nor
witch university glee club gave an excel
| lent entertainment for the members and
their guests. At S o'clock the cadet mu
sicians began their program, which was
! literally applauded from time to time.
Afterward there was an informal smoke
talk and substantial buffet luncheon
was served. Arrangements for the 90
cial evening were in charge of circle No,
IL The third circle will have charge of a
get.together evening in January.
Soon after o'clock this evening spe
cial train will leave Depot square over
| the Barre & Chelsea railroad for East
Barre, by way OF Graniteville and Web
sterville, for the accommodation of Red
! Men who plan to attend the annual dis
/ triet meeting to be held with Wuehosen
tribe. Members of the fraternity from
| the Waterbury tribe, from Sioux tribe of
Montpelier and from Iroquois tribe in
Barre to the number of 200 will make the
trip. Andrew Patton of Danvers, Mass,
past great incohonee of the national
| Red Men, arrived in the city to-day and
/ Will De present at the W
en- tribe will work the adoption degree on
class of candidates from the four tribes
and venison supper will be served by
the w. c. I. I. of East Barre.
On spur of Spruce mountain the
Vermont Tel & Tel. Co. is erecting
log cabin for the accommodation of re-
pair men who may be overtaken by
darkness before emerging from the thick
woods that cover Spruce and Twin
mountins The work is in charge of Hen
Iry H. Hodgdon, district foreman, who
lis on leave of absence from his local du-
ties, and bud" Robbins, a member of the
Burlington service crew. The men will
equip the camp with box stove. metal
lined chest in which emergency rations
will be stored and two cot beds. Often
lit happens, especially in the winter,
that the linemen dispatched on q repair
errand which carries them far afeld,
find night oyertaking them before they
have emerged from the dark recesses of
the big woods to the Downing camp. A
trunk line from Barre to Groton and
Wells River stretches across the noun
tains and its maintenance in the winter
is possible only under trying circum-
stances. Nine men in charge of Harold
Adams of White River Junction and Al
bert Sault of Wells River are engaged in
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