The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-12
TALK or THE TOWN

$2.9S at Fitts'l
We will buy block wood and secon
growth wood, dry or green. Calder
Richardson.
The ladies of the G.. A. II. will hold
special meeting in their hall Tuesda,
afternoon at 2:30.
There will be meeting of the ladies
aid society of St. Moniea's church at tb
convent Tuesday evening at 7;30.
Odd Fellows and Rebekah sleighrid,
TO Plainfield Monday night. Barge leave,
/. O. O. i. hall at @ o'clock sharp.
Wilfred Marion of AZ Park street wa
taken to the City hospital Saturday fol
an operation. His condition is serious.
The Nature Study class will meet Al
the home of Miss Mary Carleton, g
Highland avenue, this evening at 1880
subject, winter Birds"
Trahey Venner, who was locked up OF
an intoxieation charge Saturday, paid Q
fine of So and costs for first offens,
when arraigned in Magistrate II, w
SCOTS court this morning,
All the ladies are cordially invited to a
500 party to be held in the X. of p. hal
Thursday, Feb. Is, beginning at $3.50 p
m, for the benefit of the Barre City hos
pital. Prizes will be awarded. Refresh.
ments served. Admission, 25e.
Owing to the Montpelier city hall be.
ing engaged, the next rehearsal, Feb. 10
of the Montpelier Choral society will be
held in the Kellogg Hubbard library
During the intermission Perley Pitkin OF
Montpelier will render selection.
Under the direction OF the civic depart
ment, the Barre Woman's club will hold
a thimble party in x. of p. hall Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. A program
will be given and light refreshments
served. All club members invited,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Rae of East Mont
pelier and their daughter, Mrs. Harry
McAllister of East Barre are in the city,
having been called here BY the illness and
death of John Rae, who passed away at
his home on Pleasant street last evening.
The annual concert and ball Of the
Montpelier fire department will be held
in city hall, Montpelier, Feb, Is. Take
your folks and come down for good
time, There will be plenty of tickets at
the box office. Strictly informal and
everybody invited
Under the auspices of the Barre Teach.
ers' association, Miss Agnes 0. Hersey of
Bangor, Me-, will give several readings,
interspersed with musical selections by
local talent, at the Spaulding assembly
hall Thursday, Feb. Is. at s o'clock. Miss
Jersey will be remembered by her read
ngs which pleased large number at the
Congregational church last year. Admis.
sion, 25c.
However much patriotic citizens may
nave paid fealty to Lincoln's memory in
heir hearts to-day there were few out
ward evidences of the great emancipa
.or's anniversary. Money changing went
IN much as If no one recalled the hstor.
cal happening of los years ago to-day
n some instances flags were displayed
md there were merchants who took
,ains to exhibit Lincoln pictures in their
windows. Nothing OF formal observ.
nee attached to the day in the public
chools.
Among the guests registered at Hotel
barre through the week end were the
GLOWING people: Mr. and Mrs A. Dens-
more OF Windsor, Edward Olson of Bos-
on, Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Grey of New
york, Miss Agnes O. Jersey of Corinth, |
lie, NJ. B. Emerson OF Hartford, 20 mem |
ers of Bringing Up Father" company, |
William j. Sutherland of Hartford, Mr.. |
nd Mrs. Frank Burns of Rochester. Rev. |
:. A. Boyd of Burlington. N. X. Lyons
nd ]. X. Gates of Greenfield, Me-, and |
!. c. Cain of Lynn, Mass.
An overheated chimney at No. 5 Bug
ee avenue gave the tiremen an opportu-
ity to rehearse in the test hour this
lorning The truck left the station at
80 o'clock, just as the general test was
cling given, Afterward regulars were
1T on the avenue to guard against any
ntbreak of fire in the long tenement
uilding that TANKS the little thorough
ire on the east. There was no damage
nd the auto truck left the avenue for a
test on some of the hills in
ne vicinage of Washington street.
arly Sunday evening a stovepipe in the
ouse at So South Main street sent in its
'signation as a conductor and the fire
alton was asked to send around a man.
moke filed the room and continued to
Il until d damper in the pipe was
GIFTED
Memories of a meeting with two
who relieved him OF $50 in
oney were mixed up in the morning
ter reveries of John j. Madison at po- !
e headquarters yesterday, but an all ,
" search by the officers failed to dis
ose any clue that might lead to the ar
st of the pair befriended by Madison. =
he man was released from the county !
il Saturday morning with $40 in his !
,cket, the fruits of month and more {
the woods as a chopper. Ere nightfall Z
double portion of hard luck had been ,
eted out TO the woodsman, for the will 4
z strangers had got in their work and
e police had locked up their victim.
alison, who halls from Cambridge.
ass, pleaded guilty to an intoxication
arge when srraigned before Magistrate
w. Scott in city court this forenoon 4
ID received a sentence of 30 days in the :
unity Jail.
home from a neighborhood
H. Mrs. Margaret Stephens of Maple
enue found herself in the hands of 40
ENDS who had taken possession of the
use during her absence. The gathering
Is very much in the nature of a sur
Use party for Mrs. Stephens, but she
| not forget the role of hostess assigned
her and the unannOuneed guests were
yslly entertained. One OF the pleasant
ltures of the affair was the presenta-
IN of an eleefrie reading lamn To Mrs z