The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-23
TALK OF THE TOWN

Buy green cut bone at Kemptons Mills
Big dance in Rowland hall Frida,
evening, CAROLS orchestra.-adv.
| Gretchen Lederer in "The Morals o.
Hilda," at the Bijou to-day.--adv.
Dr. c. w. Woods of Montpelier was q
business visitor in the city Monday.
Burns concert, Presbyterian church
Thursday evening, Jan. 25, at 8 o'clock
Miss Elizabeth Breen of Summer street
was a business visitor in Burlington yes.
/ terday.
| Mrs. A. Villa has returned to the CITY
after passing few days with friends in
Burlington.
Thomas Spooner left this morning for
Bethel, where he is making visit of
several days with relatives.
All interested in "The Wishing Ring
entertainment should read the Peoples
Shoe Store adj on the laGt page of this
paper.
"A fine program has been arranged for
the Burns concert at the Presbyterian
church Jan. 25 Watch paper Wednes-
day.-ady.
B. L. Bailey, postmaster at Montpelier,
was visitor in the city yesterday while
ON his way to Williamstown, where he
was called by the illness of his father.
The cribbage and pool teams repre-
senting Barre council, Knights of Column
bus, will meet the Montpelier council
teams at the capital this evening in the
closing contest of series of eight tour
naments which began in November.
Rev. P. M. McKenna of St. Monica's
rectory left Monday afternoon for Rut
land, where he attended the funeral of
Rev. Thomas Mccarthy, curate of st.
Augustine's church in Montpelier, whose
death in Rochester, MINI, followed
surgical operation.
The Mrs, Blanche Wilson" who was
sought in Barre because of her relation
ship to boy who was burned to death
near Manchester, n. H., Saturday night.
turned out to be Mrs. A. j. Trottier of "a
Pearl street, who was an aunt of the boy.
instead of mother, as was first reported.
Mrs. Trottier left Barre yesterday for
Manchester on receipt of the news of the
death of her brothers son.
Conditions for harvesting ice were new
er better than they have been this winter
and the principal dealer in ice in Barre.
W. II. Ward. expects to establish some
ling of a record in his line by gathering
his entire crop for 1917 in the month OF
January A fortnight ago, harvesters
the work of gathering the
first crop were told that the pond prob
ably would not be ready for operations
again before February. In two weeks.
however, ice has made rapidly and the
prospects for cutting the second crop this
week are unusually good. Mr.. Ward ex-
poets to have his own storage houses !
filled and viii have supplied number of |
heavy users with their seasons ice before |
Feb /.
A falling loft in the number of dodgers |
applying to police headquarters for a |
nights accommodations is noted in the /
report which Chief Sinclair is submitting
to the city council for the year 1916.
Officers al the station are unable to ac-
,ount for the decrease in the number of i
.ransients, although IL has been noted /
his winter that the number of road /
Snights who count Barre as a stopping
place on their route is appreciably less.
IN 1915 only 65 persons asked and re-
'eived the use Of a police station bunk
ind even with the approach of colder
weather in the late fall the weekly aver
ge of such applications did not increase.