The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-12
T1LKOFTHE TOWN

Thirty people! in comedy, 80 people
tonight, Rowland hall.
Ladies having towels belonging to thu
Presbyterian church are asked to return
them.
Hear Miss lnglis and Miss Young sing
tonight, Rowland hall, benefit of Epis'
copal choir.
Harold Fits of Park street left this
morning for Burlington, where he will
spend few days on business.
Charles Wilson of Boston and Edward
Briggs of New York were among the
business visitors in the city to-day.
The Mission Study class of the Church
of the Good Shepherd will meet with
Mrs. Ned Roberts Thursday evening al
1880 o'clock.
Rummage sale in the Presbyterian
church Saturday, Dec Is, from 2 to,5.
Good bargains. Bring donations Friday
night. adv,
The regular monthly meeting of the
trustees of the Barre City hospital will
be held at the hospital Wednesday even
| ing at o'clock.
Miss Inglis will sing For All Eter-
nity' at Rowland hall Thursday evening
Dec. 10; dance and concert, CAROLS
singing orchestra-adv.
Miss Marguerite Brown of Cliff street
| is taking vacation of week from her
duties as cashier in the New England
Telephone & Telegraph Co.'S Office.
To-nights meeting of Barre lodge, n.
+. O. p, should be unusually well at.
tended, as officers for next year will be
nominated. Arrangements for attending
the 30th anniversary observance of the
order at Montpelier to morrow night will
be made.
Lyman Whitcobm, who has been visit
ing at the home of his mother on Semi
nary hill during the past few days and
who is a student in Tufts college, left
last evening for Boston, where he es
poets TO enlist in the U. s. navy.
A party in honor of the birthday of
the hostess was held at the home of Mrs. |
William T. Carley, l02 Summer street, |
and it was complete surprise. She was
presented an electric lamp. Refresh
ments were served and a social time en-
joyed. Relatives and friends from Mont
pelier and Barre made up to the party.
The men of the Baraca class of the |
Baptist church are planning for an ex-
perienee social to be held on Friday
night of this week at the church Every /
man of the church has been asked to earn
81, aside from his usual income, which
amount is to be applied on the parsonage
fund. All members of the church and
are invited to attend
Granite manufacturers of the Barre
district, including members from Water.
bury, Mortified, West Berlin, Montpe-
lier, Williamstown and East Barre, be-
gan to assemble in the city this forenoon
for the annual meeting of the associa-
ton which opened in manufacturers hall
in the c. w. AyerilI building early this
afternoon. Included in the business pro
gram projected for the afternoon was
the election of officers and general dis
cussion Of trade conditions. The ques-
ton of ratifying the proposed agreement
with the Jumpers. boxers and derrick. {
men, approved by the union Monday
evening, also confronted the manufactur- I
ars A light, slight lunch to be served ,
after the meeting will testify to the 10y a
tlty of the manufacturers in the matter {
If food conservation. S
Tidings of the sudden death of Charley t
Wong, for several years the proprietor j
Il Chinese laundry on Merchant street a
anne to Barre this morning through the I
Medium of letter received by cousin 5
f the deceased, William Young Wong, v
7ho was advised that his predecessor in II
be business dropped dead in the streets
I Boston Monday Some other details a
/ Mr.. Wong's demise were missing, al n
hough the Barre celestial learned that p"
he laundryman had draft for $500 81
/ his pocket, the money having been u
rawn from bank because the owner II
Sshed to send it to relatives in China "
harley Wong left Barre about two NJ
Ionths ago, after disposng of his bust ~
ess TO w Y. Wong After successful Il
'reer as laundryman, Charley pro- 50
Dsed to abate his quest for the white dl
ans dollar and spend some of his gains al
a life of ease. His departure from to
ARE was the signal for much lament II
z on the part of many Youngsters, as w
, was a particular friend of children VI
I'd by them highly esteemed for his sa
rgess in the matter of distributing tn
ndy, coppers, etc William Young ca
ong learns that the interment of his an
usin was made in Boston.
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