The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-12
TALK OF THE TOWN

III 9o ptitfuue pldytoH mas ietui he
II from visit of several days with her sis
II ter in Moretown.
II Miss Beulah Grant is taking week
II vacation from her duties in the Kent
II McAllister insurance Office.
II Mrs. H. w. Fay of Williston and Mis-
H Laura Bedding OF Burlington were anon,
/ the visitors in the city to-day.
H ID. A. Perry and H. Z. Gray left thi
H morning for Westfield, where they vii
H spend the day on business trip.
Miss Nellie Richards returned yester
day from Rutland, where she has beer
visiting relatives during the past week.
| Mr. and Mrs. John vanihan left yes
terday for st. Johnsbury, where they
will visit for few days with relatives
Frederick w. Putnam, who has beer
passing few days in the city on bust
ness, returned to-day to his home In
Brattleboro.
Thomas Jardine of Railway, n j., a
monument retailer, is staying at Hotel
Barre while on a buying trip through
the sheds and quarries.
The Red Cross needs your time as well
as your money. Can you not give few
hours each week to sew on the garments
so much needed at this timer
Mrs. Stanley Bragg and Mrs. F. Muir
ray Smith, who have been visiting in the
city for few days, have returned to
their home in Montreal, p. Q.
Peter Puricell and Egidio Rulfo re-
turned last night from Groton pond,
where they have been in camp for a
week. Before resuming his duties at the
fire station, Mr.. Puricelli will pass few
days with friends encamped at Peacham
pond.
The case of J. L. Mcneil of Brockton,
Mass, charged with fishing without IL
cense, did not appear in the mornings
doings at city court to-day, as it was in
Dictated that the young mans alleged vio-
lation of the fish and game laws will be
considered tomorrow morning, when
three other fishermen alleged to have
committed a similar offense at Berlin
pond last Sunday will appear before the
magistrate.
Peter Laclair, the Summer street
blacksmith, who was badly injured when
a rampant Barre 4 Chelsea locomotive
ran amuck in his smithy on South Main
street last spring, is able to walk about
the street with the aid of crutches, al
though he is far from being we'll. Mr..
Laclair's experience in the blacksmith
shop on the morning it was rammed gave
him such a wraeking, it is said that a
chronic weakness has developed in his
spine and it is with difficulty that he
moves his limbs He expects to undergo |
an examination by a specialist in the
near future.
Two magazine representatives, Walter
Anderton of Worlds Work staff, and
Donald Macarthur OF Everybody's, have
arrived in the city by automobile to re-
main for visit of few days in the
Barre granite district as a part of their
tour through Vermont Both men plan
to inspect the cutting plants and visit
the granite quarries as a part of their
sightseeing trip. Mr.. Andertons name
may have familiar ring to owners of
Victor talking machines, as he is solo
st listed in the victrola catalogue and
his contra.tenor voice may be heard on
many records. He is member of the
we'll known Boston quintet, which is un-
Ter contract with the Victor company
or an extended period. Messrs Ander-
AL -, ~, Il, |
he city, staying at Hotel Barre, until
hey have made thorough inspection of
3arre's principal industry.
The city attorney is investigating the :
circumstances leading up to the deten- /
ion of Carlo Perluzzi, well known Riv- {
r street character, who is confined in the q
ounty Jail for non payment of taxes, &C q
ording to a communication which the c
ldermanic charity committee has re- a
eived from Sheriff F. II. Tracy. In n
lines past the city has been put to the
Expense of paying fat board bills con-
racted by delinquent taxpayers who
oiled in ease at the Jail. Efforts to re- I
amp the law which requires g munich
atty to shoulder this burden were made
4 the last session of the general assem-
ly, but the bill did not pass. The case = =
{ Perluzzi is the first to arise in some
lonths and there is feeling on the part
{ the city council that the city should d
OF be punished as a result of his delin- u
uency. 81
A comparison of the various estimates
laced on the value of common article "
food was possible yesterday afternoon =
hen countryman. with his team head "
toward his home town, dropped loaf %
bread on the tagging in front of City ,
Iuare. Secure in a covering of waxed -
,per, the bread remained on the spot y
here ii fell while at least a dozen peo -
e, observing the package, passed it up. D'
ne pedestrian, a woman of rather lofty
rrisge, stopped as if to pick it up, ia
snced cautiously around to see If her
rwsrd- looking move was being noticed, ~
ID then reconsidered her decision to
g home the loaf. Another pssserby
pped the bread carefully with the toe in
his boot, satisfied himself that IT was TO
4 a gold brick and bent slightly over. TT.
, doubt he would have rescued the SCI
cad, but the warning honk of an auto M
m compelled him to step lively and CIR
Zen he had recovered his poise the NJ
cad was out Of mind. Two or three RAJ