The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-14
T4LKOFTU T. TOWN

II. C. Blodgett of St Johnsbury was
among the business visitors in the city
yesterday and to-day.
/ DR.. Horace Sowles of Boston is visit
| ing for a few days at the home of his
parents on Beckley street.
| Arrived to-day, large shipment of
hats. Call early, as this is the last ship
ment this season. Mrs. Brnie's, Pleas
ant street
| Mrs. Samuel CarswelI of Ayers street
returned to the city last evening, after
visit of five weeks with relatives in
New York
Tyron Power, Americas most distin-
guished star, in Charles Hoyt's merry
satire on official life in Washington, d.
c.. "A Texas Steer" also two other
reels. At the Bijou.-ady.
Charles G. Scott of Ayers street. an
empIoye of Trow & Holden, who suffered
a fracture of the knee Joint some weeks
ago, is recovering slowly from his injury.
Yesterday Mr. Scott was able to leave
for his former home in Quebec, where
he is to complete his period Of conya
lescepce.
William Orr, a prominent Y. NJ c. A.
worker, whose address was one of the
interesting features of the campaign
meeting at Spaulding school last night,
returned to-day to Burlington, where he
is doing special work, before returning
to his home in New York.
Small-tim thieves made an unsuc-
eessful effort to burglarize the hard
ware store of c. w. Averill g. Co last
night, discovery of the attempted break
10 L. ,b,,,
ployes of the concern opened the store
Evidently a Ratchet or some edged tool
was used in trying to effect an entrance
through a basement door in the driveway
on the south aside Of the Averill block
Chief Sinclair was called to the store to
investigate, but the would be burglars,
through accident or design, did not leave
many clues upon which the police could
work A panel in the door had been
roughly handled and it was apparently |
the purpose of the burglar to smash the |
thin strip of wood and unlock the door
from the inside.
Red Men of Barre and East Barre are |
continuing their efforts to raise money |
for the Red Men memorial to be erected |
at Plymouth, Mass. and plans for the I
have gone forward so rapid /
ly that the figure of an Indian in the he
roic likeness of Massasoit has been de-
signed by the sculptor, Dahlin, the au-
thor of the remarkable statue located in
front of the art museum in Boston, the
appeal to the Great Spirit" The town
If Plymouth has granted location for
The Indian monument on a high embank-
nent overlooking the historic Plymouth
Rock. When completed the Massasoit
monument will constitute one of the
most beautiful of the many memorials
which are to be erected along the Plym-
Iuth waterfront in celebration of the
'O0th anniversary of the landing of the
orefathers.
Wallace Dodge, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Iohn c. Dodge of South Main street, fur
fishes an interesting account of a sue
essful hunting expedition which he en-
Dyed on Mount Killington last Satur-
lay. Young Dodge is employed in
springfield and with a companion sci
nut for the mountain on a motorcycle
With a side car attachment On the pre-.
ious night they had driven nest of
accOons into a tree and their first move
pon reaching tho mountain was to cut
own the tree. Three r8ccoons. emerging
rom the trunk, were straightway dis {
atched. Continuing their hunt the MIN !
DDS were successful in bagging two bob ]
ats of which there is said to be an I'M
sually large number in the woods of
'ermont this winter. After skinning
'oons and cats, the young hunters
dorned their car with the pelts and
truck out for Springfield. In little viii :
lges through which they passed the ma !
ives stared open-eyed at the killing
iade and old hunters declared that their
az was the finest seen this year A
photograph Of the hunters and the hunt !
!. which Young Mr.. Dodge's parents :
ave received bears out their story Of i
atur lays doings on Killington.