The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-28
CEMETERY SUPTS.
co INTO SESSION
FOR 3IST YEAR
CONTINUED from first rage)

to Lake Champlain. The trip will be
made through the beautiful Winooski
valley and along the asbe of Cancels
Hump. passing view will be had OF
the military camp at Fort Ethan Allen
The party is to embark on the steamer
Ticonderoga, at Burlington around ! p
m, for boat ride across the pic.
uresque and historical Lake Champlain.
The steamer will cross the lake direct
" to New York state, where brief stops
are to be made at Port Kent, Bluff
Point, Cliff Haven and Plattsburg. At
tention will be called to the remarkable
views of the Green mountains and the
Adirondack and Catskili ranges. Lunch
will be served aboard the steamer i'm
mediately on embarkation. CAROLS or.
chestra is to be in attendance through
out the trip. The party will return TO
Burlington about 5 p m, and afterward
dinner will be served at the Sherwood
hotel. The return to Barre will be made
late in the evening.
The air line of the Barre & Chelsea
railroad will be utilized by the visitors
for a trip to the quarries Thursday fore
noon and the following program has been
arranged for the afternoon in Spaulding
chapel: Uniform Cemetery Laws" Wal
ter Pickett, Elmwood cemetery, Brming
ham, Ala; Location and Formation of
New England Granite" Prot. George j.
Perkins, state geologist, Burlington;
Application of Landscape Designs to the
Cemetery" Prof. G. P. Burns, of the de-
partment of botany at the state uni
versity; "The Crematory as an Adjunct
to the Modern Cemetery" James Cur
RE, Forest Home cemetery, Milwaukee,
Wis; Relation of the Cemetery Super
intendent to the Retail Monument Deal
err" George NJ. Zapf, Baltimore, Md, a.
special delegate from the National Re
tail Monument Dealers association.
Convention Notes.
Gov. Graham was given another ova
tion as he bowed his way out of the hall
this forenoon.
Two Barre speakers are on the pro-
gram Thursday evening, Judge +. J.
Martin and Atty. S. HOLSTER Jackson.
Hotel accommodations are at a pre-
MUM, but the visitors are finding ample |
hospitality elsewhere.
Barre furnished around 100 automo 4
biles without batting an eyelash. Only
a few years ago it would have been i'm
possible.
One of the exhibits is an ingenious low
ering device. Set up in the lobby at
Hotel Barre, it was given critical
northand south by many superintend
ents.
H. c. Whitaker of Chicago, H., and
P. +. Mclaughlin of Philadelphia are
among the trade journalists present.
Visitors remarked again and again
upon the slightly appearance of the
chapel interior at Spaulding.
George Painter of the executive board
IS here, there and everywhere, one of the
i've wires of the convention.
F. t. Cutler OF the Barre cemetery
commission was on the grounds early
With his car this morning, and had il not |
been for his willingness some of the ar
ivals at 4 a. m. would have been ma
ooned temporarily on the station plat
orm in Depot square,
Attractive booklets, the program for
he Slst annual convention, were distrb-
tied to-day They contain excellent
Jews of Barre.
DR.. j. G. Kesterson of Tennessee, the
resident of the association, is a south
rner by birth and anteoedents, but he E
IT it be known in his annual address
hat the differences between the North
nd South arc somewhat thoroughly
ubmerged.
Supt Alex. Hanton Of the local GENE
cries is one Of the busiest members of
he Barre committee.
Some merriment was created at Hotel
ARE this morning, when the superin.
sndents qusrtered there got wind of the
pproach of a bridal party, due to break
sst at the hostelry after the ceremony.
uantities Of confetti were obtained
long with other souvenirs, and when
le automobile bearing the bride and
room and their attendants arrived there
a. merry uproar. The principals in
le wedding we're az q loss to account
y the sudden demonstration. but they
ere equal to the oocssion and managed
I'll the task Of running past the block
r. In the dining rooH the groomsnsn
ss mistaken for the bridegroom and IN y