The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-08
TALK OF THE TOWN

II new summer millinery at Abbotts.
| See Abbottis table of Ace children's
hats.
II. w. Varnum of Jacksonville is pass
ing few days in Barre on business.
MIR. and Mrs. NJ. B. Dow of Danville
were shopping visitors in the city yester-
day.
Mrs. J. d. Laport of Randolph is pass
ing few days with relatives in South
Barre.
Auction sale Saturday at 3 p. M,
Mitchell auto, five-seater, at City Auc-
tion Market.
Albert Duba has returned from Wat
erbury, where he attended the Wallace
Anair wedding.
Mrs. Margaret Smith of Liberty street
has been passing several days with her
brother in Graniteville.
DIR. and Mrs. Leon Page, who recently
arrived in Barre from Kirksville, Mo-,
were visitors in Burlington to-day.
Mr.. Rowland will be at the Barre Saw
ings Bank g. Trust Co. Saturday from
to and to 8 p. m, for the purpose
OF receiving Liberty loans.
Thomas w. Roark, who has been pass
ing several days in Springfield, Mass, on
business, passed through the city last
evening while on his way home to East
| Barre.
| The insurance offices of G.. H. Pape,
Paige Campbell and j. w. Dillon will
be closed Thursday afternoons for the
month of June, July, August and Sep
tember.-adv.
The children of Presbyterian Sunday
school are requested to meet at the
church for rehearsal after school Friday
are asked to send children.
A meeting of the Barre Rangers foot
ball club will be held in the pavilion
Saturday evening at o'clock. All old
and new members are requested to at
tend as there is business of importance
to be transacted.
Mrs. o. N. Granger of Merchant street
has returned from Winooski, where she
accompanied her husband earlier in the
week Mr.. Granger, who is a patient in
the Fanny Allen hospital, has not sub
mitted to an operation as yet.
Max Wiley, who has been staying
with his father, Jesse Wiley, in Marsh
field for few weeks, returned to Barre
yesterday and is assisting in the Red
Cross Pharmacy for a time, before re-
turning TO Pleasantville, n. j.
Albert Mari who has been employed |
for several months in Hartland, Me-, has
enlisted in f company of the Maine Ma
tional Guard at Skowhegan and expects |
to go into training at once. Mr.. Mari
has been passing few days with his |
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mari OF |
Washington street
Mrs. Harley Chaples of IL Upland ave
nue. and Mrs. Stephen Andreoletti of 10
Upland avenue returned last night from I
Burlington, where they had been on a
business trip Mrs. Chaples adopted a
baby girl and Mrs. Andreoletti a baby |
boy from the orphans home in Burling
ton.
Barre friends of Miss Katherine Stew
art. former resident OF Barre and
graduate of Spaulding high school, will
be interested to learn that she recently
received an appointment as principal OF
the high school in East Longmeadow,
Mass, where she has been engaged as
teacher for the past two years.
What is said to be the seventh knit
ing of horses in Barre during the past
three years occurred Saturday night
when John Worcester of South Barre
drove his family driving mare, Cherry"
to the city and hitched the animal in the
yard near the Bugbee sawmill off Sum
mer street. He drove home and knew
nothing of the animals condition until
some time later in the evening when the
animal gave signs OF distress by paving.
Thinking that the horse was hungry, !
the owner gave her some grain and still
she paved DR.. 4. n. Bancroft, veter
mary, was called twice during the night
but was not able to determine the trou
bic. The next morning the mare was
found dead in the barn, and blood on her
hoofs led to an investigation. A cut as
il made by bullet or knife was found {
in the neck just under the head. Inves-
tigation at the place where the animal |
had been hitched revealed pool OF blood, t
and at the rendering plant where the /
horse was removed an investigation {
showed knife-like wound
Seventeen pages of foolscap with the Ii
names thereon typewriter in mass for a
nation" were required for the roster of
entered in Barre Tuesday z
md one of the five copies of the roster t
las been placed on the bulletin board in a
he city hall corridor. There are 1920 i
names. arranged alphabetically and di- +
yided into precincts or wards. Smiths k
md Andersons are among the names {
which predominant on the roster and the Il
represented are many. The kc
'ages are arranged in rows along the bull n
etin board and since yesterday there has o
,een scarcely a moment in the day when t
omeone was not studying the columns. C,
lost of the time there is sizeable knot o
f people gathered in the corridor. There Ii
S a certain amount of satisfaction, il h
ppears, in aseertaining just who is Ii fl
Bile for military service, but the curious "
ne, il he be aware OF their respective C,
Yard locations. is not put to very much n
rouble in ascertaining whether his ac- 81
uaintances all registered, for the roster