The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-20
TALK OF THE TOWN
Moneybak silk at Abbott's.

Moneybak silk at Abbott's.
! Latest styles in colored shoes at Shea's
Women, save money on your footwea
this week at Shea's.
Miss Belle Nelson was visitor Il
Mortified last evening and today.
Clerks notice: There will be meetin,
| Wednesday evening, Feb. 81, at 1880
| (Signed) r. c. /. P. A.
S. M. Hood of Topsham and Frank P
Mills of Orange were among the business
callers in town yesterday.
H. A. Gould of Spaulding street left to
day for Lewiston, Me-, where he viii
spend day or two on business.
The Universalist Sunday school will
hold its monthly social in the yestry
Wednesday evening. All come.
| The members of the Hedding Method
list Episcopal Sunday school board hold
their monthly supper and workers con.
ference in the basement of the church
this evening at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Emma A Nichols, who has been
spending the winter with her cousin Mrs.
Mason Page, left this morning for Au-
burn, Me-, where she will spend some
time with her daughter, Mrs. Willis Alb
bott
The members of the Odd Ladies, I. o.
o. L., NJ. L., and their friends are to
entertain the members OF the Odd Fell
lows lodge and friends in Clan Gordon
hall Thursday evening at o'clock for
a concert and dance.
The Colby academy basketball team,
which plays Goddard seminary in Barre
tonight, was defeated by Montpelier
high school in the Montpelier armory
last night by the score of 40 to Is.
Clarke scored ii baskets from the floor
for Montpelier.
Among the relatives of Bert <. Blair,
who Were called here to attend his fu.
neral this morning are George Junior
of Malone, n. Y, Walter Junior of
Chazy, n. Y, George and Alex Blair of
Essex Junction and Hubert and Charles
Junior of Springfield. Mass.
Miss Mabel Gregory received letter
this morning from Miss Martha DePedro.
former resident of Barre Town, now of
Burrell, Cal. She speaks of the climate
as very cold and frosty in the mornings,
but extremely hot during the day. She
also sent fragrant bunch of violets that
grew there and have been blooming since
October
John Tryforos OF New York, who has
been calling on acquaintance in Barre
while here to close the sale of the Barre
Candy Kitchen, owned by the Mascot
estate, will leave this evening for his
home. Mr.. Tryforos is close friend
of John Mascot, formerly manager of
the local store, who is now an officer
in the Greek army, and he was intimate
ly associated with the late c. G.. Mascot. |
in the past he visited in |
Barre and has made many friends here. |
He will be accompanied to New York |
by Constantine Papatheodore and George |
Rorys, former employees of the Mascot |
estate, who are returning to Paterson, /
n. j., where they are jointly interested |
in a fruit store.
County Agent F. II. Abbott returned
10 Barre this morning from Cabot, where
ne conducted the meeting yesterday of
he Cabot Cow Testers association at
5he farm of Payson Walbridge, there
being 25 farmers in attendance and IL
Students with Prin. Mayo of the Cabot
unior high school, who visited the meet
ng. The subject taken up brought out
he means of using the COW testing rec
'rd to better advantage. Records show
hat the herd of cows which Mr.. Wal
ridge now owns has increased in produc-
ion q pounds per COW over the rec
'rds which he has of the herd when he
made his first records three years ago
fr. Walbridge says that this is due to
wedding out the poor cows from his
Ierd and raising calves from the best
utter makers.
Mrs. Sarah Gurley and Mrs. Mary [
benedict received word this morning of ,
he death OF Julius Benedict, a brother
/ the former and brother-in-la of the {
after, which occurred at the home of |
Ir. Benedict's son in Shelburne, Sunday. I
he funeral was held there this after q
DON. Mr.. Benedict had reached the age I
SO years and. while no particulars
'ere given in the message received to- q
ay, it is known that he had been grad {
ally failing for some time. He was I
he Oldest of family of 10 children. (
Vhen a young man he lived in Barre and {
as employed in the gristmill of his a
ncle. Julius Smalley. For many years [
e had resided in Burlington, and il is i
opposed he was visiting his son at the a
me of his death. (