The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-17
TALK or THE TOWN

among the business visitors in the cit,
H yesterday.
Oliver Marvin of Newcastle, n. H., wa
among the business visitors in the cit,
| yesterday.
Tonight at the Vincitia club one o
the regular Saturday evening luncheon
will be served
Miss Evelyn. Phelps of Academ,
street is passing several days will
friends in Boston.
The amusement committee of Clal
Gordon is asked to meet tonight at :3t
in the clan rooms.
Mrs. Robert II. Vance returned thi;
morning to her home in Danville, after
passing few days with friends in Barr,
and vicinity.
Carl 9. Perkins of Washington street
left to-day for Sharon, where he plans
to complete wiring contract which he
accepted fortnight ago.
John Cali of Toledo, O., who was for
merly employed here in the granite in
dustry, arrived in the city yesterday Tor
a visit of two weeks with relatives.
| /. n. Abbott of Brookfield returned
to his home last evening after visiting
ut the home of his son, County Agent
+. I'll. Abbott, of West Patterson street.
Allard Fogg of Winooski arrived in the
city yesterday and will spend several
days visiting friends and relatives in
Barre and Graniteville. After the week
end, Mr.. Fogg will leave for Springfield,
Mass, where he is to be employed in a
| tire factory.
At recent meeting of the Italian
Gaiety club of Barre and Montpelier a
committee consisting of Joseph Merlo,
Miss Lena Buzzi, Miss Theresa Capra
and John Albano was elected to make ar
engagements for private dancing assem-
bly, to be held early in March.
Among those who left town this fore
noon for week end visits in nearby towns
were: Joseph Mates, who accompanied
three friends to Mortified; Rodney Som
ers, who went to his former home in
Mortified Falls for a few days; and Jo-
seph j. Kennedy, who is to be guest of
relatives in Richmond and Burlington.
Miss Agnes o. Jersey of Corinth, Me-,
who concluded a series of public meet
ngs in Vermont towns and cities with
her appearance in Barre Thursday even
ing under the auspices of the teachers
association, left yesterday for Boston,
there to visit friends at Emerson col
lege, where she was graduated few
years ago.
Messrs. B. Shadroui, Joseph Charley,
Alex Corey and Toney Corey left this
morning for Burlington, where they are
to attend wedding ceremony this aft
ernoon, when Antonio Joseph and Eu
nice Hedler will be united in Marriage.
Mr.. Joseph will be remembered in Barre
as manager of the Vermont Fruit CO., on
Granite street. He is connected with
the company in Burlington, at the main
Office.
Among the guests arriving at Hotel
Barre yesterday and to-day we're the
following people. Mrs. Robert II. Vance |
of Danville, Harry j. Smith of Manches |
ter, n, H., Charles Stanley of st. Adams, |
Frank Craig of Erie, Pa, Mrs. NJ. +. |
Lereh and George F. Lerch of Reading, |
Pa, r. A. Peckham of Elmira, n. v, :
Kirk of st. Johnsbury, NJ ]. Kelleher of
Springfield and A. T. Rogers of Newport.
Montpelier's fire alarm whistle was
plainly audible in Barre this forenoon
when it rang at ll:l5 for a small blaze
on upper Barre street. A small building
formerly used for storage purposes but
now occupied as an Italian barber shop,
took fire around the chimney and hasty
alarm was sent in over the wire system.
The whistle nearly exhausted itself in
sounding the alarm from box SO and the
ire department responded at once. The
blaze was quickly distinguished and the
lamage will not exceed SIS.
James Donald, who returned to Barre
asst month after an extended stay in
Ianada, left this morning for SherbroGSe,
,. O., where he owns large farm. Since
lis return to this city, Mr.. Donald has
,een following his trade in the stoneshed, ,
nut yesterday he received from the care
aker message which caused him to
make hasty plans for returning to the
ome place. During the week strange ,
nalady attacked his COWS and Two of the !
est mixers on the farm suceumbed to
he disease. !
Loud talk on street corner near the a
ostoffiee last evening seemed to center II
round two returned woodsmen. An ofii- 3
er from police headquarters interrupted
he lumber lore by arresting the princi- n
al disturber on an intoxication charge. v
he other member followed his comran- {
IN to the lookup and registered as
,dger for the night. This morning John s
Velch of Boston was arraigned before &
lagistrate H. w. Scott, before whom he h
cknowldged first offense and went to p
Ill to serve a sentence of 10 days. fl
The annual meeting for the opening v
the mite boxes belonging to the mem
ers and friends of the Universalist q
Iission circle was held at the home of v
Irs. o. X. Hollister Friday afternoon. v
program was given which told the a
DRY of the mission work of the church e.
trough readings, questions, dialogue q
nd song given by one of the pupils n
ON the music department at Goddard
urinary. As the main foreign work OF 2
lie Universalist church is in Japan, spe- Y
al interest was manifested in an i'm =
rial edict of his majesty, the emperor 81
Japan, which was read in japanese
: Paul Cate, a native OF Japan and =, -
lie son of one of the bestowed OF the ie
any missionaries who have been sent -
that far away land. A translation - :.
the edict was afterwsrd given. Ed y,
niyage, Japanese delicscy, was served ~
e ladies. The circle voted 60 divide :.
e contents of the mite-boxes between ~
q work in Tapan and the work in North