The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-31
TALKOFTHET TOWN

Il. *. Fletcher OF w sodbufy was
business visitor in Barre recently
i Everything reasonably priced at Con
Il gregational fair Nov. 6 and 7.--adv
II Miss Erlene McConachie of Cabot ell
rolled last week as student at the Al
bany Business college.
Miss Nellie Harrigan. has returned T.
the city, after passing several days a
her home in Mortified.
Only one more day to pay waite
rentals before additional costs are added
F. o. Lee, superintendent
| "a Man and the Woman" from Emil'
Zola's masterpiece, "Nautas," in fiv'
| reels at the Bijou to-day.-adv
Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Armstrong have
| returned to their home in Plymouth, n
H., after passing a few days in Barre.
The Landi school Of music has vacated
rooms in the Miles block and is occupy
ing an apartment in the Miles granite
building.
Atty. w. A. Dutton, member of the
public service commission, has returned
to his home in Hardwick, after passing
a few days in Barre and Montpelier on
business.
Mrs. Godfrey Rollrson of French street
has returned from Toronto, Ont, where
she has been passing few days with Mr..
Rolason, who is in training for overseas
service at Camp. Borden.
Miss Ethel Even of Orange street, who
has been employed in the office of the
National Life Insurance Go. at Montpel-
Ter for several years, completed her du-
ties yesterday and left to-day for Hart
for, Conn, where she has a position In
the Office of the Hartford Fire Insurance
! Co.
Muddy roads and reports of high water
at Middlesex competed a postponement
| of the visit which Barre Masons con-
templated making to Waitsfeld last
evening and William Hurry of Long
street, the district deputy, has deferred
his official visit to the Mad River lodge
until next week
Following an all days rain in which a
steady drizzle was interrupted once or
twice by torrential downpours, came the
first snow of the season last night
fresh breeze from the west brought
marked change in temperature and carly
in the evening a light fall of snow coy
cred the landscape
Friends in Barre Of Leon Nixon, for |
merly employed in the Central Vermont |
freight office, viii regret to learn that he |
is confined to the naval hospital in Chel |
sea, Mass, where he has been patient |
for the past five weeks, Mr.. Nixon, who
enlisted in the navy last spring, has been
suffering with rheumatism, but is report
ed TO be recovering.
Clarence f. r. Bishop of Washington
street, who has been employed as a clerk
in the Central Vermont freight office for
the past five years, completed his duties
to-day. Mr. Bishop expects to leave the
city Sunday for Pittszield, Mass, where
he has secured a position in the traffic
department of the General Electric Co.
j. w. Ashland, who has been super
shipments of Barre granite to
Burlington for use in repairs on the
brief visit to-day Mr. Ashland expects
to remain in Barre until spring, as large 3,
quantities of grout remain to be shipped Z
and the work on the breakwater, which ,
Is in charge of Contractor j. h. eastman, ;
will be continued for several months,
A beginning has been made on the al
terations that are to convert the gym 1
nasium building at Goddard seminary I.
from a small hall where athletes have !
moved about with some difficulty into a =
modern basketball court with ample ia
,ilities for playing the game. Faculty !
for the changes and the !.
erection of a lateral annex has been Sc
'ured and much of the expense is to be !
,orne by the students and the alumni. =
Adjutant Theodore Fowler of the Sal
alton Army corps in Burlington arrived
n the city yesterday to assist the army
eople here in series OF special serv :,
ces in observation of war service week.
II the army barracks last evening the !"
Burlington adjutant spoke on ''Souls in
Ihaki" Ensign Crawford of Barre as a
listed in the service and other workers ~
ontributed to musical program. To- q
light conservation service win be held "a
nd preparations for an ld-fashioned ei
oliness service to be held Friday even
lg are being made u
The funeral of Joseph Amell, an cl- a.
erly man who was found dead in his o.
,om on Pearl street Monday morning, II
as held from the chapel of Perry & y
CONAN in Depot square this afternoon Sc
. ? o'clock and the body was taken to ~
ope cemetery for interment. Mrs. Jo-
phi Amell of Mortified, who came to NJ
ARE yesterday to assist in making ar IN
ngements for the b,.Tial of her father so
law, was joined by Mr.. Amell to-day
I'd Others in attendance at the funeral NJ
cluded Mr. and Mrs c. II. Wilkinson of no
ontpelier. the latter being a daughter TIC
the deceased.
Labor men of Barre, through a special
mmittee appointed at the last regular iai
Getting of the Central Labor union, are ~
eparing to receive Commissioner of In ier
tries Robert W Simonds in a mass
Getting at the opera house either at the ga
d of next week or in the week follow ioi
e. Commissioner Simonds recently ad- col
,ed the committee that he would have !
open date around Nov. 10 or II The RAJ
rpose of his visit in Barre is TO eN ella
lin the workings OF the factory inspec trl'
N law and the workingmen's compen nav
ton act Locally workingmen are anX eve
is to have the latter act explained. as ;.
IRE is a feeling that better under sta
inding Of its principles would mean vlli
lch to organized labor in Barre. A few al
eks ago Mr.. Simonds explained the ier'
islation TO a sizeable audience in wol
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