The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-11
TALK OF THE TOWN

son 4 Co.'S, Morse block.
II A. $. Richardson OF Bradford was
H business visitor in the city yesterday.
H A good mare eight years old to b
\ sold Saturday at 2 p. m. City Auctio
4 Market.
|I Special cut prices on all LaFrance an
/ Mr.. Fits several other makes, at Shea
Shoe Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Cooke of Chelse
were in the city on business yesterda.
and to-day.
The Clover club will meet Friday aft
ernoon at 2:30 with Mrs. f. G. Howlan'
of French street
The choir rehearsal of the First Bap
fist church will be held at the churcl
Friday evening at 7:l5.
| A regular meeting OF st. Johns court
c. O. f., will be held Thursday evening
at o'clock. Initiation.
Howard Miles of West street left yes
terday for Boston, where he is to spenc
several days on business trip.
For the balance of this week we shall
give 10 per cent discount on every article
in our stock. The Homer Fits Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred L. Jones of Bur
lington were among the business visit
ors and shoppers in the city yesterday.
Among the visitors in the city yester-
day from Brookfield were George LaDue
Homer Holden and Clarence McDermott
Dan A. Perry of the Montpelier road
left this morning for Bethel, where he is
conducting an auction sale to-day at the
farm of Henry Emery.
James l.. Walsh returned to his home
\ -. aut
week in Barre and East Barre, as the
guest of friends and relatives.
! Maccabees! A special meeting of Har-
mon hive, No. |, is called for Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock for practice and
any other necessary business.
| Notice: A joint installation of officers
of Hiawatha lodge and OF Bright Star
Rebekah lodge will be held in Odd Eel
lows hall Thursday evening, Jan. IL, at
8 o'clock. All Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
invited.
II. F. Venio, who has been employed in
the Barre granite belt during the past
few months. left last evening for Worces-
ter, Mass, where he is to remain through
the winter at the home of his brother,
Michael Venio.
Miss Elsie NJ. Conner, who has been
visiting relatives on North Main street
during the past week, left last evening
for Burlington, where she will stay with
friends until the latter part of the
week, after which she will go TO her
home in Grand Isle.
Cold weather and the rumors OF cold
that were flashed from Washington, ID.
c., yesterday by way of Mortified came
ON apace and here in Barre at least the
transition from April to real January
weather was accomplished in less than
the "a hours mentioned in the dispatch.
In the wake of a heavy snowfall in
the afternoon and early evening of yes
terday, winter began to be assertive and |
before midnight the mercury was re- |
eeding rapidly. At dawn this morning |
there were sub-zero readings of two and |
three and the forecast for the next few |
days indicates that much colder weather
will prevail.
Miss Louise Canton of Maple avenue,
who has been employed as a cashier at
the Houghton & Robins store since COM
pleting course in Boston business col
ege, has resigned her position and be-
gan work yesterday as a bookkeeper in
The Office of Canton Bros. on Smith
street. She is succeeded at the Houghton
4 Robins store by Mrs. Frank Rowell of
Merchant street.
Repairs which were under way on the
bird floor of the Scampini block Tues
lay evening prevented the knights of
Columbus in Barre and Montpelier from
their tournament in cribbage
md pool. The matches scheduled for |
his week, therefore. were postponed I'M
ill next Tuesday evening, when the !
Montpelier knights will be the guests |
# the Barre council. Six matches in the
cries were played before Christmas and [
he tournament will be completed before {
FEB. |.
Northampton, Mass, president OF the I
Few England Coal Dealers association |
nd a member of the Boston Chamber of {
Commerce. win arrive in Barre to be the {
uest of the Barre Board of Trade at the 1
rst of its series of business mems din c
ers this evening. A few more than 100 {
ickets have been sold for the series of ;
our dinners and it is possible that "A
cry few applicants for tickets tonight {
lay be accommodated. The dinner will {
c served at Hotel Barre at 1880 o'clock. {
fr. Clark's speech will feature the after A
inner program. His subject is to be b
Coal" aud some of the causes contrib "
ting to the shortage and high cost OF l.
nc fuel will be considered in his address. &
Following a consultation of physicians, o
deaf and dumb woman, resident Of II
ARE, who recently developed symptoms Il
I insanity, was accompanied to the Ct
ate hospital in Waterbury this morn u
q by her husband, by Alderman A. f. b
ruee of the charity committee and a
: Chief Samuel Sinclair. After the OBJ b
rvation period of two weeks has NJ
used, the patient viii be taken before to
lie probate court on a petition asking al
at she be committed as state charge. b,
he husband. himself, is mute and the el
uple have been accustomed to con-
rse with each other in sign language. "a
ne of their children is receiving treat to
emit at Austine institute in Brattle- AZ
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