The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-27
The Homer Fits Company
TALK OF THE TOWN

John Bowman of Plainfield was amon'
the business visitors in the city to-day.
! am going. Where? Baptist churcl
supper, Wednesday, from $50 to 730.
adv.
| w. Fl. Fl. Smith of Marshfeld wa
business visitor in the city yesterday anC
to day.
l.. C. Walstrom of Rutland was {
bushes visitor in the city yesterday ant
to-day.
Clinton Conner of Rochester was 8
business visitor in the city yesterday
and to-day.
Miss Gladys Noonan returned to hei
home Saturday after visiting Mrs. i
Stone of the east hill.
Miss Dora AIdrich OF Mortified re-
turned to her home to-day, after visiting
friends on Franklin street.
Rev. George w. Davenport, rector OF
st. Paul's church. Burlington, will be the
preacher at the Church of the Good Shep-
herd this evening.
Alfred Alexander and John Duncan ar
rived in the city yesterday from Quincy
Mass. and expect to secure employment
as stone cutters.
John Keefe of Lebanon, \. IT,, re-
turned to his home to-day, after spend
ing week as the guest OF friends on
South Main street.
Miss Nellie Stone, who has been visit.
ing her mother, Mrs. I. Stone of east
hill, went to Montreal Saturday to visit
her sister, Mrs. n. Canton.
Miss Rose Levin of Burlington is pass
ing several days in the city as the guest
of her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs Myer
s. Levin of Merchant street,
The first load of lumber for the new
Meadow Brook Golf club house on the
Brook street extension was hauled to the
site yesterday. Work on the building
will be gotten under way early in April.
Mrs. Byron Jackson returned from
Burlington last night. where she had
been to visit her husband, who has been
i'll in the Mary Fletcher hospital Mr..
Jackson's friends will be pleased to hear
he is slowly improving.
Louis A. Roleau, for Is years a resi-
dent of Barre and for some time eusto-
dian of the draft scales in Dpeot square,
has severed his connection with the Cal
der harness shop, and is now established
as a harness maker in the Putney liv
cry stable in Montpelier.
G. n. Dodge. supervising agent for the
Singer Sewing Machine company in this
territory. arrived in Barre this morning
to spend few days at the local Office in
installing an electrically operated hem
stitching machine. Mr.. Dodge will re-
main in this section for few days be-
fore returning to his home in Boston.
Unless an unusually heavy fall of rain,
by a rapidly rising tenn
perature serves to denude the hills Of
their snowbanks of sudden, there is
little possibility of food in Barre this
year. although the water in Stevens and
Jail branches rose appreciablyi yesterday
and last night Two days of mild wealth
or have turned lot of snow into water
and Gunner and Potash brooks, flowing
down from the east have dumped much
Of the surplus into the main branch.
The ice has broken up in the large
stream and it is improbable that dyna-
mite will be used as in years past I'M
less ice from further up the stream
chokes the passage of water here in the
city.
"The Dutch Grip is the subject of a
executed oil pastel, the work
Of Luitpold Nuissl, local artist, which
is exhibited in the display window at
the Houston & Bell store. Mr.. Nuissls
study presents young Dutch girl at the
window and the delicate shading Of lights
and shadows stamps the author of the
work as a master of color. In the set
ting he has preserved the atmosphere Of
the Dutch interior and passersby who
larry a while to scr1Itinize the pastel viii
be struck with the real artistry reflected
IN the fine figure delineation. Mr.. Nuissl
s better known locally as a designer and
decorator. but when he uses his brush for
more serious purposes his native talent
Ices not fail him.