The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
TALK OFTHE TOWN

III George p. Haight of West Topshar
was among the business visitors in tn
city to-day.
Baby carriages and sulkies, refrigera
tors, lawn mowers garden hose, just r'
eeived. Sadlier's, Keith avenue.
I Jack cambridge has returned HON
and commenced work this morning at tn
= Western Union Telegraph Co. office.
III N. Pelaggi, Mortified granite manu-
facturer, was among the business visit
ors in the city yesterday and to-day.
Manuel Candles of Bugbee avenue lief
this morning for Mortified, where HI
will spend weeks vacation from hi
| duties in the Moore & Owens store.
/ George +. Gelts of Muncie, Ind, re
tail monument dealer, is registered al
Hotel Barre while passing several days
in the Barre granite district on bust.
ness.
James Hartness OF Springfield, chair.
man of the state board of education, was
a visitor at Hotel Barre yesterday and
to-day. He was accompanied by Mrs.
HARNESS.
Mrs. Eta Codding of Morrisville, who
was called here by the death of her
grandson, is passing several days in the
| home of Mr. and Mrs Homer Grimes of
Merchant street.
c. H. White, superintendent of the city
schools, who has been passing few days
in the city on business, returned yester
day to Walden, where his family is stay
ing for the summer
Mrs. A. H. Burke and son, Alden, of
Summer street went yesterday to White
River Junction, where they attended the
funeral of Mrs. C. S. Wilson, which was
held yesterday afternoon.
Charles Imlah, the Long street young
man who received painful injuries in an
attempt to get aboard a moving fire
truck last Saturday night, is making
steady progress toward recovery.
D. j. MacNichol and D. w. Anders of
Boston, who represent the Taylor
Critchfeld- Clague company of Chicago,
are several days in the city on business
connected with the Barre granite adver-
tising campaign.
The scale testing device used by the
Boston & Maine railroad arrived in the
city to-day, accompanied by two inspec
tors, who set about to establish the bal
ance of the new scales recently installed |
in the NJ, & w. R. freight yard.
After repeated warnings against ped. |
ding without license, Chief Sinclair de- |
tanned Henry Poll this forenoon and in.
structed him to report at police head
quarters this afternoon at o'clock. II |
is alleged by the police that the peddler,
who deals in fruit and vegetables, has
been asked frequently to procure H.
cense. To-day Chief Sinclair took up the
matter with Grand Juror William Wish
art, with the result that Poll was told
to abandon peddling pending an investi-
cation.
Private funeral services for Mrs Ger
trude Bartlett, long time resident of 4
Plainfeld, whose death occurred at her
home on East street Monday afternoon,
were held at the house Wednesday aft
ernoon at 2 o'clock. Because of precau.
tions against the spread of infantile pa.
ralysis friends of the deceased were re-
9uested not to attend the funeral Rev.
L. o. Sherburne, Methodist clergyman
Of West Berlin, officiated at the services
and the body was taken to Plainield for
interment in the family lot in the village e
cemetery,
North Barre is going to have a flag G
raising of its own as a result of move n
nent in which number of young men n
in the north end are Interested A site h
'or the flag pole has been selected in the h
West Second street meadow and after a o.
ecent invasion of the woods on the east II
lill committee of young men returned n
With flag pole measuring 40 feet. just il
low it is being painted and if the flag I,
rrives in time the colors will be elevat d.
d Saturday afternoon, although the ex a,
rcises will be necessarily brief and be-
ause of the restrictions on public gath
rings, only the committee will partici-
ate in the ceremony.
More than ever since the health au- p
horities began TO cope with poliomye b
tbs in Barre, parents are showing a dis al
osition to cooperate with the police in b
he matter of keeping children on their pt
wn premises, and while there were oc- 81
lsional violations of the order to-day, th
hey were few in number and are d. n
finishing steadily. The order applies to
de streets as well as the main thor
Ighfares and the vigilance of the spe-
al patrols appointed from police head
uarters has resulted in sending num- 90,
er of children to their homes. Dealers
fruit and ice cream had the word to- nc
~ that members Of the state board OF yee
salth were to visit the city and that %
he Of their asides while here would be ~
inspect places where refreshments,
c., are sold. A hurried putting of
fuses in order indicated that the health ,
ficers might be impressed by the i'm ma,
aculate appearance of the shops and ~,
ores. -.
The heat had an enervating effect on ior
e granite industry to-day and for the
st time this summer number of