The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-26
TALK OF THE TOWN

ioIehooH TOT Gambia N. H., there to re
main during the summer.
Mrs. James Johnston and little dauph
ter OF Highland avenue left this mornin.
for visit with relatives in Boston
Fritz w. Jackson has returned to hi
home on Camp street, after weeks trit
through Pennsylvania and New York.
Miss Ruth Humphrey of Gilmore street
lett this morning for Hampton Beach
n. H. where she is to be employed during
the summer.
O. h. Northrop OF Merchant street il
confined to the house by illness and dur.
ing his absence his express business Is in
charge of James L. O'Grady.
Miss Isabel Walker and Miss Olivia
Mcknight left yesterday for Sugar Hill
n. H., where they are to remain at the
Sunset house during the summer.
w. +. Littlejohn, who has been visiting
his sister, Mrs. Alfred C. Simpson OF
Orange street, has returned to Platts-
burg, where he is attending the officers
training camp.
Antonio Nardini well known statu.
airy carver, left this morning for New
York, where he will be engaged in ex-
ecuting a statue to be cut in Barre gran.
lite by prominent retailing firm.
| Paul Wells, who has been visiting his
uncle and other relatives in Barre, after
having been employed for some time in
Rutland, left to-day for Fort Slocum,
n. Y, where he has enlisted in the medi-
cal corps.
William Alexander, who has been pass.
ing few days at his home in Granite
vile and with his mother on Nelson
street left late yesterday afternoon for
Brooklyn, n. Y, where he recently en-
listed in the United States navy.
Miss Lena Mcdonald was one of the
singers who assisted in the funeral serv.
ices of Peter NJ Mulch Sunday, her
name having been omitted unintention-
ally in yesterdays account OF the obse-
quies
Isaac Baker, former Barre resident,
who has been employed in salida, Col,
for the past three years, arrived in the
city yesterday and expects to be en-.
gagged here as a granite polisher during
the summer.
Officer David Henderson OF the police
force is detained at his home on Brook
street by illness, having contracted Sc
we're cold while camping at Berlin pond
throughout the week end. Special On
GER A. B, Curtis is patrolling Mr.. Hender-
sons beat.
NJ s. Rounds OF Park street returned
yesterday from Worcester, Mass, where
with Mrs. Rounds and daughter, Doro
thy, he attended the wedding of Miss
Charlotte Vaughan and Gordon Poole,
eldest son of Rev. and Mrs f. A. Poole,
formerly of Barre, who were married in
the Union Congregational church Satur
day afternoon.
Miss Ruth Munroe, who has been Wis
iting her brother, Walter Mmroe, in
this city and with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Munroe, in Worcester since
her duties in the insurance
office of Cutting & Cutting in Barton,
will leave the city within few days for |
d. c., where she has Sc
cured position as a stenographer in the /
Offices of the war department.
Private Kenneth H. Gale, son of Mr.
and Mrs. w. H. Gale OF Wellington
street, who recently enlisted in the
company of the LIST Yer
ilOHb lcGtAlitllts lClA TINS tilpl ultlB itA
Fort Ethan Allen. Mr.. Gale, who has
been an active member of CAROLS or
,hestra for some years, has been assigned
to the regimental band, having played
with the military musicians for the first
time on the occasion of their visit in
Barre last week. He is the second mem
Der OF the orchestra TO enlist. Private
Henry Carroll having enlisted in c Co.
some weeks ago.
Among the guests arriving at Hotel
Barre last night and this morning were
he following people: Mr.. and Mrs J. A.
Greenwood of Chester. j. Irving Wood of
Burlington, c. G. Clifford of Bethel, w.
R. Skinner of Royalton, Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Casey of Syracuse, n. Y, +. NJ.
Weldon and f. A. Colburn of Burling
on, j. Lemuel Boynton of Syracuse, n.
l., H. J Maundy of st. Johnsbury. r. f.
Dodge of Claremont, n. H., H. H. Knapp
# Springfield, Mr. and Mrs. NJ. A. Oar
ing of Warren, Pa, Z. G.. Darling of
Albany, Russell f. Hill of Boston, Miss
ruth N. Miner of Albany.
Sec H. P. Human of the Barre Gran.
te Manufacturers association states
hat the decision OF the Barre manufac-
urers not TO exhibit at Philadelphia in
August does not mean that the conven- j
ion of national monument retailers is TO !
re abandoned. Barre producers have been
creed to cancel space reserved on the ex- d,
ibition floor because of the freight con-
itions The convention undoubtedly will
e held regardless of the exhibition fea-
ure, al the exhibit is regarded mere
Y as a sideline TO which the real pur
ose of the retailers gathering is not .
Thousands of dollars were :
D have been expended by Barre manu- =
acturers and quarters in exhibiting the !
alive stone, but to-day It was stated
hat every exhibitor had cancelled his !
of space.
Leaving a trail of neatly oiled high I
'ay through a number of Vermont
owns, the Standard Oil Co.'S automatic
bad oiler arrived in the city yesterday 1
} fulfill contract for $4,000 square
ards of street oil ordered by the city
ouncil early in the spring. Sections OF
ighway at the south end of the main
ighway and at the north end as well
! a strip on upper Washington street
ave been thoroughly cleaned of dust by
he street department in the past week 4
nd when the oilers reached town yes
.rday all was in readiness for them.
he first strip to be oiled extends along z
lie South Main street extremity to the
~ limits North Main street Is next /