The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-24
TALK OF THE TOWN

III ara Co., Inc.
II Ladies' coats, suits and dresses, eS
H press this date. Sadlier's, Keith avenue
II Robert Thompson left yesterday fo
II Hardwick, where he is passing the wee
H with relatives.
II Mrs. Frank Duba left this morning TO
II Bradford, where she was called by tn
II illness of her mother.
Y William Morren of oil Summer stree
was removed to the City hospital thi
Il forenoon for an operation.
l.. e. Densmore, who has been passinl
vacation in Barre and West Berlin, ha
returned to Boston, where ne is employed
Rev. b. G. Lipsky OF French street, VIII
has been attending the Vermont Meth
odist conference in Newport, returned t.
| the city yesterday.
| William Grady Of Rochester arrived II
the city last evening to spend the re
mainder of the week with friends OF
North Main street.
Harry Carey in two-reel drama
Claire Mcdowell in "Avariee"; also 9
two-reel L. X. O. comedy, Spikes Busy
Day" at the Bijou to-day.-adv.
Mrs. Ellen l.. Stoughton of French
street and her daughter, Mrs. Godfrey
Rollison, have returned from visit of a
few days with relatives in Rochester.
Regular meeting OF l.. A.. A. o. H., to-
morrow evening in Knights of Columbus
hall at 1880, Everybody requested to
come. Special business and refresh
ments.
Mrs. Archie Taft. who has been con-
fined to the house during the past week
on account of illness, has resumed her
duties as a bookkeeper at the Barre
creamery.
| W. +. Gilbertson, assistant bandmaster
of the regimental band, who has been in
| Barre on a short leave, returned this
morning to Fort Ethan Allen to rejoin
his company.
Miss Margaret Doheny of jefferson
street, a teacher In the Summer street
school, was called to Mortified last night
by tidings of the illness of her father
who sustained shock.
Friends of Mrs Charles Ruseoni who
is patient at the Fanny Allen hospital,
will be glad to learn of her steady inn
provement since the operation to which
she submitted week ago.
Miss Irene Calderara of Keith avenue
left this afternoon for East Barre where
she will spend the remainder of the week
visiting relatives while on vacation
from the A. p. Abbott store.
This morning box of comfort kits for
the navy was sent from Barre to the
Charlestown navy yard to be given to
the Vermont boys there. Part Of the
kits were filled by the Tourist club.
Andrew G. Tompkins of Milford, Mass,
arrived in the city last evening, hoping
to secure employment in one OF the stone
sheds while here. If so, he will return
to Milford to make preparations for
moving his household goods and family
to Barre.
Miss Margaret Sheriffs, former resi-
dent OF Barre, who has been visiting
relatives in this city, and her sister, Mrs |
Raymond Paine in Montpelier, left Mon
day for Rochester, N Y, where she is
enrolled in a training school for nurses |
Miss Sheriffs expects to receive her d. |
ploma as a graduate nurse early in the
summer.
Mrs. Fred Emerson, who has been pass.
ing fortnight with her daughter, Mrs.
in the home Of her brother, II. II. Hodg- |
don of Highland avenue, left yesterday
for South Ryegate to make brief visit
before returning to her home in Lancas-
ter, n. H. This morning Mr.. Hodgdon,
in response to message received last
night, went to Lancaster, n. H., where
he was summoned BY the serious illness
Of his mother, Mrs. Mary Hodgdon.
Reforestation at the city reservoirs
viii be continued this spring by the wa.
ter department and il the results OBJ
tanned are as satisfactory as the out
,ome of the 1916 transplanting the pur-
'hase of several Thousand seedlings will
De valuable investment. Both at the
Orange and Bolster reservoirs the pine ,
md spruce transplants set out in the
ipring of 1916 are thriving as they never
.hrived before. 1t is thought that the ,
percentage of transplants that have sur.
lived the winter is the largest since the
polcy of adding to the wooded tract was !
adopted a number of years ago. Thus
ar the weather has been too cold to do /,
much in the way of setting out seedlings. {
Fred Burroughs, who was recently ar
ested in Fairfield by Deputy Sheriff w Y
J. Bixby of East Barre has been released
nder bail Of $500 for his appearance at t
he June term of Orange county court. 4
he assignment having been made after
'nding over proceedings before a Wash h
ngton justice of the peace. Ii is alleged c
" the authorities, who have charged '
Burroughs with breach of the peace
ffense, that he threatened DIR. Hutchin-
on of Washington with an axe and dis
harged a gun unfortunately in the en-
irons of the town. The warrant for the II
rTest was made at the instance of Town 4
rand Juror Wood and Burroughs was h
pprehended only after a careful inquiry A
ad been made among a number of dep il
ty sheriffs living in different parts of
he state.
Baseball practice for regulars and as
rants in the Italian Athletic club will
e instituted at the Berlin street grounds Il
,-morTow afternoon at o'clock, the
III FOR candidates having been issued by :
Ianager Tony Droggi to-day. All per
ms wishing TO try for the team are
rged 10 report at the hour cited. Ef-
,rts TO sign up Fro, the Chippewa 6
oundsman, who figured in the Vermont =
ague records last year. have gone to
ed and Just now the Italians are in the "a
arket for a first string man. Some o.
,terans will appear in the 1917 lineup
I'd the first scheduled game will be li'
ayed with ST. Ansclm's college Of Man y
ester y II in Barrp Nav II In tho