The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-19
TALKOFTHE TOWN

II Vanilla and caramel ice cream at Cum
II mings & Lewis.
II We sell Coons ice cream; strawberry
II vanilla and chocolate. Barre Drug Co.
II Mrs. Bert Casey and daughter, Mary
II of Burlington visited friends in towr
II yesterday.
II A pineapple mslow sunde will keel
H You feeling cool this hot weather, al
i Cummings & Lewis.
H Mark Cutler returned this morning
from Stowe, where he has been on bust
ness for few days.
There will be a match at the Barre
Golf club Saturday afternoon between
the Montpelier and Barre teams, start
ing at o'clock. II is expected Montpe-
lier will bring about Is players. Barre's
usual team will be expected to partici-
pate. Barre club members 6re requested
TO play weekly tournament before Sat
urday or after the match.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Ross of Elmore
street, the latter's sister, Miss Maria
Milne, and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Geake
OF Websterville left yesterday for Leeds,
P. O., where they are making a visit of
two weeks. They were accompanied by
NJ L. Mcmahon, who returned to Sher-
brooke, p O., after an extended visit in
the home of his son, Martin Mcmahon OF
West street.
Mistaking a stairway for door open
/ inn Mrs 10 bn xaSiIa0 Nutth
her son, Prin. II. H. Jackson, at 20 South
Main street, fell the whole distance of
the stairway late last night and sus-
tanned the fracture of the right thigh,
besides being considerably bruised Mrs.
Jackson's condition was reported to-day
to be as comfortable as could be expected
considering the fact that she is 70 years
of age.
One of the finest herds of Holstein |
cattle ever seen in Barre passed through |
the city yesterday while on the way to
Williamstown, there to be added to the
dairy OF J. +. Benjamin. The herd, con-
sisting of 20 cows and registered bull,
was consigned from Bellows Falls and
arrived in fine fettle and acted like a
risky lot of cattle as they detrained
in Depot square and took up the six
mile hike to the Benjamin farm. Appar
emily the Holsteins were anxious to reach
their destination, for number Of boys
employed TO drive the herd had to step
lively to keep apace with their charges.
The herd was purchased by Mr.. Benja
min from L. c. Lowell of Bellows Falls
and the valuation on the bull alone is
said to be 81 500
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Gale of yelling
ton street received message from their
son, Kenneth H. Gale, last night stat
ing that he had received his commission !
as bandmaster OF the LIST Vermont regi- :
ment band at Fort Ethan Allen, posi- :
ton held until recently by +. G. Dun /
ham OF Mortified, who has been pro- '
NOTED TO the position of paymaster q
Young Gale enlisted as private in the c
LIST Vermont regiment around a month e
sgo and made his first appearance with r
he soldier musicians when they came il
% Barre to play for two performances t
If THE Girl from Broadway" planned
Is a G company benefit Six other mu- p
icians competed with Private Gale for a
he commission. Previous to his enlist 81
nent he was prominent here as an or t.
hestra and band musician. p
Plans for the 1917 convention of the
Association of Cemetery Super e'
who are to gather, 500 strong, p'
n Barre next month, are going rapidly
onward and some of the larger details II
,hich will enter into the reception and III
of the visitors have been II
yorked out by committees representing III
he Barre Entertainment association. M
hartman Alexander Hanton has been in al
onstant touch with hundreds of super III
ltendents throughout the country and 70
lany are markedly enthusiastic over the IN
respect of visiting Barre and the Green at
fountain region. At least two motor ei
lips calculated to give the superintend 10
ats a lasting impression of Vermont nc
emery are scheduled and within few eA
AVS the complete program for the con- Pc
ention will be available. nc
There is, man in Depot square who
IN register bullseye every time when -
comes to estimating the weight of "a
ads which draw up to the draft scales 10
front of the Calder & Richardson coal l.,
ice and his unerring judgment was -,
'ver better demonstrated than yester. -,
" when other heads about the square -.
ere specializing on the weight of load -,
hay. The hay, one of several loads Al,
hich were hauled from the Perrin place stc
Beckley hill to Cutler Bros livery -,
able, was variously estimated to tip az
e beam anywhere from 400 to 2,450, a
nge of guesses which measured some =
rat accurately the ability of the sew
al men competing to appraise the -
light of loaded wagons. The prize
esser ayerred that the hay weighed the
80 pounds and an examination of the aut
" bill later disclosed the interesting ext
formation that the load turned the tne
-er at 1852. =