The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-07
TALK or THE TOWN
New fancy strine siIks at Fitts,

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Peter Park of 10 Hall street is slowly
recovering from serious illness of pneu.
monia.
Mrs. Elsie Dingwall is doing pastry
cooking at the Petrie & Mcmillan res.
taurant.
Regular meeting OF Bright Star Rebek-
all lodge, No. Is, Wednesday evening
March 7, at 1880 o'clock.
A. s. Moakley Of Schenectady, N. Y.
arrived in the city yesterday to spend
several days in the Barre granite belt.
John Osinaeo of Hardwick arrived in
the city last evening and will spend sew
erai days visiting friends on Berlin
street.
Alex Finley, who has been visiting
his family in Barre during the past few
days, left last evening for Iberville, p.
O., where he is employed.
Miss Jessie Muiry, who has been max
Ing an extended visit of several weeks
with friends in Lisbon, N. H., returned
to her home on Bassett street yester-
day.
Miss Edna A. Gorham of Jefferson
street has gone to Plainfeld, where she
is caring for Mrs. Almond Tucker, who is
quite seriously i'll with bronchial pneu-
monia.
Among the South Peacham and Peach
am visitors in the city yesterday and
to-day were Messrs. Leland Annis, F. Z.
Emery, William Gainor and Thomas Nc
earthly.
Miss Rose Grenbiault of Burlington,
who has been visiting in Websterville
during the past week, passed through
the city last night, while en- route to
her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. W. Munsell of West
Hartford, Conn, arrived in the city yes
terday to spend several days visiting
friends and relatives in this city and
Williamstown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison L. Lander and
! little child of Lebanon, n. H., arrived in
the city yesterday for a visit in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Lander
of South Main street.
J. Henry Denning, who arrived in the
city yesterday from st. Adams to be
present for the city election, returned
last night TO Newport, there to rejoin
the Gladys Klark company.
Tonight the Spaulding high school
quintet will journey to Montpelier, where
they meet the Montpelier high school
basketball team in the second game OF
the season btween the two schools.
st. Aldemar commandery is to observe
ladies' night at Masonic hall "Wednesday
evening, committee elected several
weeks ago having completed arrange
ments for an entertainment and dance.
The subscription lists for the perform
ance Of "Katinka," Arthur Hammer
STEMS big opera, at the Barre opera
house on Monday, March 10, are now
open at Cummings & Lewis drug store
and Merlo's tobacco store. Get your
name on the list if you wish to have
this attraction here on March l9-ady. |
Howard Blodi, who has been employed |
as stonecutter in Bethel during the !
past few months, arrived in the city |
last evening, and expects to commence
work in one of the Barre stonesheds
within short time. Mr.. Blodi's family |
will arrive in few days in Barre from
Quincy, Mass, where he was formerly |
employed.
After negotiating with the manage
ment of the Manchester, N. H., school
nine for next spring, since he completed
arrangements with the Exeter academy
club some days ago, the Goddard sem
mary manager has agreed ON game with
Manchester high school TO be played at
Textile field in Manchester on June
5, the day before they play the hard
game with Exeter. Manchester has one
of the fastest baseball mines in New
A party of seven young people from
the city and South Barre journeyed to
Montpelier Monday evening. where they
started on a snowshoe hike to mo
Mans" camp. distance of about four
miles from Montpelier on the Worcester
branch. After preparing an oyster sup
per, the party held an impromptu pro-
gram, which was very appropriate for
the occasion, after which they made the
return trip to Montpelier, where they
boarded the train, which reaches Barre
at l;50 a. IN.
After conducting a harness shop for
n years, during a part of which he has
divided his time between harnesses and
,oal and wood, w. w. Calder is on the
point of closing his repair shop and hsr-
ness store in Depot square and the space
devoted to that business will be added
% the office room now utilized by the
uel firm of Calder & Richardson. Mr..
Jalder's retirement from the harness
business means that he will dispense
With the services OF Louis A. Roleau, a
we'll known repair man, who has been a
amiliar figure in Barre for several years. :
Friends of Mr.. Roleau will be glad to
earn that he has found for himself a
promising berth ia Montpelier, his for
ner home, where he will open a repair
hop on East State street, near the Put
ley livery For several years Mr.. Ro-
eau has served efficiently as city I
veigher. II is expected that q part of
he stock in trade at the Calder shop 4
viii be removed to S. \. Parker's place
# business on North Main street
Barre Foresters of the independent or
Ter entertained L. B. Kinney. ID. L. C. r.,
+ Antwerp, n. Y, at a public meeting in
he X of c. hall last evening, when
peech making and drills by the degree
cam made up a program of unusual in
crest Mr. Kinney was introduced by
oseph Kenney, chief ranger of the Barre
curt. and the address on Forestry"
hat followed was regarded by the audi
nee as one of the best expo
itions of the fraternity and its
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