The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-09
TALK OFTHE TOWN

MacaDees; All members are requested
to send their dues to record. keeper, ~
Merchant street.
A. Faulkner arrived this morning from
Plattsburg, N. w., to spend several days
in town with friends.
Mrs. John Coughln of Chicago, ILL.,,
is visiting at the home of Charles Corey
of the Montpelier road
Clyde Haskins of Boston is spending
few days at the home OF his mother, Mrs,
Frank Trow of the east hill,
Mrs. Charles Elliott left this morning
for Bellows Falls, where she will visit
for few days with relatives.
Only one more day in which to pay
your taxes without extra costs. Office
open evenings from $50 to s O'Clock.
Russell Eastman of Washington street
left this morning for Quechee, where he
will visit for a few days with friends.
The city court case of State vs. Charles
Spreadbury, charged with using profane
language, has been continued for week.
Miss Maggie Meechan returned to her
home in Philadelphia this morning, after
spending several days at the home of
Mrs. A. McHsffie of Pleasant street.
Miss Marjorie Wheeler, 1917 grad.
uate of Goddard seminary, commenced
her duties in the George Straiton granite
office on South Main street yesterday
morning.
Frank A. Mccarthy who has been
passing few days in town, has re-
turned to Franconia, N. H., where Mrs.
Mccarthy is passing the summer with
her parents.
Rain held up progress on the North |
Main street cement paving to-day, but |
the laborers were told TO return at | |
o'clock this afternoon as the street de- |
partment is anxious to complete the job |
in another fortnight.
4. A. Prindle & Co are now located |
in their new store in the Worthen block,
corner Main street and Keith avenue,
with a full line of Andes stoves and
ranges. Agent for all kinds of stove re-
pairs. Call in and get prices. Tel
595-W.
Gov. Horace T. Graham has signed re-
Attaya, travelling salesman, who is
wanted by the local authorities for al
legged forgery. Attaya was arrested By
Boston police in Worcester, Mass, last
week and is now in Jail in default of
bail of 81 1000, which was fixed in MUM
cipal court last week. The request for
the prisoners return has been sent to
Gov. Mccall and after hearing on the
proposed extradition it is expected that
an officer will accompany Attaya to
Barre. Soon after his arrest the sales
man engaged counsel and announced his
determination to fight extradition.
George H. Brigham, a graduate of the
University of Vermont, who for some
time has acted as a European represen-
tative of the Jones Lamson Co. of
Springfield, passed through the city yes
terday while on his way to Williams.
town, there to pass a vacation in his for
mer home. At the outbreak of the war
Mr. Brigham was in France, but subse- {
quently he was transferred to Russia, I
where he was sengaged in handling the Il
purchased by the Russian gov
eminent from the Springfield firm, He II
came across the Siberian railroad and
passed few weeks in Japan before sail !
ing for the Pacific coast of his native .
land. ,
The ridge of hills extending to the Z
westward from Barre to Wlliamstown !
is the stamping ground for an alleged q
wild man whose eseapades in the past
fortnight have been fraught with so
much boldness that the authorities have i
been asked to discover, if possible, who is 9
robbing chicken coops, frightening little
children and menacing grown-ups. He is
a regular wild man, whoever he may be-
for eyewitness accounts furnish him
with a Lewis and Clark lope as he strides c
over hill and down dale and fearsome c
trellis of whiskers West hill people
were so sure that their eyes had not de-
ceived them that they communicated :
with States Atty. Earle r. Davis, whefr
took an officer with him to the Gale farm
one day recently for an investigation.
signs of the wild man were
10 be seen but the wild man himself had
,mbled out of sight. The latest de-
,cription of the bewhiskered one tallies Y
somewhat with the appearance of man "
who frightened children in berry patch
m west hill carly in the summer