The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-16
TALK OF THE TOWN


II Aluminium ware, only 90c each to-day
II N. ID. Phelps Co. See adv.
II Arrange your parties at Cafe Shepard
H by telephone, W.--adv.
II Red Cross campaign in Barre opens
H Sunday evening at o'clock, opera
II house.
William Duff went to Randolph this
morning to pass the week end with
| friends.
Miss Jessie Walker OF Mount street is
employed by the National Life Insurance
company at Montpelier.
| A daughter was born yesterday after
noon to Dr.. and Mrs William McFar-
land of Washington street.
Do your bit. Help to start Co. Q with
a fund. Buy an advance sale ticket to
THE Girl from Broadway.
Lawrence Densmore, member OF q
company at Fort Ethan Allen, is passing
a short leave at his home in Barre.
Next Sunday the Mormons will hold
conference in Barre. Services at 3 and
1880 p. m, Worthen hall. Everybody is
invited to attend and learn the truth
about Mormons.
Raymond Donald Rivard, infant son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rivard of Webster.
vile, died at IL o'clock last night, and
the burial will be held at 8 o'clock this
afternoon in st. Sylvester's cemetery.
Prof. James L. McConaughy of Dart
mouth college returned to Hanover, n.
H., this morning, after delivering the
commencement address at the Spaulding
high school graduation exercises held in
the opera house last evening. Prof. Nc
| Conaughy was the guest of Principal
Henry Fl. Jackson during his brief stay
| in town.
Patrick Hale of ! Hale street went to
Montpelier last night and underwent the
navy examinations at the recruiting Of
| fee on State street. All went well until
the sight test was given, when Hale
learned for the first time in his life that
he was extremely shortsighted in his
right eye. The examination will be re-
peated by Mr.. Hale this afternoon, in the
hopes that he may better solve the mys-
teries of the sight card in broad day
light
The front outer wall of the old Meth
odist church on Church street has been
renovated to the extent of new coat
of clapboards, and the carpenters have
removed their standards to make way
for painters. Some years ago the old
church lost its tower because of growing
dilapidstion and unsafeness. With the
addition of the more recent repairs, the
building has again become quite respee |
table as to outer appearance, and coat |
of paint would make it almost like new.
The two courts OF the Barre Tennis |
club located on the Gospel village com
mon, are at present undergoing renova-
tion. Stones and weeds are being re-
moved from the surface, and it is hoped |
the courts will be rolled and ready for
use within week. These courts are now
entering upon their seventh year, and
have more than justified their existence
during these years; yet at the time they
were constructed there was much doubt
expressed as to the feasibility of the
scheme.
Lincoln field, the high school campus,
must now be added to the horrors of
war. Although the city schools have but
just shut down, the campus presents the
appearance of an unmolested pasture,
and the hay upon it has reached the
foot high mark. The standards that for
merly held the football dummy have
broken off near their bases, probably {
from rot, and the goals at either end of
the field are perilously near to falling
The stands on the west side are nearly
hidden in high grass, and altogether one
would little suspect the field of ever
having been the scene of stirring con-
tests.
Enterprise alley was the scene of an
exciting runaway around 10 o'clock this :
forenoon when a light delivery team n
to James Cow broke away from !
is mornings near the bridge on Prospect !
street and attempted to negotiate the r
Montpelier and Wells River car tracks. =
The animal was hitehed near Clark's
eed store and the driver was inside
when for some unknown reason the ami.
nal became frightened. Swinging into
! gallop, the=horse turned off Prospect
treet into the alley and then made his r
way down the tracks, through switches o
md all, until stopped just this side of .
Depot square. Strange to say, the wsg =
IN and the horse both escaped serious Z
amsge, probably due to the lightness of ;
he rig. r
Ciuti tht MISS NdTTlt L
yheelock, president of the local branch =
f the American Red Cross society. !
peal auxiliary for the purpose of max "
ng various sorts of bandages needed in =
Military hospitals is being gotten under v
Tsy. Several local ladies, members of - :,
he Red Cross, have been in attendance :.
{ some lectures held in Montpelier re- -
emily, at which nurse from the Peter 8
lent Brigham hospital in Boston ex- u
lained the several kinds of bandages -
nd dressings needed in the Red Cross y
'ork. These ladies are now prepared to 7
istruct any Barre women who wish to Y
arm the knacks of the art. The ban. ~
ages are simple in construction, but il u
extremely essential that they be made az
! standard sizes and of the proper ma On
,rials. Work expended upon them be- U
IRE an acquaintance with these stand N
rds has been made is apt to amount to
} much loss of time and material ANY
dies wishing TO help in this work can
otain further information by seeing
ISIS Wheelock. m
ne
Goddard's 41th annual commencement in
'ens tomorrow with the baeealsureate ba
rvice in the Universslist church, where
ev. Clarence r: skinner of Tufts col IN
&c. Medford, Mass, is 10 speak. The
aduating exercises for large class of
students will be held in God. ou
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