The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-07
The Homer Fits Company
TALK OF THE TOWN


| Clairvoyants, palmists, over Oldsmobilt
Icompany.-adv.
Wayne Spear has gone to st. Adams
to spend the summer with his grand.
parents.
Fred Dudley of Randolph was among
the business visitors in the city yester-
day and to-day.
G. Franz and L. Donetti left this
morning for North Duxbury, where they
are to remain in camp for few days.
Miss Marion Rickert of fremont street
has been passing several days in Water
bury as the guest of Miss Dorothy Palm
er.
Mrs. F. A. Hutchinson and daughter,
ing few days with friends in North.
field and West Berlin.
Lawrence Charboneau, a Swear old boy
OF East Barre, was brought to the City
hospital last evening, where he under
went a very serious operation.
Miss Mabel Hutchinson of Lowell,
Mass, is passing vacation of two weeks
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. A. Hutchinson, of Park street.
A linen shower was rendered TO Miss
Emma Sevegny, in honor of her APP
preaching marriage, at the home of Miss
Annie Mckay of Cliff street last evening
by several of her friends. Refreshments
of ice cream and cake were served and
the evening was pleasantly passed.
Mr., and Mrs. Harry c. Wiley of South
Main street left this morning by auto
mobile for Boston, where they expect to
remain with friends for week Mr. Will
ley, who is taking vacation from his
duties in the store of Reynolds & Son,
will attend the Elks convention during
his absence.
The better to display the gold leaf
numerals on the west dial of the town
clock in the Universalst church tower,
the lighting company has transferred the |
reflector light originally located opposite
the police station ON Prospect street to
a pole near the federal building on North |
Main stpeet. The improvement may be
noted any time after o'clock in the |
evening.
An automobile driven by Gerald Ball |
Of Hill street ran down young bicy-
,list in front of the Baltimore restaurant /
late yesterday afternoon and passersby
in one of the rush hours on the street
witnessed mix-up which might have
had serious results. A street car and
vehicles served to complicate the situa-
ion when the boy on the bicycle at.
.empted to avoid the car. Young Ball
handled his car rather dexterously, but
when the machine was brought to a halt,
me OF the front wheels was about to
BASS over the right shoulder of the cycl-
st, who had been thrown from his
Mount. The lad was taken to the office
# DR.. NJ. L. Chandler, but in the alb
ence of the physician another doctor I
vas visited. Shortly afterward he re-
urned for his wheel, which was. some
What damaged in the shuttle. Beyond a
ew superficial bruises about his shout {
er and face, the lad was uninjured.
With slight variation in detail, idIers :
orth of Depot square witnessed a Moth
r Goose pantomime brought up to date
his morning when pedestrian, who !,
uffed theoretically at a small briar pipe :
s he trudged up the street went through
n experience which recalled to the OBJ e
prvers the old lines from Mrs. Goose:
There was a fat man of Bombay, 6
Who was smoking one sunshiny day;
When a bird called snipe,
Flew away with his pipe, =
Which vex'd the fat man of Bombay.
l the instance cited, it was a pigeon,
S equilibrium evidently disturbed by d
lie heat, which fluttered down from /,
sighboring cornice, and in rustling past
lie smoker. neatly brushed from his n
Ireless grasp the smoking pipe. Con- h
nts of the pipe were waited away on a
lie breezes while the smoker was trying :,
} decide what had broken in on his !,
orning revery. The pigeon cackled n
pigeons eackle-and swung :,
lex to the cornice.