The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-03
TALK OF THE TOWN

Miss Jessie McIver of Granitevile left
yesterday for johnson, where she will
stay for few weeks.
Henry Marshall and Eta Graves of
Waterbury are visiting friends in town
for few days.
Miss May King left to-day for Water
bury, where she will remain for a few
days with relatives.
Miss Henrietta Moore of Bedford, Que,
is visiting for few days at the home
OF Z. ]. O'Keefe of Upland avenue.
|. n. Houston returned this morning
from Burlington, where he attended the
second annual convention of the Vermont
Retail jewelers. association.
| Misses Louise Dashner and Violet Du-
charme arrived yesterday from Chelsea,
where they are working this summer, to
spend the week at their home.
Inquiry at the police station to-day
developed the information that toy pis.
toll caps are not to be sold until midnight,
and that the sale must cease immediate
ly after the holiday has passed.
Among the visitors from Plainfeld in
town yesterday were Mr.. and Mrs. Ber-
nard Colby and Miss Ethel Colby, Miss
e ., d.
Newton Perrin.
H. NJ Wilder left yesterday for Bur
lington, there to submit to an examination
for admission to the United States navy
as an electrician. Mr.. Wilder does not
expect to learn the results OF his exam
nation for several days.
DIR. Horace X. Sowles and Mrs. Sowles
of Boston and Miss Alice Wheeler of
Methuen, Mass, who had been visiting
relatives in Barre, returned to Boston
yesterday. NJ. Dodge Sowles, brother |
of DIR. Sowles, accompanied them.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Parks, Mr. and |
Mrs. Charles Stewart, Miss Coralinn |
Sowden, Miss Eileen Parks, Raymond |
Martin and Luther Lougee left to-day |
for Woodbury. pond, where they will re-
main for few days at Camp Echo.
L. w. Schultz, who has been managing
theatres in Montpelier for several
months, arrived in the city yesterday |
Cross Pharmacy just now the infantile
paralysis situation in the capital has
prompted the authorities to put a ban
on moving picture theatres.
Relatives of William Milne, who en-
listed in the United States navy some
weeks ago, have received from him an
letter describing his expe-
riences as sailor aboard one of the
greater vessels of the navy. When the
letter was written Mr.. Milne had touched
at Honolulu and was leaving for the
Philippine islands with the expectancy
IF being stationed for sometime in that {
locality. Somewhere along the Pacific
he ship discharged large number of
soldiers i
At her home on Beacon street last i
evening around 35 members of the Barre c
division, ladies' auxiliary to the A. o. H., {
gathered in honor of Miss Mary Carroll 8
whose approaching marriage has been
announced. The affair took the form 7
# a miscellaneous shower in which the {
bride received a number of +
lseful gifts. One of the enjoyable fea- {
ures of the gathering was a mock we'd Il
ling ceremony, for which the wedding +
march from 'Lohengrin" was played by \
lrs. Robert Q. Mcdonnell. Afterward a
hrs. L. J. Good, speaking for the divi- Y
ion, presented Miss Carroll several \
ieces of cut glass. Refreshments were c
erved during the evening, C
IL the vast amount of detail work upon I
'hich the Washington county board and v
Is assistants are engaged is an earnest, G
he task of selecting soldiers in this dis n
riot for the war army viii not have A
cen achieved without full preparation v
n the part of the registration board. n
'hich comprises George n. Tilden and N
II. J. H. Woodruff of Barre and County L
Jerk L. c. Moody of Montpelier. Just
ow the board is engaged in making du-
lieate copies of all the names registered
! Washington county towns June 5.
he lists are TO be arranged alphabet
lily by towns and four copies are to be 2
repaired. Each registrant is to have a q
rial number when the work is com Y
eted and the names, with the serial
lmbers printed opposite, are TO be post
in each town and city within a few =
lys. A copy of the revised list with
ie serial number arrangement is to be
rwarded to Washington, a third copy
to be retained by the registration PC
ard and the fourth copy viii be for ar
arded TO the newspaper with a request %
at the list be published.
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