The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-06
TALK OF THE TOWN

James Hills OF Elm street is quite
sick with pneumonia.
The Tourist club will meet with Mrs
Vaughan Monday at 2:30 p. IN.
Mrs. John Parks went to Waterbury
this morning to pass the week end with
relatives.
Robert Findlay left last night for Bos
ton, there to make visit of several days
with relatives.
Fred Whittmore, a deputy inspector
of internal revenue, who has been pass.
ing several days in Barre and vicinity
returned last night to his home in Bur
lington.
Walter Cave of Orange, who was a
business visitor in the city Yesterday. is
completing set of plans for the erection
of barn on the Ladd place, so-called,
in his home town. Some of the most APP.
proved appliances will figure in the
equipment of the structure, which is to
have lateral dimensions OF 225 and AZ
| feet. When completed it viii be one of
the largest dairy barns in the town.
A hydrant gauge of approved type has
been added to the equipment at the fire
station and hereafter the engineers will
Isbe able to determine the MIGRANTS pres
sure at any given point in the city The
Barre firemen became familiar with the
use of the guage when engineers from
the New England insurance exchange
were in the city last April. An arm
of the gauge is placed in the stream
and the pressure is registered on a dial
over the mouth of the hydrant.
The company which played Daddy Long
Legs in the opera house last evening,
left this morning for Burlington, where
the piece was booked for matinee and
evening performances to-day. Children
who figure so conspicuously in the or
phanage scene in the first act are accom-
panied by a tutor and the time before
the train departed for Burlington to-day
was devoted by them to their books
Recitations are held each afternoon and
certain standard of merit must be
maintained by the young thespians If
they are to continue their work as play
ers.
Officers and committees representing
Mount Vesuvius council, No. 2,345, Or
der of the Grand Orient, will meet in
Barre tomorrow afternoon to attend to !
some of the detail which enters into /,
the preparations for the ceremonial of i
the Orient TO be staged in Graniteyille /
next Friday evening The Barre Town /
of the committee will be pres /
ent to report the progress they have I
made in the arrangements on the hill.
Barre princes and magnates will com
prise the degree team that is to give I
the work to upward of sixty candidates
and there is scarcely town in central
Vermont that win not be represented n
by q tyro receiving his first impressions
Of the Orient and its mysteries. The
banquet is in charge of the Barre Town
committee men and the ceremonial win /
De staged by the local members
Arthur A. Gordon, who is employed at
he North Barre plant of Mari & Gordon,
eeeived a painful injury this morning
when he made misstep in jumping
rom a car to pile of grout in the yard
FOR a few moments ii was thought that
ure of the right ankle, but DR.. j. A.
Vark, who was called to the Wiley H
treet plant, was able to discover a con- ]
usion and nothing more. Tomorrow
lr. Gordon will submit to an X-ray ex-
mination of the ankle. While DIR. Wark Y
-as accompanying him to his home on
liberty street, the sleigh in which they
fere riding overturned near the mar
ct of II, j. Smith on North Main street.
he occupants were thrown into the
ighway, but neither was injured. The :,
lishap occurred while DR.. Wark was
sining his horse toward a snow bank :,
/ order TO pass an automobile.