The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-06
TALKOFTHE TOWN

price paid. +. L. Burr.
Rev. John Irons of Williamsburg was
a Barre business visitor yesterday.
Miss Eda Bianchi of Summer street has
completed her duties as n clerk in the
Bowman store at the capital.
| c. M. Wiley, treasurer of the Quarry
Savings bank, has returned from a
business visit of a few days in Boston.
| Miss Mary Miro of North Seminary
street has gone to Newport, r. l.. where
| she has employment as an assistant in
the Office of physician.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Durham have
moved to this city from Willamstown
and the former is to continue in the en-
ploy Of Il. Ross as barber.
Miss Wilhelmina Even of Orange
street, who has been spending several
months with relatives in Skowhegan, Me-,
returned to the city last evening.
Alexander Young and John B. Cassel-
lini have gone to Burlington, from
which point they launched a campaign
against the wild ducks which are said
to be lowering over Lake Champlain just
now
Archie Mcdonald, second lieutenant
stationed at Westfield, Mass, has been
passing few days with relatives in
Barre, his former home. Lieut., Nc
Donald was an officer in the LIST Vermont
regiment before the outbreak of the
war.
| Tonight in the club rooms of Barre
council, No. 40, in the X. of c. suite on
North Main street Barre and Montpelier
knights of Columbus will meet for the
| first of series of eight tournaments in
pool and cribbage. Three games of pool
and eight tables of cribbage are to con
stitute the card for tonigbt's compet, |
| lions.
| Funeral services for Violet ,Junetta |
Spencer, the infant daughter of Mr. and !
Mrs. Herbert Spencer of 81 Sixth street, |
who passed away Sunday morning after
a weeks illness, were held at the house
this afternoon at o'clock, Rev B. J. |
Lehigh, pastor of the First Baptist church,
officiating. 1nterment was made in Hope
cemetery.
The first of a huge consignment of
Christmas trees to be shipped from Barre
to Boston and New York markets ar
rived in town yesterday and was unload
ed in the freight yards. The journey
overland from Washington and Williams
town, where many of the frs are being
cut, was made with automobile trucks
and trailers.
The first game of the proposed inter
class series of games between the classes
of Spaulding high school will be played
tomorrow afternoon at the Lincoln cam
pus, when the senior eleven and a team
from the three lower classes will try
conclusions. Both teams have been put
ting in great deal of practice lately
and so good game is expected
The following item from Windsor
exchange will be of interest locally
Mr. and Mrs, George Hazen announce I
the engagement OF their daughter, Miss
Mildred Izah Hazen, and Robert Camp
bell Brown of Barre" Mr.. Brown is ,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown of Bias.
sett street and for the past four years |
has been engaged as the manager of q
clothing store in Windsor.
Rev. j. B. Reardon of Church street
went this morning to White River June
ton, there to attend meeting of the
committee of fellowship of the Univers.
alist convention of Vermont and the
Province of Quebec. The committee
meeting was called to confer with a min
ster, a recent graduate of st. Lawrence 2
who has received call to the
Dastorate of the church in Morrisville
At Spaulding school yesterday Maj
Norton, late of the Canadian army, who .
8 passing some time with his brother in
spoke interestingly of his ex- !,
)eriences in the trenches. The entire
tudent body was grouped in the assem- u
,ly hall and from the moment the ma
or began to speak until he had tapered -
If his narrative of life among the Cana
Ian units overseas his audience listened .
most attentatively. ~
Michael Mcdonald of South Main
treet, who, for the past five years has =
epresented the National Biscuit Co in ~
his territory while making his headquar e.
ers in Barre, leaves tonight for Bos-
on to receive an assignment "a district :,
of the north shore district The "
ransfer comes in the nature of a pro- &c
notion for Mr. Mcdonald and he expects y, ~
0 locate in Gloucester, Mass, where Mrs. ~
lcDonald and their son will join him ~
riday.
Mrs Abby Scott Baker Of Washingto on, u
brilliant speaker and worker of SPLEEN VI
id energy, will speak in the Montpelier so
ty hall the evening of Nov, o, review bo
lg the suffrage movement from the be-
inning of the Democratic administration III
own to the present struggle and explain All
by the Woman's party presses its de tn
and during wartime. Mrs. Baker was In,
gently in the Occuquan workhouse, hav. re,
q been arrested in Washington while fri
lrrying a banner entitled: at is I'M
list to deny women a voice in the gov ,oc
nment when the government is draft t -,
& their sons" Her husband paid her W.
ne after she had served II days of the =,
days sentence and after Mrs. Baker -
I'd lost - pounds. nc
At her home on Merchant street Sat. tier
day afternoon Mrs. o. X. HOLSTER en- ,
rtained the members of Marquis de
lafayette chapter, ID. A. r, The affair 10
as in charge of the Barre division of AZ
e society and nearly so women, includ- ~,
g Barre and Montpelier women, were -"
esent. The sum of $50 was voted as s
e chapters contribution to the Y NJ c. ~,
war fund and committee was author wy
I'd to subscribe for the ID. A. R. maya ~
ne, to be used for library purposes. A ""
ogram which followed the business -
Getting included a violin solo by Mr.
ICasse of Goddard seminary and re-