The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-16
TALK OF THE TOWN
Remnant sale at Abbott's.

Il What lsF "Ihe wishing Ring.
John A. Foss of PlainfeId was among
the business visitors in the city yester-
day.
A social by the Christian Endeavor of
the First Baptist church will be held
Jan. 10 at 8 o'clock.
Any day this week you may Join the
Christmas club for 1917 at the Barre
Savings Bank 4 Trust Co.
regular meeting of the ladies of Clan
Gordon will be held Tuesday, Jan. Is, ut
7;l6. Let there be good attendance.
Miss Florence LePage of Prospect
street left for Burlington to-day for
weeks visit with friends and relatives.
Mrs. Judson Mosier of MORA, n. Y, is
visiting her sister, Mrs Grace Cutler of
Jefferson street, for week, arriving yes
terday
William OLIVER, who has been visiting
in Providence, r. l., since attending the
Boston Poultry show last week, returned
to his home yesterday
Rummage sale at Universalist church
Thursday and Friday afternoons and
evenings. Leave things at vestry on
Wednesday afternoon
| Gentlemens night OF the Barre WON
ans club viii be held Friday evening,
Jan. TO- in Odd Fellows hall. Members
will please notice change of date.
| The choir of the Swedish mission will
meet for rehearsal tomorrow night in
Worthen hall at o'clock. All the mem
bers are requested to be present.
c. L. johnson of Boston, who has been
visiting in Barre during the past few
days, left yesterday for Burlington to
remain until the latter part of the week. !
Mrs. j, Stewart who has been visiting
at the home of her son, Dr. John w. /
Stewart of West street during the past I
few weeks, has returned to her home in |
Rutland.
Miss Helen Brown, who visited at the |
home of her sister, Miss Marjorie Brown .
OF White River Junction over the week |
end, returned yesterday to her home on
North Main street.
Mrs. James Canava, who has been
spending several weeks with relatives in
New York, returned to Barre last night
to pass the remainder Of the winter in
this city and vicinity.
p. G. hanson Of Cambridge, Mass, ar
rived in the city yesterday for stay OF
several days at Hotel Barre while in the
granite MfNLfiCI un business CAH-
nected with his granite advertising mag
azine.
A parish supper will be served in the
Church of the Good Shepherd Thursday
evening from $3.50 to o'clock. 1t is !
hoped everyone in the church will re-
member the date and come. A silver col .
lection will be taken.
Invitations have been received in this |
city by friends of Mrs. G. A. Mosher to I
attend her installation as worthy matron
of Eyangeline chapter. No. 80, @. Il. s.. to
be held in Masonic hall, Warren building,
Brighton, Mass, Monday evening, Jan. I
%
joint installation of the officers of )
Canton Vinton, No 0, P. NJ and Mime I
haha encampment, No 2, win be held in ]
Odd Fellows hall this Tuesday evening, J
Ian. l6, at o'clock All /. O. o. +. and
Rebekah members are cordially invited to
attend.
Banns of marriage were published for
he first time in st. Monica's church Sun.
lay between Miss Lillian Katherine
3urke, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
3urke, sr., of this city, and John A. Mer- o
hand, son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mer-
hand OF Burlington. ie
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ladrie of Nelson Il
treet left last night for St. Johnsbury, b
where they were called by the death of
he formers father, ]. b. Ladrie, whose 70
emise Sunday night followed an illness 4,
{ a week. Funeral services will be held n,
n St. Johnsbury tomorrow. 4,
The woman's association of the Con- b
regational church will hold their regular W
Meeting Wednesday afternoon at 2:l5,
instead of $3.50. Members please be
rompt. After the business meeting, "a
FRS. Knapp, missionary from Turkey, w
ill speak and every lady in the parish ~ ~
invited.
Mrs. Edward Erickson and sons, HAL A.,
Ter and John Erickson, of Grant avenue, T..
1T the city last evening for Denver. -,
olo., where they are to join Mr.. Erick- i''
,n who has been employed in Colorado
,r several months. Sometime in 1917 re
hey will be joined by Miss Alma Erick- Co
,n, teacher in the schools OF Water. We
ury, and her brother Wilbur Erickson, Nj
no is a student at the University of bri
ermont in Burlington. ga
The difficulty which many telephone of
disorders had with their lines on Sun. bu
ay was due 10 the fact that water had au
aked down through the roof of the
owland building onto the apparatus in al,
lie central Office of the Vermont Tel. & ~
ell. Co. As it so happened, the leaking np
a.er -, uoh ene s.siput'ng frame ~ his
spot, so that about rs lines a.
ere thrown out of commission. The =,
rouble department" got to work at ~; ~
ice and by dint of hard effort they got -
lie lines cleared up so that telephone "a,
rvice on the affected lines was re.estab. az: az.
she'd by noon on. Sunday. ; ne
One of Barre's older residents. a de- =
endant of one of its pioneering fam
es, a graduate of the old Barre acad-
ny, who later was to matriculate at
college, came to town last
ght and set foot on the soil of his ma
We heath for the first time in 81 years. z
ne changes that two decades have
rought are multiplied by the years of 1
e mans detachment from his home sur
for he has not been a resident
the town since 1869. Daniel Wheaton.
prosperous civil engineer of Morris.
inn, alighting from late afternoon
ain, hurried to Trow hill, where he
Is joyfully received in the home of his
other, Pliny o. Wheaton, who lives on
c old Wheaton homestead not far from
e Cobble hill quarries. The Wheaton I