The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-24
T4LKOFTHE TOWN
Visit Fits annex for bargains.
six skirts only $3.50 at Abbott's.

Dry pack ice cream for dessert; SOC
brick, at Russell's.
Wanted--one good seamstress. Appl
TO Miss Lawless, Cnrrier building.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Dutton and daugh
ter and son of Mortified visited friend
in town to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. +. O. Chellis and daugh
ter OF Newport, n H., are passing fey
days at Hotel Barre.
Trovatore Miami arrived yestcrda,
from Braggville, Mass, TO visit for ,
week with friends in town.
Rufus Harrington, who has been visit
ing relatives in the city for fortnight
returned this morning TO his home il
Lowell, Mass.
Mrs. r. p. Peruse and daughter left
yesterday for their home in Denver
Colo, after having spent few weeks in
town with friends.
Mrs. Merton Mason left this morning
for Burlington, where she is to remain
for a few days TO visit her son, Privat,
Gerald Mason, of the lst Vermont infan
try.
The person who took watch from tn,
clothes of boy at the swimming poo
Monday is known and will save troubl,
by returning the property.
James Il. Guy of Websterville, who
was locked up on an intoxication charge
last night, appeared before Magistrate
II. w. Scott in city court this morning,
acknowledged first offense and ar
ranged to pay fine Of S. and costs.
Miss Edith Reid, assistant librarian
at the Aldrich public library, who has
been passing vacation of a few weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Reid of Forest Hills, n. j., and elsewhere
in New Jersey and New York, has re-
turned to the city,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Thurber, who have
been passing few weeks in Barre Town
as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs Norman
Mcdonald, have left the city on the re-
turn trip to their home in Alberta, Can.
En- route they expect to visit relatives in
the province of Quebec.
Hot weather interfered somewhat
with business In the granite manufac-
turing belt yesterday and to-day, but
few, if any, of the sheds shut down and
the absentees were employees who re.
manned away of their own volition. Al
though the temperature to-day had abat
ed slightly, the humidity was greater
and the discomforts attending torrid
weather correspondingly more numer
Gus.
Since the quarantine began and ice
cream and soda vendors were inhibited
from selling their refreshments over the
counter in glassware, there has been a
revival of interest in cones and the num-
Der of little delicatessen contrivances
sold has increased nightly since Sat
urday. Customers, after purchasing the
ice cream cones, are compelled by the |
regulations to withdraw to the street |
and there consume the refreshments
A deed recording the sale of the Jessa-
man farm, so called, in the town of
Stockbridge, has been registered, the
purchaser being Sherman Wade of More |
town, who makes the purchase for
home. The property was sold for Mr..
and Mrs. Ora Jessaman of Stockbridge |
by the D. A. Perry Real Estate agency
through its Bethel agency. The farm
consists of 80 acres, and the sale price
was $l,700. Mr.. Wade expects to move
from Moretown to Stockbridge at once.
An automobile owned and operated by
Andew j. Young of Merchant street
was crowded out of the highway be-
tween Waterbury and Middlesex Sun
day and compelled to circumvent col
Iision by going over bank near the
highway. Mrs. Young, who accompan-
led her husband, received slight injuries,
but the occupants of the car regarded
the outcome as a fortunate one. The
,ar turned turtle in descending the bank,
but the damage to the machine was
slight. The other car figuring in the I
nishap is owned in Barre.
On complaint emanating from Elm
street, Clifton G. Peake was arrested by
thief Sinclair Monday afternoon and
ocked up at police headquarters on an
charge When asked TO /
make a plea before Magistrate II. w. I
scott in city court this forenoon, Peake q
aid he was undecided whether he vas I
trunk or not. 1t was question which $
e and his brother in law, Frank Adams, :
we're trying to decide when the police a
nan arrived, he asserted. Later Pcnko b
leaded guilty and made sort of dis c
losure to Grand Juror Wishart. Mag n
strate Scott imposed fine of sl5 and n
osts and sentenced the respondent TO Z
erve 80 days in the county Jail.
Niggerhead pond in Marshfeld as
ertile field for bullpout hunters is in the )
melight again as the result of the ex-
sptionally fine catch made by James X.
irie, the well-known Williamstown
uarrier, who maintains a hunting and
shing lodge on the marge of the little
Ike. Early yesterday morning Mr..
irie and a companion set out from the
lore in small boat and began fishing :
the break of dawn. Scarcely had they
t their lines than the pout began to
low signs of hunger, and before the Z
shing expedition ended when the day !
as still young, no fewer than us bull
nut had been taken. In addition four Z
out were caught in the Niggerhead re- :
on. Mr.. Pirie will try his luck again
morrow morning.
A man who claimed official connection I
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