The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-14
TALK OF THE TOWN

John G. Calef of Washington was
| to-day.
Last chance to buy your Liberty bond
tonight. Step into the Peoples Nation
al bank between the hours of and o.
Bennett Columbo, who is employed as
an attendant at the state hospital in
Waterbury, is passing vacation of a
few days at his home in Barre.
Mrs. W. E. Mitiguy, who has been
passing several days with her mother on
Brook street, has returned to her home in
Enosburg Falls.
Harry Carey in Behind the Lines" a
subject on present day conditions, play.
ing to capacity everywhere; at the BIZ
jou to-day.-adv.
The Old Cutler Corner School associa-
ton will hold its annual picnic at Dewey
park Saturday, June 30, and all mem
bers and their friends are cordially in
vited.
Natalo Fontana, who has been en-
ployed for some time as an attendant at
the state hospital in Waterbury, re-
turned to Barre yesterday and is to be
employed during the summer as an as
sistant to w. Fl. Mahoney, local man
ager for Swift & Co. and the Burlington
Rendering Co.
In to-day's list of promotions in the
officers training camp at Plattsburg the
name of n. w. Hooker, formerly an Off
GER in the Headquarters company, and
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. b. W. Hooker
of this city, is mentioned as being one Of
the young men assigned to the cavalry
troop. Although the coast artillery and
other companies are to leave tomorrow
for other camps, the cavalry will remain
in the Plattsburg camp for time. Pri
vate Hooker was one of the young men
designated for service in the New Eng
land contingent
Dan A. Perry returned this morning
from Brattleboro, where he conducted a
largely attended auction sale OF thor
oughbred stock. Mr.. Perry states that
the highest priced head brought 500 and
that registered stock aggregating $4,000
in value was brought into Washington
county, the consignment amounting to a
carload. Among the purchasers in the
county were: II. +. Gray and Charles c.
Abbott OF Waterbury and John Benjamin
and J. Ala of Montpelier. The sale was
conducted for the Thoroughbred Live
Stock Co.
Apprehension among Barre granite
and quarters over the re.
port that the government had comman
deered the commercial museum in Phil
adelphia, where local producers expected
to exhibit Barre granite at the annual
of the National Retail Monu-
ment Dealers convention in August, was
this forenoon when Pres. w. ID.
Mcdonald of the manufacturer associa-
ton received a reassuring telegram from
Sec. II. p. Human, who went to Phil |
adelphia Tuesday night to investigate
certain rumors. Sec. Human states |
that the government will have vacated |
the museum two weeks before the con- |
vention opens and that the only possible |
obstacle in prospect has to do with |
freight congestion. Before returning to- |
morrow Sec. Hinman expected to ascer- !,
tain whether local shippers will encoun-
ter any difficulty in forwarding their ex-
hibits.
A realty transaction involving well
known pieces of property in Washington
and hoyaiton was competed yesterday
when the 0rmsbee farm in Washington,
so called, owned by Mr.. and Mrs. o. !.
Morse and occupied by them as home
place, was sold to @. L. More of Canaan
iaigua, n. Y, who bought for an invest
ment. In the transaction Mr.. and Mrs.
Morse acquired the hotel in Royslton
known as the Cascadnac house, an hos.
telry long known among travellers. esPe-
.ially motorists. as a desirable stopping
place. Mr.. and Mrs. Morse plan to take
possession of the hotel within a few
lays and the purchaser of the ormsbee
will develop it as an invest
nent along with other real estate owned
1y him. Negotiations for the sale and
he contamination were in charge of the
D. A. Perry Real Estate Agency Of Barre.