The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-15
TALK or THE TOWN
Remnant sale AT Abbott,s.

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| week end
Over 5000 pairs of women's and chill
dren's shoes on sale at markdown prices
this week at Shea's.
John p. Corcoran of Short street re-
turned to the city last evening, after a
visit with friends in Rutland.
A regular meeting of the ladies of Clan
Gordon will be held Tuesday, Jan. Is, at
7;l5. Let there be good attendance.
Mrs. j. j. Dashner of Washington
street returned to-day, after passing
week with her mother in st. Johns, p. O.
Rev. Leon Wells has returned TO his
home in Glover, after spending several
days with relatives in Barre and Mont
pelier.
See I'D, page 7, auction sale of DIR.
P. s. Dufry's driving team, Tuesday, Jan.
10, o'clock p. m, Depot square. c. f.
Smith, auctioneer.-adv
Rummage sale at Universalist church
Thursday and Friday afternoons and
evenings. Leave things at vestry on
Wednesday afternoon.-adv.
Gentlemen's night of the Barre WON
ans club will be held Friday evening,
Jan. 10, in Odd Fellows hall. Members
will please notice change of date.
| The missionary society of the Baptist
church will meet with Mrs. Frank Cave
| of French street Tuesday afternoon at
2;30. All members are urged to be pres
ent, as there is important business.
special meeting will be held in the
Granite City Quoting club rooms Tues.
day evening, Jan. is, at $780, Business of
Importance. Members and prospective
! bnr nj -. d.
president.
Loren Allen OF Beckley street and
Harold Patterson of Washington street j
returned to-day from Burlington, after
attending the annual conference of the |
Older Boys of Vermont, which has been |
held there since Friday,
Mrs. G. L. Casson and daughter, Miss |
Crissie Casson, who have been passing sew
eral weeks in the city as the guests of /
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank W. Jackson of Lib
erty street and with other relatives in
Barre and vicinity, left this morning for
Waltham, Mass.
Peter Alexander of Nelson street, who
has been detained at home by an attack
of the grip for the past week, was able
to resume his duties as baggage master
at the Central Vermont station to- day.
Clarence j. Bishop of Washington street
has been substituting for Mr., Alexan-
der +,
Miss Lillian Roberts of North Main
street, ticket agent at the Central Yer .
mont station, passed the weekend in
p. O.. where she accompanied ,
Mrs Francis Vigneault and little daugh-
ter, who have been passing several weeks
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. T. c, Car /
son of Laurel street.
William R. Dewey of School street,
who suffered painful injury in an aeci
lent in the Central Vermont freight yard y
several weeks ago, following his eonfine-
nent at the City hospital, has gone to J
st. Adams, his former home, for a visit !
If several days. Although an injury to !
he head which Mr.. Dewey sustained, af- !
ected his eyesight for a time, he is re.
covering rapidly and anticipates no per :
nanent i'll effects from the accident.
The Philathea class of the Congrega-
ional Sunday school will entertain the
Members of Miss Bisbee's, Mrs. Ewen's
md Mrs NJ L. Chandeliers classes at
jocial in the church parlors Tuesday
'vening Jan. Is, from until $50 :
''clock 1t is hoped all the members of 9
he Phila thea class, as well as the classes
which are to be guests, will be present.
I'm enjoyable evening has been planned. y
The committee in charge is requested to :,
e at the church early.
Here is the trip you can take tonight
t the Congregational ehurch< From =
'oughkeepsie n. Y, up through the Adj =
rondacls to Plattsburg then to Chazy, %
cross ferry, down through islands to III
down the Winooski valley to
fontpelier and Barre, through Williams le
own gulf and White river valley to az
White River Junction, thence down Con- -
ecticut river valley to Hartford and re- !, "a
urn to Poughkeepsie. All this for 25c ~
ach. Children under IL, l0c. How many y,
ckets, please f-adv, -
George N. Tilden OF South Main street -,
turned Saturday from Burlington, 30
here he was one of the speakers at a bo
Getting of persons interested in a cam m
,ign to raise funds for hospital in ali
emory of Bishop Degoesbriand, late ve
,ad of the Roman Catholic see of Bur- ~,
lgton. 1t is proposed to raise a fund II
SIS 900 for the memorial and meth ~
Is used in the whirwind campaign that ri
,tted upward of $4,000 for the Barre An
ty hospital in 1914 will be copied by va
@ Burlington eampaigners. Mr., Tilden M,
rs secretary of the campaign commit bo,
e in this city. Fo
Basement foundations, slippery streets tiv
d clogged intakes were the most no gel
,eable results of a heavy rain which Ca
me late Saturday night and continued tire
+ time Sunday. Mercury recessons rec
Wednesday and Thursday were arrest. ii,
and temperature that was anything auC
t lowering prevailed yesterday. House der
lders were considerably inconvenience me
len water in varying quantities in. =
ded their cellars, but in none of the -.
ses reported was the damage alarm
I. All day yesterday the custom of
linking the sidewalks with sand was
lch less honored in the breach than in
> Observance While the street de-
rtment. if it moved at all, bent its eff
ia toward opening cutters, every side
TX continued to be municipal skat-
rink and people who were abroad
md sidewalking a most precarious un-
taking. just before o'clock this J
rning the sand men made tardy be-
ming on North Main street but folks J
ng on any number Of side streets who
yged the freside Sunday found the
ne opportunities for skating awaiting
m to-day.