The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-12
TALK OF THE TOWN

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b. b. Jackson of North Main street
went to Burlington yesterday to pass a
few days with his son.
Francis A. A. Healy has returned to
his home In Hardwick after passing sew.
eral days in Barre on business.
The choir rehearsal of the Church OF
the Good Shepherd will be postponed I'M
til next week Friday evening at the usual
hour.
Don't buy piano until you have seen
cur very special bargains from $l65 to
Sl95 at Bailey's Music Rooms, IA Elm
street, Barre.
A daughter weighing seven and one
half pounds was born Jan. 10 10 Mr. and
Mrs. NJ. L. Baker of the East Montpelier
road. The child has been named Kath-
reyn Pringle Baker.
w. T. Calder of North Main street re-
turned this morning from visit of few
days in Boston. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Calder's sister, who has been in i'll
health for some time.
Mrs. Florence Little of New Haven,
Conn. arrived in the city yesterday for
visit with her brother, Rodney Peake,
Mt the home of her uncle Frank e.
Adams of Elm street.
G. A. Kent. a clerk for the F. n. Ladd
Co., closes his labors Saturday night TO
enter the employ of the Equitable Cor
poration of Chicago as special representa-
tive for their kalomite products for the
state of Vermont.
Thomas Tomasi who has been spend
ing few weeks at the home of his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Tomasi Of North
Main street, returned last night to Med
ford Mass. where he is student in the
Tufts Dental school.
There may be an embargo on food and
grain, but that does not stop the people
from taking out a Christmas club ac-
count for 1917 at the Barre Savings Bank
q Trust Co. Open Saturday and Monday
evenings from to o'clock.--adv.
Funeral services for the infant child of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fortier OF George
street, whose death occurred Thursday
morning were held at the house this aft
ernoon at 8 O'Clock and interment was
made in the Catholic cemetery on Beck
ley street.
"Auto comping in scenic New England
and New York" is the subject OF talk
on outdoor life to be given in the Congre-
gational church, Monday evening, Jan. |
Is by DR.. Elmer Of Poughkeepsie, Y. Y. |
The talk win be accompanied by pie |
lures. This talk has been highly spoken |
Of wherever ii has been given and you |
'annot afford to let it pass, not for the
Edwin l.. Mcleod, a former resident OF |
BARRE and for several years a member of I
he Barre police force, is calling on /
friends in this city Mr.. Mcleod has
,een visiting acquaintance in the vicin-
ty Of Lake Megantic, r. O., where he
Used to make his home, and will leave
o-morrow for Port Chester, n. ", where
lie is employed by the Port Chester Gran
te Co., of which J. W. kidder formerly
f Barre. is the president Since leaving
'arre three years ago, Mr.. Mcleod has
raveled extensively in Illinois, Ohio and
kentucky.
Young people of the First Presbyterian
hurch who are affiliated with the organ
red Bible class assembled at the church
ist evening for their annual business
ieeting. There was a large attendance
nd the business in hand was transacted (
18th dispatch A. C. Walker was elected /
D serve the class as president in 1917
nd the remaining officers were elected
5 follows; Secretary, Miss Annie Mac
onald; treasurer, Miss Margaret Dow ]
rs. Tentative arrangements were made
,r a number of outings to be held dur {
lg the winter and the calendar for the I
ext month viii include sleighride and I
snowshoe hike. Evidence OF the esteem !
which the pastor, Rev. Edgar Cross ]
nd, and Mrs. Grassland are held by the ]
ass was indicated in the presentation t
handsome electric light dome to the II
ass teacher and his wife. Before the U
Getting adjourned committee of young a
omen served luncheon of chocolate,
waters and sherbet. d
To night at the Spaulding high school r
rmnasium the curtain rises on the first f
me in Barre of the Vermont inter G
holastic series. Coach Browns band of I
arpshooters, with its ranks decimated )
It little by graduation, will present t
actieally the same lineup that figured b
the series last season. From the cap d
II Coach Wild T. Maiden win lead his h
seminary aggregation into the Il
ena and vigorous tussle is bound to C
sue. Thus far the seminary's chief t.
Tim to fame is its record of having h
me within several points Of defeating al
e laurel wreathed Newbury high school OF
intet. As an achievement, IL looks like Il
dubious honor until one recolects that II
e Newbury contingent has swept the in
Id thus far But the friendly rivalry re
itch exiets between Spaulding and is
,ntpelier seminary alone assures an in hi
testing contest. The whistle will m
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