The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-20
TALK or THE TOWN

o. j. Paneier of Rochester was a bust
ness visitor in the city yesterday and to
day.
Get our prices on rubber boots anc
shoes. Fresh stock, low prices. Eastman
Bros.
X. T. Bisbee of Waitsfeld was -busi
ness visitor in the city yesterday anC
to-day.
Warren Kerrigan in a fve.reel drama
"The Reckoning Trail" at the Bijou to-
day.--adv.
One baby carriage will be for sale at
the Episcopal rummage sale Thursday
March 22.-adv.
A regular meeting of Sub. court Barre,
No. 3, 81, |. o. F. Tuesday evening at
1880 o'clock in X. of C. hall. Per order
r. S.
Mrs. Mary Bottiggi has returned to
her home in Redstone, n. H., after hav-
ing been called to Barre by the death Of
a relative.
Miss Edna Gorham who has been car
ing for Mrs. Almond Tucker of Plainfield
during the past few weeks, has returned
to her home on Jefferson street
| Miss Eva Sevigny, a nurse at the state
hospital at Waterbury, returned to her
work this afternoon, after 8 brief visit
with friends and relatives in the city.
l.. p. Conant of Portsmouth, n. H.,
passed through the city yesterday, while
en- route TO Washington, where he >=ill
visit through the remainder of the week.
Thomas p. Hollingsworth, who has
been in Barre on a business trip during
the past few days, left last evening for
Rutland, where he will stop for a few
days while en- route to his home in New
York.
c. w. Coughlin, who has been en-
ployed in the Barre office of the Western
Union during the past six months, em
ing to Barre from Montpelier, where he
was with the company for some time,
has been transferred TO Pawtueket, r. /.
Mr.. Coughlin left Sunday night to take
the new position.
a committee of St Alderman knights is
making preparations to serve o'clock
dinner Thursday evening in anticipation
of the annual commandery inspection,
which rs to follow at o'clock. st. Aide
mar commandery will receive on that
occasion George F. Root of Newport. the
grand Inspector, who is to be accompan
led by Frank b. Putnam the grand com
mander. Fifteen officers and all other |
members will participate in the inspeo-
ton
Members of the Barre and Montpelier |
checker clubs won from the All-State |
aggregation Saturday afternoon and |
score OF SO to % While the storm had /
a tendency to keep many OF the state
players away, four or five made the trip,
Messrs Taggert and Rice coming from
Center by way of Williams
town gulf with team. There is a pos
sibility another match viii be played
later in the spring as good deal OF in
terest among the checker enthusiasts has
been worked up within the past few
weeks. The place Tor the next match
has not been definitely decided as yet
Barre assessors are ready to comply
with Gov. Graham's order authorizing
military census and as soon as the blanks
arrive for the tabulation the canvass
will be under way. This week the as
,essor's office at city hall was opened
ind strenuous preparations are being
made for the annual campaign Much
If the detail work of preparing is to be I
lone this week but the assessors will I
rave plenty of time to carry or their cen
us of men OF military age and the regu- :
ar work will not be started until April !,
~ which time il is expected that the spe- I
ial census viii have been completed. {
III male persons between the ages of Is &
nd As are to be included in the census. {
Mrs. Christina Kesson of 81 Boynton {
treet, this city, is in receipt of letter {
rom over the sea, telling of the death of
er grandson, William Kesson, 3D., son of
William Kesson, I'd, of Aberdeen, Scot
and. Mr.. kesson met with death while ]
n duty as third engineer of d patrol
acht which was torpedoed by mine off
he southern English coast Feb. "a, the
ews reaching his mother in Aberdeen |
our days later, Feb. rs. Only nine out h
{ crew of 81 survived. Mr. Kesson d
'as soon to be transferred to larger v
oat, as he was one of the next in line r
Or promotion. While the young man +
ad never visited Barre, his grandmother Z
as been a long time resident here, and t
is father, who is now a government in v
pector in Norway, has visited Barre on
sveral occasions within the past few fl
ears. u
Officer John s. Murley was given f
can bill by the aldermanic police COM b
Iittee at city hall last evening when IL L
et with City Atty. William Wishart ei
nd Chief Sinclair to consider the evil O
snce in the case of Harry f. Jeffords, I
no sustained a broken leg while being 81
rested Sunday afternoon. After hear :
x the evidence, the committee, consist
g of Aldermen A. j. Loranger, C. II.
eynolds and j. A. Healy, reported unani
ously in favoring of a complete exon
alton for the patrolman, 1t was the
Union of those who participated in the
caring that Officer Murley acquitted
mself creditably in the undertaking
I'd did not exceed the bounds of reason
putting the painter under arrest. IL
as intimated to the committee that JEFF
rds proposes to seek redress by re-
urse to the courts. The man is a pa
snt at the City hospital and is report
to be in fair way TO recover the use
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