The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-20
TALK OF THE TOWN

skirts and lingerie waists at the Mrs
Shepard Co., Inc.
Roy Chynoweth of Williamstown wa:
a visitor in the city yesterday while or
his way to New York, where he plans t.
spend the summer.
County Agent F. II. Abbott has re-
turned from Burlington, where he at.
tended meeting of the New England
Milk Producers association
At the First Baptist church this even
ing public reception will be rendered
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl NJ Lewis of Nelson
street, who were married recently in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
| Privates Thomas Forbes and Frank
! Wilfore, who have been at home in Barre
| for few days, returned last night to
Fort Ethan Allen, where they are at
tached to G company.
II. S. Knight of South Royalton has
been passing few days in the city
while here to confer with persons who
expect to contract for concrete and CO.
ment sidewalks this summer.
Glenn W. Merrill of Boston, a graduate
of Goddard seminary in the commercial
class of 1913, arrived in the city Sunday
here while attending the commencement
week functions at the school on the hill
Hollis barber shop and the adjoining
shine stand in the Boyce block have
been rehablitated exteriorly to the ex-
tent Of nsw coat of paint. The solid
parts of the outer walls are done in
dark green and the trimmings in white.
Mrs. A. f. McGue, Mrs. z. +. Labelle
and Miss Mildred McGue have gone to
New Haven, Conn, where they are
spending several days with Harold La
belle. Before returning to Barre they
will visit in Springfield and Holyoke,
Mass.
Miss Ruth Hatch, who has been EN-.
ployed as a night operator in the Barre
central Office of the Vermont Tel. & Tel.
Co., for several months, has gone TO her
home in Hardwick for vacation. Miss
Hatch expects to return to the local ex
change later in the summer.
Stone workers and polishers here
abouts should not be lacking work il
the number of "men- wanted" signs post
ed in Msrrion's cigar store window is any
barometer of conditions in the stone |
belt. There are at present twelve sep |
arate adds posted and several of them |
call for more than one man.
This morning finished piece of gran
lite consigned to point west and weigh |
ing between 600 and 700 pounds was |
shipped by express over the Central YER
ment system. Shipments by express are
unusual among the granite men. Only
a month ago, stone weighing over a
ton was sent to New York state, how
ever.
On the marge of Cranberry Meadow
pond in Calais successful auction sale
was conducted Monday, when personal
on the farm of Glenn Sanders
brought good prices under the tactful
urge Of d. A. Perry, a local suctioneer.
The real estate, comprising a farm of so
acres, was bid off by Fred Daley, a Cal
his farmer, who owns land adjoining the
Sanders farm. Mr.. Sanders has not
completed his plans for the future.
Quarters and manufacturers of the
Barre granite district who planned TO
exhibit their product at the national CON
rention of monument retailers in Phil
idelphia in August met at msnufactur-
RS hall last evening and voted to cancel
III arrangements for the exhibit. Action
If this sort followed the report of Sec.
4. P. Human of the Granite Manufac-
nrers' association, who returned recent
V from an investigation trip to the q
quaker city. Congestion of freight and !
he possibility that the government will Q
ontinue to commander the use of the {
floor were cited as telling ar
-uments against any participation by
he Barre producers.
At the home of Mr.. and Mrs Charles a
darker in Reading. Mass, Saturday {
vening, their daughter, Miss Gladys II.
'srker. was married TO Charles II. Ford, {
ormerly of Barre, the officiating clergy i
nan being Rev. Harry f. Hurd. The
ride was attended by Miss Grace Flint {
nd the best man was Elmer Barrett, {
9th Of the attendants being residents '
4 Reading. After the wedding there q
rss a reception. Among those who at j
ended was Glenn W. Merrill of Boston, s
former Barre boy. Mr. Ford was grad
sted from Goddard seminary in the d
lass Of 1909 and was employed for q
ime by c. n. Kenyon & Co. His bride e
ras q graduate Of Reading high school v
n the class Of 1912 Mr.. and Mrs. Ford S
eft early Sunday for Barre, where they
re making a visit with Mr.. and Mrs. I
'hsrles c. Kenyon, after which they viii
10 to Boston. where the groom Is en-
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