The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-12
TALK OFTHE TOWN

The new Havana Scent cigar, Pear
of Cuba" at Lander's cigar store.
A number of Odd Ladies motored Il
| Graniteville last evening TO engage IL
ceremonial work with the local lodge.
On their recent trip to Massachusetts
Supt. Alex Hanton of the city cemeteries
and William Emslie stopped at Aver and
sought out Grover G. Kenetck, member
of the first Washington county contin-
gent to locate at Camp Devens. They
found Private Keneick in excellent
health and full of enthusiasm over his
experience as one of Uncle Sans select
ed soldiers. Private kenefck was for
merly employed in Emslie Bros flower
stand.
Through the courtesy of the manage
ment, members of the local Liberty loan
committee were privileged to spread the
gospel of Bonds or Bondage" during the
presentation of Fair and Warmer" at
the Barre opera house last evening.
Pledge cards were distributed at the
main entrance and between the first and
second acts Atty. William Wishart spoke
briefly on the objects of the loan. The
lawyer at once gained the close atten-
ton of the audience and his listeners
straightway proved that they could give
ear to the serious as well as the comic.
Attorney Wishart made out strong
case for the Liberty bond issue and his
appeal was heartily approved by the
playgoers.
| Contractor A. B. Lane has withdrawn
his force of carpenters and other labor
ers from the Tabor bridge job on the
Montpelier road, the trestle and under
! pinning which the local contractor ar
ranged to build having been completed
this week. Numerous delays, due for
the most part to the shortage of mate
rial, postponed the completion of the
contract, and Contractor i. n Norman
deau, who built the underpass and super
vised the exeayating, grading, etc, has
yet to pick up his tools and call off his
men. In the trestie construction and the
work on the under structure, 100000 feet
of specially treated pine were used, II
cars being required to haul the lumber to
the spot Shipments were slow and lum
Der which was ordered last March was
not available for use until the middle of
August.
James Duncan of Quincy, Mass, who
is to speak in the opera house this even
ing on "The Soul of Russia" will arrive
in the city over the Central Vermont |
railroad this afternoon at 4:35 o'clock. |
A committee from the Central Labor UNI |
ion has been appointed to wait upon the |
labor leader and during his stay in the
city he will be quartered at Hotel Barre |
As president of the Granite Cutters In |
ternational association, Mr.. Duncan's |
visit will be in the nature of an official |
call of laboring men in Barre. 1t will
be his first visit in the city since the
late summer Of 1914, when he delivered
the Labor day address at the Ayers
street park. The lecture tonight will
begin at o'clock. Robert w. Simonds,
Of industries, viii preside
and the Montpelier Military band is to
furnish music. II is expected that Mr..
Duncan will remain in Barre until Sun
day afternoon.
Next to the annual fear of coal
shortage nothing is so perennial in its
habits as the epidemic of petty thieving
and householders in Barre are having
peck of trouble Just now with small-time
thieves who pilfer anything that clings
to a clothes line or grows in garden.
Numerous complaints have been received
At police headquarters and more recent
" the pilfering has centered in the south
md, where several residents of Ayers
street have lost quite heavily through noe.
.urnal invasion of their property. Where
he clothes line operators are mostly
adults. the vegetable thieving in the
4 =
tiers Some of them are known to the
police. who are not inclined to give the
a chance to make good the
osses incurred by war gardeners, etc
People who attended last night and
,ore witness to-day to the excellence OF
he farce. Fair and Warmer" in the
pera house last night are indignant in
heir Characterization of the conduct
hown by group Of young men, said to
re Goddard seminary students, who oc
upied seats in the gallery. The stu
ents began their nagging tactics in the
rst act and continued their boorish ac
ions until the end of the show Hector
lg from the galleries did not pass un
oted on the stage and the work of the
LAYERS undoubtedly was affected by
laring evidences of boorishness in the
PIPER tiers. An officer was present in
he gallery, but the disturbers were not
,strained. Much of the heckling was of
ne small-town variety and probably
lme from students who got their first
ractice in the art of nagging by break
g up promenades and box socials in the
,hoolhouse at Stubbefield -Four Corners.
prompt show of authority by the man
cement or the house police would have
lded the disturbances.