The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-07
TALK OF THE TOWN

Special values in wash dresses at Alb.
bolts.
Fresh native asparagus every morning.
Houghton & Robins.
Excursion to Fort Ethan Allen or
Plattsburg. See ad. on page 8.
Patrick Massie returned home Wednes.
day after passing few days at Fort
Ethan Allen.
| Polly Red Head" fve-reel Bluebird,
featuring Ella Hall and Gretchen Leder
err, at the Bijou to-day.-adv.
There viii be rehearsals of the children
of the Methodist Sunday school Friday
night after school and Saturday after
noon at 2:30. Parents are asked to help
those in charge by sending the children to
these rehearsals.
Lieut.. p. b. Hartwell of st. Johnsbury,
adiutant of the second battalion, LIST Yer.
mont National Guard, motored to Barre
yesterday and called on friends He was
accompanied by Mrs. Hartwell and
Misses Sutton and Deyette, who returned
to st. Johnsbury last evening.
With its membership enjoying the ad-
yantages of an up-to-date clubhouse, the
Meadow Brook Golf club has entered
upon what promises to be the most sue
cessfu season in its existence. This
week three new tournaments we're insti-
auted and many members have enrolled.
Late this afternoon Fraser and Forsythe
are to play a match with Walsh and
Johnston on the Barre Golf club course.
Verdi Bruno's vigilance probably avert
ed a serious fire in the block jointly oc-
eupied by Mr.. Bruno as a confectionery
store and n. Palumbo, whose barber shop
is in the north end of the building locat-
ed at 3l3 North Main street Soon after
Mr.. Palumbo had locked up his shop and
left for the night last evening, Mr.. Bruno |
noticed smoke and fire in one corner of |
the room. Without waiting upon cere
mony, the confectionery dealer forced the |
front door and investigated. pile of |
towels and paper had been ignited, per
haps from a cigarette spark, and was |
burning merrily. Mr., Bruno applied wa
ter and then seized the remnant of the |
smoking mass of towels and threw them
into the street.
More than $50 people, most of them
from the Italian colony, gathered at the
Knights of Columbus hall last evening in
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Antonio Mazzolini,
who were married in ST. Monicas church
in the forenoon To the immediate
friends and relatives of the groom and
the bride, who was formerly Miss Clio
vanina Bottinelli, a wedding dinner was
served. Afterward others gathered for
the reception and throughout the earlier
part of the evening the couple were busy
greeting their friends. The hall was at
decorated and an orchestra was
present to play for dancing, which con-
.inued until midnight. A number of the
BRIDES young women friends served dain-
~ refreshments at intermission. Mr.. d
Ind Mrs. Mazzolini are to reside in Ran
lolph.
Three thousand fve-year transplants
ave been ordered by the park commits
ion from Totman of Randolph and upon
he arrival of the little trees they will be
et out in the city park on the Merchant
treet extension. The purchase of spruce !
ransplants five years old is something of ]
departure from the commissions for ,
station policy and il is expected that
he trees, most of which are from % TO
4 inches high, will thrive readily. The
ity water department has made a pur-
base of 1000 spruce transplants of the
anne age and they win be used along the A.,
nsrges of Orange and Bolster reservoirs.
recently the park commission embarked
pom its annual cleanup of city park
roperties.
Miss Alice Pape Of the Barre Red Cross
ociety has received from the Ladies'
lite society of Washington a check for
25. to be used in connection with work !
'hich Barre women have gotten under
'ay for the Vermont Red Cross branch
nd the Vermont soldiers. The patriotic
urpose OF the Washington women has
hus found tangible expression in the :
loney gift, which has been gratefully re-
sived by the workers in Barre, but their a
esire to aid has not ceased. for the let
sr to the secretary states that they are
ent on accomplishing even more for the
ed Cross and to that end offer to assist
! the sewing which the local branch has Y
cen assigned to do. b