The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-03
TALK or THE TOWN

Main street are passing a vacation i
camp at Highgate Springs.
Joseph Papin of Richardson stree
is passing few days with his brother
ii. II, Papin, in Burlington.
Daniel Mccarthy left Yesterday TO
| Whitefeld, n H., where he is to be EN-
| ployed during the summer.
Mrs. James Johnston of Highlan,
avenue is making an extended visit will
relatives in East Weymouth, Mass.
Alexander Mckernon left yesterda,
for Montreal, where he is to remain
with relatives until after the holiday.
A petition in bankruptcy has beer
filed by Charles H. Rowell of Barre, 1
carpenter. He has liabilities of $042 o.
and no assets.
ID. M. Miles and family of West stree,
have gone to Burlington, where they are
passing month at Starr Farm beach
on Lake Champlain.
Miss Margaret Lavery of North Main
street has returned from Burlington
where she has been passing a few days
as the guest of Miss Grace Tyler.
X. G. Holland of Franklin street, who
is employed by B, w. Hooker & Co., left
the city yesterday for New York, where
he is taking a special course in the Rem
Guard training school for embalmers.
Mrs. Flora Foster and Mrs. Arthur
Gardens have returned from Morrsville
where they were called by the sudden
death OF their sister, Mrs. Cora list, who
passed away Thursday. Funeral services
were held Sunday forenoon.
1
made her home on Wellington street for
some years, has had her household goods
moved by auto truck to Burlington,
where she Is to reside while her son,
John McCaskill, is completing course
of study at the University of Vermont.
James Devers of Summer street, who
| returned yesterday from visit OF sew
eral days with his mother in Quincy,
Mass, left this morning for Fort Ethan
Allen. where he reported for service in
{ company OF the state National Guard,
having passed the physical examination
last week.
Call men of the Barre fire department
are receiving their pay from the city
for services rendered during the first
half of the year. Pay day for the mem.
bers of the call section comes anytime
after June 30 and the sum OF S3S20l
will have been distributed when every
man has received his spportionment
Progress is being made in the equip.
ment Of the city's new stoneerushing
plant near Young Bros granite plant
off Blackwell street and within short
time the apparatus purchased early in
the spring will be turning out all the
crushed stone that the street department
can hope to use before snow flies. A
crusher building has besn built and
platform accommodations for the team
sters are provided.
First among the flower gardeners OF
the city to report full blooming sweet |
peas is Frank Robinson, the fish man
at the f. d, Ladd Co.'S store. Last year |
Mr. Robnson's flower beds yielded |
sweet peas in abundance on the Fourth |
of July. He was the first to have sweet
peas ready for exhibition in the flower
show of the civic department and re-
solved that he would be even earlier
with the blossoms this season In spite
Of the backward spring, it is said that
the weather has been particularly fla
vorable to sweet pea culture and fine
showing of blossoms in Mr.. Robinson's
yard testiiies to the fact that something
has made them thrive.
Usual precautions for the night before
the Fourth are to be taken by the police
and it is hoped that the Difference shown
10 the sick by ceebrators in other years
will be in evidence tonight. Chief Sin.
lair has posted number of signs in
ocalties where people are confined by |
illness and there is feeling in the de-
,artment that folks who are abroad to-
light will cooperate with the police in
,eeping noise in the restricted areas
lown TO minimum. The chief has ,
to his assistance a number .
# special officers and the streets will 7
'e carefully patrolIed from shutdown to
unset. Supt. A. G. Perry of the street
department., who was confirmed as =
pecisl policeman last night, receives his
ppointment just in time to cooperate
With the other officers, as does Frank :
lerrill, resident caretaker, who has !
cen designated as a special policeman !,
lithout remuneration. Because of the /
an on fireworks and Greerackers, the :
olce believe that the celebration to-
light will be unusually quiet.
With the revival of the copper indu4 v
~ in the town of Vershire, there is a 4
risk demand for labor at Copperiield,
nd Supt. Lawton, who is in charge of
perations at the mine has arranged
18th Jed. H. Holt OF Hillside avenue
, lead band of carpenters to Copper :
ED after the Fourth. Supt. Lawton ]
as in Barre a few days ago to confer I
18th Mr.. Holt in regard TO building OPP J
-ations near the mine and yesterday
lie latter, accompanied by George Ed :
ards, motored to Yershire to inspect
lie grounds. Now the boss carpenter is
listing a number of mechanics to go
it'll him to Sharon Thursday morning
it'll the understanding that upon their I
rival there they will be met by
nveyances. 1t is expected that sew
al weeks will elapse before the work
completed. AT the present time there
e about Is men at work in the mines, 1
though machinery on the surface has !
t been installed and thus far none
the ore has been crushed. Renewal :
operations in the Copperfeld district
attributed to the rising copper prices. 4
Nothing spectacular in the way of an Z
dependence day observance in Barre
planned for tomorrow and the out
X for the much preached safe and
he Fourth is mcommonly promising.
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