The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-22
TALK OFTHE TOWN

Amalia Olgiati of Shurtleff place wa:
taken to the City hospital to-day f)l
| treatment.
Miss ANNIE Mckay of 26 Cliff street
was taken to the City hospital yesterday
afternoon for an operation.
! While attending the sale on waists at
the Mrs, Shepard Co., Inc don't forget
to inquire the prices of new fall dresses
| just received.
| Miss Augustine LaRochelle of Railroad
street left this morning for Springfield,
Mass, where she will make an extended
visit with relatives.
Mrs. Margaret Smith of Liberty street
left the city early this afternoon for
Groton pond, where she is to remain with
friends in camp for week
Max McConnachie, brother of Misses
Adele and Earlene McConnachie of Barre,
who attended the reserve officers train
ing camp at Plattsburg, N. Y, has Joined
the aviation corps.
Mrs. Andrew Knutson, son, Algot. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Tacy motored to Bur
lington this morning TO call on friends
who are about to depart from Fort Eth
an Allen with the Vermont detachment.
Lieut.. A. A. Ogstons who was one of
the commissioned officers in the first
Plattsburg training camp and who has
been spending few days in town with
friends, left this morning for Springfield,
Mass.
At the parsonage of Bethany Congre-
gational church in Montpelier Saturday
evening Miss Christina Mattson of Barre
and Knute Ostland of the capital were
married by Rev S. F. Bloomfield. After
wedding trip Mr.. and Mrs. Ostland are
to make their home in Montpelier, where
the groom is employed as granite cut
ter.
The number of poliomyelitis cases in
Barre since the malady first made its APP
pearanee early in June remains station
airy at 10, although three patients have
been released from quarantine and most
of the others are on the road to partial
or complete recovery. The condition of |
the 3-year old son of Mr.. and Mrs |
Charles Gustafson of "a Prospect street |
remains serious, as the patients spine |
and left arm are badly affected. For the
reason that many children have their
homes in the, four tenement house where |
the Gustafson child is i'll, the quarantine
is strict and the patrol continues without
Some doubt is entertained as
to whether the public and private schools
in Barre will be permitted to open on
schedule time, and it is expected that an
from the board of health
will be Forthcoming in the near future
Moving picture proprietors in Barre stat
ID to-day that they had obtained permits
lion to reopen Monday.
Copy for an attractive brochure which
S to contain the program for the annual
convention of the National Cemetery SUI
'erintendents' association, to be held in
Barre next week, is in the hands of the
'rinter and will be ready for distribution
{ the end of the present week. The To- II
al committee has been at some pains in {
repairing booklet that will reflect cred. i
tably on Barre with the result that
lumber of halftones, depicting views [
bout the city, find a place among the y
ages. Vermont men who are down on Z
he program for speeches or papers in
Jude Gov. Horace F. Graham, Judge I
rank J. Martin of Barre, Prof. George ]. IL
erkins of Burlington, state geologist: Q
rof. g. P. Burns of Burlington, who is t
the head of the department of botany {
{ the state university; Atty S. Hollis e
IT Jackson of Barre. Trips planned by
he Barre Entertainment association are A
escribed at length in the booklet and It !
announced that the Barre pipe and :
rum band will play at various times !,
lring the convention. n