The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-14
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4 Jdults NlOTd mas gone W NtN ipHhoi
| Conn. where he has secured position.
| Hat and gown to match. Nerves
shades. Popular prices Mrs. Shepar
| Co., Inc.
III See the pretty rugs on sale at tn
Methodist fair this afternoon and even
ing,-adv.
| Regular meeting of Ruth chapter, No
SO, o. Il. s., Wednesday evening, Nov. IA
at 1880 o'clock.
Mrs. George f. Bond of East street il
making visit of several days with rela
tives in Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. +. S. Giudici left to-day foi
Greenfield Mass, where she is to make
an extended visit with friends.
| Miss Ida G. Bianchi of Summer street
! left the city this morning for Albany
N. Y, where she is to make an extended
stay.
b. E. Waterman of Endcott, N. Y, is
passing several days in the city, having
| been called here by the illness of his
grandmother, Mrs. c. s. Larkin of South
Main, street.
Mr.. and Mrs George Leth and Mrs.
Elsie Common of Merchant street left the
city last evening for WATERFOWL, Mass,
where Mr.. Leith has secured employment
in an arsenal.
G. A. Simonds, who has been employed
as teamster by w. A. Bradford for the
past five years, has completed his duties
to accept a position as tool sharpener in
a local stoneshed
F. r. Cutler of North Main street has
returned home after passing several days
in Greenwich, n Y, where he was en-
gagged in setting soldiers monument
for Temple Bros. of Rutland.
Iroquos tribe of Red Men initiated its
series of winter dancing assemblies last
evening, when sizeable party gathered
in Clan Gordon hall after the regular
business meeting of the tribesmen. 1t is
planned to hold dance on the evening of
each monthly meeting
! Raymond Arkley, who has been pass
ing few days leave with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L. Arkley of Wash
ington street, left this forenoon for
Springfield, Mass. there to make visit
with Mrs. Arkley before returning to
Chelsea, Mass, where he is attached to
the naval hospital corps.
Marshall NJ. Bartholomew, Y. NJ C. !
A. worker who addressed a gathering in
Spaulding assembly hall last evening on
tit WIN VI tuC 1hth AiiuASAN ~ tht |
war, left early this morning for New |
York City, after having made several |
speeches before Vermont audiences. An |
effort to obtain Mr. Bartholomew as |
speaker at the high school chapel this
morning had to be abandoned when it
was learned that he was due in New
York tonight.
Margaret Mayo's laughahle farce,
Twin Beds" was enjoyed at the opera
house by small audience last evening.
The complicated and embarrassing posi-
ton of an Italian opera singer who mis-
takehly enters the wrong apartment at
dawn caused no end of laughter. Lois
Bolton, as Blanche Hawkins, married TO
a man, house parties, twin beds. etc,
handles her role very well. Virginia
Fairfax, as Signora Monti, the outspoken
wife of the temperamental opera singer,
was well chosen for the part and proved
no end of enjoyment, The stage settings
were of high order,
Mrs, William Hurry of Washington
street has received a message advising
her of the sudden death of her niece,
Hurry of Saginaw, Mich. The
dead child was a daughter of William :
Hurry, former resident of Barre, whose
wife was a sister of Mrs. w Hurry of q
this city. A Saginaw newspaper con I
.ains the following paragraph relative to j
,he chld's demise; Margaret Hurry, t
nine years old, daughter of William a
Hurry 1867 Atwater street, was instant
Y killed in her front yard when shot
run in the hands Of Arlington Brown, 20,
vas discharged late this afternoon NOV. +
y. Whether the shooting was accidental
,r otherwise Coroner s G. T. Ostrom
lopes to determine by an inquest to be
leld tomorrow morning. The child was c.
hot in the face. just below one eye d
Although a shortage of fiat cars has Ct
nterfered seriously with the shipment of Ii
'hristmas trees from the Barre station, c.
wo carloads of Yuletide foliage went "
ut over the Central Vermont road to- eI
ay and more are to follow The fiat u
ear the George Straiton plant at the e
outh end has been used as storage u
round for Christmas trees that the con u
FACTORS couldn't ship, and at one time u
nd another in recent weeks the prem 81
les have taken on the appearance of CT
lther dense underground. Most of the IN
hristmas tree harvest in this vicinage is III
eng cut in Willamstown and automo. or
lies and teams are being used TO get the ia
sergreen to this city. Over Washington m
nd Corinth way Christmas choppers are sv
lid to be doing their chopping early, but OF
ost of the crop is being shipped from
radford pt
The music and art department of the ne
ARE Womans club had charge of a very vi
teresting and instructive art loan ex
bition yesterday afternoon at their
IONS in the X. Of p hall. Two long NJ
bles and several smaller ones were ~
vered with rare articles of both ancient ID
I'd modern date, while many other O.
ecimens of value were arranged about ht
e ROOM A short program was given, by
insisting of selections in keeping with M'
e day upon both the victrola and the Mo
ano by Mrs. Dean II. Perry; readings IN
Blanche J. Tilden and short descrip- va
1e talk concerning an old time musical 20
strument by Mrs. w J. NJ. Beattie, IL la
strating which selections were played
Mrs Beattie and Miss Isabelle Beat
}. This instrument was one of the Ia
,st interesting features of the day, Ne
lde in Barre, of the style known as bu
e rocking melodeon. The tone has -.
en- wonderfully well preserved. Mrs.
orge I'VE Of Barre Town IS the owner
this valuable antique. II was through
e kindly cooperation Of many mem
rs Of the club that the afternoon was