The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-30
TALK OF THE TOWN

Sheas Shoe Store this week.
Beattie Sawyer left yesterday foi
Amboy, N. j., where he has secured
1 work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Clogston of Williams
in the city yesterday.
I Miss Hortence Flint and Mrs. A. Rum.
! rill of Randolph were among the bust
ness visitors in the city yesterday.
Thomas Burke left yesterday after
4 noon for Winooski Park, where Mrs
I Burke is patient in the Fanny Allen
hospital.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Wilder Of Bur
lington, who are to give concert for the
Barre Woman's club in the Pythian hall
this evening, are in the city for a few
days.
! The s. of V. auxiliary will hold pub
lie whist party in Foresters' hall, Worth
en- block, Wednesday evening, Jan. 81, at
o'clock. Everyone inviteds Toe. Re-
Treatments.
Murdo Campbell, who has been en-
ployed in Hartford, Conn, for the past
month, arrived in the city this morning
and returned in the forenoon to his home
in Granitevile
Rev, j. w. Barnett of the Barre Con-
gregational church will be the speaker at
! the first of a series of special meetings
in the Congregational church at Will
Jamestown this evening.
Francis Goldsbury, who has been
transferred from Montpelier to the Barre
yards in braking on the Montpelier &
Wells River railroad, moved his house.
hold goods from Montpelier to a Brook
street tenement to-day.
Earl Cummings of Hill street is confined
to his home on account of an attack
of the grip. Alexander Park of Elm
street is detained from his duties as
clerk at the Smith & Cummings market |
on account of an attack of the grip.
An interesting commentary on the CON
dition of the labor market is noted in the |
window of local tobacco dealer where
employers in urgent need of help are
wont to hang out their Help Wanted" /
notices. To-day there were no fewer
than Is openings, all of them in Barre or
its environs.
DIR, and Mrs. Horace K. Sowles, who
had been visiting at the home of the
formers parents, Mr., and Mrs. ]. j.
Sowles Of Beckley HILL returned to-day
to Boston, where DIR. Sowles is on the
staff of the Massachusetts, General hos !
pital Dr. Kenneth Dole, also connect
ed with the Massachusetts, General and
visitor at the Sowles home in this city,
with DR.. and Mrs. Sovles.
Post tournament matches in cribbage
and pool to decide question of suprem-
acy that series of eight tournaments
last week failed to determine I
will be played between Barre and Mont
pelier Knights of Columbus in the Scam
PM building this evening at 1880 o'clock.
From the nature of the schedule ar
ranged, the outcome tonight cannot be
an even break and when the games are
over either the Barre or the Montpelier
Knights will have to forfeit dinner to \
De served within short time.
Taken unawares by the sudden ad- q
rance of dozen or more of his friends,
Manager C. r. Millar of the Montpelier ;,
/ Barre Light 4 Power Co. was made to
ealize in very striking way his birth.
lay anniversary Saturday. Friendly =
plotted successfully with
drs. Millar and soon after Rightfall the
superintendent was surrounded at his "
Iome on Cliff street. A 10 o'clock dinner Il
vas one OF the enjoyable features of the
ct together and an informal program of :,
fter dinner toasts added to the gaiety of =
he occasion. %
Bowling fans who have watched with
interest this winter the reports of
matches between Harold Mute, former =
'arre boy, and Paul Poehler, who have 8
cen contending for the candle. pin cham - :,
ionship of New England will have one -
their wishes gratifed sometime in
ebruary when the two premier pinmen OF
ill appear in an exhibition match on the S,
ines at Merlo's academy. The manage b,
rent of the academy is anxious to ar OF
inge two-men match with a local rep
in the team that viii compete ,
18th the Mute Poehler combination. :"
Iontpelier bowlers are interested in the :;
isit of the pair to Vermont and if they =.
ppear on the local alleys in the after d,
DON Montpelier fans will see them at ~
ne Imperial in the evening. 1t is ex- ~
ected that Mute and Poehler will come -
, Barre around Feb. Is.
Townspeople of Miss Grace Bixby of
asst Barre, member Of the senior class
Spaulding high school, honored her !
it'll surprise party in the East Barre
,era house last evening, when more than :
10 people came together, the occasion
ling Miss Bixby's 18th birthday. Al
Tough friends of hers by the score
lined in acting the part of hosts and
,stesses at the affair, not an inkling of
hat was TO take place was conveyed to
e guest of honor until she was escorted
to the hall. An impromptu musical
ogram with solo and orchestral num-
rs was carried out in the early part of
e evening and later there was dancing
it'll music by Carroll's orchestra.
trough the medium of a speech by Wal
ce Jones, Miss Bixby was made to feel
g esteem in which she is held in East (
IRE and in closing the speaker present
her purse of gold.
Robin redbreast, unerring harbinger of 1
lyflowers and house cleaning, has made
5 1917 debut in Barre. From now on
e redbresst viii live up to his reputa- Z
IN as a space CRATER in the newspaper,
t the present story of his early arrival
authenticated by The Times Signs-of.
ring department, which has performed