The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-31
TALK OFTHE TOWN

Miss Pearl Wilkin has returned TO he
home on Keith avenue after having spen
week with friends in Burlington an
Essex Junction.
III Corporal Alexander Hall, member q
company, which is stationed at For
Ethan Allen, was among the visitors i
| the city yesterday.
l Mrs. Ira n Houston returned yester
day to her home on Maple avenue afte
having visited with friends in Nortl
Duxbury for the past few days.
Miss Maud Abbott of Maiden, Mass
left this morning after having visited a
the home of Miss Blanche Spaulding o.
Jefferson street for few days.
John Muiry of Bassett street left THU
morning for Mortified, where he viii
spend a two weeks vacation from hi:
duties in the A. P. Abbott store.
Market quotations Is years ago, ac'
cording to an old copy of The Times
fixed the price of fowls at II cents per
pound. Fowls are being quoted at SO
cents to-day.
Mrs. Samuel Sargent and daughter
Leone, have returned to their home on
Prospect avenue after visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. James Slora of
Cutler Corner for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Cove and
daughters, Hester, Marion and Lydia,
have returned to their home on Eastern
avenue from Lanesboro, where they have
been camping at Niggerhead pond during
the past month.
Henry McCauey, who has been EN-
ployed in the Barre granite industry for
several months, left this afternoon for
Portland, Me-, where he has been called
to join the coast artillery unit with
which he was affiliated for some time.
Nearly two weeks have elapsed since a
positive case of poliomyelitis developed
in Barre and while there is one case of
Illness which is under observation with
certain suspicious circumstances attend
ant, there are only three cases of the
malady thus far. A l4-year-old Farwell
street girl is under quarantine, but the
nature of the disease has not been def
nitely determined, nor will final dag
nosis be made until DIR. Taylor arrives
from Burlington to examine the patient.
Following a conference of seventh
class licensees yesterday afternoon, the
retail price of beer took another jump to-
day and people who know most of the |
angles of the brewery business predict /
another increase after the vote on the |
food bill is taken in Washington tomor
row, In certain brews the jump is as
high as so cents per case and it is stated |
that brewers are compelled to pay the
long price for grain, some of which is Of
poor quality. Since the order which bans
drinking over The bar during the quaran-
tine became operative, seventh class IL
censees have been making hay.
Taking its cue from the department of
Justice at Washington, d. c., and from
numerous state and local boards of
health, the Barre police department is
keeping a sharp eye out for peddlers of
court plaster and every suspicious acting
individual who attempts to unload a
package of the adhesive plaster in this
city will do so in the knowledge that it
is just his kind that the police are anx
ious to interview. In numerous cases
analysis has shown that the court plas
ter was infected with tetanus germs, and !
the popular theory of the ''peppered" ]
plaster connects it with a diabolcal plot I
emanating from German sources.
Golfers representing two clubs in this {
.ity, the Meadow Brook and Barre, are a
eaving late this afternoon and to-mor- {
low for Burlington to compete in the e
itate tournament, which is to continue il
until Saturday. A part of the Meadow /
Brook delegation which plans to be in
Burlington tonight includes George c
fraser, Harry Forsythe, Smoky" Joe t
fraser, Joseph Fraser and George Brand. n
They viii be joined by others who are G
O leave tomorrow for Burlington. G
among the Barre Golf club members who \
re on the grounds already are William u
ohnston and James Stewart, who have n
cen practicing on the Rutland course g
or few days, and J. +. Walsh. n
While motoring home from his camp e
t Niggerhead pond in Marshfield Sun "
ay afternoon, James X. Prize, the :,
uarry owner, witnessed an accident in -
-hich Chevrolet touring car owned by !,
eople camping at Joe's pond in Danville ~
as badly damaged. The accident oc- "a
Irred just east of Plsinfield when the ~
river of the Chevrolet, in turning out o.
,r a Barre car occupied by George
Iutch and William dams, struck a
rip of soft going near the side of the
ghway Compelled to make sudden =
lit, the driver of the car apparently
as taken unawares when the front axle
mt and the rear end of the vehicle -,
ought up in such manner as to turn Iis
e machine over onto its side A WON bu
and her son and Boston terrier were ga
rown from the car, but none of them ba
as injured seriously. Mr.. Pirie, who ~,
as short distance in the rear of the a
r when the accident occurred, took the
TO Plainfield while garage men
IRE looking after the car. Ne