The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-09
BARRE DAILY TIMES
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1917.
The Weather
Overcast with local showers Sunday,
TALK or THE TOWN

u James Devers went to Burlington to
H day to receive his enlistment paper
Il for the U. $. navy.
Il DIR. II. II. Reid of South Main stree
\ leaves tonight for Boston, where he
to confer With officers in the army denta
corps.
Mr. Rowland will be at the Barre Saw
ings Bank & Trust Co. to-day from
to and 7 to p. IN. to explain and TAX
! subscriptions for the Liberty loan.--adV
| Mrs. Levi Pelkey has returned to tn
city after passing several days in Shell
burne, where she was called by the ill
ness and death of her mother, Mrs. Jet
Blow.
The insurance Offices of G.. II. Pape
Paige & Campbell and J. w. Dillon vii
be closed Thursday afternoons for the
month OF June, July, August and Sep
tember.-adv.
The Barre Spiritualist society will hole
religious service at their temple at South
Barre Sunday, June 10, at 3 and 7:3t
p. m. Rev. Fife /. Webster will lecture
and give spirit messages at each SEES
sion. All are invited.
There will be a meeting of the Barre
Womans club Tuesday afternoon at 2:45
in Knights of Pythias hall to hear the
reports of the delegates to the state fed
GRAFTON meeting and also to attend to
other important business. Every mem
Der is urgently requested to attend this
meeting.
To-day the members and guests of
the Glenugie club gathered at Caledonia
park for their annual outing. Special
accommodations on the NJ. & w. r. rail-
road were provided for the picnickers
and upon request all conductors obeyed
orders to stop at the park. Luncheon
was to be served at noon and this aft
ernoon program of sports is to be car
ried out.
A vagrant porker, destined for the
Brighton market, broke loose in the Nj.
& w. r. freight yard yesterday and
scampered up and down Prospect street
until overtaken by a posse of children
| The pig did not seem disposed to join
its mates in the stock car and not until
ropes were used to advantage in bind
ing the recalcitrant one We're the stock
men successful in slowing the runaway
in berth No. TO- upper.
Fishermen who daily issue forth from
Barre to try their luck in the Dog river
south of Montpelier Junction must dof
their hats to Florence L. Mckinney of
.his city, who broke all records yester
day for German brown trout. Her trophy
is fish measuring 20 inches in length
and weighing 3% pounds. Nothing like
it has been taken from the Dog this
year, although the same angler caught
one of similar appearance earlier in the
week
In connection with the mysterious
stabbing of horse belonging to John
Worcester of South Barre, which was
told in yesterdays Times, it is stated
that the animal was driven to Barre by
Percy Fleetwood, instead OF Mr.. Worces-
ter, who was not accustomed to leaving
his horse tied in the street. The horse
had been owned by Mr.. Worcester for
many years and for that reason he feels
the loss quite as keenly as if it had been
a more valuable animal and hopes that
other people who drive their horses to
the city will use precaution against a
repetition of the incident which robbed
him of his horse.
Amateur thespians of Barre are doing
their bit for c company by rehearsing
for three act musical comedy, "The Girl
From Broadway" which is to be present |
ed in the opera house on the evenings OF
June 2l-22. Already cast of 80 people |
has got far beyond the first stages of its |
training and as rehearsals are continuing |
regularly a local talent performance of |
real merit may be expected. To-day a |
number of volunteers began an active
and periodically disposed people !
their number is legion now-are asked
to make their seat reservations, The
proceeds will provide the nucleus for G
company fund which, it is hoped, will be
as sizeable as the fund subscribed for the
company when it left Barre
in April
For the second time within a week
a torrential shower yesterday afternoon
cut merchants and other property own
ers along North Main street on their
mettle, but in spite of the fact that
the rain continued to fall in sheets for
nearly an hour, little damage was done.
Failing to find a sufficient outlet in the
familiar Depot square channel, the water
backed up in front of the Nichols and
currier blocks and prevented passage to
Ill but motorists and street car oper {
ltors. The intakes in the vicinity took
are of much of the water, but at least
IN hour elapsed after the storm before
he water had completely subsidized. This {
morning a gang of street department la
,orers set about to clear the paving Of h
edment deposited by the rivulets which
poured into the square. .
Although the headquarters of the :
County Agricultural bureau J
; to be transferred to the capital as a I
esult of action taken at the annual .
Meeting this week, County Agent +. II. h
Abbott has not completed arrangements :
or moving his Office and for time, at =
east, the Office in the Rowland build y
ng will continue as the headquarters. e
he change. il is said, was authorized v
n difference to the members of the bu- J
eau who reside in the Mad River valley I
nd in other towns in that section. 1t I
ras reasoned that farmers in that dis
riot find II more convenient TO stop in :,
Iontpelier for agricultural meetings and :
hat telephone communication with the !,
apital is cheaper than with Barre, as a
III fee Of Is cents for three minutes IS y
harged for a Barre connection. Few
armers have SC little business that II
I'm be transacted in three minutes. 4
ence the toll charges arc said to have =
rown burdensome County Agent Ab-
oft il to move his family TO Montpel-
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