The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-18
TALK OF THE TOWN


/ Bijou to-day.-adv.
II A new shipment of nice black hats jus
h in. Some good bargains. Mrs. Bla
Mariani, ~ Warren street.
H Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Milne and daughte
H Claire, of North Main street are passin
the week end with relatives in North
\ field.
Mrs. John Hyland Of the Miles build
ing has gone to Winooski Park to re
ceive treatment in the Fanny Allen hos
pital.
Don't forget to take home a basket G
our fancy Strawberries, only 25c a has
ket. Barre Fruit CO., 90 North Mai
street. George Maniatty.
Miss Mildred Convey is detained from
her duties at the DIR. Jarvis Office in tn
Rowland block, she being confined at he
home on Trow hill by illness.
Members of the Goddard seminary
baseball team left the city this forenoon
accompanied by Coach McGinnis for wi
nooski, to play the Winooski baseball
team this afternoon.
John NJ. Carroll of North Main street
has returned to the city, after an extend
ed business trip into the middle west il
the interests of the granite manufac
turing firm of Carroll Bros.
Interest maturing May Is on second
Liberty loan bonds at the Peoples Ma,
tional bank has been collected, placed
to the credit of those having accounts
and checks are ready for delivery for the
others.
X. of C. concert and ball, Rowland hall
! Monday, the Goth. Music by CAROLS
eight piece orchestra The last chance be-
fore the next draft quota leaves for
camp. Admission, 81 per couple; extra
! ladies, 25c.-adv.
Mrs. Ina Palmer, president of the New
! Hampshire Rebekah assembly, who was
in the city yesterday as a guest of the
Vermont assembly in session here, re-
turned this morning to her home in
Plymouth, n. II.
Lee Hall arrived in the city last even
ing from New Haven, Con-, where he
has been employed for several months in
an ammunition plant, to spend an -indefi-
mite period at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry King of Hill street
Andrew Gearin of North Main street
left the city this forenoon for North
field, where he will visit for few days
with his daughter, and he expects to
spend several days with friends and rel
atives in Burlington before returning
TO this city.
Charles Zanleoni jr., of North Main
street passed successfully the physical
examination at the Burlington naval re-
cruiting bureau yesterday and has been
assigned to duty in the naval hospital
corps. He expects to go to Newport, r,
J., around June |.
r Elliott S+a1nbfr nf Tharry VuIlav
n Y, and Henry Stoughton of Roches-
ter have returned to their homes, after
having been called here by the illness of
their mother, Mrs. Ellen L. Stoughton,
of French street Mrs Stoughton is
slowly regaining her health.
Three brooks in the vicinity of Barre
were enlivened yesterday by the acqui-
sition of some $4,000 trout fry, which
city over the VI. & W. r. railroad soon
after noon, The shipment arrived in
excellent order and the fry were trans.
ferred to the brooks without mishap, |
They were consigned to Deputy Game
Warden Charles Keith, who placed them |
in the Emerson brook, the Labrador and |
the Orange brooks.
The body of Fred J. Folsom, a former |
resident of Barre, whose death occurred |
in Concord, N. H., Dec. 81, 1917, arrived |
in the city Thursday evening, and has
been inferred in the family lot at Elm
wood cemetery Mr.. Folsom was en-
,loyed in this city for several years, al
.hough latterly he had resided in Con.
ord. Mrs Folsom accompanied the
BODY, which was removed from a receiv-
ng vault in Concord.
Barre friends of Capt. Harry P. Shaw,
Who, as lieutenant in the LIST Vermont
infantry, was an active figure in cam
,aigns which aided in recruiting Head
quarters and G companies to war
trength in this city last summer, win be
Interested to learn that he is now sta
Toned near Maria, Tex. Capt. Shaw
writes that he is assigned to duty in
he sth cavalry, L. S. A., which is see
ng rather active service in the Big Bend
istrict on the Mexican border, where ,
bandits and other bad men
lake life quite interesting for the Amer ,
ans. At present Capt. Shaw is train !
~ units Of twelve soldiers of the line
! the use of the machine gun.
The first man in Barre to receive I
,tter by aerial mail, and one of several I
to receive "firsts" in the Unit !
States, is O. w. Boyea, the North $
lain street tailor. Mr.. Boyes is mem a
err of the Aerial League of America, and 7
he letter which took the first regular /
lail trip through the skies is com
from the league. II came Q
after having travelled from 4
Washington to Philadelphia and New o
ork 1t bears the new 24-eent stamp of n
ne aerial mail service, stamp which I
lrries an engraving OF an airplane. The I
ostmsrk reads as follows: Washing v
IN, Philadelphia, New York-Aerial
Trip, May Is, 1918" Mr. '
oyea has refused several tenders for u
le unique souvenir. as he intends 10 ?
eep il as a memento of the first aerial a
all.
About Is students of Spauldng high i
hool left the city this morning for !
yndonvile, where they will enroll in +
e first training camp for a period Of VI
20 weeks 20 receive instruction in re- !;
.rds TO farm work. The students have -
EN- excused from their studies and, pro-
ded that the marks during the year ~
We been high enough, they will be cred a
Il with the years work. The first :,
mp will open at the Vail farms this 4,
renoon and a large number of stu ~ ~
nts of the high schools throughout the -
ate are expected 20 enroll in one of
e three camps. which are to be held =
ring the next few weeks. to help
iake the world safe for democracy" in
i manner After the training course / -