The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-10
Talk OF THE TOWN

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Charles Higgs Of Prospect avenue left
the city Saturday evening for Quincy,
Mass, where he expects to make a visit
Of few weeks with his brother.
Harold Z. Carey Of Graniteville left
the city this forenoon for Winooski,
where he expects to enroll for the com
ing year at st. Michael's college.
Elon Z. Barrett, formerly employed as
a clerk in Barre, who has been passing
vacation of 10 days with relatives in
this city and vicinity, returned early
this morning to Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. James Hughes and daughter, Miss
Ruth Hughes, who have been visiting at
the home of the formers daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Mcdonald of South Main street,
during several weeks, returned to their
home in Hartford, Conn, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs, A. L. Pierce and son of
Hill street are preparing to move to
Hartford, Conn, where they are to re-
side, and at the end of the month the
former expects to complete his duties as
manager Of the Direct Importing Co.'S
tea store
Miss Beatrice Ennis, recent graduate
of Spaulding high school, is employed as
a stenographer and clerk in the Ballard
& Woodruff insurance agency during the
absence Of Miss Ruby Head who is pass
ing vacation Of two weeks with rela-
tives in Massachusetts
A session of naturalization court for
applicants of the first and second class
is expected to convene in Barre Sept. 20,
at which time Clerk II. s. Platt of Rut-
land and his assistants probably will re-
main here throughout the afternoon and
evening. On the following day Judge
II. B. Howe of the u. S. court will con-
vene session at the capital A com
paratively large class lof candidates is
awaiting naturalization.
The Misses Myrtle Cow Of Liberty
street, Lydia Cove of Eastern avenue
and Georgia Palmer OF Graniteville, who
have been spending the past few months
at their respective homes, left the city
this forenoon for Potsdam, n ", where
they will resume their studies at the
Crane musical institution. They were
accompanied by Miss Rosamund Mackie
OF Summer street, one of the 1918 grad
yates from Spaulding high school, who
will also enroll at the same institution.
Three autos and motorcycle figured
in two rather serious accidents on South
Main street Saturday evening. Fred
Heath, accompanied by his wife, was
about to pilot his car into the driveway
near the Kempton mills when a Ford
touring car from Graniteville crashed
into it. Mrs. Heath was thrown to the
ground, but her injuries were trivial.
Not long afterward Ford auto whose
owner seemed to have his own notions
of speed ran into a motorcycle Alright.
ed women were removed TO the Office of
Dr. J. W. Jackson. Earlier Mrs Heath
received first aid treatment in the Office
of DIR, w. d, Reid. None of the machines
was badly damaged.
Following up the announcement re.
Gently made by the authorities at the
University of Vermont, Middlebury col,
lege and Norwich university, as TO the
furnishing of a free education TO all
young men OF the new draft ages, be
tween is and 81, and at the same time
to enroll in the students army training
corps at the colleges, asnumber of Barre
young men have applied for enrolment
in the schools. Yesterday afternoon sew
eral young men were enrolled at Nor
witch university at Mortified, while this
forenoon a number went to Burlington,
to confer with the authorities at the
University of Vermont regarding enroll
ment there.
William Greig, a we'll known South
Barre gardener, has discovered the secret
OF preserving raspberries without sugar
Yesterday he brought to The Times of
flee a full quart of luscious cultivated
berries which he picked from bushes in
his garden. Although the season for
raspberries is long past, as any berry
hunter who led expeditions of forlorn
hope into the berry patches last July
will testify, MFR. Greig's berries have sur
yived all the misfortunes to which berry
bushes were heir this year. He had little
difficulty to harvest the quart which he
exhibited and those who tested the fruit
were agreeably surprised to find it highly
favored
Checker players who assembled in Rut-
land fortnight ago TO compete for the
state championship have challenged the
Barre and Montpelier clubs for a series
of matches to be played on Columbus
day, Oct. II. If the challenge is accept
ed, the competition will develop into a
tournament with Barre and Montpelier
players arraigned against the other
members of the Vermont State Checker
association. Local checker players stat
ed to-day that they have the challenge
under consideration, and if it Is accepted
the matches will be played either in this
city or at the capital. Returns from the
state tourney in Rutland are incomplete,
and the championship remains in doubt.
The matches were a continuation of the
playing in Barre last winter, when play
ended with David Stephen of Barre and
L. j. Egleston Of Rutland as the leading
eontenders for the state trophy.
Surface soil on the farm Of Alfred
Parkhurst of Cobble hill yesterday yield
ed one of the strangest monuments ever
"quarried" in Barre. 1t IL a mammoth
granite boulder which has long been a
milepost in Mr.. Psrkhurst's pasture, and
it is to be shipped to Pittsburg, Pa, for
use in Hebrew cemetery. The man for
whom the memorial is TO be erected sent
his personal representative to Barre to
select the stone, Scoring any number of
specimens of Milestone hill granite, the
representative, after familiarizing him
self with the field, spent several days in
securing the hills until he came upon
the boulder which approached in size and
shape the stone desired by his employer
Fayette t. Cutler has the contract to
move the boulder from its resting place
Of centuries to a siding at the south end,
whence it is to be shipped to Pittsburg.
The stone weighs six tons, and while
slab will be removed from the base, in
appearance it is to remain intact, even
nffnr a IL nrnctnd IN tha Pitt sh1rrr cn1nn.