The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-27
TALK OF THE TOWN


Frozen pudding, caramel and vanilla
ice cream at Cummings & Lewis.
Special Thanksgiving turkey dinner at
Eureka restaurant, See window for
menu. adv.
Fritz Brunette in "Playthings,' and
the second episode of Hands Up" Bijou
| to- day.--adv.
Mrs. James Roark, who has been pass
ing some time in Springfield, Mass. re-
turned to the city last evening.
For Sale-Slightly used coal heaters
and cook stoves at lowest prices. Abram
Fine, as Maple avenue. Tel. 1902.
! Notice: Now is the time to save money
on Andes ranges and heaters, also nice
| line of second hand stoves. See us. E. A.
! Prindle & Co., Worthen block
| Regular meeting of Sons of Veterans
AUXILIARY will be held Friday evening,
Nov. 20, instead of Wednesday, Nov. q.
Members please notice change in date.
| Special double bill at the Bijou to-
morrow, Harold Lockwood in "The Land
loper," and Charlie Chaplin in two-reel
comedy. "The Jazz Waiter. adv.
Mrs. C. NJ Wiley and son of Maple
tGrove went to Mortified day to pass
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They are to be joined tomorrow by Mr..
Wiley.
Sergt. Louis Frattini, an instructor in
the army training corps at Norwich uni
versity, arrived from Mortified to-day
to pass the holiday at his home on Foss
street.
Alexander Reid, who was one Of the
shipyard recruits who left for Chester,
Pa, returned to the city this morning
and plans to 90 back to his old employ
ment in the Barre granite industry inn
mediately.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Attridge who
have been residing in Boston for several
months, returned to the city yesterday
and expect to resume their residence here.
Mr.. Attridge was employed by the Mead
| Morrison company until large number
of men were released as the result of the
signing of the armistice Among other
local men who have returned to Barre,
after being employed by the same con
Germ, is W. II. Paine, who has resumed
his former employment at the quarries of
Boutwell,, Milne & Narnum in Granite.
vile.
Students at Goddard seminary who
live in towns easily accessible were on
their way home for Thanksgiving to-day,
forenoon trains carrying many OF them
to their destination. OF the student body
and faculty, however, majority is to
remain ON the hill .top, where there will
be big monday feast tomorrow in
Alumni hall. Classes were dismissed this
afternoon, and study is banished until
Friday morning. For the diversion of the
out-of town students, there will be vari-
Gus Thanksgiving parties among theisev-
eral classes this evening.
With their annual meeting only a fort
night distant, members of the Granite
| Manufacturers association are taking in
ventory of trade conditions as they com.
pare with those of year ago. Hope that
\ the tide has turned in the flow of labor
| toward the munitions plants and ship.
\ yards finds expression among some OF
the manufacturers, a number of whom
profess to see the near end of the labor
shortage. Already granite workers who
were attracted TO larger centers by th'
promise of high wages have returned
home, and scarcely day passes wher
someone does not alight from the trair
with plans for renewing his old acquaint
anceship with stoneshed boss. A veal
ago the tide flowed in the opposite direc
ton. Those were the days of uncertain
4 ty, but as the members of the associa
i ton look forward to the coming tisca
Il year, only optimism is felt. Signs, they
H say, augur well for a big boom in tht
\ Barre granite industry.
II Except for the fact that none of tn,
II principals fell over themselves in con
: veying the news to the outside world
the headline, "Fire Station Fired" nigh
have found place in the days chronicle
Il recently when fire which originated
4 from crossed wires routed Barre's fire
Is men from their beds and threatened jus
q for a few moments to reduce the centra
station and its equipment to ashes, i'm
, potency, or something like. The fremei
o believe that the fire fiend, in whateve
!. glise he appears TO his sworn enemy
e the professional fire fighter, has played
l. cruel joke on them, and they are not anx
ious to have his friendship get too muc
: credit. Early Monday morning the fire
men who are quartered on the secon
floor awoke together. Some were almos
at the point of suffocation. Others rouse
to their peril and presently were extin
gushing a blaze which had crept throug
the ceiling of the first story into a sec
ond-story partition. It gathered hea
| with incredible swiftness, but the fire
men were prompt in their application Q
chemicals, and the danger was averte'
The damage has been repaired, and th
wires are being renewed.