The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-05
TALK OF THE TOWN

f. l.. House of West street, who is
taking brief vacation from Miers' up.
town barber shop, is visiting relatives in
Williamstown.
The Glover club will hold its annual
business meeting Friday afternoon at
$3.50 at the home of Mrs Lizzie Robin
son, Is Eastern avenue Members please
come prepared to pay dues
0rvis A. Smith, who has been visiting
with friends in this city and in East
Barre during the past week, returned
yesterday afternoon to Windsor, where
he is employed in a munition plant.
Further motorization of Jones Bros.
Co.'S large granite plant at the north
end is under way, the Barre Electric Co.
having started contract to install 10
new motors, having an aggregate horse
power of 400 1t is expected that the
additional motors will curtail the use Of
steam and thereby save considerable
fuel
Garden thieves have launched their
full campaign and many thriving plots
in different sections of the city have
lately suffered from night raiders. The
police are in receipt of numerous COM
plants and well laid plans may result
in the arrest of several suspected thieves,
Of whom summary example win be
made il they are caught.
property owners are allowed until
Sept IL to register their protests with
the assessors if they feel that the quad
rennial appraisal of their realty is I'M
satisfactory. Notices to this effect have
been posted, and after next Wednesday
everybody who has not obtained salts.
faction from the assessors and who wish
to carry an appeal to higher quarters
may appear before the board of civil
authority, which win probably meet
week after next.
Carpenters are at work on the lower
floor Of the old meeting house in Church
street, which is being enlarged to &C.
commodate the growing business of the
Tauber -Ryttenberg Co., which opened a
branch factory on the second floor lit
tie more than year ago. Shortly the
company, which is handling large or
ders for shirts and shirtwaists expects
to occupy the entire building. Henry
2. Mills, who conducted a store in the
lower story for number of years, is
Iroquois lodge Of Red Men has been
honored by the opportunity to contrib.
ute one Of its number to the great coun.
ell session of Red Men, which opens in
Chicago, ILL.,, Saturday. William w Rus
sell Of Laurel street, who has been ac-
tive in the order here for several years,
leaves the city this evening for the Windy
city to represent Vermont Red Men at
the national gathering, Next week the
delegates will journey to Great Lakes,
ILL.,, where the order will present its
station there. Mr.. Russell expects to
be absent about ten days.
One of the largest slabs Of Barre gran
ite ever quarried was recently unloaded
at siding in Bennington and is being
removed by trailer to Park Lawn GENE.
terry, near the village, where it is to form
the roof stone for mausoleum of Barre
stone which is being erected for Edward
H. Everett. The slab is 3S feet long and
less than 20 inches thick Much heavier
pieces Of granite have been taken from
the quarries on Milestone hill and
shipped to their destinations, but they
have been in block form, very often in
the rough. To ship a slab of the dimen
sions used on the Everett roof stone in.
wolves much greater degree Of care
and the local shippers are rejoicing that
the big stone arrived without breaking
The stone weighs Al tons and lotion
trailer is being used to transport it to
the cemetery.
Youngsters on the east side of the city
unlocked a pretty bag Of tricks on mo-
florists who drove along upper Washing
ton street last evening soon after dusk
/ Their first bit of strategy had to dc
with -four bag copionsly filled with
nothing but air. The bag was attached
| to string in turn concealed in the dust
and the tricksters found a customer in
about every third autoist. A driver
would drive past the bag before he sat.
4 isfied himself that he would be no friend
Of the food administration or of himself
, If he did not stop. Several of those who
fell" the heaviest backed their cars sew.
eral yards the easier to get at the sack
of -four The youth at the opposite end
Of the string would wait until motor.
/ ist, after backing his car, had laboriously
bent over to pick up the bag, before
snatching it out Of his grasp. Motorists
with the best intentions in the world
have been fooled elsewhere in the state
by the same trick. For variation Of
I the April fool idea, the Washington
street youngsters, after firing of the
-four gag, attached a worn.out auto tire
to the string and continued to fatter