The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-24
TALK OF THE TOWN

Read Shea's adv, five big specials.
New shipment of hats. Mrs. Mariani
Christmas greeting cards for the boys
in service just in at Bell & Houston's.
Ensign Lyman Whitcomb Is spending
several days leave with his mother, Mrs
Harriet Whitcomb of this city,
| VIII be at McAllister's store, VIII
Jamestown, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 20
for the balance Of the week. Mrs Carroll
Miss Florence LePage Of l24 Prospect
street returned home last night from
Greenfield, Mass, where she has been
visiting
Mail Carrier w. D. Mcdonald was able
to be downtown yesterday after having
been confined for week with the pre-.
vailing epidemic.
This is the winter for you to board
and If you don't you'll wish you had be,
fore next spring Come in and get prices
Hotel Barre, ]. Y. Rowen, Mgr.
Mrs Arthur LePage of Prospect street
returned home last night from Greenfield
Mass, where she was called by the i'll.
mesa of her son, Francis Goldsbury.
The funeral of Mrs. Bernie Haskins
was held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
at the home Of her mother, Mrs. w. A.
Price, a3 Branch street, Rev. Mr.. Leach
Of Montpelier officiating. Burial was in
Hope cemetery and the bearers were all
! relatives.
| Word has been received in Barre OF
the death of Jack Leslie, granite manu-.
facturer Of Beebe Junction, which viii
bring sadness and genuine regret to the
1 saoY,la Of Rnr and La rIt.+{ats M Il
| lie worked for Jones Brothers while in
Barre and for tn eWoodbury Granite
company in Hardwick. He leaves a wife
and three children. Mr.. Leslie was born
in Clunie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Eergt. Eugene Capt., member Of the
58th Pioneer infantry stationed at Camp
Wordsworth, Spartanburg, S. O., is spend.
ing Is days leave with relatives and
friends in this city, having been called
here by the death of his brother last
week Sergeant Capt. was one Of the
| first to volunteer from Barre last spring
and remained at Fort Ethan Allen until
fall, when he was transferred with other
| Vermonters to Connecticut and later to
southern camps He has risen rapidly
| from private to supply sergeant, being a
first.class private for 70 days and cor
poral for only rs days. His knowledge
of the English tongue is the result of his
own study, Since joining the army he
has taken out his naturalization papers
and his one big desire seems 10 be 70 60
to France and get some Germans" He
expects to leave for camp Saturday and
will stop over at New Haven on the re-
turn trip
| Miss Isabella Thomson, daughter OF
Mrs. l. Thomson Of ! Spaulding street
died Of pneumonia at Fall River, Mass
| yesterday after an Illness Of about three
weeks duration Miss Thomson, who
had been resident Of Barre nearly all
| her life, was born IN Aberdeen Scotland
20 years ago. She came TO Barre with
her parents when about a year old and
grew up here, attending the city schools
and Spaulding high school Before leav.
ing Barre she was employed in the Office
of DR.. ID. @. Jarvis. A year ago she went
to Fan River 10 enter the DR.. Truesdale
| hospital to train for a nurse and it was
there she was taken sick with the infiu.
enza three weeks ago Miss Thomson
was a saember Of the Presbyterian
church, of the ladies Of Clan Gordon, Of
the Odd Ladies and Pocahontas tribe
She is survived by her mother, who was
with her al the end, and by sister, Ger.
trude The body viii be brought tc
Barre on the evening train to-day. Ar.
arrangements for the funeral are not yet
made.
That "The Stars and Stripes, the off.
cial newspaper Of the A. E, r. in France
is maintaining its reputation for being q
real newspaper is proven By glance al
copies Of the periodical just received BY
Miss Penelope Gall from her brother
Lieut. James N. Gall Of the engineering
service. The papers are filled with mat
ter which is interesting to Americans in
the United States and which must b
equally so to the soldiers themselves
@fhe Stars and Stripes is especially
strong in cartoons, the best Of which il
perhaps the representation Of hugs
American soldier coming up over the sidt
Of the earth and surprising Fritzie
who has dropped his gun in amazemeni
and whose helmet is popping right uJ
from his head with his hair following TIL.
helmet to the limit, The cartoon is cap
toned, "The Americans have all beer
sunk" no doubt because Of the German
claims last summer that large number
Of American transports had been sunk
| A Photographic reproduction shows linz
of American soldiers going into actor
west Of Chateau Thierry last July.