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

See Abbotts bargain basement for spe
cials.
Mothers day greeting cards at Bell &
a surprise bargain in figured yoiles
Little Dry Goods Store. Cottage street
The best choice OF striped and checked
tahetas. Little Dry Goods store, Cottage
street.
Auction at Holmes Jewelry Store TO.
day at 1880. Closing out sale Every.
thing to go. Retiring from business.
A meeting of the ST. Andrews club
will be held in the rooms, Scampini
block Friday evening at 1880 o'clock.
James Mitchell, secretary.
A regular meeting of ST. Johns court.
G. Q. f. will be held Thursday evening
AZ 7 o'clock, followed BY smoke talk.
Two OF the state officers will be present.
In decorating the windows for next
week, II is suggested that the merchants
use the Stars aud Stripes as much as
possible, in honor of the Odd Fellows
convention.
Barre friends of Mrs G. n. Nourse
and Miss Georgiana Wilson, who sold
their millinery store in this city some
months ago, will be interested to learn
that they have established fine mil.
linery business in Athol, Mass.
Walter Kopf, a member of the Goddard
seminary baseball team, left this fore
noon for New Britain, Conn, where he
will spend few days at his home He
will rejoin his teammates at Boston on
Saturday, where they are slated to meet
the Exeter academy baseball aggrega-
ton
Mr. and Mrs. George Murray and chill
dren of Division street left this forenoon
for Claremont. n. H., where they expect
to take up their residence Mr.. Murray
has been in charge of the local branch of
the Sullivan Machinery Co. during the !
past several years and expects to Sc.
cure employment in the plant of the /
company at Claremont.
A Mortified exchange prints the fol. !
lowing item: "The Houston Trout club I
held its annual meeting and fish dinner
Wednesday evening at the home of +. p
Houston on North Main street The fol-
lowing were elected directors for the en-
suing year; John 0'Leary of Barre f. p.
Houston of Mortified, CHARLES H. Wish
art, James +. Higgins and James Maekay
of Barre. The trout served at the dinner
were caught during the afternoon from
the club pond near Mr.. Houston's.
AT the last meeting of Cobble Hill
grange there was not much done out
side OF regular work. One candidate was
balloted on. 1t was decided not to con
Ter the degrees this quarter. The pro-
gram was as follows: Piano solo, Earle I
Winter; rollcall, answered by anecdotes;
'eading, Miss lnez Thurston; music, la
lies chorus; current events, Maynard I
reading, a. l.. Smith; letter
cad by Mrs. Thurston from Justin Bar
Der, describing life somewhere in France;
ong, grange.
The Barre A. c. vs. Goddard seminary
baseball game, which was to have been
layed yesterday afternoon at the semi
AIRY campus, was postponed owing to \
he wet condition of the grounds. The !
anne will be played al the campus this 4
fternoon at Ais o'clock, the proceeds J
eing devoted to defraying the expenses Z
t the trip to Boston, which the club
axes tomorrow forenoon The team
Till meet the Exeter aeadmy team Sat Z
rday afternoon, while the Dean acad.
my team will be their opponents next I
Vednesday afternoon. I
Grand Army veterans OF Washington
ounty are to hold their association
leeting in June this year, instead OF \
ugust, the month when the boys OF '0l
ave been wont to gather around the
impfire for many years. Sec John r.
yilson, who is returning TO his home In
Worcester to-day for the summer, stated 2
lat the dates, June p and 2S, will X
,conmodate larger number of persons ;
Y reason of the fact that they come 2
,fore the hsying season begins Dewey =
ark win be the rallying place for The
isocation and allied patriotic organ
ations are assisting the veterans in
leir plans for the affair Mr. Wilson
i'd to-day that ten names have been
lded to the neurology roll since last
,ptember, somewhat smaller number
an usual III