The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-29
TALK OF THE TOWN

several weeks.
MIR. and Mrs. George Peterson OF
Laurel street are the parents OF a son
born Wednesday, June 20.
A daughter was born Thursday at the
City hospital TO Mr.. and Mrs. George
Woolsey of 20 Ayers street.
Miss Mary Given, who has been teach
ing school In Moretown, Is at her home
on Richardson street for the summer.
Miss Lessel Hunter Of Hartford, Conn,
is passing several days in the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs, Edwin Keast of Prospect
avenue.
Miss Elizabeth Mcleod Of the Mont
pelier road left this morning for Roches-
ter for visit of several days with
friends.
The Spaulding Sentinel will be given
out at The Times Office tonight between
and 8. This is your last chance TO get
your copy-adv.
DIR. Martins Office win be closed during
the week of July TO July 7, while he Is
attending the national osteopathic con-
vention in Boston.
Miss Mary Barberi, who has been at.
tending the New England Conservatory
of Music in Boston, is passing the sum
mer at her home in Barre.
Loyalty, Message for the Fourth"
is the theme tomorrow night at the
Presbyterian church. Facts relating our
participation in the war will be given.
All members of the ladies' auxiliary TO
Clan Gordon are asked TO leave their due
books with the financial secretary, Mrs.
Mary Angus, before July 2, for the semi
annual audit.
Mrs. Alex Smith, her daughter, Mrs
d. NJ. Gilbertson, and Miss Leona Lamb
have returned from Aver, Mass, where
they visited Private William Smith OF
Camp Devens,
Miss Katherine Nichols, who has been
attending a kindergarten school in Bos
ton, is with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank w. Nichols of North Main street,
for the summer.
Section men yesterday were engaged
in lacking up the fiat car laden with
Barre granite which rode over the bump |
ers in the NJ. & w. r. yard Thursday |
and landed in the ditch
Mr. and Mrs Arthur Rich of Quincy, |
Mass, who have been visiting in St. |
Johnsbury, were guests yesterday OF
Mrs. Margaret Alexander Of Patterson
street, leaving to-day for Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Bates and daugh-
ter, Miss Mildred Bates, of Calais, visited
in the city yesterday. Miss Bates has
returned to Burlington, where she is
student nurse in the Mary Fletcher hos
pital.
Miss Hazel Cobb, who recently com
pleted her duties as a teacher in the
Swanton high school, has returned TO her
home in Cambridge, after visiting in
Barre and vicinity. Miss Cobb is to be a
member of the Spaulding faculty next
year.
About dozen friends of Leona Gamble
gathered at her home on Branch street
to celebrate her fifth birthday Games
were played and refreshments were
served. The guests on leaving wished
her many happy birthdays.
Tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock the
service flag of the Congregational church
. to be dedicated with special services. {
music will be rendered and the /
program as prepared is very impressive /
There are go stars upon the flag. Every {
one is invited to the dedication exercises
To the north of the Barre yard limit +
IN the Central Vermont railroad. train !
men engaged in shunting loaded cars Of :
trout over what is known as the dump j
rack had bit of i'll luck, and a loaded =
lat car, tilted over the bank at an angle
# as degrees is the result Latterly the
abroad has been engaged in reinforcing !
With grout the high bank which skirts !
he roadbed on the east side. Some diff I
ulty is anticipated in returning the car u
o the irons. o
Managers of the Bijou theatre and the
)iversi Fruit Co., while reconfrming the A
eport in yesterdays Times that they \
ave been notified to close their estab- \
ishments in the Arcade building by to- i
light, state that business will be going n
n as usual next week. They are quoted ~
S saying that exceptions to the notiica
ion have been taken, inasmuch as they
ssert that they are entitled to a 30-day II
otice. Hence, say the managers, the n
eport that they are actually to close to- '
light is erroneous. T.
Inquiry in local markets develops the b
that the sale of beef has N
allen off very largely since the food ad- '
issued its appeal for con. u
eryation in that direction. Butchers saw .
hat the almost unparalleled high price ]
t beef undoubtedly contributes in
MEASURE to the decrease in sales, vet they :
re constrained to believe that patriot
, desire to help win the war by abstain. !
1g from beef is largely accountable for ]
he shrinkage in beef sales. Dealers are :
of finding it difficult to purchase beef,
Though wholesale prices are correspond
Ugly high .
Mrs. Gertrude j. Molder of 10 Mount
ernon place received word yesterday |:
-om her daughter, Mrs. Charles S. Jen- y
ms of Haverhill, Mass, that her son,
AIRY L. Kent, passed through "a very
iccessful operation Wednesday, June 20.
he operation took place at the Gale hos Z
tal, Haverhill, Mass. DIR. Pointer of
oston performed it, assisted by DIR.
gorge Of the Gale hospital. Mr.. kent's
ster, Mrs. Jenkins, is caring for him !
be is graduate from the Gale hospital
1915. Mr. Kent is doing as wen as Z
IN be expected. All mail viii reach Mr.
ent, addressed to the Gale hospital
George w. kidder, one of the Grand Z
rmy men who attended the reunion at 4
ewey park Thursday and Friday, is ex-
ecting a call TO government service, in
'much as the surgeon generals depart /:
ent is considering his famous bug Grad
ator in connection with projected eff I
rts to exterminate the "cootie," so
He'd, from the American forces in
rance. Mr.. kidder communicated the
tture of his remedy 20 Senator Dilling-
I'm, who in turn, conferred with the
rgeon generals Office, with the result
at the department is investigating the
erits of the medicine. Mr.. Kidder's :
me is in Montpelier
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