The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-16
TALK OFTHE TOWN

Presbyterian church concert tonight
adv.
Flower girls please be at Rowland hal
at 1880 tonight,
X. of c. war fund dance Tomorrow
night 81 per couples extra ladies, s5c
adv.
New LOT ladies low and high heel rub
beers by express. Rogers Walk-0yer Boot
Shop.
Mr., aud Mrs Patrick lIemon have
lgone TO Boston, where they are making
visit of several days with relatives.
During the absence Of Chief Sinclair
who has been summoned to Worcester
Mass, ON business connected with the
department, Deputy Chief Harry Gam
BILE is doing duty at the police station.
p 4. Mclaughlin Of Philadelphia. Pa,
publisher of well known monument
trade journal, arrived in the city yester-
day and is staying at Hotel Barre,
while passing several days in the Barre
granite district.
Thomas Davidson of Windsor, n for
mer student of Barre and who has been
employed as a munition maker AT Wind
sor during the past several months, is
spending few days with friends and
relatives in the city.
Within few days the assessors
quarters at city hall will be turned over
to a representative OF the internal reve-
nue. department, who Is 10 use the room
as an office for limited period in which
persons against whom income taxes are
to be levied may consult him. Janitor
George Bemis arranged the room for the
revenue officer to-day.
+. b. Glover. well known Rhode Is
land monument retailer, who has been
staying at Hotel Barre while ON buy
ing visit in the Barre granite belt, has
returned to his home in Providence
Friends of Charles Flint, who left Barre
some months ago,for Boston will be glad
learn that he is recovering from serious
illness. Mr.. Flint was stricken with a
attack of pneumonia, and for
a time his condition was critical.
Barrebound passengers aboard one of
the main line trains of the Central Yer
mont railroad last night experienced the
novelty of hitting the ties from the june
tion to the capital, and when systematic
attempts TO secure lodging accomm9da
tions in the somnolent neighborhood of
the station failed, most of those who
had abandoned all hope of reaching Barre
before daylight, returned to the day |
coaches and bunked in the seats. A |
party of railroad agents consisting of |
Joe Parrott, Tom Wallace, George Brown |
and G. +. McCurdy were among those
and after exhausting the pos
.ibilities of cribbage resigned themselves
10 sleep. In concluding their journey,
he railroad men were among the first /
% patronize the street cars this morning.
Householders whose hopes for relief
rom the sugar shortage have been
,uoyed up by honeyed stories Of huge
argoes arriving in Boston, are won
lerng why some of the commodity is
lot being diverted to Barre. Yesterday
me of the first consignments to be re-
eived in this city in several days came
o a town concern and for the bet
er part of the day all business in the
establishment was suspended while the
gave themselves over to the
ask of handling mad rush OF sugar
uyers. Throughout the forenoon and
arly afternoon 700 pounds were doled
ut in pound packages, while small
lied mob nearly blocked the sidewalk ,,
ONE gallons OF water proceeding from
of snow tracked in by sugar J
lstomers flooded the floor and reduced !,
le dealer to the necessity of using .
lickness of sawdust to absorb the mois- : !,
ire. /,