The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-01
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Maceabees, attention. No meeting
Please come to X. Of P. hall at p. M
Stop to pay dues.
John Clark of North Main street has
gone to Boston, where he expects to be
employed during the winter.
! Mrs. Gertrude G. Milne of Liberty
street has returned to the city after
passing several days with relatives in
Boston and Quincy, Mass.
Members Of the ladies' auxiliary to
Clan Gordon will meet Wednesday after
noon at O'Clock to attend the funeral
of the late sister Mcdonald.
/ Both Supt. f. o. Lee of the city wa
ter department and Chief c. B. Gladdng
of the fire department are recovering
from attacks of the Spanish influenza.
John +. Cook of East street, who re-
Gently received word that his grandson,
Lieut.. George f. Watkins, was killed in
action, has returned from Springfield,
Mass, where he visited the young mans
relatives
On account of the grip epidemic the
meeting Of the Marquis de Lafayette
chapter, Daughters of the American
] Revolution, which was to have been held
III Waterbury Saturday, Oct. 5, has been
indefinitely postponed.
A German gas mask and metal con-
/ tainer into which one may surmise once
flowed Pilsner or some other heady brew
much sought by the Teutons are shown
in the north window at the Smith 4
Cummings store. The trophies of the
big Hun retreat were sent overseas by a
Barre boy who figured in the July drive,
a telegram was received yesterday
afternoon announcing the accidental
death of e. Valliere at ST. Anselms, Que,
the man being brother of Arthur Val
liere of Maple avenue, who died at a
hospital in st. Johnsbury last Sunday of
influenza. 1t is expected that double
funeral will be held Wednesday. An
other brother, Eugene, is at present sta
toned at Camp Deyens.
There are 3,l76,22S widows in the Unit
ed States. Ninety per cent lack ordi-
nary comforts. Death need not be de-
sertion. A widow on the payroll of the
Penn Mutual can never core to want.
By the way, our offices are now located
in the rooms directly over the Granite
Savings bank, up one fight; aew phone
call, 203M. Ballard 4 Woodruff, Gen
eral Agents, Barre.
Goddard seminary students, in the
main, are not affected by the grip, al
though number of those enrolled have
been confined to their beds This after
noon it was said that only seven are in
bed as the result of the grip, and it was
expected that most of them would be in
attendance at the classes tomorrow The
closing order which the board Of health
is enforcing with respect to the city
schools did not include Goddard, and
while student activities are somewhat
curtailed, the classes have not been sus-
pended
To-day the street railway company
began the operation Of its ears under the
new dispensation recently granted by the
city councils Of Barre and Montpelier
and the board of selectmen in Berlin.
| Thirty cents is the price for four tick
cts on the interurban trip, the increase
over the old price being five cents. Local
fares are increased from 5 cents to 9
cents, and the running time provided for
| in the new franchises issued last spring
is not used Thus far the appearance
Of women operatives on the branch lines
in Barre and Montpelier has been post
poned.
Two wayfarers put in an appearance
in municipal court this forenoon when
Magistrate Fl. w Scott began to iron
out the creases in the days docket
George r. Parker of Skowhegan, Me.
was locked up early to-day, acknowl
edged first intoxication offense, and
, went on his way with some show of re-
joicing when the Judge fined him only
, So and costs. James Carruthers Of
South Ryegate, who was arrested Mon
day forenoon, entered a plea Of guilty
when charged with first offense ant
, settled by paying the minimum fine anc
! costs,
Cheerful obedience to the necessarily
4 drastic measures adopted by the boarC
: of health was the rule and not the ex
ception to-day among those most i'm
t mediately affected by the closing order
1 All public meetings projected for tht
I current week have been postponed
Church services are to be omitted, anC
: performers in the silent drama, which i
the high brow name for the movies, hav,
been expressed in their film cases to tn,
= nearest unmolested village. Both pic
L ture houses are closed. Saloon keeper
drew their shutters last night and to
5 day most of the soda fountain propri
etors were featuring something beside
college ices at the refreshment stands
Clubs in town closed with one accord a
soon as the order became known.