The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
TALK OF THE TOWN

TALK OF The TOWN
Dance, tonight, Rowland hall; gents
Use; ladies, l0c,-ady.
A meeting of the Burns club will be
held in Clan Gordon hall Monday, Dec
%, at o'clock p. m. Per order, presi
dent.
Seamen George Pratt and Edward
Lambert arrived in the city this morning
from Boston to pass furloughs at theiI
| homes here.
| Word has been received in the city
that MIR, and Mrs. James Darling of Mt
| Solo, Wash, have a son. born. Friday
| Dec b. His name is Curtis Utley.
| There will be service Sunday evening
in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rev
F. Barnby Leach of Montpelier officiat
ing. The service commences at o'clocl
and win be held in the auditorium of tn,
church.
\ Weekend passenger service to Mill
stone hill win be resumed by the Barre
\ & Chelsea Railroad Co. late this after
noon. The trains leave at $50 and 9:20
stopping at Websterville, East Barre ant
| Graniteville.
| Raymond H. Eastman, radio operator
on the u. S. S. Nebraska, who has lately
been located at Hampton Roads, Va, ii
spending the holiday season with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alyah Eastman Of
Eastern avenue.
I Word has been received by Mrs. c. A
Heath, that her son-in-law, Leon j. Coun
ter, has submitted to an operation fol
appendicitis, at Jacksonville, Fla. Mr.
| Counters operation was quite serious
but he is improving slowly.
| Trades unions and their work in Barre
during the year now closing were inter
estingly discussed at a meeting of tht
| Central Labor union last evening. Nearly
every trade affiliated with the centra
body was represented, and in certain re
spects much progress was indicated il
their informal reports.
To-day, Monday and Tuesday only
three more days in which to help tbs
Salvation Army in their arrangements K
send out Christmas eats for more thar
800 meals to the most needy Of Barr,
City and Town. Don't fail to put YOU
contribution IN the kettle on Main street
one of those days. Now is the accepted
time.
Among the Vermont arrivals at Hote
Barre last night and this morning were
the following people: John f. Corpet Of
Wetson, l.. G. Leavens of Essex juno
tion, Clayton K. Waite of Concord
George A. Cross and Frank A. Phillips Of
Mortified, G. l. Cummings of Hardwick
G.. H. Orvis of Bristol, Il. P. Hamilton Of
st. Johnsbury, A. o. Gage of Burlington
William Forbes and John Forbes, who
are employed in Springfield, arrived in
the city early this morning, having been
notified last night that news of the death
OF their brother, Thomas Forbes, in
France, had been received by their moth
er, Mrs. Georgianna Forbes The latter
was on the point of leaving for Spring
field to pass the holidays with her sons
when the intelligence from Washington
reached her.
From her son, George J. Thayer, nov
in France, Mrs. George l. Thayer Of
Clark street has received letter, ir
which he refers to the closing Of the
war and adds. you have heard the good
news by this time, so ! viii drop you this
line to let you know that ] am still a,
good as ever and just waiting for the
time when we viii see the good old u. S
A. and home, and believe me, | will b,
one happy boy, now that we have don,
what we came over TO do. But | will new
er be sorry that ! came over here, for
have seen things that ] will never SEE
! again in lifetime"
A reward of $40 is offered for the cap
ture, dead or alive, of a panther which il
, terrorizing the deer population in Orange
county. According to a poster which
Deputy Game Warden Charles Keith Of
| this city is distributing, the reward is of
! fered "for the panther that is chasing
and killing deer in the wilderness Of
Orange and Topsham." Several hunters
are said to have glimpsed the varmint
which is credited with an enormou.
frame and the customary tawny ears
Panther, wildcat and lynx have grown
, so sassy in recent weeks that the pa,
thence of Orange county folks is well nigf
exhausted. An expedition Of local hunt
ers is afoot, and a grand drive on the laii
of the feline despoilers may result Other
information, the poster says, may be OBJ
tanned from County Game Warden N, w
Field of Wells River.
Ten days remain in which war STAMP
pledges may be fulfilled, and while the
city and rural carriers whose headquar
ters is the Barre postoffice are contendine
with the usual Christmas rush of mai
matter, they are not too busy to sci
stamps. The carriers are progressing
steadily in the direction of the $75, 00t
mark, and if the unredeemed pledges
most of which were made in the drive
last summer, are met, their record at tht
close of the fiscal year win be near 800,
900. Thus far sales aggregating 1874 ,933.7I
have been reported, the standing of The
carriers being as follows Postmen--W
d. Macdonald, Sl5,036.67; Thomas Gar
rity, $l0,3229l; William Craig, $s, 922
d. S. Waterman, s6,6s0y46; C. L. Con
verse, $4,l3S.44; +. NJ. Lewis, S302S.03
G. w. Gates, $2,99013; H. b. Houghton
81, 332.s9; rural carriers - Charles Aver
$6,32S.77; James Johnston, S3,06l I2; G
G.. Carr, Sl,S65.09; A. w. Robinson
81 ,020.02.