The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-17
TALK OF THE TOWN

See Abbott's silk and wool sweaters
for fall wear.
Mrs. Angela Cassi, patient at the
City hospital, is getting along nicely .
Regular meeting of tool sharpeners'
branch tonight at 7 o'clock in polish
ers' hall.
Regular meeting of Bright Star Re-
bekah lodge, No. Is, Wednesday even
ing, July II, at o'clock.
Miss Edith Colodny of Burlington is
visiting for few weeks at the home
OF l. Sirkin OF Cottage street.
Miss Ella Williams Of Brooklyn street
went to the City hospital this afternoon,
where she underwent a slight operation
Rev. Josiah Wood, who has been Wis
iting at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
r. Emslie of the Montpelier road, has
returned to her home in Brooklyn, N. Y
States Atty, Allen Martin of Essex
Junction, Sheriff j. H. Allen Of Bur
lington, and H. e. Gray, treasurer of the
Winoosk bank, were among the bust
ness visitors in Barre yesterday,
Misses Nellie, Lorraine and Isabelle
Cady of Chelsea were over Sunday Wis
itors at the home Of Mrs. II. T. Wheel
er of the East Montpelier road. They
are now in camp at Woodbury. lake.
Mr. and Mrs. c. W. Martin and son of
South Main street left the city yester-
day afternoon by automobile for q
weeks tour of Massachusetts,. They ex-
pect to visit for few days in Boston
and Dorchester, Mass.
Mrs Robert B. Knox Of Washington
street, who has been an assistant in a
girls club at Aver, Mass, while her hus-
band, Corp. Knox, trained with an ar.
tillery regiment at Camp Deyens, arrived
in the city last evening
Members of the Barre pipe and drum
band expect to 60 to Orange this even
ing to furnish music for the town flag
raising and Red Cross celebration. Among
the speechmakers engaged are John w.
Gordon and William Wishart of Barre.
Subscribers to the war chest fund are
reminded that they can pay their pledges
from to IL a. m. and TO p. m. every
week day and Mondays, Wednesdays and
Saturdays from to p. M. at Red
Cross headquarters in the school building
facing the common.
Mr.. and Mrs. r H. Prouty and daugl-
ter, Helen, have been spending a few
days at Lake Wsntastiquet, Weston, of
which Mr.. Prouty is a member After
few days trip in the southern part Of
the state, they viii return to the bunga.
low, Marshfeld.
Friends Of John McHugho Of Hill
street, the veteran engineer of the Barre
& Chelsea "air line" will be glad to learn
that he is steadily regaining his health.
Mr. McHugho was dangerously i'll for
several weeks, but his condition has so
far improved as to permit him to walk
about outdoors for a short time each
day.
Beans Of yariouskinds tooka slight drop
in reality if not in price, early this fore
noon, when a youngster had the misfor-
tune of dropping several bags of that
nutriment on the sidewalk near Mier's
uptown barber shop. Nothing daunted,
the youngster seemingly understood the
necessity of conserving food for our al
lies in the worlds greatest conflict, and
quickly gathered the wandering edibIes
| TO the fold.
| Arthur w DeGoosh, graduate Of God
dard seminary in the class of 1889, a
former assistant attorney general of
| Massachusetts, and for several years aft
er his graduation from Tufts college and
Boston university we'll known practic.
/ ing lawyer in Boston, has given up his
office temporarily TO be associated with
the emergency fleet corporation for tie
duration Of the war. Not long ago Mr..
DeGoosh delivered the alumni day ad.
dress at Goddard commencement.
Miss Mary Lease, teacher of piano
music at Goddard seminary, is study
ing this summer with Benjamin Quicken
berger in Boston. She is preparing to
return to Barre to teach the Progress
sive Series of Piano Lessons at the
local school this fall Staudents who take
this course bhe coming year may sub
stitute this work for one of the studies
in the regular course. An arrangement
Is thus created whereby music is placed
on standing with all Of the regular
studies.
| Mrs, d. j. Sullivan Of Cliff street is
slowly recovering from a rather pain.
full experience which she underwent early
I
ignite gas stove. After opening The
| jet underneath the oven of the stove,
Mrs. Sullivan was attempting to light
the burner, when an explosion occurred
which blew open the oven, inficting a
deep and ugly cash above her right eye,
while her face was bruised considera.
bly, by the force of the explosion. A
physician was called to dress the wound.
The force of the explosion was of such
nature to blow out one of the windows
in the kitchen.
Miss Ethel Duke of Marshfeld, a grad
uate of Goddard seminary in the com.
mercial class of 1916, who has been en-
| ployed as government worker in Wash
| ington, d. c., for the past six months,
has under consideration an offer to 90 to
France to be employed in the Office at
Gen. Pershing's headquarters, according
| TO information received by Barre friends
of the young woman Miss Duke was
an unusually apt pupil at Goddard, and
her appointment to responsible posi-
/ tion in Washington came soon after
she had completed her duties in the Office
of a local granite manufacturer.
The funeral of Frank Lorenzo Jones
the five-yearold son of Mr.. and Mrs
i. M. Jones Of Vine street, Montpelier
former residents of Barre, whose death
Monday afternoon followed an attack
of acute nephritis and complications
was held at the house Tuesday afternoon
at 1880 o'clock, Rev Wesley G. Mead
pastor of Trinity Methodist church al
the capital, officiating. The body wa.
brought to this city for interment in the