The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-27
TALK OF THE TOWN

noon tea. Board by the week; Ladies
$3.50, gentlemen $5.--adv.
Union Thanksgiving service tonight at
1880 at the Presbyterian church. An Of
fering will be received for the Barre City
hospital, Everybody welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. George i. Bates, who
purchased a farm in Calais some months
ago, have been passing few days at
their home on Orange street.
Dance in the armory, Montpelier, aus.
pices Co. l, V. V, NJ. Music by the SEN
sational Norwich jazz band. Refresh
ments will be served. Admission, 75c;
ladies free,--adv.
Mrs William Mari and son, Julius G,
Chamberlain, Of Franklin street left the
city this morning for Rutland, where
they are passing the Thanksgiving re-
cess with relatives.
Miss Lucille M. Even, who is attached
to the staff of Vogue in New York, ar.
rived in the city yesterday for visit in
the home of her mother, Mrs. James
Even, of Orange street.
Hotel Barre will serve Thanksgiving
dinner at 81 per plate. The management
will appreciate the courtesy il reserya,
WINS dit maui ny calling Abu Oli bAiO bClN7
phone, j. V. Rowen, manager.
Giulio Marzetti, who has been EN-
ployed in Connecticut for several months,
arrived in the city last night from New
York, and expects to begin work next
Monday in the granite industry
Neil Godfrey formerly brakeman on
the Barre & Chelsea railroad, who is
passing the Thanksgiving recess with
Mrs. Godfrey, who is visiting at her for.
mer home in Montpelier, called on friends
in Barre to-day, having arrived yester-
day from Bridgeport, Conn, where he Is
employed in munition plant,
Celebrated Attend the grand Thanks.
giving ball at the city hall, Montpelier,
Thanksgiving evening, Nov. 2s. The IA
nous Norwich university jazz band Of 10
pieces will furnish music for dancing
from till /. This band scored distinct
success in Burlington on Nov 90 and is
the best jazz music in the state. Benefit
Norwich football team. Admission 75c
adv
Ladies' auxiliary to Clan Gordon and
Clan Gordon, No, II, viii hold concert
and dance, also sale of work, on Friday
Dec 6, at 1880 p. m. Several well-known
artists of vocal and instrumental ability
have been engaged for this occasion, also
troupe of dancers will give an exhibi.
tlon Of highland dancing in costume, Ad'
mission, 25c each. All ladies solicited
from before the epidemic please take note
and any who may have been overlooked
win be doing the committee favor by
sending in their donations.
This afternoon the aldermanic charity
committee made an official inspection Of
the city poor farm, with view to au.
| thoriZing the purchase of new furniture
and the renewal Of various furnishings
A part of the furniture was owned by
! the late matron, and is to be replaced
| before the establishment is turned over
/ to her successor. Mrs. Sarah j. Kel.
sey, whose appointment as matron was
announced by the charity committee last
night expects to assume her new du
ties at the end of the week. In the
meantime various minor repairs are be,
ing made on the property.
| Charles N. Summers, a former resident
1 " Montpelier, who has been employed ID
government service, with headquarters IN
| Bridgeport, Conn, since the war began
was in the city yesterday, renewing &C,
quaintanees. Mr.. Summers has had a
varied career in the past thirty years
and he likes to tell OF how he began life
as circus man in Barre long ago H,
| coined up" in this city and accompanied
a well known travelling exhibit of the Ole
DAYS on its tour through New England
| Afterward he served as candy butch
err" and then went into the ring as
clown. He was on duty as government
! inspector in Maine when the Vancebort
bridge was partially destroyed by an al
| legged pro-German, who Is now doing
time in Atlanta, Ga, The death OF Mr.
! Summers wife occurred in Bridgeport
during the influenza epidemic.
Small boys who nov avidIy through
a platterful of wings, breastmeat, leg
and drum sticks on the pretext Of look
ing for the turkeys wishbone viii b,
scarce in Barre tomorrow. True, thu
small boys will be there with picnic ap
F, petites, but the complementary TURKEY
viii be absent from many tables, Tn,
! old fashioned dad who prefaces the bi,
feast with the oft-told story Of Thanks
giving days in his youth viii be presen
with his stern demand as to whether tn,
small boy prefers the light, or the darl
but the query will concern chicken, no
turkey meat. All of which goes to SHOW
that the price Of turkeys has scare,
higher than ever a turkey few in hi
native haunts. Market men are com
PEELED TO ask from 4S to So cents pc
pound, and the surprising development
of the past few days Is that there ar
almost as many takers as there are tur
keys. Chickens are just what you pa,
for them, with good, bad and indigen
! fowls bringing from 3S to so cents tn
pound. Ducks and geese are offered i
limited numbers.
Community singing viii feature
gathering in the opera house Thursda,
afternoon at o'clock, when Barre pee
Pile are urged TO join with other Gown
and cities throughout the nation in re
ioicing over the victorious end OF th
war The government has recommends
that appropriate exercises everywher
, mark this years observance of Thanks
giving and TO that end everybody
urged to attend the community sin
in this city. There will be brief pa
triotic speeches by Rev. F, L. Goodspeet
Rev. j. b. Reardon and Attorney Wi
liam Wishart. w. H. Goodfellow is t
direct the singing, and the chorus word
of each solo will be shown on a scree
by stereopticon. The Spaulding Of
chestra is to be present and boy scout
arc asked to attend in uniform. Anon
the soloists, and their selections, ar
the following Mrsl w. M. HoHeH
"The Americans Gomez" James Bonnet
"Keep the Home Fires Burning" Mis-
Leone Reynolds, keep Your Kisses ri