The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-16
TALK OF THE TOWN


Munsingwear at Abbott's.
Edwin i. Smith OF White River juno
ton is visiting for few DAYS witt
friends in the city.
la keslsta corsets, with spirabone side
stay, at Mrs Shepard Co, Inc. Corsets
fitted, Sl.00 TO $3.50.
Charles ID. Swasey returned To hls
I home In Waterbury this morning, after
visiting friends in the city
Judge H. w Scott of Richardson street
has returned from Boston. where he at
tended the annual convention of the n.
4. Q. p.
Ernest Houston, who recently moved
from Barre TO Rochester, il visiting
friends in the city while attending the
Odd Fellows convention
The sock yarn, so long waited for by
Red Cross knltters, has arrived and will
be given out at the work room in the
Spaulding building tomorrow afternoon,
| A party Of chauffeurs consisting of
Fordyce jackson, Frank Hutchinson, Ned
Glysson and Arthur Bullock left the city
this morning for Buffalo, n. Y. They
will make the return trip in Ford cars
consigned to the Perry Auto company,
Clues TO the perpctrator of the bur.
glary in the Allen Lumber Co.'S office in
Depot square Tuesday night or Wednes-
day morning are rather conspicuously
lacking. The police incline TO the theory
that someone familiar with the interior
of the Office forced the window and then
rifed the safe.
Thomas Baker of Granitevile. who
gave the police a hard struggle during
the first few moments of their attempt
to arrest him ON Merchant street yester.
day, appeared before Magistrate II. w.
Scott in city court this morning and ac.
knowledged an intoxication offense. II
was subsequent transgression for him
and he was required to pay fine of SIS
with costs attached.
determined effort to forestaIl an
other fuel shortage in Barre and Barre
Town next winter has so far progressed
as to enlist the aid of the Barre Quar-
riers & Manufacturers association and
the Board of Trade Recently the quar-
riers and manufacturers appointed
committee consisting Of II. w. Varnum, I
William Barclay and Ernest j. Batehel I
der TO cooperate with the Board of
Trade committee in the matter of obtain
ing wood for use in the granite manufac
turing plants The fuel administration \
has strongly recommended substituting
wood for coal, especially soft coal, wher
ever possible, and while there are some
drawbacks TO the use of wood in the 4
stone plants, ii is believed that the sub
stitute will work out quite satisfactorily.
At his home on Maple avenue last
evening, Patrick II. Massie was pleasant
ly surprised when a large number Of his
friends gathered to tender him farewell
party. Mr., Massie, who has been EN-
ployed for some time by the Gerard !
Barclay Granite company, is one of the
young men who are TO leave for Bur
lington to undergo training at the Uni Z,
yersity of Vermont Mrs. Alex Cooper,
in neat and appropriate speech, pre-
sented Mr.. Massie, on behalf of those
present wrist watch, safety razor and
sweater, to which he feelingly replied.
The evening WAS pleasantly spent in
social manner in song and story by the
company present, while a Hooverized
unch was served by committee con-
'isting of Mrs. Cooper, Miss Mary Mas
lie, Mrs. Joseph Fraser and Mrs. James
dassie, jr.
Announcement that a Barre war au-
Hence is to have the privilege of hearing
Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale, one i,
# the most gifted women in America,
las aroused a good deal of interest in =
he war rally TO be held at the opera I
louise next Tuesday evening. Efforts to {
make it an old fashioned patriotic rally II
With fervor mounting to white heat un-
viii be successful, if the pres a
mt tenor of the public may be taken as a
n indication. The Brattleboro Reformer b
commented as follows on Mrs. Forbes
robertson Hale's rally speech in that f.
own: ut was about the most finished, Il
aost forceful and most appealing of all {,
he patriotic addresses that Brattleboro :,
eople have been given an opportunity to !,
ear during the past six months. Her 4
rraignment of German 'frightfulness' as Il
military weapon carefully devised and II
razenly executed was marvelously :,
-ell executed bit of rhetoric in addition -.
D being an Illuminating commentary on ),
he nature of the thing we are fighting -
D destroy