The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-01
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Rev. FIR. Joseph Turcot of st. Syl'
vester's parsonage in Graniteville was a
visitor in Burlington to-day.
Antonio Broggi of Summer street re-
turned Saturday from business visit
of several days in st. Johnsbury.
j.. A. Drown was business visitor
in st. Adams to-day, having been called
there to examine carload Of automo-
biles.
Marion Bernasconi who was been Wis
iting his sister on Brook street for a
Mass where he is employed as a ship
builder.
Miss Irene Grady of Laconia, n. H.,
is visiting for few days at the home
of her mother, Mrs. Rose Grady, of Mer-
chant street.
Miss Helen Stockwell of Lyndonvile
arrived in the city to-day to begin a
course in the training school for nurses
at the City hospital.
Mrs. Anne Mcpherson Of Wheelock,
who has been visiting relatives in Lyn-
dom arrived in the city to-day to spend
several days with her sister, Mrs. Ella
Favor.
Cyril Marion, student at Holy Cross
college, who is passing the Easter holi-
DAYS at his home here, went TO Burling-
ton this morning for few days visit
with relatives.
Miss Olive Mcknight, who has been
spending the past week at her home on
the Forsyth place, returned this fore
noon to Castleton, where she is enrolled
in the Castleton Normal school.
Private John Hollenbach who has
been passing furlough with his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. John Hollenbach in
South Barre, returned to-day to Aver,
Mass, where he is stationed at Camp
Devens.
Mrs. Edward Matott, who has been
living in Washington, d. c., for several
wears, arrived III the city this morning
for an extended visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs Harper Mitchell, OF North
Maine street.
James Glass of Brook street, who has
been employed at the Trow & Holden
plant on South Main street for several
years, left Saturday evening for New
| York City, where he expects to enlist in
the naval reserves.
Seaman William j. Gibson of the L. s.
| s. Agamemnon arrived in the city Sat
urday TO pass a brief furlough with rela-
tives He was accompanied by Mrs.
Gibson, who has been spending some
time in Springfield, Mass.
| Robert Russell, a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Claude Russell of Vergennes, and until
recently a student at Goddard seminary,
has enlisted in the L. S. navy, according
! to information received by his friends in
Barre. Mr. Russell is classified as sec
| ond class seaman in the naval reserve,
and has been ordered to Pelham Bay,
my.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Oliver, sr.. of
! Elm street left last evening for Wester. !
! lv, 4. T., where they will make visit I
! Of two weeks with friends and rela
! tives at their former home. Before re- !
! turning home Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver ex
/ pect to attend the golden wedding cele-
| bration of the latter's sister, and they |
also will spend few days with rela-
tives in Providence, r. J.
Negotiations completed Saturday even |
ing resulted in the purchase by Martin
Rilev. IT., of the house at II Beacon |
street owned by Joseph Kovalsky, the
tailor. Possession is to be given i'm |
mediatey. aud Mr.. Riley will move from 1
East to Beacon street at once The /
property figuring in the deal was for
merly occupied by man named Cato, |
from whom it was purchased by Mr.
kovalsky.
All roads from the countryside deviat-
ed toward the Cow livery on South Main
street Saturday, when the horses, car
riages, sleighs, etc, went under the ham
mer. 1t was the second livery stable
sale within a week and prices ranged
high c. +. Smith was the auctloneer,
and business in the shadok of thel livery |
barn continued brisk until late in the
afternoon. The proprietor Of the estab- |
lishment James Cow, is retiring from
business in order to enter sanatorium.
Hundreds OF people roamed the hills
about Barre yesterday, the weather be-
ing we'll adapted to spring hiking. Maple
sugar orchards within easy walking dis
tance of the city we're the goals for
many of those who spent the afternoon
afield and new maple syrup and sugar
were much sought. On the F. NJ. Little
in Graniteville, where Mr.. Button is
making sugar this year, the local EN-
ploves of the American Express com
panv were guests while the sugar max
er sugared off There were other visit
ors also. At the Richardson farm near
North Barre, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bar
Der entertained several sugaring parties.
Sap ran freely, and many farmers who
spent the day gathering were busy in
their sugar houses to-day
Accompanied by Coach James Kenefck
and Principal H. II. Jackson of the high
school, the Spaulding basketball team
left this forenoon for Morrisyille, where
they will meet the Burlington high
school team this evening TO decide the
championship of the state interseholas-
tic league. The players going on the
trip were: Capt. Geals, Mann, Lyon,
Morse. Carpenter and Wilkin. Owing to
the fact that both teams finished the
league race tied for the first position,
the post-season game TO decide the
championship became necessary, and as
a result of negotiations between the two
arrangements during the past two weeks,
the Peoples academy gymnasium at
Morrisville was decided upon as the stag
ing ground for the contest.
A freight derailment between Roxbury
and East Granville caused a delay in
early morning mails to-day, although
southbound passenger connections were
restored before the l:45 train for White
River Junction and Boston left the local
station. Passengers aboard the north
bound train due here at 4:20 a. m. were
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