The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-25
Talk OF THE TOWN

/ Special values in waists at Abbott's.
/ Frank r. Phillips, a Mortified granite
manufacturer, was visitor in the city
yesterday.
Luke Gallagher of Laurel street is
assisting as night clerk at Hotel Barre
for few days.
Mrs. LA Gardens left Barre Monday
night for Syracuse, N. Y, where she goes
in search of health.
Twenty-Five second hand stoves want
ed in exchange for new ones. E. A. Prin-
die & Co., Worthen block
Joseph Burnett, granite dealer of
Montreal, is In the city visiting the
trade and placing orders
William Brodie of II Bugbee avenue
has received word that his son, William
Brodie, IT,, has arrived safely overseas.
Martin Mcmahon has returned to his
home in Boston, after passing several
/ days in Barre, where he formerly re-
sided
| Bags will be distributed during the
next few days for the hospital bag day.
Don't lay yours aside, but fill it and
have it on the steps the morning Of
Oct. 81.
I hSslcY IiUiIlthl Vi 4NDfbu Nlhlh NlistL,
well known local cigar manufacturer,
k quite seriously i'll, although his con-
dition to-day was reported to be slight
/ ly improved.
Lester A. Carpenter, who has been
passing several months in Albany, N. ",
has returned to Barre to resume his du-
ties as printer in the printing establish
ment of N. j. Roberts.
Mr.. and Mrs. James X. Anderson and
Mrs. Alex Mccarthy left to-day for Ha-
verhill, Mass, called there by the death
Of Miss Mary Rnderson, former resi-
dent of Barre, which occurred yesterday,
! A number of Barre football fans are
planning TO 20 to Mortified tomorrow
afternoon to witness the game between
Norwich university and Middlebury col
lege The collegian teams are to meet at
Howard field
T. G. Mayo, superintendent for the
! Boston & Maine railroad, has returned to
his home in st. Johnsbury, after making
business calls in the local Offices of the
Barre & Chelsea and the Montpelier &
Wells River railroads.
Shop early" signs are beginning to
appear in local store windows in autici-
patton of the Christmas trade, and mer-
chants will endeavor to further federal
recommendations by urging their Gus.
toners to attend to holiday shopping
before the rush.
Barre friends of Lieut.. Y. j. Dole, a
former member of the faculty at Spauld-
ing high school, will be interested to
learn that he has been transferred from
Carlstrom field, Acadia, Fla, TO Langley
/ field, Hampton, Va. Lieutenant Dole is
attached to the air service.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Rogers of Orange
street have returned from motor trip
| to Boston. They were accompanied TO
Boston by their son, John L. Rogers,
who has entered the students army
training course at Harvard university,
where, until he joined the colors, he was
student in the dental school
DIR. George W. Bacon, who came here To
assist In checking the epidemic has re-
turned TO his home in Eden, Although a
practitioner of many years experience
Dr. Bacon had been in retirement for
some time when the call for assistance
reached his ears, He was uniformly sue.
eessful in administering to his influenza
patients.
The annual bag day for the Barre City
hospital win be held this year Thursday,
Oct. 81, when every citizen OF Barre and
the surrounding towns is asked TO show
4 his generosity toward this institution
As usual, bags win be left at each home
and each householder is asked to place
his bag, filled, on the steps before 8
o'clock of the morning of Oct. 81
A small blaze in the garage Of Paequei
& Martin, off Granite street, called out q
part of the FIRE department on still
alarm this forenoon at $3.50 o'clock. The
fire started from an overheated wood
stove near the main entrance to the
building and burned q hole in the floor
1t was quickly eXtingIished by chem,
icals. A nominal sum will repair the
slight damage.
chimney fire in the farmhouse OF
Dean T. Bassett Of upper Prospect street
caused degree of anxiety among the
occupants, and shortly after 4 o'clock
the fire station was asked to send re-
lief. The auto fire truck made the trip
up the Hill and the tirenen were instru-
mental in eliminating any danger that
threatened the building. One Of their
number was left on the premises until
the blaze in the chimney had subsidized
entirely.
The body Of Miss Isabella Thomson
daughter Of Mrs Isabella Thomson OF
Spsulding street, who died of pneumonia
Wednesday in Fall River, Mass, wher,
she had been engaged as a student nurse
arrived in the city over the Central Yer
mont railroad last evening at 6;l5 o'clock
The funeral viii be held at the hous,
Saturday afternoon at o'clock, Rev
Edgar Grassland, pastor of the Firs'
Presbyterian church, officiating. Inter
ment Is to be made in Hope cemetery
J. @. DeBrune went to Waterbury this
morning to close up matters growing out
of the permanent highway construction
on the south outskirts Of the village
over which he had the supervision this