The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-19
TALK OF THE TOWN

turned to their home in Burlington, aft
er visiting friends in this city.
Miss Blanche Spaulding Of Jefferson
street left the city to-day for Albany,
N. Y, where she was summoned by the
illness of her sister-in-law.
Mrs, Stanley Marsh and little son,
Stanton, of Sunnyside farm have re-
turned from visit of several days with
relatives near Enosburg Falls.
Step into the Cafe Shepard for aft
The Ladies Of Clan Gordon will hold a
regular meeting Tuesday, Nov. 10, at
| 7;l5 p. m. Nomination of officers.
The ladies' aid society of st. Monica S
church will hold a whist party in X. Of
G. hall Wednesday evening at o'clock,
Everybody invited. Admission, 25c. lad.
Perfection oil heaters and wicks, Andes
ranges and heaters, three second hand
Glenwood ranges for wood or coal, stove
pipe and elbows and stove-boards. Cal
at Z. A. Prindles, Worthen block.
A son, George Weber, jr, was born
Saturday, Nov, l6, to Mr., and Mrs.
George c. Weber Of Springfield, Mass.
Mrs Webber is remembered in Barre as
Miss Marguerite Cayhue, formerly Of
this city.
| James Armstrong, who has been en-
ployed in Springfield, Mass, for the
past six months, has returned to the
| city Mr.. Armstrong expects to leave
later in the week for Chester, Pa, TO be
employed in the shipyards.
Because of combination OF circum-
stances which has interfered with other
public gatherings in Barre this fall,
| Clan Gordon has definitely abandoned
| plans for its annual bazaar. In its stead
| there will be a concert and dance, ac-
companied by a sale of fancy work, al
! though the affair will occupy only one
| evening" instead of three The date re-
| served for the entertainment is Dec. @
and committee representing the clans
men and the ladies' auxiliary to the clan
is completing preparations for the event,
A tropical rain, punctuated by occa-
sional thunder peals and now and then
sharp flash of lightning last night fur
nished sort Of climax to the quaek
weather which this stumbling futility
of fall has put over. People who
trained weather eve say that the cleo
trical display presaged drop in temper,
allure; all of which is safe prediction
so long as no dates are vouchsafed, Rain
fell heavily, but it failed to have clari-
/ flying effect on the air, although the pre-.
diction to-day promised clearer weather
The street department found a number
Of hill highways badly washed this
morning, but the damage was easily re-
paired.
| Nine applicants for work in the ship.
yards at Chester, Pa, appeared yester'
day at the government employment bu.
reau in the Morse building, and other
1 applications were being considered to-
| day by representative of the U. s
emergency feet corporation. It is be.
lieved that Barre has long since fur.
nished its quota in the governments call
for men to be employed in essential in
dustries, but the applications are not
being turned down. SO prompt has been
the response to the new appeal for labor
that series Of mass meetings projected
at the beginning of the week probably
will be abandoned. The latest volun-
teers expect to 60 to Chester, Pa, with.
in few days,
The late-season hiatus caused by the
necessary abandonment Of football at
Goddard seminary il being filled with
preparations for basketball league
with several Of the eight teams which
are to compete already in the process Of
| formation. School on the hin top re-
opened so late in the gridiron season
that no attempt was made to organize
an eleven, but the proposed basketball
league is calculated to afford the neces.
sary outlet for the energies of the sem
! mary athletes. Prin. O. X. HOLSTER said
to-day that eight teams will be in the
race, and that two games each week will
be played between now and Christmas
The commercial department is to be rep.
| resented by two teams, and the remain
ing six are to be selected from other de.
| partments.
One of the proudest hunters in Barre
| il Lewellyn Densmore, Washington
Fstreet youngster who has yet to emerge
from his teens. The boy has returned
from a trip to Worcester mountain
where he was successful in bringing
down an eight-point buck that lowered
| the beam at the $50 mark He shot the
| deer Friday but some time was occupied
in getting the venison out Of the woods
| The youthful nimrod has brother in
France and he is hoping that the sol
| der will be home in time to enjoy d
yenison roast for Christmas. With here
and there an exception, such as the one
noted, hunters are meeting with indiffer.
ent success in their quest, and as the
curtain closes on the hunting season to.
morrow night, it is not at all likely that
| the seasons toll of deer killed in Yer.
mont this year will anywhere near ap-
proach the record Of preceding years. A
number OF hunters who have been rang.
ing the mountains in central Vermont
returned to the city yesterday.
S. H. Lewis of Felchville, an old-time1
among retail clerks Of another genera.
ton in Barre, called on friends in the
city yesterday while on his way tC
Groton, where he expects to be employed
during the winter Mr. Lewis comes
from the town that gave Hank White
to the world Of minstrelsy and some Of
the dry humor which seems TO be indigo
nous to the atmosphere Of that quiet
village is part of his agreeable person.
atty. Many years ago he was employed
in the store which L. NJ Averill con.
Quoted in this city, and in time he came
to know most of the local celebrities Of
that day. His visit here yesterday &C.
quainted him with the melancholy new:
that a number Of them had long since
succumbed to the sickle of the vel
known grim reaper. Mr. Lewis goes t.
Groton to accept farm work, the open,
ing having come to him through an ad
vertisement in the New England Home.