The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-03
TALK OF THE TOWN

urday afternoon and evening TIL V.-ad
II BE patriotic, Call and buy Libert
bonds at the Quarry Savings Bank
Trust Go.
II William Desmond in "The Captain q
III His Soul flye-reel feature, and "Th
Red Ace,' Bijou tomorrow. adv.
III Auction at Holmes Jewelry Store Ia
II day at 1880. Closing out sale. Every
II thing to 60. Retiring from business.
H The senior class at Goddard seminar
III has completed preparations for the elias
II play, Professor Pep" which will be pre-
II scented May 0.
H Do your bit. Help the Red Cross
H Come to "Thc Girls Over Here" a
Il Spaulding Friday evening, May 3, at
H o'clock. Only Toe.
II just received, new lot of kerogas ant
/ Perfection oil stoves and ovens, wicks
H lawn mowers and wheelbarrows. Il. A
H Prinde, Northen block.
H The Italian Gaiety club will hold III
/ next dance in Bailey hall, Montpelier
\ Friday night, May 10. Special car
Barre members welcomed.
At Washington, ID. c., to-day promi
nent representatives of the Barre granite
industry are comforting with the nationa
H fuel administration on matters pertain
ing to local production and the fuel sup
| ply.
large audience greeted Lyman H.
| Howe's pictures at the opera house last
evening, the pictures containing large
number of new features in addition to
the regular performance, which was edu-
cational and interesting throughout the
evening.
Miss Glynora Gould of Spaulding
street is taking a short vacation from
her duties as cashier at the Daylight
store. During her absence her place Is
being taken by Mrs. Mark Cutler of Elm
street, who was formerly employed in
that capacity.
Section men in the employ of the NJ. &
w. r. railroad pushed the emergency
sidetrack which /extends along Enter
prise alley, nearly to Prospect street yes
terday and called it day. A bumper
will be stationed at the terminus of the
reserve track for the protection of Pros
pect street traffic.
Leon Gotler of Seminary street, who
has been employed as a clerk az the
Homer Fits store during the past year,
expects TO complete his duties there this
evening. Mr. Gotler viii leave the city
/ in the near future with his parents,
| Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gotler, for Spring
| field, Mass, where they are to take up
! their residence.
| The management of the Barre Ath-
letic club and the Goddard seminary
baseball team are planning benefit
game at the seminary campus next
Wednesday afternoon, the proceeds of
the game to be devoted to the athletic
fund to defray the expenses of trip,
which the seminary team is to take IN
a few weeks around Boston.
Mrs Donald Smith of 81 Perry street
has solved the problem confronting local
householders in keeping potatoes from
freezing or rotting during the winter
months Mrs. Smith sent to this office
half dozen large potatoes which were
taken from the ground. as solid as when
dug in the fall. She placed 10 bushels in
the ground last fall as an experiment |
and the results are gratifying.
Liberty loan truths were driven home
with the desired punch at the Park |
theatre last evening when w. Curtis |
johnson of the Peoples National bank |
made one of series of four minute
speeches planned by the local committee
A large audience listened TO the banker
while he appealed for large popular
subscription, and afterward when he
spoke at the Bijou theatre another crowd I
applauded his words.
A Board of Trade committee number
ing 10 citizens conferred on the war chest
matter at the directors headquarters
last evening, and while the proposal to
nrnnaaA with inta afrvf, |
not finally adopted, the committee APP
pointed two of its members to confer
with the Red Cross committee. There is
to be big Red Cross drive thi month,
and it is possible that the two campaigns
filling Barre's proposed war chest is un
der way.
The current issue of the American
Blacksmith Auto and Tractor Shop, a
periodical devoted to interests Indicated
BY its name, contains an article on tool
machines from the pen of
Leroy Kenneth, who has contributed a
number of short stories to popular maya
zines. A reproduction of a sharpening
machine used in one of the larger Barre
plants forms part of the illustrations
accompanying the article, and in the ,
reading matter the following reference
is made: AT Barre, Vt, the center of
the monumental trade in this country, $
several of the tool sharpening machines
have been tried and are proving success
full"
According to information received at .
he headquarters of the Barre Quarters 7
Manufacturers association, Barre g
granite was used in one of the first me
MORALS erected for the perpetuation of a
he memory of soldier who fell fighting c
or America in France. The Hillsboro =
Monument Co., Hillsboro, Tex, recently
,rected a memorial in honor of Private h
1ouis Cleft, whose mother is spoken of a
is the first person in the United States e
o receive the benefit of war insurance
furnished by the government soon after =
'ur troops began to mobilize. The monu
nent is a two-piece memorial with an
III polished die and an axed base. 1t
as been erected in a Hillsboro cemetery.
A centenarian living not far from
'arre is quoted as saying that the past
Tinter was the coolest in memory, and
olks hereabouts whose recollections do
OF go so far back across the span of
ears are quite agreed. but despite the
everity of the solstice from which, hap
lily, we have emerged, it was not cold
nough to freeze some dozens of bushels ~
{ potatoes which wintered in the soil of -
he Morrison farm. Winter and the alb y
ormal shortage OF help last fall caught 4
and ha .raa oov,, | oil