The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21
TALK OF THE TOWN

H See A. V. Beckley's adv. on page Dad
Read Shea's special shoe adv, page A.
adv
War chest payments should be made at
| Church street school building, near Con-
gregational church.
Dance at Dewey park Wednesday, June
20, Italian Gaiety club. Members have
privilege of inviting Italian guests.
Rev. and Mrs. George i. Forticr and
daughter of st. Adams are in the city
to attend the commencement exercises at
Goddard seminary.
Rev. Frederick III. Cole of st. Albals, a
member of the class of 1898, is registered
at Hotel Barre while here to attend the
alumni exercises at Goddard seminary.
Special sale on oil stoves, ovens, lawn
mowers, garden hoes, Andes wood, coal
and gas ranges, two good second hand oil
stoves Get prices. Il. A. Prindle, Worth.
en- block.
Pupils of the Ayers street school have
completed varicolored afghan, which Is
to be presented to the Barre Red Cross
branch. The afghan is exhibited in Mrs.
Lillian Duncan's millinery store.
Ernest Marchetti Of Pearl street, who
has been employed until recently at the
City Wine store, left the city this fore
noon for Waterville, Me-, where he cx-
poets to secure employment.
Patrons of Martins Book Store will
now be able to get the Sunday New York
Times, The Sun and World at @ p. m.
Sunday evening. Because OF increased
cost In production and postage, single
copies will be sold hereafter for l0c.--ad.
1t is expected that those who attend
| the graduation exercises of Spaulding
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! ing will be in their seats by s O'Clock,
ss the program will be started promptly.
1 Because of the large size of the class,
practically all the available seats have
been reserved for the relatives and
| friends OF the class.
| Around % Barre men have signed up
to go to Bellows Falls, where there is
brisk demand for labor in the munition
plant operated by the Vermont Farm
Machinery Co. Agents of the company
who are stopping at Hotel Barre are
making a special appeal to men now EN-
ployed in non -essential pursuits, as it is
argued that men who are unable to fight |
may help the nation win the war by
turning out munitions
At the instigation of the aldermanic |
health committee, the street department |
viii begin Monday the monthly collec |
ton of garbage. Householders are re-
ferred to the printed schedule of streets
distributed year ago and adopted again
last spring as the schedule TO be followed |
bv the collectors. In May the collection
was omitted through inadvertence, but
il is the intention of the health commit
tee to order a collection monthly until
November II is suggested that house
holders refrain from putting garbage at
the curbing until the morning Of the day
when the collectors are due on their
streets.
The smoking of a cigarette by one OF
the roomers in the Quinan building early
this morning resulted in telephone call
at the fire station shortly after
o'clock. The smoker, after smoking for
few minutes in the wee hours of the
morning, dozed off and was only awak-
ened after merry little blaze had her
aided itself by its cracking. The call
mt the station for assistance came about
quarter past one and few minutes
later the truck, with several regulars
aboard. was dispatched to the scene OF
the blaze. The fire was extinguished
within a few moments with the aid OF
chemicals, the only damage being to the
mattress and bed clothes.
Among the guests arriving at Hotel
Barre last night and this morning were
the following people: +. o. Powers OF
Lynchburg, Va, +. A. Fraser and O. j.
BRUNEI of Manchester, S. A. Soule of
Fairfield Rev. and Mrs. G. F. Fortier
and child of St Adams, Miss Helen Wal
lace OF Fairfield, II, S. Soule Of Fairfield,
Leon S. GRAY of Cavendish H. c. Pratt
of Proctor, Mr. and Mrs. c. II. Collins of
Wakefield, Mass. Robert Densmore of
Lockport. n. Y, c. II. F. johnson and
G. W. Richmond of Newport. Mr.. and :
Mrs. Arthur NJ Hall of Springfield. c. A. {
Smith of Ludlow, f. H. Cole of st. AL
bans, W. f. Sargent of Warren, L. i.
Savin of Brattleboro, +. Mildred Dutton 9
of Randolph, G. W. Patterson of Ran q
dolph, f. W. Stevens OF Burlington, Clay
ton T. Waite of Concord, n. H., H. n.
Davis of Burlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Grant of Worces-
ter, Mass, are visiting in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Booth of Windsor
Terrace. They are passing part OF their .
honeymoon in Barre, their marriage hav- !
ing been kept secret from friends. The i
ceremony took place in Worcester I
month ago, Rev. E. Phillips, a Congre- ;
gational minister, performing the cere- !
mony. Mr. Grant is employed as ma =,
,hinist by the Norton Grinding Co. of !
Worcester. in which city the newly we'd =
led couple are to reside at % Freeand !
street. The groom is to report for duty !
in a mechanics contingent at Whitehall a
institute July |. The bride, who was /.
Miss Margaret Booth, lived in Barre
until a year ago, when she went to
Worcester, Mass. She was formerly en-
Dloyed by the United Fruit Co of this 7