The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-13
TALK OF THE TOWN

bolts.
Newell Parker, who is employed b
!, the Fairbanks Scale company az 81
Johnsbury, is spending a few DAYS at hi
home on Spaulding street.
william Ross and Charles Lowe, VIII
have been employed in munitions plan
at Hartford, Conn, during the past year
: returned TO the city Saturday evening
D Miss Frances Solile, who has been visit
ing with friends at Goddard seminar,
during the past few days, returned thi
forenoon TO her home in Fairfield beinl
accompanied by her father, Mr. Soule
, who has been spending few days in th,
city on business.
i Your chance to help. Within a short
time 70 more boys leave Barre for wal
service and for them 70 comfort kit,
must be made. How many women viii
go to the workroom at the Spauldinl
building tomorrow afternoon to hell
make themi The room will be open al
= o'clock.
Registered Holstein bull for sale. Near.
ly ready for service. A fine individual
out of good stock and from dam we in.
tend TO put under test soon just the
right age to turn out. The first check
for 500 takes him. Have also a young
son OF our herd sire, King Segis Pontiac
Spofford, whose three nearest dams aver.
age 3l.39 pounds butter in seven days.
A grandson of the $4,000 bull, King
Segis Pontiac Alcatra, with long list Of
| A. K .. daughters mostly white, a
beauty and breeding that puts him in a
class good enough to head any herd
Will sell for 500 and arrange TO give
one year to pay. Would like TO see him
remain in this section. c. w. Perry,
Barre. Tel. 2s5-M or 577.W.
Richard Harvey, who breezed into
Barre Saturday, has gone back to the
old way of getting his name into print
Not long ago Harvey slid from freight
car into frog pond near Franklin, n. H.,
and was reported by various contempt
raries to be near the wind up of his
checkered career. Ocular evidence of
Richards penchant for fooling fate was
at hand when the police picked him up
Saturday night on an intoxication
charge, When arraigned before Acting
Magistrate A. A. Sargent in municipal
court this morning, Harvey acknowl
edged subsequent offense and chose the
jail alternative when the court imposed
a fine Of Sl5 and costs
One of the first amateur baseball |
games of the season was played Satur-
day afternoon when the South End Ores. |
cents defeated the South Barre team at |
the latters grounds, the result being the /
score of to 2 Greig pitched for the |
southend team and, backed by excellent /
support, held his opponents to few
scattered hits, while Polli, the Spaulding |
high school hurler, did the receiving
Riddel and Belvile did the battery work
for the South Barre aggregation, while
several errors had great deal to do
with the formers defeat. The game was
won in the first inning, when with three
men on bases, Walker hit the ball into
far left field, clearing the bases He was
credited with three base hit.
A local motorist whose travels aield
have not left him without an interesting
survey of agricultural realities and pros
poets in this section of Vermont ex-
PRESSED surprise upon seeing large num-
Der Of cows feeding in the moving down |
he Brookfeld valley. The same spec ,
acle met his gaze at other points on /,
to White River Junction, and .
Ifter an inquiry he learned that farmers !
n general are short of hay this spring. ,
With reluctance many of them have |
pened their mowings to stock and ex- !
ect to leave them there until the pas 4
urage becomes more verdant, Many /
armers harvested bumper crop Of hay /
asst summer, but in the language OF !
hose who know best what to do in all Q
arm emergencies, the 1917 hay did not |
spend" well /
Barre people returning from Walden f
esterday reported that the violence of a
he wind in that section last Friday s.
light reached the proportions of ey s
lone. A barn on the Henry Clifford p
arm was completely razed, acres OF the Ii
iioining fields being Uttered with shin t,
les, boards and other parts of the struc. n
ire, while a heavy post was driven into
lie side of the house near by. The barn Il
as a good sized structure, housing II ii
Fad of cattle and some horses. One of d
tie cows was killed and the others were d.
med and bruised, while one horse also e
as injured. E. j. Badger, formerly of al
ARE, who is now living in Walden, pl
escaped death as he start. Il
to drive into the barn Just as the W
orm broke only to find that the door @
Id been shut. He concluded to drive W
ong to the next place and while he was G,
FRYING there the wind hit his lumber 81
hicle with such force as to lift the e.
dy of the cart and deposit it, driver al
ID all, into field beside the road. Mr.. ad
ldger sustained the fracture of one
list in the fall. at