The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-14
TALK OFTHE TOWN
Red sole rubbers at shea's.

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II New line of silk dresses at Abbott's.
II NJ. s. Levin of Merchant street was 4
III business visitor in Chelsea to-day.
II Misses Bessie Spear and Ellen Hoai
are spending the day in Burlington on
/ business.
II William Desmond in "Blood VIII Tell,
a Triangle feature, and comedy at the
| Bijou to.day.-adv.
II Public dance Saturday night, Social
/ list hall. Christofer Columbus band. Ad-
mission, 35c. ladies free.--adv
Officers of Bright Star Rebekah lodge
No. Is, are requested to meet Friday
evening, Feb. 10, at 1880 o'clock for prac-
tice.
Joseph Fraser arrived last evening
from Hartford Conn, where he is en-
ployed, to spend few days at his home
on Murray street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lavery and
daughters of North Main street left this
forenoon for Springfield, Mass, where
they are to take up their residence
This evening at the Murphy & Weafer
alleys on Pearl street, the Murphy 4
Weafer bowling and pool team is to
meet the Daley team from Montpelier in
one of the series of matches arranged be.
tween the two teams.
George Rennie arrived in the city last
evening from Hartford, Conn, where he
has been employed for some time by the
Pratt Whitney manufacturing con
Germ as a thread gauge operator, to spend
a few days with friends and relatives in
the city.
A union service in the interests of
Sunday school workers and others will
be held in the Congregational churoh to-
night at 1880 o'clock sharp. Rev Charles
A. Boyd will be the speaker and his talk
will be illustrated with a stereopticon
Everybody cordially invited.
The management of the Goddard sem
| mary basketball team il completing ar
rangements for two.day trip the be-
ginning of next week, when they are to |
play the aggregations of Colby academy |
at New London, n. H., and the Dart |
mouth freshmen at Hanover, n. II. The |
second string players expect to leave to-
morrow forenoon for Bethel, where they |
are to meet the Whitcomb high school !
team tomorrow evening.
Mary Garden, famous opera star, to be
seen for the first time in motion pictures
at Park Theatre, Friday night, was born
in Scotland. She came from Aberdeen,
Scotland, to America with her parents in
1881, settling in Milwaukee. She began
violin lessons at the age of eight and at
IA took up public singing in Chicago
She went to Paris in 1897 and three
years later became a member of the
Opera Comique, as understudy TO Mile
Riotton. The star fell i'll and Miss Gar
den became famous overnight. The story
of That's" one of her operate triumphs
is most absorbing and will surely please
all. Special music.-sdy.
Announcement is made of the wedding
of Miss Emma Gerbetti, daughter of !
Mrs. Lizzie Gerbetti of $50 North Main
street. and Egidio j. Rulfo, son Of Mrs
p. Rulfo of Durkee place. The ceremony
took place on the evening of Saturday, |
Feb. 2, and the officiating clergyman was !
Rev. j. b. Reardon, pastor of the Univer 0
salist church. Bride and groom were I'M I
attended Mr. and Mrs. Rulfo are max n
ing their home in Durkee place. The !
bride is well known young woman of II
the Barre Italian colony, and was en- t
ployed until recently as an assistant in
in the City Wine store.
49,
There is a fair prospect that a number
If towns within 80 mile radius of Barre
ire to adopt the card system which has
been used SO successfully in handling the {
sugar situation in Barre. City Clerk t
James Mackay, who is credited with o
'arrying out the details of the sugar Ii
ard plan, has received requests from a y
number of nearby towns for sample cl
ards and directions for their use The d
natter is being seriously agitated in
Chelsea, and Barre
Town, among other towns, and inI
communities more remote card system Fl
losely resembling the one used here has
een put in operation. Around 5000
ards have been distributed in Barre and -,
carcely day goes by without applica n
ions at city hall. Of