The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-25
TALK OF THE TOWN

TALK or The TOWN
Regular meeting of |. 0. 0. L., M. u.
IN r. of G. hall Friday night at o'clock
Gage & Cages office will be closed all
day Saturday Open Monday at usual
hours.-adv.
Byron A. Wright of the Granite City
Press is passing a vacation with rela-
tives in Danville.
Miss Clara Purvee of Prospect street
who has been camping at North Hero,
has returned home.
MIR. and Mrs. p. H. Gobie of Bellows
Falls visited Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Blossom
of East street recently.
John A. Cross and John Burns, North
field granite manufacturers were bust
ness visitors in the city yesterday.
Mrs. H. P. Human and two children of
Orange street have gone to North STRAIT
ford, N. H., to pass week with rela-
tives.
Miss Edith Sherman of Albany, N. Y.
arrived in the city yesterday to be the
guest of Miss Rosa Levin of Merchant
street
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. B. Blossom of St
Johnsbury and Miss Abbie Humphrey OF
Concord, n. H., were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. II. B, Blossom recently.
Closing out sale of lawn mowers, gar
den hose, oil stove ovens, Quick Meal
gasoline stoves, Sterno canned heat
kitchenette L. A. Prindle, Worthen
block.
Fred Anderson, sailor in the U. s.
merchant marine, is passing furlough
of a few days with Mrs. Anderson be
fore rejoining his shipmates at an At
lantic port Sunday.
Mrs. Lucy Goss of White Plains, N
Y, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. b
Blossom of As East street. She viii 90
from here TO st. Johnsbury before re-
turning to New York.
II Journeyman BARRIERS received word at
noon to-day that their employers had
decided to close all shops in the city at
9 o'clock this evening in order to permit
the men to attend the circus.
Private G. Def. Bancroft of the signal
corps, a former Montpelier reporter for
The Times. is now stationed at Camp
Meade, according to a letter received by
his brother, +. W. Bancroft, of Franklin
street.
Don't forget to send in your savings
account books for verifeation before
Aug /. large number have already
complied with the law and sent them
in, but there are many more to be yeri-
fed before Aug. !,
Miss Kathleen Letourneau, who has
been doing nurse work in Colebrook, N.
H., and Hanover, n H., arrived in the
city to-day to pass vacation with rela-
tives here and in Graniteville. Miss Lee
tourneau is now attached to the nurses
home in Hanover.
At headquarters of the Granite Manu-.
facturers' association this afternoon
members Of the Barre Board Of Trade
met with Supt. II. f. Folsom of the
Boston Maine railroad and Supt A. A.
Stebbins of the NJ. & W. r. railroad.
Partial restoration Of passenger service
on the NJ & w. r. line between Barre
and Montpelier was discussed.
Plumbers and heating specialist were
inspecting the Church street school build
ing to-day with view to making inn
provements that are imperative if the
structure is to be used as clearing
house for war work through the fall and
winter 1t is expected that the heating
plant will be put into shape and that a
new system Of plumbing viii be intro
duced.
At the annual convention Of the Inter.
national Granite Monument Producers
association, which is to be held in Ho-
tel Sherman at Chicago Aug. IL, the
Barre Quarters and Manufacturers as.
ISOLATION will be represented by the fol-
lowing committee: James NJ. Boutwell,
John a. Cross, +. J, Batchelder, George
Straitbn, s. Hollister Jackson and II. p
Human. On the following day the an.
nual convention of the National Retail
Monument Dealers association will open
to continue till the evening Of Aug. l6
A large representation Of local quarters
and manufacturers are planning to at.
tend, although none of them are plan
ming to exhibit monuments, owing to the
difficulties of transportation.
CORTLAND Perry of Elm street is con,
fined at his home as the result of an in,
jury suffered late yesterday afternoon
while working at the Perry automobile
garage in the rear Of Hotel Barre. Mr.
Perry, together with fellow employee
was engaged in the task of cleaning sew
eral springs underneath the car and while
in the task of replacing one of tht
springs, a large passenger car, which
had previously been lacked up, slipped
from its bearings and inflicted deer
cut little above his right knee. Mr.
Perry was assisted to his home, where q
physician was called to dress the wound
several stitches being required to close
the cut