The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-13
TALK OF THE TOWN

Watch this paper for our opening New
location. Iamorey Clothing Co.
Mrs. B. w. Goodfellow of Trow avenue
is assisting as a clerk at the Daylight
store for few days.
This is district nurse fund week. Do
not wait for solicitor. Step into
store and leave your contribution.
Sadlier, Keith avenue, specializes in
/ ladies' coats and baby carriages. All
lines more complete than ever-adv
Gage & Cages Office will be closed Sat
urday afternoon and Monday morning,
but will be open Monday evening. adv
Henry Bond Of Brattleboro, we'll
known Baptist layman, and Mrs. Bond
called on Barre acquaintance yester-
day,
The Epworth league corn roast, sched-
uled for this evening, has been postponed
until tomorrow evening, if the weather
is favorable then.
This is the winter to conserve coal.
Special rates for one, for families OF
two, or larger families. Apply to j. v.
Rowen, manager, Hotel Barre.
Dr. Howard Drew, who has an Office in
the Blanchard block for the practice of
osteopathy, goes Oct. Is to begin a course
of instruction for infantry officers at
Fort Lee, Va.
| Mrs. J. L. Jenkins, who has been Wis
iting at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs, Sam.
uel Sargent of Prospect avenue during
the past week, returned last evening to
her home in Bridgeport, Conn.
/ William Robertson Of Elm street and
James Robertson of Orange street left
the city this forenoon for Hartford,
Conn, where they have been called by
the death of James Rhind, former res
| dent of this city, which occurred at Hart
ford yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. N. NJ. Nelson and Mr..
and Mrs. Fl. A. lockwood of Merchant
street were visitors in Burlington yes
terday. They were accompanied to Bur
/ lington by the formers son, Paul Nell
son, and John Shepard of Washington
street, both of them graduates Of Spauld-
ing high school in the 1918 graduating
class, who applied for enrolment at the
! University of Vermont.
Everett c. Jackson, former resident
of Barre, who attended school at Spault.
ing high school before matriculating at
the state university, mas returned to
Memphis, Tenn, where he is employed
as chemist. He has lately visited rela-
tiyes in Brookfed and Chelsea Mrs.
| Jackson, who will be remembered in
Barre as Miss Hortense Knight, is re.
manning for more extended visit with
Barre friends.
K. D. Carpenter of West street, one of
the regular firemen at the central sta
| ton, has resigned his position and IS
employed for a time in the seventh-clas
establishment of j. L. Hoban on Pearl
street Mr.. Carpenter has held latterly
1 the offices OF inspector of the fire alarm
| system and second assistant engineer.
Ben Tassie, who recently completed worl.
! in the meat department at the Smith &
4 Cummings store, is employed as a fireman
Barre boys who elected Springfield,
/ Mass, as the point where they would
/ receive their mechanical training after
/ self inducing before the county local
board are about to move, according to
reports received BY relatives here. This
week witnessed the departure from
Burlington of a large number Of local
boys, most of them being bound for
Maryland Yesterday sizeable detach.
ment of men who have been training
4 in the Springfield high school buildings
/. left for Gettysburg, Pa, while others
expected to receive orders which would
take them to Boston.
! Returns from Yesterdays registration
/ Of ,472 men in Barre were officially re-
ported by Chief Registrar James Macksy
/ this forenoon, the figures having been
| compiled after the closing hour last
night A more srduous task concerned
the making of duplicate copies Of the
names of all registrants. This year the
I.registrar was not required to divide the
return into wards, and for that reason
| the men between the ages of Is and As
inclusive, were asked to register at city
| hall, irrespective Of ward locations One
set Of names will be posted in the CORR.
dor at city hall, as was done last year
/ II is expected that th,S task will have
been completed by tonight, so that the
names will appear on the city hall bulle-
tin board tomorrow.
About twenty neighbors and other
friends gathered at the home of Mr..
and Lewis Glidden Of 1855 Hill street
Wednesday evening to participate in a
farewell party in honor Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Palmer of Park street. Music and
games were in order until 10 o'clock,
when the host and hostess served a de-
licious buffet lunch Afterward there
were dancing and singing until mid
night, when the entire company joined
in singing Aud Lang Syne and the Star
ISpangled Banner, Mr.. and Mrs Palmer,
who have made their home for several
years, plan to leave tonight for Quincy,
Mass, where the former has secured en-
ployment
The quaint fun and tender heart in.
terest Of Turn to the Right" the reign
ing comedy drama success which comes
to the Playhouse in Montpelier for one
night, Sept l6, was so thoroughly en-
ioyed by President Woodrow Wilson
that he witnessed it twice at the Ma
tional theatre, Washington. Though a
year had elapsed, he laughed as heartily
and applauded as enthusiastically while
renewing his acquaintance with Mother
Bascom, slippery Mugs" Dynamite
Gilly" and the other characters of the
play, as when he first viewed them. So
deeply impressed was Mr. Wilson when
he witnessed Turn to the Right" the
first time, that he sent for John L. Gold
en-, one of the producers, and compli-
mented him warmly The original New
York company will be seen here, includ
! ing Ruth Chester as Mother Bascom
Samuel Reed as Deacon Tillinger, Ed
gar Nelson as Sammy Martin and De-
witt Newing as Dynamite Gilly. adv.
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