The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-09
TAX OF THE TOWN

| Abbotts oYefstocked safe OF garments
this week
Mrs Dean Perry will give piano Sc
lection, Shuts ALA Bien Ami" Con-
gregational church, Dec. ll.-adv.
Charles Arnholm returned to st. AL
bans this morning, after spending the
week end with MrsaArnholm at her home
on Webster avenue
Fancy goods for Christmas, also hats
at a discounts dressmaking and making
over dresses. Mrs. Il. A. Witham, "a
North Main street
A number of Barre clergymen went to
Montpelier this forenoon TO attend the
annual meeting of the Ministers Monday
club, which was postponed a month ago
Deputy Inspector James r. Coutts of
the department of weights and measures
left this morning on a business trip to
I st. Adams and other towns in northern
| Vermont
Isaac Fine and sister, Lillian, of Maple
avenue, left Saturday night for New
York City to visit with relatives. They
also expect to visit in Philadelphia and
Baltimore, Md.
Sale at the Congregational church
4 Wednesday afternoon and evening
Aprons, food, candy and popcorn balls at
the different booths. Entertainment in
the evening. Watch for program adv
At the 8 o'clock mass in ST. Monica's
church Sunday, members Of the Sodality
of the Blessed Virgin Mary participated
in their regular corporate communion.
The. mass was celebrated by the parish
priest, Rev. FIR. P, NJ. McKenna,
Following by few. days the maiden
bow of the city snowplow force, the sand
men made their first appearance of the
season on the streets this morning, and
as the result Of slight freeze after the
thaw Of yesterday, the sidewalks were
about ripe for sprinkling Of grit
The monthly meeting and social of the
Philathea class of the Congregational
church will be held Tuesday evening Of
this week with Miss Belle Chandler at
the home Of Mrs, L, D. Martin, Ii Averill
street This is an especially important
meeting and every member Of the class is
urged TO be present
The first of a series of weekly lunch
cons was served in the Vincitia club Sat
urday evening the attendance including
y number of soldiers and sailors Local
tournaments in pool, billiards and chess
have been started, and it Is probable that
the club will compete with the Apollo
club this winter, as in former years.
Alexander Parks and III. NJ Patterson,
who enrolled in the students army train
ing corps at the GARRISON school in Pots.
dam, N. Y, early in the fall, have re-
turned to the city, following the execu-
tion Of the federal order demobilizing the
corps Mr.. Parks to-day resumed his
duties at the store of A. w. Badger & Co.
The home economic committee of the
Woman's club viii hold their first after
noon on Tuesday, Dec 10, at 2;45, in
the Rowland hall Miss Bertha NJ Ter.
rill, professor Of home economics, Uni
versity OF Vermont and state director of
home economies for the u S. food ad
ministration, will speak on the subject,
"What Next, and Why, in Home Eco
nomies" Food sale after program.
Rev. Y, B. Leach, rector Of Christ
church, Montpelier, conducted services
for large congregation in the Church Of
the Good Shepherd Sunday evening. In
clergyman referred effectively to the sig
nifcance of Britain day, as observed in
the United States and urged his hearers
in their applications to ask for contin-
ued unity between the two nations
Charles jackson, who resided in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. f II. Rogers of
Orange street while a student in the city
schools, played right halfback on the
Medford, Mass, high school team in its
football game with Commerce high Sat.
urday afternoon, Boston Sunday paper
accounts of the contest, which ended in a
3 to 0 shoestring victory, refer to IL as
the best game staged by greater Boston
high schools this fall Right Halfback
Jackson enrolled in Medford high last
September.
j. b. Newhouse of 500, Mich repre-
sentative Of the Lake Superior Granite &
Marble works, Is registered at Hotel
Barre while passing several days in the
Barre granite belt on business II. c. Nc
Colin, junior partner in the retail monu-
ment firm of the +. c. McColm Granite
Co., Huntington, w. Va, Is also guest
at Hotel Barre while here TO place orders
for monuments TO be delivered early in
the spring. Robert Shaw, a well known
Michigan dealer, who has been soiourn-
ing in town for several days, has re-
turned TO his home in Saginaw
Sgt Michael Mulroy, who was men
toned in one Of last weeks casualty
lists as having been killed in action. il a
former Barre resident, according to in.
quiries made by acquaintance In this
city He was around 80 years old and at
various times was employed as sexton
at the Catholic cemetery on Beckley
street, He enlisted in the regular army
two years before the war broke out and
was in one of the first contingents to
form part OF the American expedition
airy forces. Early in the war his broth.
er, then a resident of Ireland, where the
sergeant was born, enlisted in the Gordon
Highanders and later made the final sac
ritice in France. A second brother Thorn
as Mulroy, who lived on Foster street
until a few months ago, is employed in
Quincy, Mass. The deceased's sister lives
in Manchester, n, H., and his parents live
in Ireland.
Raymond Arkley, who Is attached to
a hospital corps in the e. s, navy, ar
rived in the city to-day to pass a fur.
Tough with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
]. L. Arkley, Of Washington street. Sea
man Arkley recently made port in New
York and wears an overseas strip ON
his sleeve. He is attached TO the T. S.
merchant ship, "Benkedijk," which re-
turned from cruise Of four months in
foreign waters. OFF the Azores, on the
return trip, fire in the holds destroyed
most Of the ships coal, and the vessel
was compelled to put in at the islands
to replenish it's supply. The "Benkeldijk, y
! with 36 other boats. cropped anchor in