The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-04
TALK OF THE TOWN


meeting this week, on account OF the
Spaulding building being closed for va
cation.
Hear Miss Young, Mr. Goss and Mr..
Clark, soloists, in the concert at the
Congregational church Friday evening.
adv.
Rev Joseph Turcot Of ST, Sylvester's
church in Graniteville has returned
home, after visiting friends in Burling
ton.
Julius Mendelssohn returned to-
day TO his home in Plattsburg, y. Y,
after spending several days with friends
in the city.
Born this morning in Mortified, a son,
! Francis George Hall, TO Mr.. and Mrs
II. p, Hall. Mrs Hall Is sister of G. ].
and T., O. Allen Of Beckley street
Gerald Holmes, +, ID. Ladd and Charles
A. Caron were among the Barre bakers
who were in Burlington to-day to at
tend conference of bakery proprietors.
Mrs. ". II. Snow arrived in the city
| last evening from South Wagingford,
TO spend few days al the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lester z. Clough of Nelson
street.
The hour for the quarterly meeting Of
be held at the hospital Friday afternoon.
April s. will be 2;30, instead of $3.50, as
enormously announced yesterday,
Mrs. Alexander Coburn and daughter,
Maude J.. Coburn, of Orange street have
returned home, after passing several
| days on Long Island, n. y, where they
visited John Coburn at Camp Upton,
| Naphank.
Mrs, L, J. Ruddy and children arrived
in the city last evening from South Wal.
| lingford to spend a visit of few days
at the home of the formers parents,
Mr., and Mrs. Alex Robertson, of West
Patterson street
A well known dignitary Of the Nor.
mon church, Elder Wells of Salt Lake
City, Utah was visitor in the city
yesterday and to-day while comforting
with local granite manufacturers in the
matter of procuring monument of
Barre granite to be erected in the Utah |
citadel OF the Mormon faith.
At the city court room this evening at |
o'clock a number of men interested |
in the propose TO start a public deer |
park in Barre will assemble TO receive /
suggestions from anyone who has any |
thing to offer. The meeting is called for |
an carly hour that all who wish may at
tend the British recruiting rally in the
opera house at s o'clock.
John Sowles Of Beckley hill has re-
ceived word that his son, Lieut. Horace
X. Sowles of the medical reserve, who I
has been stationed at the Massachusetts
General hospital in Boston, has been or.
dered to report to the Rockefeller in.
81 Fnr sYnaial 4ra f,tu ! usn H., ]
will be assigned to duty at Camp Devens.
Paving cutters OF Concord, n H., and
Milford, n, H.. are on strike according
to advices which have reached Barre AT !,
Concord the cutters abandoned work
April because their employers did not !
meet their demands, and on the same
day paving cutters Of Milford. having
asked for 20 per cent increase, laid
down their tools Negotiations looking
toward settlement in each place are
N progress,
Rotogravure pictures reproduced in l
number of magazines and newspapers in /
'lude group picture taken in New York
ity, where a large number of Hebrews t
pledged to service with the British forces t
n Palestine, were Caught" by the pho a
ographer In the center of the picture
4 Lieut.. Pierre Chevalier of the British !
ecruiting mission, who was at the head ;
# a recruiting mission which visited /,
Barre last winter.
If maple sugar makers in central Yer
mont are to be repaid for the time and \
money expended in getting their orchards !,
nd apparatus ready for the sap season .
more snow or rain must be Forthcoming, E
ceording to well known Barre Town :
ugar maker who marketed small \
uantity of maple products in the city h
o-day. At present sap in the naples is !,
'oing neither up or down, and work in h
he woods is practically at standstil. n
he unremitting efforts of the wind may
ry up the trees in few days, it il
cared, but steady rain, or better still, y
snowstorm, would work to the advan q
age of the farmers. Considerable sugar r
nd syrup were made last week. when ID
he only hndrance to heavier flow of a
APP was the wind. Thus far farmers 4
'ho were early in the woods have not III
lade much more than pound to a tree. r.
One Of the most enjoyable social gath -
rings of the winter and spring season 4;
t Vincitis lodge of Pythians was held =,
/ the rooms of the fraternity last even Il
" iHtit wac u hiuSltdi PtbEldLI anu W
ancing, and the attendance was large. II
ocal musicians contributed to fine ~
rogram and in every instance the en- n,
,rtaner was heartily applauded The
ork OF the soloists. vocal and instru- ,
entail. was q revelation to the audience .
nd a number of the younger musicians
ceived a very friendly reception. The
'oeram was as follows: Piano solo,
iss Grace Parry; vocal solo, Cleora IA
ofse; piano solo, Miss Maude Bowman :
Roundup, Mont; piano solo, Harry ]
ark. Afterward there was dancing,
it'll music by CAROLS orchestra. Re
eshments of punch and waters were
rived. W. W. Parry, chancellor. and
mes Robertson, vice chancellor, of Vim
tia lodge, were in charge of the af
ir.
Trench life as ii was experienced by
en- who came to realize the stern reali- !
IS of war will be reviewed at the opera
'use this evening at o'clock when 3
Ipt. Louis keene of the Canadian army,
ID Lieut. Clark of Scottish regiment 4
e to tell of their observation along !
e western battle front. Two reels of
ar pictures will be shown as part
the program whereby the British Off
RS hope to interest British-Amerieans I
the recruiting drive that is preceding
2 CONSUMPTION of British subjects in
nerica. Frank g. Rowland viii pre-
le, and there viii be music bv the ]