The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-04
TALK or THE TOWN

Good values in silk and wool dresses
at Abbotts.
Bert Lytell in mo Mans Land" BIZ
jou tomorrow
If you need capable nurse, call Barre
N. L. phone 667-l3.-adv.
Miss Belle Nelson goes to Chelsea with
q line of millinery, ete.--adv.
/ Chicken-pie supper at the Universalist
church, Wednesday night.
Mrs. w Il. Shepard Of the Shepard
company has gone to New York on bust
ness.
Pvt. Irwin st. John left this morning
for Camp Devens after spending Sunday
at his home, 81 South Main street.
Mrs. George Z. Mackay of wellington
street has been passing few days with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Huse in Wallingford,
Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. F. Howard have re-
turned to their home in North Thetford,
after spending few days with friends in
the city.
Among the visitors in the city Satur
day were w. f. Lamson, A. Gail Lamson,
Miss Genevieve Lamson, Mrs. j. A. Walsh
and Miss Anne Walsh Of Randolph.
Corp. Edison l.. Lander, who was called
here by the death of Mrs Lander, has re-
turned to Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. J.,
after passing a furlough of two weeks
among his relatives in Barre.
The Barre Woman's club will meetsin
Rowland hall Tuesday at 2:45 p. m. Mrs.
J. B. Estee of Montpelier will speak on
the united war work charities win
every member make a special effort to
attends Those who have not paid their
dues can do so at this time,
The regular meeting Of Cobble Hill
grange will be held Tuesday evening at S
o'clock. The following program will be
given: Piano solo, Earl Winter; recita
ton, Mrs St, John; discussion of farm
question, A. i. Smith and d. G.. Roben /;
four minute speech +. G. Bancroft; talk
on Niagara Falls, illustrated with mirror
America grange; Mrs. j, X. Thurston,
lecturer.
Polling places to be used in to-mor-
rows elections were being ventilated to.
day while Il. G. Brock was engaged in
setting up the voting booths and dis
tributing the ballot boxes. In each ward
voters win assemble at the usual poll.
ing place. The polls open at a. m. and
the balloting for city representative
ceases at 3 o'clock, although the polls re-
main open for other voting until 8 p.
m Saturday the checklists, having been
revised by the board OF civil authority,
were issued by the printer and copies
have been posted in conspicuous places
in the corridor at city hall. The list Of
election officers assigned to each ward
by the justices of the peace last week
has not been changed
In the Italian colony friends OF An
tonic Croci former Barre man who
used to live on North Main street, are
wondering whether the recent develop
ments on the Austrian front have re.
suited in his liberation. Press dispatches,
in addition to recountng activities that
have brought gladness to every loyal
Italian, have intimated that wholesale
release Of military and civilian prison
ers had followed the collapse of the Aus
TRAN defense. Mr.. Croci left Barre
shortly before Italy entered the war and
was working in one Of the frontier towns
of the Italian peninsula when the Aus
TRANS invested it. He was held pris-
oner and his captivity, If it has ended,
did not end until recently.
A youngish winter made its appear
ance this morning, and while snow fell
for several hours il did not attain enough
depth to interfere with the excavations
Of farmers and war gardeners whose po-
tatoes remained in the soil nor yet TO
Justify the renaseenee of that hardy per-
ennial among newspaper stories, the yarn
about the man who snowshoes through
a second story window when he gets home
from work There WAS enough, however,
to make one renew faith in the predic-
tions of weather sharp who proclaimed
in The Times office one day last week
that the first snowstorm would come
Nov. 4 and quite enough to cover the
/ ground with white counterpart. There
are promises Of clearing skies and the
outlook for bracing weather on election
day is good
Among the guests registering at Hotel
: Barre through the week end were the fol-
lowing people: Mr.. and Mrs A. G. Booth
Mr.. and Mrs F. H. North of Burlington
Jay Douglass of Plattsburg NJ ", Fl. O.
Conklin of Rutland, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F.
Nugent of Worcester, Mass, w; A. Skin
ner Of Royalton, e. s. Sibly of Milton
B. w. sibley of Burlington, f, J. Dragon
of Plattsburg, N. Y, Mrs. B. B. Winslow
Of Brooklyn, N. ", J. H. Nothrop of St
Adams, j. G. Young Of Northfeld, II. 4,
Barrett of Cabot, Mr.. and Mrs. H. II
Carr Of St. Johnsbury, s. Singer OF
Mortified, S. II, Spofford of Mortified
Miss Genevieve B. Mccain of Portland
Me-. Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Hebard of White
River Junction, Mr. and Mrs. H. +. How
ard of North Thetford, Mr.. and Mrs r.
B. Lang of White River Junction.
Almost epoehal changes in business
methods in the Barre granite industry
are forecasted in the November issue Of
Barre Granite, publication issued by
the Granite Manufacturers association
which states plainly and without equivo-
cation its belief that manufacturers will
require greater capital if they are to con.
tinue in the business under conditions
that will obtain after Jan /, when the
wages Of cutters, polishers and sharpen
ers Jump to a minimum of 1852 1.-THE
shoe-string days Of financing granite
manufacturing plants have gone" says
Barre Granite, which goes on to declare
! that; "Those with a supply of cash or
liquid funds in the shape Of trade ac-
: ceptances or interest bearing notes will
continue their success. Those with a
pocket full of overdue bills and no assets
will find that conditions have changed
since Uncle Sam entered the war. While
4 statistics show that 30 per cent of those
i who fail in business do so because of lack
OF capital, it is very likely that it can be