The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-07
TALK OF THE TOWN

iii ADDOtth.
Iii Edward Hoten of Mortified is bust
II ness visitor in the city to-day.
III Emmy Wehlen in six-reel Metre
III THE Outsider at the Bijou to-day.
II adv
II Miss Doris Knapp Of Lanesboro wa
II thrown from horse Sunday and wa
II bruised somewhat.
II Regular meeting Of Sons of Veterans
i auxiliary, No. 5, Wednesday evening
H May s, at s o'clock.
H Make the |. o. o. +. ball success b,
H attending Tuesday evening, May Ia 81
H per couple; Poe extra for ladies.
II Valentine Colombo has finished lii.
H work at the Dewey Column stoneshed
He expects to be called for war service
by May %,
Mrs. f. c. Smith returned TO Wat.
erbury last might after visiting Mr. end
Mrs. John Kelley of upper Prospect
street over the week end.
Miss Mildred Clark of Abbott avenue
returned yesterday from Mortified,
where she has been visiting with rela-
ties during the past few days.
Francis Grady, who has been spend
ing several days at his home on Mer-
chant street. left this forenoon for
Springfield, where he has secured en-
ployment
Alexander Miller left the city to-day
for Elyria, o.. where he expects to be en-
gagged as golf instructor on the course
where John Black, former Barre man,
is employed.
Miss Annie Sargent member of the
senior class at Goddard seminary, re-
turned to the city this forenoon, after
spending the past several days at her
home in Warren.
Lew Fields and Msdge Evans in "The
Corner Grocer" comedy drama that
will keep you laughing. Sent in place OF
"The Panther" and will be seen at the
Park theatre to-night.-adv.
The material has arrived for making
the applicators to ill the government or
der and Thursday afternoon and Thurs
day evening of this week the surgical
dressings classes are asked to meet as
usual.
! William Noonan of North Main street
returned last evening from Burlington,
where. he applied for enlistment in the
! L. S. navy at the recruiting station
there yesterday. Owing to a slight phys.
| ical defect, he was not accepted.
Iltuts GdIit N. w IildHiHs WHO bn-
tanned a furiough to come to Barre TO
attend the funeral OF his mother, Mrs.
Edwin A. Williams Of Washington street,
returned this forenoon to Little Silver,
n. j., where he is attached to the signal
corps.
A very pleasant gathering was held st
grange hall, South Barre, last evening,
when about go friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Worcester met to celebrate their
25th wedding anniversary. Reardon's or
chestra furnished music for dancing. The
grange master, Guy Howard, in few
well-chosen words, presented Mr. and
Mrs. Worcester a purse of silver, and |
little Elizabeth Robinson presented them
25 ionquls, in honor of the occasion.
One of the oldest alumni of Goddard |
seminary died recently when Henry ID. |
Stevens of the class of 1870 passed |
away in Whitman, Mass, As a resident |
Of East Montpelier he entered the first |
class at Goddard, being the only Yer |
mont boy to enroll. For many years he |
was a Unitarian minister, serving for /
the most part churches in the state of |
Massachusetts. Near relatives surViv-
ing are his wife and his son, Ralph
Stevens, OF Sterling, Mass.
Rumors OF important financial trans
actions along the Jail branch are rife and
it will not be surprising if the announce
ment of the sale of valuable water priv
ileges is made within few days. 1t IL
a matter of common knowledge that
someone is dickering for piece of land
owned by the city and purchased when
the Orange reservoir system was estab-
1iaboJ &, I'll # L 1
Barre on the GreUrson privilege, so
called. 1t is not known that the proposed
purchase of this land is in any way
connected with rumors of the sale of .
the Sargent water privilege at East |
Barre and Of another power right some
where on the Jail. None Of the rumors /,
is mentioned in connection with the !
Tenney company which acquired the !
Phelps property on the East Barre road '
a few weeks age, although it is pre- 7
sumed that the Tenney people are watch I
ing the rumored negotiations.
The spirit of spring oozes from many r
places between the covers of The God
lard Record, the current issue having /
been distributed to subscribers yester- r
lay. Editors who have labored ever since 4
asst fall to make the magazine thor n
)ughly worthy of Goddard traditions are !
LONG their work well if the latest issue =
s sample, and once an editorial board h
strikes its stride it is matter of re- u
,urring regret that it must be displaced, n
by reason of graduations, at
ach commencement. There are articles
II real worth in the pages where semi :
lary rhetoricians are given try-out,
md other departments possess more than (
verage merit this month. The basket. y y
all team which upheld Goddard's ath- n
etic standard in the winter of l9l7-ls,
AS its picture in the magazine, and
here is an interesting story of sue
essful season accompanying it. Senior
'amouflage" is the caption over a sym-
osium which probably pedigrees quite =
aithfully the members of the class that