The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-10
TALK OF THE TOWN

Cleanup sale of wool skirts at Alb
bolts.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Bump of Brandon
were among the recent visitors in Barre.
Thomas Vaughan of New York City is
registered at Hotel Barre for a few days
Regular meeting of Sons of Veterans
auxiliary No. 5, tonight, July 10, at
s o'clock.
William D. Mcdonald is taking a yaca-
tion from his duties as one of the city
letter carriers.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Waterman have
been passing few days with relatives
in Rock Island, P. O., and vicinity.
Ensign Ernest Niles of the United
States navy, with Mrs. Niles, is visiting
his father, E. A. Niles, in Montpelier.
The kiltie band will give the first Sc
ries Of concerts in City park this even
ing at s o'clock, weather permitting.
DR.. j. w. Fotte has returned to his
home in Burlington, after passing a few
days in Barre and vicinity on business.
Louise Lovely in "a Rich Mans Oar
ling" Bluebird feature, and the cur
rent events weekly, Bijou to-day.-adv.
Mrs. Eta Leonard of South Main
street left the city this forenoon for Bos-
ton, where she will make visit of sew
eral days.
Leo Polanda OF Center street left the
city this forenoon for Quincy, Mass,
where he has secured employment at the
Fore River shipbuilding yards.
Miss Ruth and Harold Shepard from
East Pepperell, Mass, haze arrived at
the home of their grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Almon st. John, in Berlin, where
they will pass their summer vacation.
George Rock Of East Barre was one of
the special deputies who accompanied the
Washington county sheriffs' delegation
to Bennington Saturday for an unherald-
ed call on various clubs and alleged gam
bling joints.
Outstanding returns from the war saw
ings stamp drive are coming in rather
slowly, and the committee which staged
the campaign is DESTROYS that all can
vassers report at the Church street head
quarters as soon as possible. The com
mittee has not abandoned its efforts to
obtain enough subscriptions TO carry
Barre beyond its quota Of $4,000, but
for the present Its members are anxious
to tabuate the complete results Of the
drive last week. Thus far little over
half of the quota has been subscribed.
Supt Alex. Hanton of the city Gene
teries received word yesterday Of the
death of Mrs. Horace Derry, wife of Supt.
Derry of the Everett, Mass, cemeteries,
whose demise followed injuries received
in an auto accident which occurred while
the New England cemetery superintend.
ents were in convention at Manchester,
n. H., ten days ago. The funeral was
held in Everett to-day. Mrs. Derry, with
her husband, had been an occasional Wis
itor in Barre
In taking account Of their activities
during the first half of the year, the fire.
men at the central station look back
on record almost without parallel in
any similar period of the organized de-
partment's history. Calls Of all kinds
have been unusually few in number and
from January to July the department
shared with property owners the good
fortune of escaping contact with highly
disastrous fires. There have been only a
few general alarms and on each occasion
when the alarm was not false one
the damage has been kept down to a
minimum. Telephone calls have been be-
low the average in aggregate, and even
the dry grass season, when still alarms
are expected in numbers, did not add
greatly to the total