The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-29
TALK OF THE TOWN


chiefs In Vermont at Abbott's.
Mrs. Blanche Perrin of Plainfeld
called on Barre friends to-day
Miss Grace Brown, teacher in Plain
field, passed Thanksgiving at her home
on Grant avenue.
Special bargains in white tablecloths
and woolnap blankets. Little Dry Goods
Store, Cottage street.
Canaries for sale. Sweet singers with
beautiful plumage. Mrs. j. X. Prize,
Graniteyille Tel. 27-W.
Olive Tell in "The Girl and the Judge"
and the two-reel Charlie Chaplin comedy
that did not get here in time; at the
Bijou to-day adv
Private Leo Granai of Camp Meade.
Nd, arrived in the city yesterday to
spend brief furlough with his mother
on North Main street
Mis- Mary Murphy the nurse, has re-
turned from Cabot, where she has been
caring for Supt. Butterfeld, who is now
recovering from influenza.
The city schools will be reopened on
/ Monday, after the customary Thanks
giving recess. Sessions at Goddard sem.
mary were resumed this morning.
| Miss Isabelle Maekie, teacher in the
public schools of st. Johnsbury is pass
ing the Thanksgiving recess with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Mackie OF
Beacon street.
Sergt. Francis Grady, who is stationed
at Camp Meade, Md, arrived in the city
! this morning for visit in the home Of
his mother, Mrs. Rose Grady, Of Mer-
chant street
Seaman Clarence F. r. Bishop, who
has been stationed in Pensacola, Fla, for
several months, is passing a furlough
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
| III. Bishop, of Washington street.
Private Henry Smith, who is attached
to an infantry unit stationed on one of
the islands in Portland harbor, is pass
ing furlough at his home on Foster
street. He will return to Maine to.mor.
/ row.
Writing from France under date of
Nov. ., Sergt, William McCaffrey, for
merly soda clerk in the Drown phar-
macy, refers to continued good health
and speaks Of much activity in the front
lines.
| Plans for the hospital drive are rapid
| ly maturing There viii be joint meet
/ ing Of the city and town general com
mittees i'm the city council chamber to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock to com
plete plans.
Alexander Lawson, who has been en-
ployed in the shipyards al Portsmouth,
N. H., for some time, returned to Barre
| to-day Mr.. Lawson expects to resume
his former employment in the Barre
granite industry.
Charles T. Southgate of Royalton,
! former agent at the NJ. & W. r, rail
road station in Barre, called on friends
here to-day. Mr. Southgate recently
made name for himself among hunters
in Royalton by bringing down an 500
| pound moose, the first to be seen in that
locale in some years.
/ Private Joseph Zanleoni, who has been
( stationed at Camp Upton. L. l., since
| joining the colors, arrived in the city
Wednesday. having been honorably dis
charged from the service. After leaving
Vaphank, he visited his brother, Charles
/ Zanleoni, jr., who is attached to the ma
val station at Newport, X. ].
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Arkley Of Washing
ton street have received letter from
their son, Raymond, attached to the mer-
chant vessel Benkelsdijk, saying that he
had arrived in New York harbor and ex-
pected to be on land again after almost
four months cruising on foreign waters.
/ Mr.. Arkley's ship landed with SO other
ships at Brest, France. On the return
trip the coal in the holds caught fire and
they were forced to stop at the Azores
islands for fresh supply.
Frank Mast, well known local hunt
err, yesterday decided to frequent the
haunts where wild turkeys used to thrive
in the pioneer days of Orange of wild
I turkeys there were none, and only such
of the domesticated birds as had escaped
the Thanksgiving ak were observed en-
route to the hunting ground, but Mr.
Mast hadNfeason to feel gratified over his
DAYS hunt, for when he returned home
] the count was two prime fox skins in
his favor.
Sergt Paul D. Leavitt, who gave up
responsible position at the Barre post
Office during the feverish first days Of
war in the spring of 1917 that he might
/ enlist in the lst Vermont regiment, ar
rived in the city this morning. Sergt.
Leavitt was originally attached to the
old Headquarters company Latterly he
has been in Spartanburg, S. c., having
been attached to the 57th Pioneers.
When he received his honorable dis
charge few days ago he had just com
pleted course in an officers training
camp.
Many Barre homes were gladdened to-
day by the receipt of newsy letters from
overseas Most Of the soldiers mail was
dispatched after the armistice, and in
some instances the letters were written
after hostilities ceased, OF those the
words of one American soldier is typical.
4 He wrote his mother in Barre: ITO
night for the first time we sleep without
the noises of war to disturb our dreams
Of home. For the past seven months
have been over here, and now that peace
seems to be here, it is impossible for me
to realize that have come through the
experience Of those months without re-
cefving so much as scratch"
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