The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15
TALK OF THE TOWN
Bargains in shoes at shea's.


Dance at Woodbury. pond every Friday
night. Ideal spot and good time.-adv.
Mrs. H. Nelson jackson and a party
Of friends from Burlington were visitors
in the city yesterday.
Amos King Of Hill street, who has
been spending the past several days visit
ing friends and relatives in Montpelier,
returned to the city last evening.
| The W. C. T. u. will hold its regular
meeting with Mrs, w. H. Richardson,
l02 Merchant street, Friday afternoon at
2;30. Let there be a large attendance.
A joint meeting of the clan ladies and
Clan Gordon, No. II, amusement com
mittees will be held in the clan rooms on
Friday evening at o'clock. James w.
Club, secretary.
Mrs. James Davidson and son, Albert
Donald, of Garfield avenue, returned to
the city last evening from Burlington.
where they have been spending the past
week at Queen City park.
A large plate glass window in the
south side of the Il. M. Lyon grocery
store was broken early yesterday after
noon, when large timber beam, which
was being removed from the Bijou thea
ter, crashed through it.
Asa Newhall of Adamvale, Mass, and
Jesse MeAllister of Warren were in the
city yesterday to renew acquaintance
with Barre friends. Mr. Newell is the
postmaster and station agent in Adam
vale and is spending his annual vacation
with Warren friends.
! Toward noon to-day most Of the lines
of the New England Telephone company
which were put out of commission by
yesterdays storm, had been repaired by
| linemen and the service had been re-
stored. Most Of the damage was cen
tered here in the city, although rural
\ lines suffered somewhat.
If war time exigencies had not put a
prescription on most of the rural fairs
in Vermont this fall it is easy to predict
that one of the exhibitors would be
Charles Cheney of the west hill, whose
mammoth turkey gobbler is one of the
largest birds ever reared on the hill. Mr..
Cheney is authority for the statement
that the gobbler weighs AS pounds and
before Thanksgiving It is expected that
it will tip the beam at so. People who
have seen the gobbler are ready to agree
that it is an unusually large turkey.
Tomorrow is the anniversary Of the
battle of Bennington, and while little of
a public observance will attach TO the
anniversary here in Barre, no doubt
many will recall the fact that the best
Vermont blood of that day was pitted
against the same alien strains which are
opposing the forces of democracy on the
western front in 1918. It was the He's
sian hirelings Of King George Ill who
received the licking of their lives on that
August day in the woods near Benning
ton. Customarily the banks observe the
anniversary, but here in Barre business
will remain undisturbed, even by
thoughts of a victory over the Teutons
which Vermonters with the l03d and
other regiments have lately repeated
over there.
Barre's oldest native resident, Mrs.
Nancy Wood of upper Prospect street,
will observe her 9Sth birthday Sunday,
and while she is in feeble health rela-
tiyes are planning TO keep faith with
past anniversaries by remembering the
occasion. Far into the nineties Mrs.
Wood steadily piled her needle and it
was not until year ago when she was
stricken seriously i'll that she was com
PEELED to abandon the avoCation that had
been hers for so many years. Latterly
she has been confined to her bed and
there is little hope that she will ever be
able to resume her former activities.
Mrs Wood was born Aug Is, 1920, a
daughter OF Robert Parker and Lydia
Holt Parker Her ancestry is linked
with the earlier history of Barre in many
ways.
Carl Clough of Hill street is detained
from work as the result of rather Sc
rious injury which he sustained few
DAYS since while driving a stone team
for w. A. Bradford Mr.. Clough had
tethered his horses at the plant of Des-
sureau & Co in Bianehi place, the wag-
on being under the derrick boom. A
heavy block of granite was about to be
moved when the chain suddenly broke,
precipitating Mr.. Clough over one Of the
rear wheels He struck the ground on
his head, the fall rendering him uncon-
scious. Help was summoned and in the
eompany's office the driver received med.
ical attention. 1t developed that his
right wrist had been badly sprained and
the neck and head affected by the fall.
He will be unable to work for some time.
Not long ago Mr.. Clough underwent an
operation and was idle for several
months while convalescing.