The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-20
Talk OF THE TOWN

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attend q state meeting of home service
workers.
The Bonaccord flag raising win be held
in Clan Gordon hall this evening at 1880,
when service flag will be unveiled with
appropriate exercises.
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Brown are
moving from the Densmore house at the
Corner of Brook and Pleasant streets
into the house at so Franklin street
Mrs George B, Holmes and daughters,
Ella and May, left the city on the noon
train for Boston. Before returning home
they win visit relatives in New York
and New Jersey.
Notice. Do not forget the stock re-
ducing auction sale Saturday afternoon
and evening, as | am about to move to
smaller quarters O. j Dodge, ieweler,
200 North Main street.
Auction Auctionl AS | am about to
move to smaller quarters, j will have
sale Saturday, July 20, afternoon and
evening, to reduce stock. 0. j. Dodge,
200 North Main street.
Mrs George ID. Stalker and two dsugh.
ters, Ruth and Clara, and Miss Matte
Davis of Holyoke, Mass, are visiting at
the home of the formers sister, Mrs.
Erwin Lawliss, on Kirk street.
The savings banks and trust companies
of Barre would appreciate it very much
if you would bring or send your deposit
books for yerifcation at an early date.
The law requires this to be done once
in five years.
Adam G. Craig of Merchant street,
who has been employed in the fish mar
ket at the Smith & Cummings store for
several years, has completed his duties
there and is now located in Boston, Ben
jamin Tassie has returned to Barre to
take charge of the fish department.
Owing to recent changes in the method
of publication OF the telephone director
les, change in the date of the closing of
the next directory for local exchanges of
the New England Tel. 4 Tel Co. has
been changed from Sept. ! to Aug. Is,
bringing the date two weeks earlier for
final listing of names than in previous
years.
John Sector, who has been visiting at
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Sector of Division street, during
the past two weeks, left the city this
forenoon for Albany, NJ ", where he has
been ordered by the registration board
10 report for duty. Mr. Sector has been
employed at the branch Office of the
Standard Oil company at Middletown,
N. Y, during the past year.
Five generations Of the Wood family
appear in a remarkable group of photo
graphs assembled in one frame, which
is being exhibited in the display window
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est member Of the family is the venera-
Bile Mrs. Nancy Wood of upper Prospect
street She is Barres oldest native resi-
dent and will observe her 9Sth birthday
Aug Is. Next in line is her son, Al.
bert p Wood a veteran of the Civil war,
Then follow his son, his grandson, and
his great grandson. Although Mrs. Wood,
the nonegenarian Of the group, enjoyed
rather vigorous health until year ago,
her condition has been rather feeble of
late
Musicians who recently organized the
new Barre City band as a successor to
the old Citizens band have so far pro-
crossed in their rehearsals as to be able
to announce that q public concert will be
held in the near future II is hoped that
the band may make its maiden bow in
City park next week or during the week
following. The City band is composed OF
much OF the timber that formed root and
branch of the old Citizens band, long
reckoned as one OF the best musical or.
CARNATIONS in Vermont. It's members
are giving their time and energy gratis
with The idea Of perpetuating so far as
possible a municipal band that win be
available for all public purposes. II so
licits the support and cooperation Of the
public and hopes that large crowd viii
be present to hear its maiden effort.
Announcement is made here of the
wedding in New York Sunday, July 7, of
Miss Teresa Mullen Of Lowell, Mass,
and Lieut.. Earle R. Williams, an officer
in the army signal corps. Lieut.. and
Mrs. williams are residing temporarily
at Leon Springs. Tex, where the groom
ia in charge Of 4 section of $50 men in
the training camp He Is a son Of Z. A.
Williams of Washington street. As a
student at Spaulding high school, where
he was graduated in 1911, he was active
in athletics Later at Dartmouth col.
lege he was varsity baseball and bas
kethall player. A year after his gradua-
alton from Dartmouth in 1916 he entered
the officers training camp at Leon
Springs, where he was commissioned a
lieutenant several months ago. He ex-
poets to leave for overseas service in the
near future.
Sunday baseball at Intereity park is
to flourish no more. Representatives of
baseball teams in Barre and Montpelier
are said to have been informed that the
.authorities would frown pretty severely
on any more attempts to stage games
at the park on the Sabbath. In the past
! few years a local baseball club, through
an understanding with some of the town
| officials in Berlin, were able to play Sun
day baseball without interference
States Attorney Earle R. Davis stated
yesterday that the law does not require
any order from him. He added that a
representative of Montpelier club APP
preached him recently in the matter of
staging a game at Intercity park and he
referred him to the statutes. Several
Sunday games were played at the park
earlier in the season, and they were well
patronized.
War stamps sales among the city and
rural carriers at the Barre postofice got
$4,000 boost in the past week, accord
ing to returns posted on the bulletin
board yesterday The total now exceeds
$4,000, and is still climbing. The eff.
fects of an aggressive campaign by the
community committee are apparent in
the returns, and it cannot be said that
the carriers are slackening their efforts,
even though the statewide campaign is
supposed to have ended. Carriers of both