The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-27
TALK OF THE TOWN

| Friday, Oct. 3l.-adv.
\ G. j. Perkins of Hardwick was in the
city to-day on business.
| Miss Annie Deans of Brooklyn street
began duties for the DeLue Mfg. Co in
| Montpelier to-day.
Mrs. Charles Colombo of Cambria
street underwent an operation at the
| City hospital Saturday.
A son was born at the City hospital
this morning to Mr.. and Mrs. James
Lambert of "a Brook street.
There will be a meeting of the I. A..
A. O. H., in Worthen hall Tuesday
evening at 1880 Initiation and refresh
ments.
Miss Hilda Martinson, student of
the University of Vermont, spent the
week end at her home ON Washington
street.
In order to accommodate people en-
ployed in stores, the curtain on "Oh,
Lady, Lady at the opera house viii
not rise until S:30-ady.
Mrs Harold Austin and child of
Providence, \. T., arrived here last
evening to visit Mrs Austn's aunt,
Mrs. Kenneth Nicholson of Elm street,
Leon Cummings of the East Mont
peller road has brought the house on
Merchant street owned by the late Da-
vid WEIGH. Mr.. Cummings buys for a
home
Mr.. and Mrs John Rowley of High.
land avenue are shipping their house
hold goods TO jackson, Mich, where
they plan to reside in the near future,
leaving here sometime this week.
Lester w. Heath passed away Oct,
25 in Boston. The remains win be
brought to Vermont, and the funeral
viii be held in the Methodist church in
Williamstown Wednesday, Oct, 20, at
/ O'Clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Robins, who
were recently married in Littleton, N.
/ H., and who have been spending their
honeymoon touring by automobile, ar
rived in the city Saturday and have
taken up their residence at Hotel
Barre.
1 Netops, attention! Witches and spir
its of darkness of the Netop class will
hold laundering, blood -curdling social
at Mrs. H. Stewards, 81 Washington
street, Tuesday, Oct, %, at s. Gentle
men invited BE sure and come masked
Bans of marriage were published at
st. Monica's church in Barre and at
st. Augustine's church in Montpelier
between Charles Zanleoni, jr., of Barre,
and Miss Eleanor B. Doyle of Mont
q, - 10
at the Catholic church in Montpelier.
At the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
B. Arbuckle in East Montpelier, Harold
0. Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orlando
Clark Of that town, and a farmer by
occupation, was married to Miss Abbie !
r. Arbuckle at her home by Rev. ]. B. |
Reardon Of Barre at 10 o'clock Satur.
day morning.
+. A. Prindle was in Winooski yes
terday, where from the Fanny Allen |
hospital he brought his wife, who has
been In that institution for the past /
eight weeks. Mrs Prindle returns home |
much improved in health She suffered |
a paralytic shock in the middle of Au- |
gust. She is able to walk a little. Her
soon be enjoying perfect health
Herman Williams Of Groton, who |
was charged with non.support Of his
wife, was brought into municipal court |
this morning before Judge H. L. Scott
complaint having been made by Grand |
Juror j. w. Miers of Marshtield. vii |
liams pleaded guilty to the charge, but
! ha ~ al +L,+ 4
two parties to the case, so Williams
was allowed to 90, after paying the
costs of court, $3.50, and agreeing to
furnish support to his wife and child
at the order of the court.
In order to help carry out the ar
rangement for the fair distribution Of
sugar, the grocers of Barre are giving
register checks with each cash pur.
chase, so that when the stores have
sugar these checks will be used for the
apportionment of sugar When these
dated checks are turned in they will
entitle the customer to buy one half
pound OF white sugar or one pound of
brown sugar for each dollar of other
groceries purchased, providing, of
course, there is sugar in stock The
checks are good only until Saturday
night of the week of the issue. The
grocers say they realize this is not a
perfect system, but they consider it
the best that can be secured for the
present
The seniors of Spaulding high school
had charge of chapel at the school this
morning, and Roosevelt exercises were
held in honor of Theodore Roosevelt
whose birthday anniversary came to-
day Miss Corinne Eastman presided.
The school orchestra consisting of five
Violins, cello, two comets, a clari.
net, drums and the piano. played as
the school and II Of the teachers
marched in Aldo Poletti recited ex
tracts from a speech by Roosevelt on
national questions; Leslie Laid read
extracts from speech by Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood at the time the
name of Sheep mountain was changed [
to Mount Theodore Roosevelt: and
Miss Lucy Wells read poem by Sam
uel Valentine Cole on Roosevelt The
exercises we're excellent and were fol
lowed with marked interest.
Two large congregations greeted Rev
William Men. Kittridgc, pastor elect of
the Presbyterian church, at the services
Rev. Mr. iittridge brought
to his new parishioners a message of
hope for the new union and both in and
out OF the pulpit made very agree
able impression. Preparations for his
installation are being completed. The
services win be held at 1880 in the
church auditorium Tuesday. Nov. 4.
Rev. James Smith of Manchester. n. q
H., moderator of this presbytery, win
deliver the sermon, and DR.. Archibald Q
of Portland, Me-, and Rev. F. L. Laird {