The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-08
TALK OF THE TOWN

Hunting and fishing licenses can now
be procured at the city clerks Office.
E. G. Wilson of Bailey's Music Rooms,
Burlington, is spending a few days in
| town.
Fancy articles, aprons, home-cooked
food, candy, Congregational sale, April 3.
| adv.
See Otto Bernstein, the popular com
poser in "The Schoolmistress," Friday
evening at Spaulding adv.
| The sale that was to have been given
| at the Uniyersalist church April 10 has
been postponed until April l6.adv,
| Buy aprons, fancywork, candy, home
cooked food, at Congregational vestry
Wednesday afternoon. Supper at 6.-ad
Regular monthly meeting of the trus-
tees of the Barre City hospital at the
hospital Wednesday evening at s o'clock
Regular meeting of Ruth chapter, No.
80, 0. L. s., Wednesday evening, April Q,
at 1880 o'clock. Election of officers and
annual reports will be given.
| Baptist ladies take noticel The
monthly mission study will be held at
the home of Mrs. Frank Cave Wednesday
at 2;30. Your presence is requested.
| IldfRbSL ilUe VI new anu SctuHu -lduucNl
ranges in Barre Perfection and Kerogas
oil stoves, wicks and ovens. Call and
get prices. L. A. Prindle, Worthen
block.
Mr.. and Mrs, Robert Webster, accom-
; panied by the latter's sister, Mrs. Fran
els Thomson left Barre on Saturday to
meet their son, James Webster, who ar
rived in Montreal on Monday, the It'll
after nearly two years service in France
with the 10th battery of Canadian artil-
| lery.
The Barre Board of Trade will hold its
annual meeting Tuesday evening, April
10, in the granite manufacturers rooms,
G. W. Averill block, to transact the fol-
lowing business; To hear the reports Of
| officers and committees, election of Off
GERS for the ensuing year and to do any
other proper business. H. A. Phelps
clerk.
Members of the Red Cross in this vi
entity wishing to take advantage of the
opportunity to get tickets for grand.
4 stand seats in Boston at the time of the
I parade of the 26th division, as announced
i on page s of Mondays Times, should
/ communicate with Mrs. n. d. Phelps
| president of the Barre branch, before
| Friday night Of this week.
| Private James Thomson Of Barre, who
| was one of those returning on the trans
/ port America last Saturday, has the dis
4 tinction of having served in two armies
during two years and four months and
! he is still but Is years of age. Private
/ Thomson served six months in the Cana.
/ dian army and then joined the American
1 forces, being assigned TO the l03d regi'
meut in the 26th division. He has been
/ with the American army for a year and
/ ten months and has been twice wounded
He received slight wound last July
/ and was seriously wounded on the last
| drive Of the American army, the date
of receiving the injury being Oct. ~
/ Private Thomson will be remembered as
former bellboy at Hotel Barre, as well
as at the Pavilion hotel in Montpelier.
4 That one of the most skilled aviators
( in the American forces and who was the
first fier to be cited was a former Barre
( boy has come to notice through the act
I of his mother in sending copy Of the
/ Lawton Okla Constitution, which tells
of Capt. Arthur j. Coyle's exploits. Be
sides being cited for bravery, Capt Coyle
was also decorated by the French and
| the American governments. Capt. Coyle
was with the American army at Chateau
I Thierry, on the Marne, at St Mihiel and
in the Argonne sector. Ii was while en-
gagged in the last-named sector that he
/ was wounded in battle with four Ger.
I man pursuit planes; but he managed to
return to the American lines and had
I the satisfaction of seeing one Of the
( enemy planes shooting down TO destrue-
/ ton. He returned TO the United States
! in January, 1919, and has since been sta
! toned at Post Field, near Lawton. The
! official recognition Of Capt. Coyle is con
/ tanned in the following: arthur j
/ Coyle, Captain, A. S. G. o., lst aero
/ squadron: A remarkable pilot thorough
| ly familiar with all branches OF obser
walton aviation Has shown devotion to
duty beyond all praise and his work has
been such as to make him one Of the
most remarkable pilots in any army
Has shown the finest qualities of cour-
age and displayed extraordinary heroism
on many occasions. Decorated with the
D. S. c. Capt. Coyle's home is in Con-
cord, n Fl He went away from Barre
many years ago.