The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-20
TALK OF THE TOWN

H Miss Stella Cook of Elmwood avenue
4 began work as waitress this morning il
II the NJ & G. restaurant.
Miss Dorothy Brown, who is EN-
/ ployed in Waterbury, spent the week
end with friends and relatives in Barre
/ Miss Helen 0'Keefe has returned tC
her duties in Waterbury after spend
ing the week end at the home of hel
| parents
Bag day for the Barre City hospital
Thursday, Oct. 20. Don't forget the
day, and be sure to have the filled bag
on the steps by 8 o'clock.
There will be food sale after Mrs
Dimock's demonstration before the
Barre Woman's club in Rowland hall
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30.-adv,
II Mr.. and Mrs. John Crosby and fam
lily and i. w. Holmes of Springfield
visited over the week end at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. d. Rollins of Currier
street.
MIR. and Mrs Lyman Hill and the
Misses Doris and Lena Miles of Hunt
ington visited over the week end at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Flint of
Averill street.
Miss Elizabeth Smith of Maple ave-
nue., who for the past two weeks has
been visiting friends in Philadelphia,
has returned to her duties in the Barre
Gas Co. office.
Miss Ida Yonkers of the alteration
department at the Homer Fits COM
pany store, has finished her duties
there and returned to her home in Con-
cord, N. H. Mrs. John Leslie is taking
her place in that department.
Word has been received that Mr.. and
Mrs. John f. Cook of East street, who
left by automobile several weeks ago
for California, have arrived in Los An
geles after being on the road five
weeks, taking that time to make the
trip.
With a dollar and a girl, you can
whiTl, whirl, whirl at the L and | ball
in the grand town hall, known as How
land hall. For a merry, merry spree and
a happy jubilee, come all three, to hear
Carrolls orchestra Tuesday evening
Oct. 2l.-adv.
Rev. D, C. Huntington of the Epis-
copal church preached Sunday morning
in Christ church, Montpelier, speaking
on the subject of safety first in place
of Rev +. Barnby Leach, who is at
| tending the Episcopal general confer
ence in Detroit, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. +. Cumming Of Rich.
ardson street, who were recently mar.
ried here, have purchased farm in
Cabot and left this morning for that
| place, where they will make their home.
Mrs, Cumming will be remembered as
Miss Ethel Parry, formerly employed
in the millinery department OF the
Adams company store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Chamberlin Of
Lowell, Mass, who have been spending
the past week at the home Of Mrs.
Charles Emerson of the Bolster block,
have returned to their home. The cou.
pie were recently married in Lowell
and are enjoying an automobile tour
Mrs. Chamberlin before her marriage
was Miss Bessie Allen of Montpelier
and is sister Of Mrs. Charles Emer-
son.
Barre football enthusiasts who were
privileged to witness the game at Han
over Saturday between Dartmouth and
Penn State had an added interest in
the Green team when John A. Gordon
of this city went into play in the third
period and finished the game. Gordon,
although out for practice but short
time, has evidently shown his ability
as player to be sent into one Of the
strongest games Dartmouth is up
against this season
Alexander Duncan, who underwent
an operation for strangulated hernia at
the City hospital Saturday afternoon,
is coming along finely. Mr. Duncan
was in attendance at a Rebekah meet
ing at Plaintield Friday night, return.
ing home shortly after midnight and
was taken i'll almost Immediately on
reaching home. Saturday noon it was
decided an operation was necessary and |
he was rushed to the hospital i
Alderman Henry Alexanders atten-
ton was called to the hazardous con
dition of the South Main street Gov
cred bridge Saturday afternoon and |
upon examination found that the |
bridge was greatly in need of repairs |
The large beam underneath the bridge |
on the east side of the north end had |
rotted away so much that an inch bolt, |
which connected this beam with large |
brace on the inside of the bridge was
free of all wood Mr.. Alexander. with |
the steel tip of an umbrella, broke off |
large pieces of the beam. Contractor |
Adolphus B. Lane was summoned to
examine it and agreed to make re-
pairs tomorrow. This bridge, similar /
to that in Plainfeld, where the fatal
accident occurred Saturday afternoon
to the young ball players, has been the
source of considerable discussion at va
rious city council meetings The coun-
cilmen ordered, few weeks ago, plans
to be made by Frank O. Lee, city engi-
neer, and these drawings are on his Ia
bles at the present time As soon as
they are completed they will be sub
mitted to the state engineer for APP
prevail
An echo Of score of years ago was
furnished by clipping from The Times
which was brought to the office to-day
by Donald Smith. Several of the per
sons mentioned in the article have since
passed away Many people will remem
Der the incident which it describes, as
follows "The celebration which will
take place tomorrow afternoon at
Fairmont park has a bit of history
connected with il. On March | at a
gathering of the Scotch and Irish ele-
ments of this city bet was made be-
tween two of the Seotchmen and Al
derman s. J, Kingston and Michael
Keefe that the Union Jack of Great