The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-05
TALK OF THE TOWN

clarence BISHOP OF PlttSheld, Mass,
arrived yesterday to attend the celebra-
ton in this city.
Miss Yvonne Bilodeau of Graniteyille
is visiting Miss Annie Mccarthy of IL
Summer street.
Miss Irene Sullivan of Hardwiek is
visiting her sister, Miss Alice Sullivan Of
North Main street.
Barre Community Chautauqua. Five
great days At seminary campus. July
5, 7, s, and l0-adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Johnston and
daughter Of Wolaston, Mass, are visit
ing relatives in this city.
Miss Daisy Pirie of North Montpelier
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. X
Pirie of Graniteville, for few days.
Miss Emma Fowlie left to-day for
northern Vermont, where she will spend
several weeks in camp at Lake Mem.
phremagog.
Arthur Mccormick, employed in the
Quincy, Mass, shipyards, came yester-
day to spend two weeks vacation with
his parents in this city.
David Dawson, former alderman, to-
gether with Mrs. Dawson, came from
Portland, Me-, to spend the Fourth with
friends and relatives in Barre.
Mrs. w. P. Day of Mortified, who
has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. c. A
Clark of Abbott avenue for the past few
days, returned to her home this morning
Walter Tierney, son of Mr.. and Mrs
John Tierney Of South Main street, ar
rived here Friday night and intends to
spend few days at his home before re-
turning to his work in Hartford, Conn.
Miss Evelyn Mathieson, graduate Of
Spaulding high school, who has been at
tending the Lowell commercial school in
Massachusetts, has arrived home TO spend
the summer months at her home on Hill
street.
Miss Esther Nelson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Nelson, who is employed
in Bridgeport, Conn, passed through the
city yesterday on her way to Woodbury.
pond, where she will spend months
vacation with relatives
Lee Maiden, Edward Carroll, George
Bartlett, Leslie Wilson and Perley Has
kett were among the number Of lads
working for the state forestry depart
ment at Wells River, who came home
for the July celebration.
Rev. w. II Buchanan, who is to oc.
cupy the pulpit at the Presbyterian
church for the coming two Sundays, ar.
rived in the city to-day. Rev. Mr.. Blu
chanan is member of the Philadelphia
presbytery and has been visiting in New
Brunswick.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stewart and son
James, left this morning by auto for
Boston to visit friends and relatives
They will motor to Dorchester, Mass.
where they will visit Mrs. Stewards sis.
ter, Mrs John Sullivan. They will be
gone three or four weeks.
Mrs. G. Warren and daughter, Laura
Mr.. and Mrs. Al French, Mr. and Mrs
w. Nielsen, Mrs. Mary Welch, Col Howe
John Mccormack and James Ferguson
all of Mortified, were visitors over the
Fourth at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Cooper of South Main street.
Tickets for the Barre Community
Chautauqua, which opens here this after.
noon at 2:30, can be obtained at the
Peoples Shoe store. Bell and Houston's
and Tilden's Shoe store. Be sure to Sc.
cure your season tickets at once for these
splendid entertainments adv
Mr. and Mrs T. Dion of Quebec, who
are on their honeymoon, passed through
this city yesterday, visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Bilodeau of Graniteville and
Mr.. and Mrs. f Letourneau of Merchant
street. They left last night for Mont
real, ?. O., where they viii spend few
days and then return to Quebec, there
to make their home.
Captain j, l.. Mosley of the 7th Yer
mont, at a little gathering of the Civil
war veterans yesterday afternoon, ap.
pointed these men, j r. Wilson OF
Worcester and w E. Bliss Of Calais, 70
express their appreciation of Barre's
homecoming celebration. These men, who
represent the Washington County Vet.
through The Times the appreciation OF
the association for Barre's hospitality
toward the G. A. r.
1t was strong Dempsey crowd which
gathered in front Of The Times office
yesterday afternoon to get the bulletins
from the Dempsey Willard fight at To.
ledo, and the crowd gave vent to its ap.
proyal of the way the fight was going
from the sound of the gong. The fight
news was delayed an hour because the
fight itself was pulled off an hour later
than had been expected, but it came fast
when it really got started and, in fact
the mill" was over so quickly that the
crowd was almost stunned by the rapid.
ty of the change in the worlds cham.
pionship title. When near the close OF
the first round the premature announce.
ment was made that Dempsey had woT
the fight, cheer went up from the
crowd and the throng started to 90 away
only to be recalled by an Associated
Press correction that the fight was not
really ended. So the crowd settled back
for the final details Of what seemed to b
the inevitable result of the fight, wait
ing for the landing punch which should
put Willard out Of the limelight. There
was little surprise when the bulletin
came that Willard had thrown up The
sponge in the third round.
The sky for miles around was il
lumined by bonfire built on Hooker
hill last evening at 10 o'clock and Will,
the flames ragged in that section of tn,
city more rose high into the air from
the north end But this alone did no
keep the eyes of the people busy, fo
time and again paper balloons sent "
from numerous parts of the town decket
the sky with small flames that wer,
hundreds of feet in the air. While SOM
were enjoying the PARKWAY sights o
bonfres, $50 couples were swsying t,
and TO on the North Main street pave
ment between West and Merchan
streets, where sawdust and cornmeal hat
been spread about to make dancing pos
sible. 1t was $3.50 before the floor" wa
put in form but no sooner had the or
chestra struck up the first note of