The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-06
TALK OF THE TOWN

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the business of Barre yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. D. Cruiekshank OF
Chelsea we re here on business to-day.
We sharpen Gillette blades at 35c
dozen. Satisfaction guaranteed. Barre
Drug Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Farr of Hinesbmg
are visiting at the home of J. c. DeBrune
on Park street.
Mrs. Carmella Augusta of Beckley
street has been taken to the City hos
pital for treatment
Ladies, don't forget the food sale, Con-
gregational church, Saturday, at 2 p. m.
All kinds of pastry.--adv
Safety razor blades, plain razors, scis-
sors and all small edged tools sharpened
like new. browns Drug Store.
The Glover club will meet with Mrs
Il. w. Jackson Friday afternoon, Sub
ject for rollcall responses, England"
Mrs. Jane Stephens will sell her house.
hold goods at the City Auction Market
Saturday at and 7 p. m. See adv.-ady.
The w c. T, L, will meet with Mrs.
Clough, 26 Perry street, Friday afternoon
at $3.50. Members are urged to come and
sew.
There will be a social of the primary
classes of the Universalist Sunday school
at the church vestry Friday evening, Feb.
| 7, at $3.50. ...
Cali and get prices on Andes ranges
and heaters. Good lirl of second hand
ranges and heaters, stoyepipe and elbows
e. A. Prindle.
Benefit. dance for Emilio Grigoletti,
| Granite street hall, Saturday night.
Cristofor Colombo band will furnish mu
sic. Admission, 35c.--adv.
This evening at the convent at 1880
there win be a meeting Of the senior Holy
Name society. Every young man is ear
nestly requested to be present
Martin Laughlin of Summer street re-
turned this morning to his home after an
absence of about one year, during which
time he was employed in Providence,
r. /.
D. F. Gregory of east hill is one of
those appointed to serve Washington
county as justice Of the peace for a term
of two years. Mr., Gregory's duties be-
gan Feb /.
Owing to bad weather last week, it was
| thought best to postpone the Brookside
Community club meeting, which will be
held Friday evening, Feb. 7, at s o'clock,
at the schOOlhouse, East Montpelier road,
All cordially invited
| Howard II. Alexander, a seaman on the
| L. S. S. Hartford, expresses his satisfac-
ton with the naval life by writing let
ter and urging Barre young men to enter
| the naval service. He writes: "The navy
offers you the best opportunity in the
world Come in, boys, and give us a lift. -
A Barton item in the Orleans County
Monitor has the following of interest TO
| Barre people: Mrs. f. c. Wilkie, who
has been very sick for the past two
weeks is gaining slowly and her son,
| Charles Wilkie OF Barre, who has also
been sick with pneumonia, is now I'M
provinb.
! Clark's auto truck will leave the city
building at 7 o'clock Thursday night, Feb
/ g. for the South Barre grange annual old
and young folks dance and supper. Mu-
sic, Landi Forsell orchestra. Full bill
ISl25; extra ladies', 25c; single supper
tickets, 25c. Dancing to begin promptly
at o'clock Public inyited.-adv.
DR.. George Van Daniels, who has been
in war work for the government in con
nection with efficiency in the shipbuild.
! ing department and previous to that in
~. NJ. c. A, work, win deliver an address
in the First Baptist church tonight at
1880. Everybody is cordially invited and
| all the members of the church are expect.
ed to be present.
Arthur Carroll, who left Barre to 60
with the American forces overseas, has
recently written his mother, who now re,
sides in Hartford, Conn, regarding his
present occupation. the letter being
peuned at St Lazaire, France, Jan. |, in
which he says: Il am on the road with
Major Martins Merrymakers-a show OF
"a men and a captain. 1t is considered
the best in the A. T.. +. circuit Am nov
located at st. Lazaire Outside of Il hard
cold | am well; weight, AZ pounds, best
ever. Next week we leave here for Nan.
ties, France, to play a week. From there
| [ 90 to Paris, thence TO Germany, Bel
GUM and Italy, landing lin the good old
L. s. A. about June /. You can tell the
world there is only one place on this
earth, the L. S. A."
| Work of charging and remodelng the
Barre police station has been started un
der the supervision of A. B. Lane, con
tractor. Already the sheathing separat
ing the main waiting room and a store
room on the eastern side has been re
moved and the two rooms opened into
one, making almost double the space
This large space will be divided into
three rooms, one to be used as a waiting
room, another for the chief of police, q
second for the constable and third fol
the members of the police force. Som,
other changes will be made in the accom-
nodations for the prisoners, it is expect
ed A small steam heating apparatus
will be installed by the n, d. Phelps Co
It has always been difficult to heat this
part of the city hall, and recently a stove
has been in use in the main waiting room