The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-25
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Special sale on toilet paper. Read our
adv. Barre Drug Co.
Dance, Rowland hall, Saturday even
ing; gents soc, ladies free. adv.
Auction sale at 2 and 1880 p m, City
Auction Market. See adv.--ady.
New lot of leaf Canadian tobacco just
received at Lander's Cigar store.
Dance in Socialist hall, Granite street,
Saturday night Landi's orchestra. adj
A son was born this morning to Mr..
and Mrs. Jean b. Beaulieu of the East
Barre road.
i Regular meeting of I. 0, o. L., NJ. T.,
will be held in X. of c. hall Friday, April
25, at o'clock.
NJ s. Levin arrived this morning from
a few days business visit in New York
| City and Brooklyn, N. "
Mrs. Frederick Small of Morrsville is
stopping at the home of Mrs. Alice
Wheaton for couple of days.
! This is peppermint pattie week at the
Barre Candy Kitchen. Apollo pepper
mint patties Watch for adv.-adv.
Miss Mary Bosworth of Merchant
street is spending few days with Mrs,
| w. j. Lebaron of Waterbury, who is
confined to her bed by illness.
Ralph Davis, son of Mr.. and Mrs r. r.
Davis of Prospect street, is now home
! for two weeks furlough from the Chel-
sea naval hospital at Chelsea, Mass.
William Renfrew has gone to Laconia,
n. H., on business for few days and
while there intends to look over some
real estate, which he is contemplating
purchasing.
/ Lyl1;o4t D~,,,or. roao.fl,, J,-alar,,l
| from the 9th New York; division, has
been spending few days with his broth
| err, Oliver, at Goddard seminary. To-day
he returned to his home in Northfield.
Automobiles were leaving frequently
since o'clock this morning for Morris
vile, where the big game will be played
between Montpelier and Spaulding high
schools for the state championship bas-
ketball cup.
Mrs. Robert Knox and Mrs Robert
| ir., have gone to Boston so that they
may be present when Robert Knox, ir.,
arrives there from France Before being
attached to the army he was employed
at the Jones Bros. Co as craftsman.
Don't fail to see Fascinating Fanny
Brown" two-act comedy, presented at
! Goddard hall by the seniors next Tues
| day evening, at S;l5 o'clock. Tickets,
! Csc: reserved seats zoe, including war
tax On sale at Red Cross Pharmacy
I adv.
| Presbyterians are asked to attend the
| services Sunday when Rev Harold Boil
ingbroke of South Mountain, Ont, will
occupy the pulpit as candidate. BY
so doing they will be able to vote intel
! ligently when the time comes for calling
regular pastor.
The two daughters of d. NJ Miles,
known to the Barre friends as Clair and
Kathleen Miles, but now as Sisters Mary
Assumpter and Mary Lola, arrived yes
terday from st. Mary's academy of Bur
lington to visit Mrs. Mary Carney and
other relatives.
Mrs. James Stephen of Madison street
is preparing to move some of her fnrni.
ture TO Warren, o., where Mr.. Stephen
is engaged in the granite industry She
will leave for that city as soon as their
home is disposed of together with some
of the furniture.
Accompanied by high wind. the pre-
dicted cold wave struck central Vermont
during last night and the register Of
| thermometers this morning was around
70 above zero. which was very cold for
late April weather The cold was ac.
companied by slight film of snow
! Mrs. George Riddel of SO Pleasant
street has received word that her son,
Charles Riddel of the l0lst ammunition
train, arrived on the New Jersey at Bos-
ton Wednesday. Private Riddel was
among the first to answer the call in
Barre and went overseas early in 1917
Adam Riddel, a brother, is in Boston to
witness the parade to-day.
Friends of First Lieut.. A. s. MacDon.
aid, a former Barre young man and
member of Co. III, Montpelier. will be
interested to learn that radio message
has been received from him, sent from
the u. S. S. Leviathan, by way of Bos-
ton. stating that he expects to arrive in
a United States port to-day. Lieut.
Macdonald since going overseas, has
been member Of the Rainbow division
II Basketball championship games are
not restricted to high schools as an item
taken from the New York Herald tells
briefly of one in France, in which one
of the old Shamrock basketball players,
Thomas, t''Bone'1 Carroll apparently
was the star performer The item reads
thus: "Colombey Les-Belles, Friday
This first air depot basketball champion
ship was decided last night, when the
l0lst squadron team defeated the 8Tth
squadron five, "a to 26. The all-around
work Of Carroll was the only feature Of
the game, which was fast from start to
finish"
Sergeant G. Edward Bell, native Of
Barre and son of Edward n Bell of this
city, was among the soldiers of the 332d
infantry which recently returned from
service in Italy and paraded through the
streets of New York City, where it re-
ceived much commendation for fine mill
tary appearance. Sergeant Bell has been
in the military service several years,
having enlisted prior TO the Mexican
embroglio in 1916, being stationed at
various military posts in the United
States. The 332d infantry left New
York June 8, 1918, and was sent to
] Italy, arriving there July 20 and being
. sent to the front, where it. took over a
sector and participated in the Vittoria-
Venitio drive Sergeant Bell received the
medal di valour" for capturing machine
guns and prisoners on the Tagliamento
river and was cited for bravery in action.
After the signing of the armistiee he
took advantage of an opportunity to
visit many of the cities of Italy The
332d is due to parade in Cleveland to-
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