The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-21
TALK OF THE TOWN

| visiting friends and relatives in Barre
for few days.
Edmund Wasgot of Barre visited rel
atives and friends in Hardwiek over
! the week end
Dance in Rowland hall Wednesday
evening. Gentlemen 75c, ladies free.
Gilbertson's orchestra.-ad
Isaac Sirkin of Cottage street left
this morning for an extended business
trip to Boston and New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex A. Milne of Hill
street, who for the past week have
been visiting in Boston, returned to
their home yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Petrie left here
yesterday afternoon for Burlington to
call on friends before going to Boston
for a weeks vacation.
Regular meeting Sons of Veterans
auxiliary Wednesday evening, Oct. %,
at o'clock. All officers requested to
be present for practice
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Knapp of st.
Johnsbury, formerly of Barre, are the
parents of an eight-and half pound
boy, born this morning.
Bag day for the Barre City hospital
Thursday, Oct %. Don't forget the
day, and be sure to have the filled bag
on the steps by o'clock.
Dorothy Wheeler, who has been at
tending Goddard seminary for several
weeks, returned to her home in North
field yesterday afternoon.
The Tosi academy aggregation of
ho n
high school eleven on the Lincoln cam
pus tomorrow night at AIS.
There viii be whist party at Hotel
Barre Friday afternoon at $3.50 under
the auspices of the home economic de-
partment of the Barre Womans club
adv,
Mrs Alexander Massie and daughter,
Bessie, stenographer for Grand Juror
A. A. Sargent, left yesterday for Bos-
ton, planning to remain for a week or
10 days with relatives.
A son, Carroll Robert, jr., was born
at the Barre City hospital Saturday
night to Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Fenwick,
who reside at the Efie Fenwick farm
on the Barre Plainfield road
Mrs. Angioletta Morandi of Water
bury is taking few days vacation
from her duties in the Waterbury Saw
ings bank, and visiting at the home Of
Mrs. +. Berini on Columbia place
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Gordon and
daughter, Lillian, returned from Han
over, n. H., yesterday, where they at
tended over the week end the l50th
anniversary of Dartmouth's institu-
ton.
With dollar and a girl you can
whirL whirl, whirl at the Z and | ball
in the grand town hall, known as How
land hall For merry, merry spree and
a happy jubilee, come all three, to hear
CAROLS orchestra Tuesday evening",
Oct. 2l.ady.
Mr. and Mrs. Wendelyn Beck. who
for the past week have been enjoying
wedding trip in Massachusetts,, visit
ing Boston, Worcester, Lowell and
Winchendon, returned Sunday night
and at present are making their home
with Mr.. and Mrs l.. C. Beck at 10
Branch street.
r, d. Munson, local representative Of
the Singer Sewing Machine Co., has
made extensive repairs in his Office and
display rooms, completely renoyating
the office and reiinishing the woodwork.
The display room has also been fixed
over and vanished. A new lighting
system will be installed inside and out
side the store
Goddard's football team came out Of
Saturdays game with few injuries and
excepting Wilmot, who is nursing bad
knee. and Sullivan, who has a few body
bruises, the team is in fine condition.
Coach Leahey will put the men through
a severe grilling on punting, field goal
kicks, recovering fumbles and interior
ences. 1t was a great detriment to
the team last Saturday in the game
with Fort Ethan Allen not to be in
better shape on these points of the
game Coach Leahey will also intro
duce charging under a rope, which keeps
the men down while in the game. Coach
Leahey is sure the team will be in fine
shape to meet the St. Michaels college
team next Saturday on their grounds.
The Winooski eleven has fast bunch
of players this year and good game is
expected.
People in the parcel post zone Of
this city are about to receive better
service in deliveries of parcel post
packages, for instead of a team an In
dian motorcycle with van attachment
will be used to deliver the bundles.
This machine arrived here yesterday
afternoon and was uncrated at the A.
NJ Flanders bicycle shop As soon as
the van attachment arrives the ma
chine will be put into the postal serv-
ice. This three speed, lS-horse power
Indian motorcycle is one of the many
shipped to France to be used by dis
patch riders during the war. Then it
was that thousands Of these machines
were manufactured for war purposes.
Except for fiat mudguards, it resembles
any other Indian motorcycle The war
department has turned them over to
the postal department and, consequent
ly, they are being distributed through
out the country. Towns farther north
than Barre have in The past used them
the year round in parcel post deliver
les, and they are to be used here as
much as possible. The team will be
retained in case stormy weather in
winter makes travel with this vehicle
impossible. An inspector from the de-
partment at Washington, d. c., made
visit to Barre a few weeks ago and
in his report suggested this change,
which will cause all deliveries to be