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

A, Scampini, sole agent for Harva
beer Intoxicating. Wholesale and
retail.--adv
Highest prices paid for furniture,
stoves, carpets bedding, etc, Phone
1872, Abram Fine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Howe of Millet,
S. D., are visiting his brother, Charles
! Howe, on Beckley hill
viii Hunt and family of Bethel have
returned home after spending the Fourth
with Mrs Bessie Barber
Mr.. and Mrs. W. +. Fisk of East Mont
pelier are visiting their niece, Miss Alice
Blanchard of Washington street.
Miss Marion Anker began work this
morning for the Vermont Mutual Fire
Insurance company of Montpelier.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bohonon Of
Washington and brother Charles Bo-
honon of Kansas, spent Sunday at Frank
Northrop's.
Mrs. William A. Nelson of Elm street
left town Saturday for Chester, Pa
where she is to visit her brother, Viii.
liam Piper, for a week.
Best choice in taffetas, silk poplins
and georgette crepes, in all the latest
shades. Little Dry Goods Store, Cot
tage street, off Main street.
Miss Nellie Keefe OF Pike street
daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Michael Keefe,
started Saturday on journey to Chica-
go, H., there to reside with her sister
Miss Mae Keefe.
Mrs. James Shepard, daughter Isabelle
and son, Allie, have for the past week
been visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs Robert Patterson of Long street
but returned Saturday to their home in
Montreal.
Don't miss the fine concerts and great
lectures now being given by the Barre
Community Chautauqua. Season tickets
can be obtained at the Peoples Shoe
store, Bell & Houston's and the TildeI
Shoe company.-adv.
Miss Mollie Giudici of Beckley street
and Miss Florence Finnigan of Granite
vile, graduates of the Spaulding higf
school teacher training course, have gone
to the University of Vermont to study
during the summer months.
Mrs. Enrico Colombo and child of Eos
ter street and Mrs. John Sassi of Pleas
ant street left Saturday afternoon fol
Vincennes, Ind. Both Mr., Colombo anC
Mr.. SASH are employed in the granite in
dustry in that city, having gone Their,
few months ago.
Newell F. Parker, who recently re
turned from overseas service with thu
American expeditionary forces, is substi
tuting in the place of Miss Angie Va
netti at the Barre and Chelsea railroad
office, while Miss Vanetti is out for
two weeks vacation.
There will be a regular meeting o
, Minnehahs encampment, No. 2, Tuesda,
evening at 1880. Work in royal purpl
degree, All officers and patriarchs ar
!, urged to be present, as there will be
big class of candidates to take the de
gree. Refreshments after work.
Lester Laviolette, son of George Lavio
lette of 337 North Main street, who jus
graduated from the commercial course a
H Goddard seminary, has accepted a posi-
tion with the DUPONT Textile Manu-
featuring company of Baltimore, Nd
and started south Saturday night
H Max Smith Of Ia Terrace street,
graduate of the commercial class a
Spaulding this year, who placed RICH
\ field on the baseball team, has located
Il promising position doing clerical worl
at the First National bank at Cleveland
\ 0. He left on the midnight train Sat
urday
Seaman Charles Mccarthy. afte
spending 30-day furlough with hi
friends and relatives in Barre, has gon
back to the T. S. S. Chester, the shi
4 that travelled so extensively throug
II foreign waters during the war The sh
H at present Is stationed in Boston harbo
Il awaiting the decision of the officials a
II TO whether il shall be dry -docked in Bos
H ton or Philadelphia for repairs, Shout
Il il be decided to repair ii in preference
to being sunk. A cruise around the wor
is in store for the 400 men who rod
the ship over $4,000 miles Of mined wa
ters in wartime
The resolutions recited below wer
| adopted almost unanimously at tn
| meeting in the Chautauqua tent las
night, after Mrs. Halsey w. Wilson ha
talked for II minutes on Ratification o
the Federal Suffrage Amendment" pre-
vious TO the address of the speaker o
the evening. Mrs. Wilson is the record
ing secretary of the National American
Woman Suffrage association. The reso
buttons were Whereas, II states hav
FASTENED to ratify the federal suffrag
amendment, and whereas, the governor
of many other states are calling specia
sessions of legislature to ratify tn
amendment, be it resolved, that we, tn
citizens of Barre, urge Governor Clemen
to call special session of the state leg
islature in order that Vermont may b
included among the SO states uecessar
for full ratification of the amendment,
II there were few more John Crosse
the Barre Board of Trade would hav
little difficulty in raising the necessar,
| sum needed to defray expenses for tn
July home coming celebration to tn
| soldiers and sailors of Barre and vicinity
Though Mr.. Cross halls from Mortified
he considered that the entertainment
open to him in the city Friday wa
| worth $50 and it was this amount tina
he handed w. G. Reynolds, chairman 0
| the general committee for the celebra
| tion, just as the Hamm- Whittemore air
plane hove in sight Friday evening. IT
| cooperation such as this that make
such a project possible The events pre-
i pared for the Fourth were successful
throughout and when one considers tn
\ adversities which the committeeman me
too much praise cannot be showered upo
them for their tedious hours spent j
trying to satisfy the public's desires.
Mystery surrounds the death Of tn
horse well known to many Barre peopl
as "Old Blue" owned by the Jones
( Nye livery firm. The horse was dis
! covered dead in the Minard repairin
4 shop on Summer street just before mid