The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-04
TALK OF THE TOWN

dozen. Barre Drug Co
0ld-fashioned school, Congregational
church, March H. adv.
f. X. Gurley Of New York transacted
business in this city yesterday.
All kinds OF safety razor blades and
razors sharpened at Barre Drug Co.
Sadlier, Keith avenue, specializes on
baby carriages, strolers and sulkies.
T. B. Curran of Burlington was a
business visitor in this city yesterday
D. L. Higgins Of Boston was among the
business visitors in this city yesterday
w. P. Howe of New York transacted
business in Barre and vicinity yesterday.
A. d. Morse of Boston was among the
business visitors in this city yesterday.
Gem and Ever Ready razor blades
sharpened, 25c a dozen. Barre Drug Co.
b. H. Jones of Woodstock was among
the business visitors in this city yester-
day.
T. D. Lawton of Moretown was in
Barre yesterday on a combined business
and pleasure trip,
Regular meeting of Barre council on
Wednesday, March 5, at 6;45 p. m. sharp.
| Il. j, Owens, G. *.
H. G, Eggerson of Boston contributed
| towards the large number of business
visitors in Barre yesterday.
! Arnold Rawlinson Of Elm street left
yesterday afternoon for Watertown,
Mass, where he has accepted employ
ment.
]. D. Goodrich of Chicago a granite
! dealer, arrived in this city yesterday and
| expects to spend several days in the
Barre granite district on business.
The ladies' union of the Universalist
church will hold its regular monthly
business meeting at the church parlors
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. Come pre-
pared to sew on Red Cross work,
Wednesday evening, March 5, the
woman's foreign missionary society of
the NJ. i. church will celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the founding of the Meth
odist foreign missions Mrs. Lillian
Gregory, missionary in India, will be
present and will deliver an address This
meeting is also the annual thank offering
meeting. A splendid musical program
has been prepared, All are cordially in
vited
Friends and fellow workmen of Mr.
and Mrs. James Hills gave them a sur.
prise party recently on the occasion Of
Mr., Hills birthday. Whist was played
and graphophone music was listened to
Cake and coffee and sugar on snow were
served and a good time was enjoyed by
the friends, who wished Mr.. Hills many
more happy anniversary days, Mr. and
Mrs, Hills are living at present in Milan
N. II.
Barre will not get the annual eonven-
ton OF the National Retail Monument
! Dealers association convention, as the
executive committee of that organiza-
tion has decided that the 1919 convention
will be held in Columbus, o., despite the
fact that many of the dealers were in
favor Of coming east for the gathering
Notwithstanding the failure of its eff
forts, Barre is already starting on a cam
paign to get the convention either in 1920
or in 1921.
At the X. of c. club rooms last even.
ing, the final game was played in the
most interesting pool and AS tourna'
ment of recent years Since late last
fall teams under the direction of Capts
a. H hNi hE anu I ALilth BlbWil 4lsAf Z
battIed for supremacy and until the last
two series the result was in doubt, the
players on both sides being evenly
matched and close scoring the rule at
every table. Ever with an eye for the
spectacular, Capt. Burke then played his
trump card, and with his famous Sciots
champions sought and COMPOUNDED his
opponents and with two crushing defeats
walked in an easy winner. But Capt
Brown, the hero Of dozen as" cam,
paigns, with uncanny skill had antici
pated the move and rearranged his play,
ers with the result that even McNulty's
men became easy winners and the mar
velous skin of Nelson and Kelly scat
tered the SciOta champions like chaf be
fore the wind. The result was Capt
Brown was a winner by eight points
Capt. Burke gracefully acknowledged hi,
defeat and after Lent there will be bis
altogether at the expense of the Burke
faction, when both teams will revive
again the main incidents of a most en-
ioyable affair.
Word has been received from John A
Gordon that he, along with all othel
foreigners" in the French army, is to b,
demobiized and that he was soon to sal
} for home after 81 months of service il
the war. His letter, written from Dion
France, under date of Feb. 5, stated thai
his regiment was about to start for Ger
many when he saw in the book of de
cisions" a new order for the demobiliza
ton Of all foreigners Engage volunteer
in the French army at once. He declared
that he lost no time in letting his cap
tain know that he was one Of the for
, eigners and the captain, "being a good
natured fellow, Immediately started thu
papers going at once" The time of hi
arrival is problematieal because he diC
not know how long it would be before
his papers went through aud he coulC
get a boat. He wrote his letter from thu
Y. NJ, G. A. in Dion and he remarked
that he had just picked up a copy of thu
Saturd e Evening Post when 90 and be
hold a full page advertisement stare,
me in the faces Barre granite a sentine
in stone, etc. The sight of that adver
tisement and the prospect of quitting thu
war zone after his q months of siren
uous life caused him to 60 through "a pc
Rod of reaction" as he termed it, so tina
! he was "crammed so full of Joy and goo,
! nature that / am afraid l will blow mp