The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-28
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Attend Shea's big shoe sale adv.
Admission to dance Thursday night,
including war tax, 81; ladies 25c.-adv.
Floyd G. Russell went to the City hos
pital this morning and had his tonsils
removed
Mrs. Kenneth Nicholson Of so Elm
street has gone to Providence, X. l., for
two weeks visit with her niece, Mrs
| Harold Austin.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Robert B. Jones and two
children have returned TO their home on
! Seminary hill in Montpelier after re-
siding during the winter months at Ho-
| tel Barre.
| Miss Emily Fraser, stenographer of
the quartermaster's department at Bos-
ton, is visiting her mother, Mrs. j. &.
Ward, of the Aldrich building for few
days.
The Quarry Savings Bank & Trust Co
has received its entire allotment of Vic
tory bonds for the fifth loan and those
who purchased through this bank can
have their bonds by bringing in their
receipt.-ady.
The funeral of w. O. Hanson, who
died at the City hospital Monday night,
will be held from the Badger undertake
/ ing rooms on North Main street tomor-
row afternoon at 2 o'clock, burial to be
, in Hope cemetery.
| Mrs. George Milne, Mrs. George Inglis
and son, Douglas, left on the late morn
! ing train to-day for Boston Tomorrow
they will return in Mrs. Mines Packard
car, which has been undergoing repairs
at Packard garage in that city.
| J. +. Hall of Rutland, Vermont super
intendent of the New England Tele-
phone and Telegraph company, who came
here yesterday for the purpose of ad'
dressing Barre and Montpelier people last
evening on the telephone situation, re-
turned to-day to his headquarters.
Ralph Smith and Bennie Tryon passed
through the city last night when jour
neying by automobile back to Burling-
ton with the University of Vermont
baseball team which suffered a defeat
at the hands of Dartmouth yesterday
afternoon by the score of 6 to 4. Up to
the eighth inning U. V. NJ, retained the
lead and held their opponents by one
score, to 2. Pitcher Kibbee then lost
control of the ball and allowed several
hits that reversed the tables.
The next most important event to the
| Memorial day exercises on Friday will
1 be a baseball game at Goddard campus
scheduled for 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Franklin, N. H., high school, one of the
fastest high school baseball aggregations
in New Hampshire, will endeayor to give
the local school defeat TO even up mat
tiers, they having been defeated by God
dard two weeks ago. Quite an interest
/ ing contest is looked forward to by
Coach Bracket of the seminary. This
viii be the only ball game in the city for
| that day.
Older residents of Barre will remember
Martin Perkins, who lived here for a
time around 80 years ago and married
/ while here Lavinia Estabrook, daughter
of Mrs Roxana Estabrook of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs Perkins moved not long
ago from Hinsdale, n H., to Clinton,
| Mass, where for the last two months
Mr.. Perkins had been in very poor health,
/ but was given hope that an operation
would relieve the condition, and so went
to the hospital in Worcester, Mass, to
undergo the same. 1t is understood that
he never rallied after it was performed,
! his death occurring at the hospital. Mr..
Perkins was about 65 years old and
while living in Barre resided on South
Main street. He was carpenter and
builder by trade.