The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-14
TALK OF THE TOWN

Dance, Rowland hall, Thursday night.
! adv.
See the new shipment of hats. Mrs.
BRINE, Laurel street.--adv.
James Graham of Bethel was a bust.
ness visitor in the city yesterday.
A daughter was born Saturday night
10 Mr.. and Mrs. Fred II. Mills of 80
Keith avenue.
Very important meeting of Knights
OF Columbus tonight at 1880. A full
attendance is desired
son was born at the City hospital
yesterday afternoon to Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Peake of Barre Town.
Attorney I. G. Williams of Bradford,
who formerly practiced law in Barre,
was visitor in the city yesterday.
Edward Loranger of Sherbrooke, P, O.,
who came to Barre to attend the funeral
OF his nephew, Edmund, returned to-day
to his home.
Mrs. Martha Turner of Washington
was brought to the City hospital Sun
day in M. j, Whitcomb's motor ambu-
lance for treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Smith of Boston
arrived in Barre last night for few
weeks, being called here by the illness of
his father, William Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Duncan of
Edgewood have gone to Burlington TO
attend the |. o. o. +. annual convention
and encampment held there this week.
George K. Blake of so Merchant street
is moving his household furnishings to
the house recently vacated by Clarence
Hall and family of As Liberty street.
Miss Minnie ronside, who for the
past two years has been employed at a
newsstand in Boston hotel, returned
to Barre yesterday for an indefinite stay.
Largest line OF new and second handed
ranges In Barre, Perfection and Kerogas
oil stoves, wicks and ovens. Call and
get prices. Z. A. Prindle, Eorthen
block
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. jackson have
bought the Mrs. Anna Robinson place on
Highland avenue and will soon move
from the Montpelier road to their new
home.
Private Henry ]. Movies completed
ten-day visit at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Drew of Maple Grove to.
day and returned to General hospital,
No. 10, in Boston.
Results of the Goddard seminary base
ball games, which, if weather permits,
are to be played each day at the sched-
uled places, are to be posted each evening
in The Times window
Mrs. Kimball Chaynoweth of st. Al
bans, one-time resident OF Barre. ar
rived in the city yesterday, having been
called here by the illness of her sister,
Mrs. Walter Geake.
E. A. Prindle and Arthur C. Tilden
started out yesterday with fishing tackle
and equipment but with an undecided
destination or at least an unknown one
to any of their friends.
Homer Baker of Williamstown paid
fine Of S. and costs Of 1856 this morning
to secure his release from a city build.
ing cell, where he had been detained
over night for intoxication.
+. B. Royce, well. known travelling
salesman, whose territory included the
Barre district for several years, has been
elected vice president of the Berry Hall
company OF Burlington recently.
Mrs. Ruth Cleveland, who has been
employed as cook at H. Petrie's restau-
rant on Depot square for several months,
finished work there Monday and yester-
day, with her two children, returned TO
her home in st, Adams.
Mrs. Florence Wood Russell of Bur
lington, instructress of Miss Marion
Keller, coloratura soprano, also OF Bur.
lington, was in the city to-day on bust
ness Miss Keller Ii to be heard in
recital at city hall, Montpelier, next
week.
Captain Guy f. Varnum has for the
past ten days been attending a confer.
ence in st. Louis, Mo, together with six
other representatives from Vermont in
an effort to inaugurate what will eventu.
ally be known as the American legion
and which will conform to great ex
tent with the Civil war veterans organi-
cation, the G. A. r.
The annual convention Of the Wash
ington County Sunday School associa.
tion is being held in Barre to-day at the
Methodist church. The principal address
this evening win be by Rev John C.I
Prince of Bellows Falls on The Young
People and the New World Order" The
evening session commences at 1880, and
the address is set for o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Newcombe of
Merchant street and Mrs. Grace Morgan
of Prospect street arrived early this
morning from Stanstead, p. O., where
the illness of relative summoned them
last week. The trip, made by automo-
bile, enabled them to traverse roads in
the northern part of the state from
which mountains topped with snow could
easily be diseerned.
The house occpied by Mrs. Ella Joslyn
on South Main street was the scene Of
small blaze this morning at 10 o'clock
which apparently originated from an
overheated stovepipe. A fire was started
in the stove for the first time in several
months, Mrs. Joslyn having been absent
from her home during the winter months.
Lace curtains at nearby window and a
small rug upon the floor were the sources
of considerable smoke and fast spread
ing blaze. The firemen, upon their ar
rival, with the application OF few pals
of water, extinguished all danger, with
but a slight loss sustained.