The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-12
TALK OF THE TOWN

4 Dance in Rowland hall to night; gents,
! soc; ladies free.--adv.
Scissors, razors and safety razor blades
sharpened at Browns Drug Store.
Dance in Socialist hall, Granite street,
Saturday night, Landi's orchestra. adv.
Household furniture, cook stoves, etc,
at lowest prices. Abram Fine, 46 Maple
avenue.
Miss Monica O'Herin is able to be out
again after an illness of week with
the grip.
Mrs. A. w. Gates of Mantle, Conn,
formerly of Barre, is in the city for a
few days.
Norton Lebouryeau is visiting at the
home Of his mother, Mrs, l.. Batchelder,
on fremont street.
Mrs. Ralph Turner of South Main
street left yesterday for Hartford, Conn,
for an indefinite stay.
Perley Gotler, formerly glazier in
this city but now located in Springfield,
Mass, arrived yesterday for brief visit
with friends in Barre.
Stanley Averill, who recently arrived
at Camp Devens with the 26th division,
il expected to arrive in Barre to remain
over the week end with relatives.
Ralph B. Winter arrived from the
Summer street navy building in Boston
Wednesday morning to spend a one-week
| furlough at his home in Barre Town.
| Largest line of new and second handed
ranges in Barre, Perfection and Kerogas
oil stoves, wicks and ovens. Call and
get prices. u. A. Prindle, Worthen
block
| Joseph Powers, sales manager of the
National Biscuit company Of Boston, was
in the city yesterday transacting bust
ness with Il. G. Waterman of Camp
street, the distributor in Barre.
The Ministers Monday club will hold
its next meeting in the parlor of the
Unitarian church, Montpelier, on Monday
at l0:30 a. m. Mr.. Jeffrey Of the state
board of charities will address the club
on the object and work of that institu
| ton.
Beginning Monday, April IA, the Of
fee hours Of Gage & Gage ehiropracties,
| will be as follows: to 10 a. m. Tues
days, Wednesdays, Fridays and Satur-
days; $3.50 to p. m, Mondays, Wednes-
days, Thursdays and Fridays; to $3.50
p. m, Tuesdays and Thursdays. adv.
At the annual meeting of the Barre
council, No %, of the r.. and s. NJ, held
Thursday evening in the Blanchard block,
the following officers were electedi Illus
trious master, w, 4. Gilbert; ID, NJ,
John c. Wylliei p C. W, Harry Fisher;
treasurer, V. Z. Ayers; recorder, w. d.
Macdonald; captain of guard, George
Pratt; c. G., Philip Vercoe; steward, Ira
Houston; sentinel, George r. Blair.
A lengthy article, dealing with the
granite industry and war memorials is
/ contained in recent issue OF the Aber-
/ deem Weekly Free Press, brought to this
office by George Mitchell. A postwar
boom is being experienced by granite
manufacturers and Aberdeen is looked to
to furnish monuments for fallen heroes
in both home and foreign cemeteries. Al.
ready many orders have been received
| from France for obelisks and calls are
| flooding in from Canada, Australia and
| other colonies. One Of the biggest prob
lens facing the granite dealers Is the
high prices being asked for raw stone.
| Bon Accord black, a granite from east
ern Sweden, which in former days com
manded 81 per cubic foot, Is now selling
all the way from $3.50 to 81 the foot, 30
that prices to-day In this country can
not be called exorbitant when compared
to the above. The same paper contains
an interview with James Duncan, presi-
dent OF the Granite Cutters Information
al association, In which he states that
the monumental trade has never been in
better condition. Mr.. Mitchell has been
visiting his brothers in Aberdeen and re-
newing old acquaintance.
When shifting engine came putting
along the track near the east end of r.
L. Clark's grain and feed store on Prospect
! street yesterday afternoon about o'clock
| it frightened a young horse attached to
| buggy and hitched to the platform Of
the storehouse. The strap broke and
/ the horse dashed out on Prospect street,
throwing the vehicle against the corner
Of the building, and demolished to kind.
! ling wood the upper part of the wagon.
Continuing down the railroad track to
| the crossing on Prospect street, it ran
near the Wells River freight depot4
where sat two freight cars on two sep
arate tracks. Regardless OF the narrow
space between the cars, the runaway en-
deavored to escape between them, there
by bringing the wheels and shafts in
contact with the cars One shaft broke,
| then the horse cifeled to Main street
onto the park, where his antics were
stopped by a passerby, who halted the
horse. No injury was inflicted upon the
horse, though the harness was divided
into many small straps and the four
wheels and one shaft remained of the
wagon Robert Watson of South Barre
owned the outfit. 1t had been left by
the driver that he might assist in load
ing bale of hay.