The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

! HlBuIt 0IlDeTtsOIS OTCUe5JId.-~huN
Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. Stafford of Long
street spent the week end at Joe's pond.
Automobile for hire. Good car and
driver. Get our rates. Cutler Bros.--adv.
Miss Beulah Grant of this city, who Is
employed in Boston, is visiting at the
home of her parents.
Beginning Aug. | the Hardwick auto
stage will leave Barre at 80 and Mont
pelier at 430 p. m. c. Poronto.
Mrs. Horace c. Bailey left this morn
ing for Utica, N. Y, to join her husband,
after visiting her mother, Mrs. Georg-
lama Mudgett
Miss Nina Converse began two weeks
vacation from her duties at the Quarry
Savings bank to-day and left for Old
Orchard beach.
Carl Waterman left yesterday for Bos.
! ton, where he will resume the position
at the Hodge Boiler works that he gave
up on entering the war.
Hilda and LYDIA Dubay, who have been
visiting their grandparents in Webster
vile for the past week, have returned to
their home on Summer street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Goodfelow left to-
day for Woodbury. pond, where they will
be In camp for month with Mr. and
Mrs. Edgell r. Plaisted of Montpelier
j. +. Robbins, Mrs j. c. Robbins, Mrs.
Frank Bugbee Of Barre, Miss Sadie Hart
Of Stowe and Stanley Foss of Plainfeld
are camping for two weeks at Joe's pond.
Mrs. Victor Dey and family left to-
day for Toronto, Can, after passing a
months vacation at the home Of her sis
ter, Mrs. James Stuart of "a Park street,
| Ernest N. Worthen of Springfield,
Mass, who spent last week in Barre
and In northern Vermont while on fish
ing trip, returned yesterday to his home.
A. j. Lyons, manager of the local Of
! fee of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company, has returned to this city after
two weeks vacation in Providence,
R. I.
The famous double Andes range win
burn wood and coal and gas, and bake
all In one oven. Save half of your fuel
bill Get prices. L. A. Prindle, Worthen
block
Dry mixed wood, delivered anywhere
In the city, three runs for 1915. Let us
| fiji your shed or cellar. Get prepared for
the winter d. A. Perry Real Estate
Agency Barre
Miss Winnifred Wilmot, teacher in
Florida, who is spending the summer
with her parents in Bethel, came yester-
day to Barre to visit her brother, ID. {.
Wimot Of Wellington street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Fowlie Of Bloom.
ington, H., and Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Fow-
lie of this city left to-day for Montreal,
where they will visit for few days be-
fore going TO Lake Memphremagog to
remain in camp for two weeks.
Frank H. Craig Of Kewanee, H., who
| is making his annual visit to Vermont,
| was guest yesterday Of r. $. Currier on
trip with Mrs. Currier and daughter to
Mount Mansfield and smugglers' Notch.
| To-day Mr.. Craig returned to Waits
River, where he is spending his summer
vacation
Sergt. James B. Glass, who arrived at
Camp Merritt week ago, arrived at his
home in this city Saturday night after
| an absence of year. Sergt. Glass has
been a member Of the quartermaster de.
| partment and received his discharge at
Camp Devens Saturday morning
Miss Marjorie Holt of Trow hill was
very pleasantly surprised on Thursday
evening, when Is of her little friends
walked in. The evening was enjoyably
spent in playing games, singing etc
| Punch and waters were served in the
early evening and later the girls served
ice cream and cake as part Of the sur
prise.
Miss Lydia Cove OF Eastern avenue,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Cove,
who was graduated from the Crane In.
stitute of Music at Potsdam, n. w. after
| having attended that institution for the
full course following her graduation from
Spaulding high school, has been chosen
as supervisor OF music in the schools Of
Lancaster, N. H., and she expects to as.
sumo her duties there with the opening
of school in the fall.
William j. Crawford, the well known
granite manufacturer at Buffalo n, Y,
| has returned to his home after several
days in this city, where he made pur-
chases of stock from local quarters. Mr..
Crawford has introduced conditions in
| his plant for the betterment of his EN-
ployes. Among the improvements are
rest periods of Is minutes each, one in
the morning and one in the afternoon
He has fitted up a recreation room where
reading material and hot coffee or cold
drinks await the men. The men are well
pleased with the arrangements and re-
suits are obtained from the Innovation.
Lee 0. Tracy, who was for some years
engaged in the fire insurance business in
Barre, latterly with McAllster s. Kent
and who lately returned from overseas
service with the United States forces
has gone to Boston, where he will enter
| the office of Cook, Watkins & Co pre-.
| paratory to going on the road for that
concern. He began his duties in the Of.
flee this morning and it is expected that
! he will remain in Boston several weeks
after which he will be sent into the
western territory, perhaps Texas, in
which state he may have his headquar.
ters Mr.. Tracy is a graduate of Spauld.
ing high school and has been located in
Barre ever since leaving that school He
was for a short time city auditor, hav.
ing resigned that position on leaving to
enter the United States service His
many friends in Barre and vicinity wish
for him a full measure of success in his
| new work.
The Martin bombing airplane carrying
! five men and commanded by Lieut.. Col.
r. F. Hartz, which left Washington, D.
G., last Thursday on an S,0OO-mile tour
of the rim of the United States and
which came to grief at Upper Jay, N. Y,
late Saturday afternoon, passed directly
over Barre early Saturday afternoon
while en- route from Augusta, Me, to
Cleveland, Ohio, giving The people of
Barre and vicinity an excellent chance to
see government plane in action on
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