The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-22
WILLIAMSTOWN'S OLD
HOME WEEK EVENTS
Band Concerts, Baseball Game in Which
Chelsea Won from the Home Team,
Dinner Served to Over zoo People
and Entertainment Were Conclud-
ing Features of First Day.

Following bountiful dinner served in
the main room at grange hall to more
than 200 people, by large corps of as
sistants under the direction of Miss
Stella Wilfore, the Old Home week pro-
gram in Williamstown was continued by
band concert in front of the hall from
l;30 to 2:30 p. m, which was evidently
much enjoyed. Leader G. w. Cram was
sufficiently recovered from a recent acci.
dent to his shoulder to be on the job,
though he found playing somewhat diff
cult. The band was re-enforced by w. J.
Gilbertson and Alex Milne, cornetists, f.
G. Dumas, baritone, Ernest Trembley,
slide trombone, and James Nicol, alto
saxophone, all of Barre; also by three
former members of the band, Alfred f.
House of Mortified, Clarence McDer-
ment of Randolph and Arthur L. Daven-
port of East Randolph, making total
Of 20 men.
The ball game between the Williams
town team and Chelsea was the next at
traction, and the game started out well
and was interesting all the way through,
though in the latter half the visitors had
things pretty much their own way and
DdEEth luE game WIN a tObhA VI AZ
scores to the locals 6. A big crowd
watched the game, which was not with
out its good points, though errors were
frequent.
Another concert was given by the band
in the evening, after which the Schubert
male quartet Of Boston gave an enter
tainment in the hall, which will be re-
garded by many as marking the highest
point in the events Of the two days. The
hall was filled to overfowing, and many
were compelled to stand. The hearty
applause of the audience evidenced their
full appreciation of the varied program
given. The impersonator, who assisted
the quartet, was given her full share of
the honors of the evening, and interest
in her selections was not lessened by the
fact that some of the service men pres
ent had met her when she was in France
giving similar pleasure to the boys in
| khaki over there.
| During the evening Rev. John Irons
read letters from former townsmen, who
had been notified of the observance of
Old Home week and sent greetings and
best wishes for the occasion. Among
these were letters from Mr.. and Mrs.
| Walter +. Granger of Long Beach, Cal,
long time residents and prominent peo-
pie of the town, Mr.. Granger having held
| several town offices, as well as having
! been town representative and postmas-
ter Another, which gave some interest
ing BITS of the early history and Of the
Howe family, from which she is de-
scended, was from Mrs. Aurora (Howel
Burnham, from the same city in Cali
| fornia.
The following are the results of the
races held this forenoon:
| Boys race, under Is years--Wayne
Farnham lst, Howard Murray I'd, Ned
Flint 3D.
l00-yard dash-Gill Irons LIST, William
Riddell I'd, Harry Flint Sd.
| Bicycle race-Bernie Reed lst, Howard
Murray I'd, Ellsworth Morgan 3d.
! 0ne-half mile raee-Harry Flint lst
John Carminetti I'd, Horace Lasell Sd.
High jump-William Riddell lst, Har-
ry Flint I'd, Fred Pirie Sd.
! Shoe race for boys-Clayton Bushey
lst, Ted Carey I'd, Peter Molinari Sd,
Boys race, under l2-Ralph Whitney
lst, Proctor Martin I'd, Lloyd Jewett 3D.
Girls race, under l2-Evelyn Bruce
lst, Ruth Cheney I'd, Marion Cheney Sd.
Tug -of-war--Won by w. B. Simondsi
team.
| Girls shoe race-Gertrude Jeffords lst
Doris Wright I'd, Ruth Cheney 3d.
Creased pig caught by Gill Irons.