The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-30
TALK OF THE TOWN

| Dance in Rowland hall Wednesday
evening; Gilbertson's orchestra.
All of the latest popular sheet music,
Zoe copy, at Bailey's Music Rooms.
William Kingston of Mortified is Wis
/ iting friends in the city for several days.
D. e. Darby returned yesterday from
Springfield, where he has been for several
7 days.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry O'Brien of Bur
| lington were business visitors in the city
to. day.
| Father Dewey of the Waterbury Cath
Ollie church was visitor of Father Reilly
in Barre yesterday.
| Alex Watt and William Brodie left
this noon for New York, where they will
enter a sanitarium.
Miss Anna Robertson has returned
from Groton pond, where she has been
| spending a week in camp.
| Miss Margaret Donnelly and Miss Nell
lie Neary of burlington arrived in town
to-day TO spend few days with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs William Robertson and
son, Charles, of Brooklyn, n. Y, arrived
in town yesterday and expect to make
! their home here.
Mrs. H. B. Tenney and daughter, Dor
othy, left this morning for Sharon, where
they win attend the Hall Mcdonald we'd
ding this evening
The postponed game between Barre
Montpelier golf teams will be played
| Thursday, beginning at p, m. Mont
peier expects to bring IL or more men.
/ Mrs. f. l.. Brossmer of 0swego, n. y,
arrived in this city Monday evening and
will visit for several weeks at the home
of her sister, Mrs. D. +. Gregory, Maple
| Avenue farm.
/ Mr. and Mrs. Harold Perry and daugh-
ter of Plainfield and Mr.. and Mrs. Car
ter Downing left this morning for Lake
Sunapee, N H., where they viii spend
the day, making the return trip to-mor-
row.
| Mr. and Mrs Charles Stone of Boston
are visiting friends in town, after being
away from Barre for Is years. Although
at present teacher in the English high
school in Boston, Mr.. Stone will be bet
/ ter remembered in Barre as one-time
! Goddard Instructor.
South Barre grange win hold its an
! nual picnic and sports Saturday, Aug. 2,
/ at Woodbury. pond. Members of the
| grange or their friends, not provided for,
| will be furnished free transportation by
applying to c. W. Pearsons, South Barre,
on or before Thursday night of this
week All bring well-illed baskets.
Neighboring oranges invited.
James Parker had letter from his
son, James, who is in the merchant ma
! rine, which was mailed from Bombay,
| India, He said that their first stop in
India was at Port Said From there
they went to Karachi, Bombay, and ex-
] pected soon to see Colombo and Calcutta
| He is on the s. S. Axiom which, after
/ leaving Calcutta, expects to sail for New
York, the trip taking 81 days.
Word has been received of the mar
riage last evening at Concord, n. H., of
| Ethel Parry and Francis Cumming, both
of Barre The ceremony took place at
the home OF Mrs. w. w. Parry, mother
Of the bride The couple were attended
by Miss Grace Parry, sister Of the
| BRIDE and William Cumming. a brother
of the groom. After 10 days trip TO
some of New Hampshire's lake resorts
they will return to Barre, where Mr.
Cumming is employed by the Granite
City Tool Co. Both young people have
large number OF friends in town, Mrs
Cumming being an active church and
Sunday school worker at the Baptist
church and milliner at the Adams com
pany store.
| w. r. Cameron, the Washington street
merchant, plans TO complete the addition
to his store at once and install kero-
| ,ana anu5po for ,,r;pdiur arain fbo ,itx,
council having granted him a permit to
install the engine after a public hearing.
Two directors appeared at the hearing,
and the chief points of their objections
seemed to be the possible nuisance of the
congestion of teams at the mill and the
danger of fire. The fire hazard will be
pretty well cared for in the opinion of
the council, and the possibility of con
gestion of traffic at the Cameron stand
was not considered strong point against
the granting of the license. So the IL
cense was granted and Mr.. Cameron is
going ahead with his plans.
The new concrete bridge on North
Main street was opened this morning.
The bridge has been closed to traffic for
the past three weeks, and the relief to
| the detour around North Seminary street
was felt by many motorists this morn
! ing, The bridge is a fine piece of con
crete masonry and is built to sustain
| load Of 25 tons The frame of the bridge
is Of heavy iron Ibeams and iron string.
ers, some l6 or Is inches in thickness,
with concrete between and over the
strngers, insuring a strong and perma
nent bridge. The work was done by City
Engineer F O. Lee and Street Supt, J. c.
Del,rune. The cost of the bridge is esti.
ma ted at 81 200, one-third of which the
state will pay.
A considerable number of persons Of
foreign birth residing in Barre and Vi
entity are taking advantage of the first
opportunity in four years and half to
60 to their homes in Europe, the war
having formed an effectual bar to the
transatlantic trip. There have been
many rumors as to the number of pass
ports that have been applied for at the
secretary of states office in Washington,
bat the number would certainly make a
good-sized excursion party if all were
grouped. Some of the travellers are plan
ming to return to the United States and
others are going away with the expecta
ton of making their homes hereafter in
the lands of their birth. Italy is prob
ably attracting the greatest number of
people from this vicinity.
A most enjoyable class reunion brought
together at the Spaulding high school
assembly hall last evening more than 30
members of the class that graduated in
1915 The evening was given over to
games and dancing, the music for which
was furnished by Bessie Smith and Mr..
! Cooper Earl BoYce Of Williamstown