The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-22
TALK OF THE TOWN

! bag filled before you retire tonight.
A FOIL line of seasonable millinery
Miss NJ. NJ. Minnie, l02 Summer street
/ adv.
Dance, armory hall, Montpelier
Wednesday, Oct. %. CAROLS orches-
ira. adv
Halloween social at the Presbyterian
church Thursday, Oct 80. Please note
change of date.
Dance in Rowland hall Wednesday
evening, Gentlemen 75c, ladies free
Gilbertsons orchestra. adv.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. William Robertson Cd
Brooklyn, N. y, who have been visit.
| ing for the past five weeks in Barre
Calais and Brookfeld, left Barre this
morning for their home. They have
been visiting Miss Anna Robertson OF
Keith avenue.
As every ticket for the Edison recital
in the opera house tonight is taken, we
/ wish to ask any who have secured tick
cts and find they cannot use them to
| please return the tickets to us before
| Z o'clock, as there is still big demand
for them. Browns Drug Store.
Bags are being distributed for the
annual bag day at the City hospital
Donations of sheets, pillow slips, old
linen or cotton, dry groceries, jellies
preserves, fruit, potatoes and money
are asked for. This is an opportunity
for every family to do its bit for the
hospital. Have your filled bag on the
steps by 9 o'clock Thursday, Oct. 70.
The park commissioners and GENE,
terry commissioners have begun work
at Elmwood cemetery, cutting away
the old hedge and taking away the old
wall on the southeasterly side. This
work Ia preparatory to the landscape
grading which viii be done there. A
bill was introduced in the last legisla
ture for the permission to 20 ahead
with the work and it is expected great
improvement will be made.
At the Barre opera house Friday
evening of this week Martin s, Villas
Of Burlington, lawyer and state sen.
ator, will speak on the merits of the
league of nations covenant. 1t had
been expected that Vernon A. Billiard
Of Burlington would be Senator Villas
opponent in a joint debate, but Mr.
Billiard has found 1t impossible to BIZ
in Barre on that date. III no other con,
testant is found, Senator Villas viii
talk alone.
A number Of the Barre shriners at
tended the Shriners' convention held
last week in Sherbrooke, P. Q. The
headlines in Montreal papers gives a
little idea Of the magnifcence of the af
fair. More than five hundred visitor:
from two nations thronged Sherbrooke
while the parade and drili in pie
turesque costumes delighted many
\ spectators. Entertainments, Of the rec
fezzed visitors Of various sorts, made
! the affair a great success. Special trains
and special automobiles brought hun
dreds Of shriners from, all parts Of
New England.
N J. A. Field has begun excavations on
a cellar, intending to build house op
posite Elmwood cemetery on Washing
ton street Mr.. Field purchased this
lot where the old Lewis Averill build
ing stood. The plans are all laid foI
H the building with 24-foot front and
running back 40 feet, with two stories
4 The house will have two sets of double
piazzas, one facing Washington street
and the other facing Hill street. Mr.
1 Field intends to have the building il
shape to live in by the first Of Janu
ary The lumber and cement arrived
to-day and with enough help, Mr.. Field
is confident he can put the building
up in few monfhs. It win be built
for two tenements.
Steven Whalen, a student in the
Boston Conservatory of Music, who
has been IN Barre for the past few
weeks in the interests of Messrs Mes
sier and Whalen, who have been en-
gagged in arranging music to lyric,
4 which AL Messier, the drummer anl
marimba player Id Giibertsons orches
ira has composed, left last night fol
Boston and New York, where he in
tends TO secure copyrights on tbeil
words. Messrs, Messier and Whaler
have been working on seven songs
which they hope to make public in .
few weeks. The first Of their songs
entitled "That's Why I'm Lonesome
Dad viii be featured in about TIVE
weeks
Three linemen OF the New England
Telephone company narrowly ESCAPED
serious injury yesterday Afternoon
when the Ford truck of the company
went over the bank near the Catholic
church. L. M. Newton. driver of thu
truck went over the bank with tht
car, but was nnnjured Roy French
and James 0'Grady, both linemen
jumped before the ear pitched dowr
the bank. The men were starting NJ
the seminary hill when something wen
wrong with the steering gear, and thu
road being quite rough on the righ1
hand side, ii caused the wheels to Jack
and the front end Of the car jumped
onto the cement sidewalk and before
the brakes could be put on the trucl
had headed over the bank towards thC
Catholic church. little speed having
been gained to make" the hill Thu
steering gear Of the car was complete
" demolished but there were few othel
damages to the automobile, Garage
men were summoned and the machine
was soon put In running order. 1t i;
about a l2.foot drop where the truck
went over the bank.
Card of Thanks.
Mr., and Mrs. o. L. Tillotson ant