The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-24
TALK OF THE TOWN


orchestra. adv.
A reduction on trimmed hats in the
dark colors for this week only. Mrs. c.
r. Wood--adv.
Members of Major L. A. Abbott camp,
> OF VI, are requested to meet at the
hall Sunday at 9:45 to act as escort OF
r. B. Crandall post, No. SO.
Rummage sale, Presbyterian church,
Saturday, May "a, at o'clock, Leave
bundles at church any evening or at John
Stewart, ID Central street adv.
Largest line OF new and second handed
ranges in Barre, Perfection and Kerogas
oil stoves, wicks and ovens. Call and
| get prices. e. A. Prindle. Worthen
block
! George H. Tracy of Chelsea, high sher
IN OF Orange county, and Attorney II. *.
| Darling, also of Chelsea, motored to
Barre yesterday and passed the greater
part OF the day on business.
All sons and grandsons of honorably
discharged soldiers or sailors of the war
of 8l'65 are invited to meet with Ma
! Jor l.. A. Abbott camp Sunday to do
escort duty to the Grand Army.
R, Hudson, manager Of the local branch
OF the Western Union Telegraph com
pany, attended last evening meeting
at Burlington in which all the man
ayers of the Western Union offices
throughout the state assembled.
II. Sibley> Young, a 1918 graduate of
Spaulding, who figured prominently in
baseball at the school, playing left field
in 1917, and was manager and coach
during his senior year, was recently
elected captain of the freshman baseball
nine at the University of Vermont
Joseph Lavery, for several years pol
Usher at the Jones Bros. Co. granite man
ufacturing plant at the north end and
who for the past two years has con
Quoted restaurant in Springfield, has
returned to Barre for the purpose Of Sc.
curing employment at his former trade.
r. L. Smith is spending few weeks
at his home in this city, after visiting
| for a time in Lancaster, n. H., and get
| ting his summer hotel at Old Orchard
Me-, in readiness for the season. He also
attended the Vermont G. A. R. encamp-
ment in Rutland this week, coming to
Barre from that place Thursday night,
Mr.. and Mrs. John McHugo and SON,
John, jr., of 65 Hill street. together with
Mr.. and Mrs. William Rivait of King
street, were among the people TO &C.
company the body of Julius J, Rivait to
Vergennes this morning at $40 The
funeral will take place tomorrow morn
ing at o'clock from the Vergennes
Catholic church.
The Landi ten-piece orchestra, which
has gained much repute throughout the
state for furnishing catchy dance music,
has been selected to appear at the Uni
yersity of Vermont's junior prom some.
time in June. This is one Of the great
est events of the year at the college and
% dances are scheduled for the formal
affair.
The current issue Of "The Hotel
World" published in Chicago, ILL.,, and
the organ of hotel men throughout the
United States and Canada, contains an
article written by Athol r. Bell, secre-
tary of the Granite Manufacturers asso-
citation. The article sets forth the ad-
vantages of granite in modern hotel arch
itecture and urges the superior claims Of
Barre granite for building and ornamen-
tation in hotel construction.
The big boom derrick in the yard OF
Comolli & Co, will be out Of commission
for several days or until another stick
can be procured and made ready. Yes.
terday morning while workmen were en-
gagged in lifting medium,sized stone
from a surface cutting bed one of the
ropes controlling the boom suddenly
snapped and without warning it crashed
to the ground. In the fall 1t struck
granite blocks and broke in two almost
in the middle. Fortunately, at the time
no one happened to be near where il fell,
else more serious story might have
been told.
Two baseball games are scheduled for
this afternoon at 3'o'clock and either one
will without doubt furnish some good
display Of preparatory school baseball
Goddard seminary contests with St. Mi.
chael's college team at the home grounds.
81. Michael's is apparently an even
match for Goddard. St. Michael's made
Norwich play hard ball in recent game
in order to win by the narrow margin OF
3 to 2, and as Norwich beat the ill.top
boys at the first part of the season by
the score of to 5, an interesting contest
is almost certain to take place Both
teams are using their best pitchers, the
visitors playing Clark ON the mound and
the home team Kelly. Spaulding high |
meets the Peoples academy nine at the |
Lincoln campus. These two teams met |
last Saturday at Morrisville, but owing |
to rain could play but five innings, at !
which time the Morrisville team had Sc. |
cured three runs to Spaulding's two.
Cook William Taylor, who, previous
to his enlistment in the United States
army July Is, 1918, was a derrickman |
at Jones Bros plant in this city, ar
rived at his home on Brook street yes
terday after extensive travelling through
out France, England and the United
States. He sailed for Europe last Oc-
tober after two months training at sew.
eral of the large environments in both |
the north and south, and upon his ar
rival in France was attached to a tank |
corps. This corps traversed many parts /
of Europe, which enabled Cook Taylor
to see a number of his old fellow-work-
men, besides seeing quite extensively the |
homeland Of the French. At the signing
of the armistice he was stationed just
Is miles from lie Mans. Three weeks
ago his outfit landed in Hoboken, N. j.,
and thence marched to Camp Merritt and |
later he was sent to Camp Deyens, where
his first days of army life were spent.
Only short space of time elapsed be-
fore a ticket for Barre was purchased BY
Citizen Taylor, who will now enjoy a |
brief vacation before returning to the