The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-28
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in this city on business yesterday.
Mrs. +. J. Donahue of Middlebmy was
a business visitor in this city yesterday
John Franklin Of Sherbrooke, p @.
was business visitor in this city yes
terday.
Mrs. Clara Gomez of Brook street un
derwent an operation at the City hos
pital yesterday.
Mrs. L. Acebo of Brook street was tax
EN- to the City hospital this morning fol
an operation.
Walter Ryan OF Westford has returned
to that town after weeks visit with
! friends in this city.
Roland Wright of Seminary street has
returned from Lowell, Mass, where le
has been employed for the past year.
| William Bailey has returned to Nan
tucket Mass, after spending a Today
visit with his parents on Berlin road.
Samuel French of Waterbury has re-
turned TO his home after spending the
/ past four days in this city on business
! George Smith has obtained employ
ment as a polisher with granite firm in
Nashua, n H., and left this noon for
that place.
Michael Burns of Washington arrived
! in this city this morning on business and
expects to be here for the remainder
of the week.
Special revival services at Salvation
| Army hall, 70 North Main street, this
evening at 1880; theme, bookkeeping.
Everybody welcome,
Miss Mildred Covey of Washington
street has recovered from her slight i'll
ness OF the past week and is once more
able to resume her former duties.
Mrs Mabel Locke of South Main street
/ has returned to her home after an alb
senee of about six months during which
time she was employed in Boston
| Gage & Gage, chiropractors, Office hours
! from to on Thursday afternoon will
be omitted until further notice. All 9th
er hours will remain the same.-adv
Ernest N. Worthen of Springfield
Mass, arrived in town last evening on a
short business trip and for visit to his
mother, Mrs. II. 0. Worthen OF Keith
avenue.
Angelo Dversi. who has been visiting
! his father for several days, left last night
! for Concord n. H., to spend a few days
before returning to his work as riyeter
at the Atlantic corporation works at
Portsmouth, N. II.
Two games are scheduled for the God
dard basketball team this week, the first
with the Combination Five tomorrow
afternoon at the Goddard gymnasium,
and the second with Newbury high school
at Newbury Friday night.
Manuel Pampulla Of Groton, the hum
beriack who was brought to this city
| from lumber camp in the vicinity of
Ianesboro with broken leg, had anOth-
er X-ray picture taken of his injury yes
terday at DR., Jarvis Office.
There we're two first offenders in POI
| lice court this morning for drunkenness:
James f. Carroll, lumberjack from Bur
! lington and Emile Westerinen, stone
cutter of this city. Both pleaded guilty
and were fined SIS with costs The costs
of the former amounted TO $3.50 and of
the latter S640.
Mrs. James Bennett and Mrs. Henry
! Carlton of Beacon Falls, Conn, who were
called here by the serious illness of Mar
garet Bennett, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Bennett of Pearl street, returned
to their homes to-day. The condition of
the little girl was much improved this
morning.
Guilio Mazzetti, resident of the Ital-
ian colony for the past I6 years and also
/ a granite worker leaves tonight for New
York City, from which place he will sail
1 for Gozzano, Italy. During the recent in
fuenza epidemic in his native country his
wife was victim. He is to join his chill
dren. Mr.. Mazzetti was one of the first
Italians of this country to obtain a pass
port for Italy after the war.
The public is urged to reserve Friday
.evening to hear Rev. Edgar Grassland
lecture on his personal experiences in
South Africa during the Boer war Mr.,
| Grassland deals with the history, geog-
raphy and the gold and diamond indus
tries Of Africa, showing the fields Of the
| latter with stereopticOn slides. The lee
/ ture will be given in the Salvation Army
| hall, 70 North Main street Admission
free. Everybody welcome.
In response to a request of the school
commissioners, Mayor Glysson has issued
a call for a citizens meeting at the opera
house the evening Of Friday, Feb. Z, to
see if the city fayors changing the city
charter so. that a tax for the support of
the city schools may be levied which
shall not exceed 81 on each dollar Of the
grand list, instead of 20 cents, as at pres
ent. An opportunity viii be given also
to do any other proper business.
The condition of Mrs. Mary +. Smith
and Frank Matthew, who came near being
asphyxiated at 10 Merchant street last
Saturday when Arthur Keezer and John
i P. Smith lost their lives, was reported at
the City hospital to-day to be improving
satisfactorily. Mrs. Smith, who was
considered on the danger list for two
days, is now making good progress to-
ward recovery, but not as fast as Math-
| leu, who recovered consciousness "a hours
after being found.
New was received this afternoon of
| the death Of Miss Ida Congo, formerly
of this city, in Boston, after a week
| illness with influenza followed by pneu-
monia. The body will arrive in Barre
early tomorrow morning and the flu
neral arrangements will be announced
later. The body, on its arrival will
be taken to the home of her sister Mrs,
Edward Carroll, of Seminary street. The
deceased has been employed in Boston
for a number of years.
About 300 visiting teachers are ex-
pected to be in Barre during the last two
days Of the present week in attendance
at the annual convention of the Winoo-
ski Valley Teachers association, Only a
comparatively few reservations have been
asked by the teachers in the association
because most of the members have
friends in the city, it is thought, and will
find a cordial welcome in the homes Of