The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
TALK OF THE TOWN


John Brennan of South Fayston wa
brought to the Barre City hospital las
evening for treatment.
Regular meeting of Sons of Veterans
Auxiliary will be held on Wednesday
evening, March 10, at o'clock
Don't forget the Rebekah dance il
Rowland hall Friday night. Carroll,
orchestra. Admission, 81 per couple
adv.
Mrs. l.. Bovat of Swanton left fol-
her Rome this morning, after visiting
her sister, Mrs. Fred Langevin, the
past week.
You will enjoy the lecture on Swift
zerland at the Universalist church on
Tuesday evening Accompanied by l0C
beautiful slides.-adv.
John NJ. Carroll of Is Park street
arrived in the city last evening from,
Albany, n. y, after passing week in
that city on business.
! A son was born this morning to Mr.
and Mrs. n. }. Morrison of 81 Hill
street, Mrs Morrison being at the Hart
hospital in Roxbury, Mass. Mr.. Morri-
son is in Boston.
William Hauskan, a workman of the
Steele Granite Co., who last week suf-
fered the loss of the sight of his right
eye, has returned from Montreal. where
he submitted to an operation that re-
moved the remainder of the eye, which
was threatened with infection. The
operation was performed at the Royal
Victoria hospital.
Mrs. Fred Langeyin of 45 Maple ave-
nue. was surprised by her friends re-
Gently, the occasion being her birthday
anniversary, Card games were played
and refreshments were served. A sum
of money and other gifts were pre-
sented Mrs. Langevin. Among the
guests present was Mrs L. Bovat Of
Swanton, sister of Mrs Langevin.
The eighth pool, billiard and crib
bage tournament, which was to have
been played tonight between the
Barre and Montpelier council teams of
the Knights of Columbus at the local
club rooms was postponed this noon,
when it was found that the Montpelier
team would be Inconvenience consid-
erably by meeting the agreement. This
meet will be played at a later date.
DR. e. V. McTollum of Johns Hop
kins university, one of the worlds
greatest authorities on nutrition, de-
clares that mo family has the right to
purchase meat until each member has
at least a pint of milk daily. More
milk must be consumed II we are to
have a healthier and better citizenry."
The milk way is the health way. MIX
is liquid life. Use more of it.-ady.
Selwyn & Co.'S "The Naughty Wife"
ably given last night at the opera
house, attracted only fair sized
crowd, due in some measure to the con
dition Of travel The piece has close
to "Fair and Warmer"
and presents many interesting and |
Iaughable incidents Reeva Greenwood |
and Gordon Eldrid in the leads made |
the best Of their parts, while the 9th.
FRS in the small company supported
we'll.
The fire which completely destroyed
The Park theatre early Sunday morning !
i likely to hasten the construction of
he new theatre proposed by the Black
according to information.
Manager j. b. Eames, who represents
he Black interests here, got into com
with A. y, Black in Boston
yesterday and the latter informed Mr..
Games that the architect, Z. j, Bolen,
VAS on his way to Barre with the
drawings of the theatre,
which, by the way is said to Sirpass
lnything in the state and ranks with
he best anywhere. II is expected that
Is soon as weather permits work will
,e commenced at once and that the
,uilding will be rushed to completion.
n the meantime negotiations are GO
ng on for temporary accommodations
nd an announcement may be expected
n few days.
Water power in the streams of this
ection has been greatly replenished
uring the past few days. For the past
wo months water available in the
treams near the Tenney, com
any's power plants was inadequate TO
the supply of electricity
eeded in this district, and for this
eason coal and crude oil had To be
sed, thereby bringing an added ex
ense TO the company. Much water
'as flowing in all streams of this dis
riot Yesterday, and the current man
featured yesterday was generated en-
rely by water power. This is the
rst time in two months that water
lone could be depended upon for this
urpose. However, many of the Barre
ranite manufacturing concerns, the
hief consumers of current, were not in
peration yesterday, while the entire
ranite district in Montpelier was
osed down, and the quarrying district
/ Graniteville was not producing the
ormal amount of stone. Neverthe
So. the full quantity of power re-
uired was available and since the
Iarch sun is steadily increasing the
plume in the streams the possibilities
saving coal and oil for the Tenney
'rvice become greater each day.
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