The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

ITesDy terrain supPVl w hib"N'
adv.
Ii you have baby, see Sadlier's adv,
page 2.-ady
Buy pianos and sheet music at BAIL
ey's Music Rooms adv.
T.. l.. Bass of Bethel was busl-
ness visitor in Barre yesterday
Business mems lunch at Cafe Shep-
ard from IL 80 to 1880 daily,--adv.
Mrs. Alex Ironside of Aver street is
confined to her home by an attack OF
grip,
Mrs. A. Birnie, Laurel street, leaves
tonight to visit the millinery markets.
adv.
II. o. Camp Of 10 Highland avenue,
who has been i'll for several months,
was in a low state yesterday afternoon
Largest line OF new and second hand
ranges and heaters in Barre at lowest
prices. 4. A. Prindle. Worthen block
The home service office in the Jack
son block will be closed Feb. % and the
work will be taken up by the American
Legion.
A special meeting of the Barre Quar-
r;ers' and Manufacturers association
viii be held at the association rooms
| in the Averill block Monday evening
at 1880,
Mr.. and Mrs. II. w. Buchanan, who
! have been confined to their rooms at
, Hotel Barre with bad colds, are recov'
ering and expect to be out again in
few days.
| The annual thank offering meeting OF
| the weman's foreign missionary society
will be held at the Hedding NJ. e.
| church Wednesday evening, March 3, at
1880 o'clock
Mrs. Hattie B. Grey celebrated her
SD birthday at the home of her daugh'
/ ter, Mrs. Fred Persons, Feb. % The
table was set with dark blue dishes
over 100 years old. Mrs. NJ. r. Welis
| from Shelburne was present.
Among the Barre people to leave here
Yesterday afternoon for Burlington g
attend the kake walk at the University
Of Vermont were Harold Fits and Miss
Alice Downing, James Young and Miss
! Louise Canton, Misses Eva Smith and
Laura Mead
Nv clothes are hand sewed, the work.
manship and trimmings guaranteed and
the prices are very reasonable order
| your custom tailored suit now. Aldo
| Pellni. merchant tailor; cleaning
pressing, repairing. Ladies alterations
| a speciality. 81 State ST., Montpelier
The men of the Congregational church
will serve their annual chicken piessnp
per Wednesday evening, March 10
! Adults. Use; children under u, DOC
| Proceeds for church repairs Char
men: General, r II. Rogers; tables
". Rowen: tickets, George \. Tilden
kitchen, H. A. Phelps; music, j. GoulC
! More; advertising, d. II. Perry Thes'
suppers are famous and big crowd y
expected.-adv.
Barre people are to be congratulated
on having the opportunity OF hearlnI
the ROYAL Welsh Concert company, wh'
will appear here March l3, and o
which the Washington I'd. c. Pos
saws: seldom indeed have Washington
music lovers been accorded the PRIV
ilepe of hearing singers whose voice
blend so perfectly, whose enumeration i
so clear and distinct that not slngi
syllable il lost. Each artist is thor
ough musician of type that sings b,
instinct. nature and choice, bringing q
their work the additional advantage o
experience and hard study. ADV
The family OF George +. Thompson
| who for several months have been re
siding in Montreal, returned TO Barr
this week and have moved into the ten
ement at Q Farwell street. Mr.. Thomp
son who has been i'll with infiuenz
in Montreal for the past 10 days, !
much improved. He, veteran OF tn
| Canadian army, has been studying sho
construction and repairing at the va
cational school in Montreal, and fror
this institution expects to be release
| about March Is. when the course wi
| have been completed. AT present 3
and his brother contemplate opening
shop in this city,
Beginning Monday morning stone
shed whistles in the entire Barre dl'
| trict will be blown according to tn
summer schedule, even though summf
is apparently a long way of. Ihls WI
| terminate the winter schedule whic
| begins with Dec /, when the mornin
i whistle is sounded at 7:l5 instead G
i o'clock and the quitting whistle 4
H AIS instead OF 4 o'clock. During IN
month Of January each year the morr
ing whistles are not sounded until l;a
/ and the last whistle of the day is az
cordingly Is minutes later than in ID
cember. In February the schedule n
turns 10 the December schedule, and
1 March automatically again changes
Il the nine months schedule. The'
h changes are made for different reason
Il chief of which is daylight. Manutactu
H ers. after years of experience, foun
H that light in the stonesheds durir
\ these winter mornings would not pc
Il init a workman TO see his work as we
II AT O'Clock a. during the fall and sun
H mer months, and since artificial light
II these shops does not quite answer Il
II needs of the carver, letter cutter,
II stone cutter, the change in beginnlI
II work became an agreement with q
II manufacturers a. well as the workme
II The change has become so practic
that every whistle blower changes h
schedule automatically without mott
TO the men. Another reason for cham
n in the working hours in this section
due to the usually excessive cold NOR
( ings. BY delaying the start from
y 20 1880 many sheds are made cor
4 fortablv warm for the men in the e
ira half hour, whereas in older da,
much time was lost because of poor
heated workshops. Though the wi
] ter of 1920 has been one Of the $
I verest in years, the Barre granite worI
ers have lost the east time in year
I considering the weather, for one by Of
Q - !, ,,.,,rars are iruproying the she,