The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
TALK OF THE TOWN

Miss M. NJ. Minnie has gone to New
York for the millinery openings.
Special electric cars after city meet
ing for Montpelier armory. adv.
Mrs. Edward Shallow left to-day for
a business trip TO Boston and New
York.
Harry Wishart, bank clerk of Wi
| nooski, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Bar
bara Wishart, at her home on Camp
street
Washington's birthday social to-
night, Presbyterian church. Program
and refreshments. Admission l5e, chill
dren under l6 l0c.-adv.
A meeting OF the NJ. G.. 10 will be
| held in the home of Miss .Ieanie Ander-
son Thursday evening at I o'clock
sharp. Every member is urged to be
present
St. Monicas parish will this year
solemnize the 40 hours devotion begin
ming March 2. From eight to 10 priests
of various parts of the state are ex-
pected here for the occasion.
Basketball, armory hall, Montpelier,
Wednesday, Feb. Montpelier post,
No. 8. Us. Windsor Tickets can be
procured at Lander's pool room. Game
starts at s:l5. Dance after the game.
adv.
Mrs. Edw. Shallow formerly Mrs
S. Il. Laviolcttel is attending the mil
linery openings and fashion show in
Boston and New York, On her return
she will reopen her milinary parlor Mt
her home. 5 Forsythe place, adv.
John B. Kelly of Q Liberty street
went 70 Burlington Sunday morning,
having received q telephone message
late Saturday night that his father,
John r. Kelly, was critically Ill with
pneumonia.
Save time and trouble and buy your
tickets in advance for the big game at
Montpelier next Wednesday night, Feb.
25 The Montpelier post. No. ,, meets
the fast professional team from Wind
sor. Game starts at S:l5, Dance after
the game. adv.
City Clerk James Mackay during
Friday and Saturday issued ~ checks
to school teachers of this city for back
pay voted to them at a January city
meeting. For the most part these
checks were for $40, or back pay from
Sept. 8, 1919, to Jan. |, 1920.
H. f. Hardy of the Park View house,
Bethlehem, ~ H., will be Mt Hotel
Barre March , and 3, seeking help for
the summer He wishes to obtain
kitchen girls, chambermaids and table
girls. Anyone interested is asked to
/ see Mr.. Hardy on the two days he is at
the hotel adv
Albert Mari, an eX ID man and well
known in Barre, has been visiting IN
the city for the past few days. Mr..
Mari, who was in Boston on business
from ST. Adams. Me-, his present home,
took the trip to Barre TO renew ac-
quaintances among classmates OF
Spaulding high school.
About 50 friends Of John Bossi gath
cred at his home yesterday to bid fare
well to Mr. Bossi, who left for Califor-
mia on the afternoon train. A lunch
was served and in a few weH chosen
words Mr.. Bossi expressed his appre-
| citation Or. Barr sang his new song,
will 1t Ever Come Back"
w. C., johnson, treasurer of the Peo-
Piles National bank of Barre, Chauncey
Wiley, treasurer of the Quarry Saw.
ings Bank & Trust Co, and Charles II,
Wishart, treasurer of the Granite Say
ings Bank & Trust Co, were among the
Barre bankers TO leave here this morn.
ing to attend the annual convention OF
the Vermont state bankers in Burling-
ton, held there to-day,
Percy Engh and Richard A. White,
representatives Of the American APP
praisal company of Milwaukee, who
last week were used as expert wit
nesses in the rate hearing of the Ten
ney service company before the Yer
mont public service commission, left
here Saturday night. Mr.. Eugh goes to
Alabama to do some valuation work,
while Mr.. White proceeds TO Milwau-
kee.
Deputy Sheriff George A. Tracy,
keeper of the Orange county jail in
Chelsea, was in town Saturday while
on his way home from Burlington,
where last week he attended the annual
meeting of the Vermont Sheriffs asso-
citation The stage route between Barre
and Chelsea being blocfed. travel be-
tween these communities has become
more convenient by way Of South Roy
alton, and it was this route which
Sheriff Tracy took.
Few indications of a legal holiday
were seen in Barre to-day, as all but
SIX stores, those the union stores, were
open as usual Bankers and BARRIERS
were, however, making the most of the
opportunity by observing the day with
closed doors and shops, The industrial
wheels of the granite sheds and quar-
ries were revolving with the same mo
mentum. for none Of the firms suspend
ed manufacture to-day Such days as
these are valuable TO the manufactures,
who has much work to produce before
spring and TO the employee who has lost
many days work by the excessive cold
weather during the months Of Decem-
| Der and January. Schools were holding
sessions. that is, all the graded schools
Of the city and Spaulding high school.
Goddard seminary observed it by Gus
tom. the school being closed ON Mon
DAYS instead of Saturdays.
II. II. Hodgdon, district manager Of
the Barre exchange of the New England
Telephone company, solved a mystery
Saturday that has caused him consider
able anxiety and some pecuniary loss.
He being poultry fancier, a group Of
| high class birds is housed in pens at
/ the rear of his home. which IL very
near Elmwood cemetery. One by one
at various intervals, these birds were
being killed by an unknown creature.
A trap was set last Saturday for the
animal that had left a peculiar foot
print in the snow and when again Wis
tied by Mr.. Hodgdon the trap revealed
a black skunk, whose home was in a
bank not far from the hen pens. One
. D.. % .ho animal vas fffzEirrs which