The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-22
TALK OF THE TOWN

TALK OF THE TOWN
Overall dance April 2s, Rowland
hall; Landi's orchestra ADV.
Robert B. Perry of Waterbury passed
yesterday with Barre friends.
Two electric cars at 1880 to night for
boxing bouts at Montpelier. adv
Mrs. Alex Mcdonald and infant son
have returned home from the City hos
pital.
/ For Sale-Two- and three burner
Perfection oil stoves. Abram Fine, 46
Maple avenue
Buy Nictrola and Sonora talking ma
chimes at Bailey's Music Rooms, from
$25 up to $235.--adv.
Don't forget the dance in Worthen
hall April 20; good music; gents SOC,
ladies free. Come one, come all.-adv.
| Daniel Cassellini of Maple avenue
left here last night for Lynn, Mass,
| where he hopes to secure employment.
| Largest line of new and second hand
ranges and heaters in Barre at lowest
prices. L. A. Prindlc. Worthen block.
Miss Annie G. Messer of Amherst,
Mass, arrived last evening for visit
over the week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
W. H. Messer.
The entertainment that was to have
been given by the boys in the Presby-
terrain church tomorrow night has been
postponed to later date.
c. +, Games, superintendent of the
New England division of the Western
Union Telegraph Co., was in the city
to-day visiting the local office.
Mrs. Margaret Richie of Beckley Hill
left this morning for New Haven,
Conn, to pass few weeks with sis
ter in that city and later will visit 9TH
err relatives in Newark, n. j.
Regular meeting of Granite City
lodge, |. o. @. L., III, will be held in
knights of Pythias hall Friday, April
%, at p. m. Practice meeting of new
guards at $50. Guards wear white
Initiation.
Mrs. Belle S. Fleury of Swanton, who
attended the suffrage gathering at
Montpelier yesterday as delegate
from Swanton, is the guest. of Mr., and
Mrs Frank Craddock of Highland ave
nue. for few days.
Carl Price of Kenton, O., president
OF the National Retail Dealers asso-
citation, who. with r, +. Cassidy, a sec
rotary of the association, was in the
city yesterday and to-day on business,
went TO Mortified to-day on brief
business stay before leaving for Boston
and Quincy, Mass.
Alexander Merchant Of London, Eng
land, brother of Mrs. James s. Milne, |
who gave her an unusual surprise Tues
day evening when Mrs. Milne returned
from Boston to find him at her home. |
returned to-day TO New York City aft
er a short visit, being compelled to go |
by business matters.
The baseball game AT Goddard sem |
mary Saturday afternoon is likely to |
prove a fast one, the school team hav |
ing as its opponent the Fort Ethan |
Allen nine. With this aggregation |
comes a strong battery in First Lieut.. |
Bob Skellings and Second Lieut.. Jim
Sweeney. Skellings. it is understood,
is soon to join the pitching staff OF the
Boston Red Sox and in consideration Of |
this fact the best twirler OF the sem.
mary will be called forth to win the |
initial game of the season.
The railroad embargo at the various
vital points of the country has had its
effect upon Barre shipping, especially |
in the granite industry, for cars can be
neither received nor shipped with goods
until the embargo is lifted In the To-
cal yards practically everything is at a
including a vast number of
empty cars which during the winter
months would have been of much value
for the shipment of finished product
Cars Of rough stock, and many of them.
Iio in the yards alongside of Others of
finished product and will remain so un-
til the conditions change in the rail
road situation. Because Of this, gran
tic manufacturers are again prevented
from shipping finished products Of the
sheds.
When Mrs. c. j. Allen of Beckley
street nesred her home, which is but
few yards from that of o. T. Allen,
ast night at II o'clock while returning
from a Maecabee meeting, two men
were endeavoring TO steal hens from
he latter Mr.. Aliens hencoop at the
rear Of his home. and in so doing mAde
much disturbance or rather they
,aused the hens to make the disturb
lnce Mrs. Allen was attracted bv the
screeching of the fowls, so went 20 the
side Of the house, where she could dis
,ern two figures near the coop. When
he called to her brother in laws fam
ly. who were in bed, the two men were
away and in all haste sped
over the schoolhouse hill at the North
Barre school with empty bags flying in
he wind. They had escaped before the
men OF the house could get downstairs.
90 no chase was made. An examina
ion Of the flock found all the birds
.afely within the coop and the four
setting hens. which had given the bur
glar alarm. also still on their nests, so
Z i evident that the would be chicken
hicves gained nothing more than ex