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

41Lh OF HE IOWN
Remember the finest talent of New
England will appear in the opera house
on Friday, March 26.adv.
The ladies' aid of st. Monica's church
viii hold its regular meeting this even
ing at 1880 at the convent.
The Philathea class of the First Bap-
list church will meet with Mrs. Mary
Jones of Bolster avenue tomorrow
night
Don't forget the Rebekah dance in
Rowland hall Friday night. CAROLS
orchestra. Admission, 81 per couple
adv.
Come in and look at Mrs. Shadows
line of spring hats before buying. Style
and prices right. Remember the place,
Forsythe place adv.
Regular meeting of Jumpers, boxers
and derrickmen's union, branch No. 80,
will be held in Worthen block tonight,
March 0, at 1880 o'clock.
p. l.. Grendell OF Portland Nc, an
old-time resident of Barre, who has
been visiting in Barre for the past few
days. has returned to his home.
One of our leading hairdressers says
she has found nothing as good as Pa
risian Sage to cure dandruff and make
the hair soft, thick and lustrous. f. A.
Drown i Co. sell the genuine. adv.
A concert will be given at the Barre
opera house Thursday, March %, for
the benefit of the Barre City band, the
concert being by the band, assisted by
Miss Kathleen LeBaron, the well
known entertainer. The concert has
been arranged III order to raise money
with which to purchase new instru-
ments for the band, and it is hoped
that there will be generous support
on the part of the citizens The ad
mission price will be only 90 cents.
All milk producers shipping milk, or
those interested in the shipping ofmilk,
are cordially invited to an informal |
smoke talk in the Knights OF Pythias |
rooms, Blanchard block, Wednesday,
night. An interesting program has |
been arranged, and sandwiches, coffee |
and cigars will be served Come out |
to this get-together and hear what !
others are doing and voice your own
ideas. You are certain to be benefited |
from the remarks that will be given
In an endeavor to assist the Barre &
Chelsea railway to open all branches
Of its road, especially those lines con
nected with the stoneshcds, Principal
Lyman c. Hunt posted a notice in
Spauldng high school Yesterday, stat
ing that 20 to % able. bodied students
were needed for this work. II further
stated that volunteers would be ex.
cused from classes to-day while EN-
ployed in this way. With this number
OF young men augmenting the already
large shoyeling force, it was believed
that the principal branches could be
opened to-day and other less frequent
ed branches taken care of by the reg
ular force Young men from Barre and
Montpelier schools have been Of great
assistance in the railroad yards Of both
cities, many being employed to-day as
well as yesterday in the Central Yer
mont local yards. Students from
high school joined the ranks
with Montpelier seminary and Goddard
students yesterday afternoon.
The blizzard that stopped trains and
almost everything else but hopes, pre- |
vented the chief contestants of the |
boxing matches scheduled for last even
ing in the armory hall in Montpelier j
from reaching the capital in anything ,
ike the proper time, and for this rea- /
son. as well MS others, the promoters,
DAILY and Meigs, postponed the bouts
until Wednesday evening, when travel
between Barre and Montpelier could be :
made on electric cars. This event
brings five army champions of New
England camps together, that Is, cham |
oions in their classics at Fort Ethan
Allen and Camp Devens. Realizing !
hat only the people of Montpelier
'ould easily reach the armory hall, I
-hese matches were postponed from !
Monday evening to Wednesday and
word was sent to Woodsville, Wells
River, Burlington, Waterbury, North
ield Hardwick, Bethel and Randolph !
# this change, as many reserved seat
tickets had been sold to men of these
places. The list of men secured for i
his event is seldom seen together in a z
ingle evening.
The junior essay exhibition, sup q
element to the English course at God c
lard seminary, was given by students il
# the junior class in the school assem- n
lily hall last evening. The presence of |,
he usual large crowd was prevented a
" the bad walking conditions through. y
mt the city. A number of interesting =
riginal essays were given that should o
ave reached the ears of many more $,
eople. Probably the two most inter-
sting essays related were those OF Ed
1ard Flanagan and Arthur Knight.
flanagan, of Greenfield. Mass who :
ad served for is months with the 26th I
vision in France. described the thrill
lg experiences and fear of a group of
len in battle The other was that of
.rthur Knight on "Camoufiage Used ;,
] Wartime "A Cure for Radical. !,
'm" was given by Arthur wilmot: "
liss Clara Carpenter gave an essay ON y
Lady Aston in Political Work. Miss =
eatriee Wheeler, whose home is at ~
Lsgue Lake George, y. Y, gave a -
ivid description of that lake: Miss ~
achel Bottoms topic was Rings; u
nth Hudson's essay was. THE jew in III
merica"; Wayland Pages, Our Next
Miss Hazel Maxfields, pc
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