The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-25
TALK OF THE TOWN

adv.
New victroIas Just received at Bal
ley's Music Rooms. adv.
"The Whirlwind' win be at the BIZ
jou theatre tonight. adv.
Auction sale near Cartoons Jewelry
store Saturday at P. m. O. nj. Hale,
auetioneer.--adv.
daughter was born Wednesday
night to Mr.. and Mrs. William st. John
of 8 Central street.
Dance, Chelsea, Friday evening, June
25th. Landi's orchestra. Good floor,
good roads, good time.-adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Brock of French
street left Wednesday night for short
stay with friends in Williamstown.
D. Fl. Skinner, Fred Palmer and
Wesley Tucker of Waitsfeld made a
| brief call on several friends here while
on their way to East Barre.
Miss J. p. Nourse, manager of the
Adams Co. store, returned yesterday
from Boston, where she had been
spending few days on business.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Collins arrived from
st. Adams yesterday to spend week
with Mrs. Anna NJ. Sullivan of Jeffer-
son street before proceeding to Pitts
| field, Mass.
A gold ring and sum of money
were among the presents given Oscar
Smith of Seminary street at sur
! prise party held in his honor last Tues
day evening.
Long distance and general trucking;
truck is also equipped to carry parties
will seat between Is and 20 people. All
pneumatic tires. Granite Cite Bottling
Works. Call 7l6-M or 746-W.
Special sale of two, three and four.
burner Kerogas oil stoves, the best in
Barre. Largest line of new and Sec
ond hand ranges in Barre. Get prices.
E. A. prindle, Worthen block.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. d. Phelps, Clarence
Bisbec and Fred Baird motored to
Waitsfield Wednesday for a brief Wis
it with friends and relatives, return.
ing at an early hour yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie P. Moorcroft
left this morning for their home in
New Britain, Conn. They have been
spending the last few DAYS in Barre in
attending the late Mrs. Moorcroft dur
ing her sickness.
Joe liter returned from Maine this
morning, where he had gone to drive
back a ear. A breakdown necessitat-
ed his leaving the car a few miles this
side of Waterville, Me-, where 1t awaits
the necessary repairs.
Tn a close and well played game be
fore large number of spectators, the
Barre team defeated the East Barre
team, to 5, yesterday on their OPP
ponent's home grounds. O'Leary
pitched we'll for Barre, while Gray
upheld the twirling end of East Barre
battery
Enrieo Ortiz, 80, was the young man
who figured in the accident at quarry,
No. I, of the Boutwell, Milne & Var.
mum Co. yesterday morning The left
hand OF ORTIZ became wedged between
two blocks of granite and he was
brought to the City hospital by Dir
HAYES suffering with badly lacerated
hand. The thumb and forefnger were
amputated and il is expected the hand
will heal without further trouble. Or
tiz has wife and five children resid-
ing in Spain.
The census figures published from
Washington, d. c., hardly do Justice
TO Barre and its industry and though
six months ago they might have been
correct they would hardly give a cor
rect statement of the number OF peo-
pie residing in this city to-day The
percentage of this city's inhabitants
who took up war work in one form or
other would undoubtedly exceed any
other town in the state Within two
months after the war Barre had sent
to Fort Ethan Allen two companies
of Young men, and from that time on
| until Nov. II, 1918, Barre was gradu-
aIlv being drained of its younger gen
Grafton as well as a large percentage
of the older people. Some entered ma
chine shops. Granite cutters, those
who did not enter the service, found
themselves well qualified as riveters
in shipyards and from that time many
stone cutters have been doing this
same work. Foundries likewise re
ceived men who could swing large ham
inc stone cutters another field IN which
to seek employment or assist in pro
ducing war materials But there Is
probably no incentive better than high
wages to attract workmen and this
is the big one set before granite work
ers since June a. To-day and every
dav men with their families are finding
homes in this granite center OF the
world: men who never worked in Barre
before are seeking homes here and
bringing their families with them
Meanwhile the men who for two years
or more have worked in shipyards or
machine shops and who once swung
the cutters hammer, are fitting han
dies TO their hammers, brushing the
dust from their squares and reshaFp-
enine the blades to their 10 and Y
cuts. making preparation to return to
the banker in the granite sheds.