The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-09
TALK OF THE TOWN

y
Dance in Rowland hall ever,
Wednesday and Saturday. Landi's OF
chestra.-adv.
| Regular meeting of Ruth chapter
No. 80, 0. f. S., Wednesday evening
June Q, at 1880 o'clock.
H. G. Bennett of the Barre garag
has gone to Detroit, Mich, on bust
ness trip and expects to make the re
turn trip in new car.
I Mrs. Louis F. Robarge of Los An
geles, Cal, arrived in the city yester
day to visit her mother, Mrs. p.
Brown of 8 Elmore street.
Miss Agnes Mcdonald, who for tn
past two years has been employed il
Boston, recently returned to her hom
to make an indefinite stay.
Mrs. George w. Mann of yelling
ton street went to Boston Monda,
night to spend month or more will
her daughter, Mrs. +. M. Laws.
William Kerr of this city, who .fol
the past two months has been workin,
| in the shipyards of Portsmouth, N
| H., returned to Barre last evening.
Peter Z. Boyce of Snohomish, Wash.
| arrived in Barre yesterday and later
went to Graniteville, where he vii
make an extended visit with relatives
George Cooper of Ayers street has
returned to his home from Windsor
having worked there since the suspen
sion of manufacture in the granite
sheds.
Patrick Massi and Fred Mclaughlin
-xtt Il Ia, - .,-.i,A 1. =
Barre, after working for the past tive
months in the Hartford Rubber works,
Hartford Conn.
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.
Z. A. Prindle, Worthen block.
Miss Catherine Boyce, an assistant
in the H. A. lockwood studio, resumed
work yesterday after an absence OF
two weeks. passed at her home in
Graniteville because of illness.
Miss Freda Ladd, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. f. ID. Ladd of 20 Franklin
street, has returned to her home at the
termination of sessions for the year at
Smith college, Northampton, Mass.
Alexander Porter of the Miles block
who since the cessation of stoneshed
activities in this district has been
working at his trade as stonecutter
in New Haven, Conn, arrived in town
to-day.
Miss Lena Giudici, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. d. Giudici of Merchant street,
received at the graduation exercises
of Boston university the degree of
bachelor of law Miss Giudici gradu-
ated from Spaulding high school in
1917.
In real estate transaction consum-
mated last night, Mr. and Mrs. George
Maker sold their two tenement prop
erty at l42 Elm street TO Mr.. and Mrs
Philip Beaulieu of 90 East street, the
latter buying for home and taking
possession on July 0.
DIR. f. II. Bailey and wife of Gran.
iteville, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Mcleod,
also of Graniteville, and Mr.. and Mrs.
William Emslie of this city, motored
to Iverness, p. O., early in the week,
where they plan to spend a week or
ten days camping and fishing.
Rev. John X. Miller, missionary
worker OF india, and Rev. Frank c,
Lauback, missionary worker of the
Philippine islands, who attended the
at the Barre Congregations
al church, left this morning for JEFF.
TO attend a similar con.
vention.
Goddard's baseball team tomorrow
goes to Winooski to play the return
game with st. Michael's college, the !
team which early in May defeated |
Goddard, to 2, on the seminary cam
pus. Friday, the seminary team plays |
I. V. NJ. seconds at the university |
grounds, and on Saturday plays on |
Goddard campus the newly organized |
Barre baseball club.
j. A. Barquin and wife of Barre |
Town have sold their home farm on |
'ast hill to John Benjamin of this |
,ity, who takes Immediate possession
IF the property. This sale, made |
through the ID. A. Perry Real Estate
agency yesterday, involved a sum of
If approximately $1,000. house on
3assett street being included in the
and becoming the prop
'rty of Mr.. and Mrs. Barquin.
Construction activities at Stevens
branch on South Main street at the
lite of the proposed bridge have de
reased the capacity of the river, tenn
,orarily at least In mid stream an
'blong space of many square feet has
,een surrounded by boards, which in
urn were made as water tight as
'ossible by gravel and earth, banked
gainst them. This Superintendent
.awes ordered so that the excavating
n mid stream, necessary for the foun.
alton Of the new bridge, might be be-
un. On both banks eNcavating has
zen the principal work, but as vet
My the north bank eNcavating has
cen completed. This was accom-
lished Monday and the work of erect
ne a granite foundation wall was
tarted Immediately. Meanwhile a
is employed peeling the bark
rom the long straight timbers 10 be
sed on the south bank As spiling, for
ere a depth Of 80 feet Of quicksand
Odds up completion of the new cement
ridge Upon sounding, engineers found
hat solid base for such a weightv
tructure and one which would insure
afe construction, existed down
trough this sand, but not until the
ounding bars had dropped the above.
lated number of feet was this solid
ase reached Thus, spiling will have
, he driven before satisfactory foun-
alton can be laid. As already men
oned, the stream itself has been
realty narrowed and because Of this
Ict water continues TO seep into the
ahmed space mid-stream. where
orkmen continue 20 excayate as