The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-17
TALK OF THE TOWN

Max Lawes has returned from q
business visit to Springfield.
just in, Goddard seminary rings a
Goodfelow's Jewelry Store.--adv.
/ Mrs. Carroll Houghton of Cabot wa,
business visitor in Barre yesterday
Guy and Hugh Humphrey of Plain
| field were business visitors in this city
yesterday.
Auction sale Of Shepard cafe fur
nishings at ! p. m. Saturday. See adv
O, II. Hale auetioneer.
| Joseph Nelson has returned from q
trip to Massachusetts, taken in the in,
terest of the Barre Gas Co.
| Miss Arlene Hutchins of Eastern av,
enue went to Burlington yesterday to
spend week with friends.
The Baptist church Sunday school
classes went to Benjamin Falls yester.
day to enjoy the annual picnic.
Mrs. Bert Humphrey of 2 Elmore
street went to Waterbury yesterday
to spend few days with relatives.
Miss Yyonne Gregoire of Burlington
has returned to her home after brief
stay and renewal of Barre acquaint-
ances.
A meeting of the Meadow Brook
Golf club will be held Thursday night,
June II, at 7 o'clock at the club house.
Let every member be present.
William oliver and j, p. Corskie
motored, Tuesday to Phillipsburg, p.
O., where they plan to pass week or
more fishing at Lake Champlain.
Long distance and general trucking.
truck is also equipped to carry parties;
will seat between 10 and 20 people. All
pneumatic tires. Granite City Bottling
Works.
Mrs. Archie B. Adams and little
daughter, Norma, of South Main street
left yesterday for few weeks visit
with relatives in Roslindale and Brock.
ton, Mass.
Mrs. c.. w. Guernsey, who has been
visiting Mrs. Byron Jackson of High
land avenue for several days, has gone
to Burlington to spend a week or more
with acquaintance there.
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.
Mrs. James Hall of Needham, Mass,
arrived in the city to-day to visit her
mother, Mrs. Mary Mcdonald, of Liber-
ty street for a few weeks, She ex-
poets to be joined by her husband later.
Miss Ruth Averill. a graduate of
Spaulding high school in 1919, is here
to spend three weeks vacation from
the Massachusetts, General hospital
with DR.. and Mrs. w. Il. Lazell of
South Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Beckman, the
guests of Mr., and Mrs. William Miers
of Keith avenue for the past two
weeks, left to-day for Breton Woods,
". H., to begin their summer duties
at the Fabyan house.
Joseph Joncas, the derrickman of the
Jones Bros Co., who sustained a brok-
en- right leg just above the ankle Sat
urday morning when a pile of three
hickey markers toppled over in the
stockyard. was taken to his home at
Howes place yesterday afternoon after
the two bones had been reset at the
Barre City hospital.
Frank j. Shea, proprietor Of the Shea
shoe store, went TO Graniteville this
morning with Sheldon Brown, to open
a two weeks sale of shoes. A quanti-
ty of shoes, valued at $4,000, and re-
Gently purchased, have been moved to
store, half of which will be
used for this sale. Mr.. Brown is TO
have charge of the sale.
DR.. +. H. Bailey and wife of Gran
iteville start Saturday afternoon on "a
Journey to San Francisco, Cal, where
Mr.. Bailey attends the Democratic ma
tional convention as delegate from
Vermont. They plan TO leave Burling.
ton Sunday for Albany, \. V, TO join
the Massachusetts delegation there and
then proceed via Chicago, Omaha, Colo
RADIO Springs, the Royal Gorge, to salt
Lake City, Utah, and then to Frisco
After the convention, DIR. and Mrs
Bailey will visit in San Diego and Los
Angeles, Cal, and later Seattle, Wash, |
and Vancouver. This itinerary will eA-
tend to Aug or S.
Everyone in Barre and vicinity had |
a vague notion Tuesday morning dur.
ing the thunder shower that lightning !,
struck somewhere not many miles |
away, and in the course of events the |
fact that lightning dismantled the |
of Eli Kings house in lower
5raniteville has come to light. AT the
time Mrs. Kings attention was OBJ
sorbed in working over a washtub. The
rash of the first brick caused her TO
ook towards the ceiling Just in time |
10 avert the tumbling chimney which /
anne through the lightly constructed
kitchen roof and into the tub Mrs.
King escaped injury and warned her
u vear-old daughter 10 move in time
10 prevent any harm being sustained
~ her.
Jimmy Kelly. the Goddard seminary
athlete, who left the school here last
year to enter Boston university. once
more comes into the limelight. this
lime not because of a victory on the
mound for Boston college nor in track
work. but on account Of railway ac-
,ident The Boston Globes account in
part is as follows: Worcester, Mas,
Iune l5,-Nearly a score Of people
we're injured, several seriously, when
in eastbound Worcester local crashed
nto the rear end Of an eastbound Al.
ANY express on the Boston & Albany
abroad near Lake Park, four miles
rom here. tonight. The express had
topped after having picked up crow
var which was pounding against tie
lnr,r nf me Of The rnarhna Annnnr the |