The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-07-17
TALK OF THE TOWN

automobile to Canada for a III lays
visit.
Mrs. Louis J. Bruya of 10 Maple
Grove street went to Middlebury tn
day to spend week or more with rela
tives.
A large crowd of Barre peopl. as
well as outsiders enjoyed the dance
given by Carroll's orchestra last night
in Rowland hall
was to-day removed from her home Uo
the Barre City hospital, where she will
undergo~an operation for appendicitis
Mrs. Byron jackson and Mrs. Lyman
Taft returned yesterday from a weeks
outing at Joe's pond with their sister
Miss Minnie Huntington, of Boston.
Mrs. Homer C. Ladd and daughter
Gwenyth. of Orange street, leave to.
morrow for Joe's pond, where they will
spend month at their summer cot
tage.
Miss l.. Jean Bisbee, clerk at the n
d. Phelps store, left yesterday for
Waitsfeld, where she will spend her
weeks vacation at the home of her
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. Campi and little
son returned to their home in Water
bury yesterday, after having spent
three days visiting at the home of Mrs
Colombo of this city.
Mrs. Joseph Blair and niece, Loretta
returned to their home in West Cliazy
N. Y, last night, after having spent the
last two weeks visiting friends and
relatives in Barre and Montpelier.
The 20 exhibitors and the 40 or more
people who plan 10 attend the annual
convention of the National Retail
Monumental Dealers association in st
Louis, Mo-, Aug. II, IS and 10, will
meet at the Granite Manufacturers a.
ISOLATION roosns Monday afternoon at
, 30 O'Clock.
The Mountain King, switch engine in
the local freight yard, ran off the rack
this morning near the switch shanty at
Prospect street No one was injured
and within comparatively short pc
riod of time the engine was back on
the tracks. The cause of the occur
renee was undetermined
W A. Wheaton OF Hin street he
gins to-day weeks vacation as cash
Ter OF the II. l.. Smith & Co., and witt
his family leaves by automobile to
morrow for Boston. Alexander A. Milne
and family, also OF Hill street, rela-
tives of the Wheaton family, will form
the second Boston bound party, wl'o
will spend week at pleasure resorts
Friends of Harry Dingwall of Elm
street will be pleased TO know that TO
day he made his first trip down town
since his operation at the City hos
pital. over three weeks ago. Mr., Ding
wall has been out of the hospital lit
tie more than week. but it was not
until this morning that he felt able to
attempt the trip down town.
One of the largest direct connected
air compressors in New England was
thrown into operation at one Of the T.
l.. Smith & CO. quarries on the Gran
iteviIle side early this week, and the
faltering supply of air furnished from
compressors at the qnarres before was
supplemented by the enormous volume
Of $500 cubic feet, furnished by This
new Ingersol Rand machine. Workm
have been several months installing : hr
compressor and the $50 horse electric
power motor.
A collie dog that for several months
has eyaded the police, despite their nu
merous attempts to catch him, was
caught mapping yesterday by Chief Sui
Ivan and short time after was put
out Of existence with q 3scalibre -.
volver. The dog was unlicensed and
had been running about the neigh5'r'
hood Of Ayers street for several
months. When the dog was noticed
Yesterday. the chief Immediately mott.
fed the driver of'the combination pa
troll bus and fire apparatus. whereupor
the fire chief transported the dog and
police chief to Farwell street, where
the dog was shot.