The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-30
TALK OF THE TOWN


| Only one more day to pay your wa
ter rent.-adv.
Special underwear sale at d. j..
Morse's, Montpelier. adv.
Food sale at Methodist church Satur-
day afternoon, May LADY.
| Hear the new dance records at Cum
mings g. Lewis; on sale tomorrow
/ Bailey's Music Rooms will have re-
served seats on sale next Monday for
the Martinelli concert.-adv.
| r. H. Rogers, president OF the Barre
| Board of Trade, has just returned from
a brief business trip to Massachusetts
| The Woman's club wishes to thank
| the different churches and anyone who
helped in any way to make Dir. Gren-
felPs lecture a success.-adv.
Mrs. G. r. Pipe and children of Mel
rose, Mass. arrived in the city last
| evening and are now the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. l.. p. Clough of Nelson street
Hudson Beattie and Allen Calef, aft
err attending the charity ball in Mont
peler, visited Barre friends before re-
turning to the University of Vermont
yesterday.
/ At Cobble Hill grange hall, overall
and apron dance Friday evening, April
80. Good music and real time" Big
! fine for wearing better clothes than
overalls and aprons. Everybody come.
adv.
| Everybody who has attended the
dances given by the ladies OF the Uni.
versalist church will wish to attend
the last one of the series, next Tues
day night in Rowland hall; dancing s
to o'clock; music, CAROLS orches-
ira; tickets, 81 per couple, extra la
dies 35c-ady.
The stereoptieon slides which were
DELAYED in coming have arrived from
Boston, and consequently the lecture
on Universalist mission work in North
] Carolina. which was announced in yes
terday's Times TO be given in the par
| ish room at 2;30 this afternoon, will
instead be given in the Universalist
church this evening at 1880 o'clock.
| The usual mission service will be omit
ted and the program will consist only
Of the lecture and pictures. The public
is invited, Admission free.
Mrs. II. A. Rowefl of l6 Seminary
street is suffering from the effects OF a
| fall downstairs few days ago and il
able to get about only by use of
crutches, the ligaments in one heel hay.
! ing been broken. She was leaving the
house and at the head OF tine flight OF
| Is stairs, which ia very steep, she
| turned to pull the door together and
| lock it. when the door knob pulled out
and, there being nothing to cling to,
she fell the entire length of the stairs
to the piazza A physician who was
summoned found no broken bones, but
the injury to the ligaments above men
| toned. Aside from this, Mrs. Rowell
is very lame as a result Of her expert
ence.
In the club rooms of the Montpelier
council OF the Knights Of Columbus
this evening, the deciding tournament
of the winter series will be played.
| These clubs have met in 10 weekly
tournaments of pool, billiards and crib
bage, and at the final game the Barre
council, which was behind five points,
won eight of ii games and tied with
| the Capital city council team. No pool
or billiard player was allowed during
the past games to play twice unless he
had lost game, and his second ap-
pearance at a contest could be made
only in the kind of game he had
been defeated az. This final and de.
Gliding meet will be won and lost by
the best players OF each council. re-
rardless of past games. Representing
| the Barre council in billiards viii be
Joe Weafer and Leonard lander; in
pool, Perley Ruel, John Downs and
Clarence Burke. Opposing these viii
be- In billiards, j. Jerome and A. Da-
ley; in pool. +. Hsmel G. Mcdonald
and c. Tobias.
Within the past four days a vast
quantity OF tin cans. beer bottles, and
other refuse has been removed from
the streets of Barre by four employees
of the street department with the aid
OF large auto truck. behind which Is
attached a vehicle with an equal capa-
city for rubbish. During the summer
! months refuse and waste matter may
be tidily disposed OF by Barre denizens
by simply placing the material at easy
disposal for the street workmen on
the last week Of every month from
April 20 10 Dec. | People in every
ward have taken this opportunity 70
! dispose Of the winter collection Of such
material this week. and for this reason
the tonnage i extremely large. From
time to time these four workmen have
had occasion to lift many dead sol
der" or empty beer bottle onto the
heap and carry them to oblivion and
the city dump. I'm the days of old. only
occasionally we're these bottles found
on the waste piles, for they then had
a money valuation and we're redeem
able as well a. useful To-day they
are retained a. ornaments only that
the "reminiscences Of the joys, sorrows
and sensations Of old John Barleycoru
NAV not pass too soon. Occasionally
one sees one or two are decorated with
hand paintings. but two used for such
purposes in a home are great sufii
cheney where p. retained for y different
purpose. were once considered INSULT
Gent TO last a week. Then again, Tom,
Dick and Pete. school lads, all knew
their value and saw to IL that the
street workers were second 10 visit the
piles. especially those separated AZ two
waste packages, one Of refuse matter
and the other bottles. So il is evident
that "Pussyfoot" Johnson and the pro
hibtionists affected the younger gen.
Grafton az well as the old.
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