The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-14
TALK OF THE TOWN

d. J. Morse's first anniversary sale
] this week at Montpelier adv.
Closing-out sale. All millinery goods
at big reduction, Mrs. e. A. Witham
Frank Hatch of Jefferson street, hav-
| ing found employment in the machine
shops of Windsor, left here yester-
day.
w. I. Campbell and family of Madi-
son avenue have been called to Hyde
Park by the death of his sister, Mrs.
d. M. Peake.
Masquerade ball in armory hall,
Montpelier, April 20; CAROLS orches-
ira; under auspices of Red Men and
! Pocahontas.--
Dancing from to o'clock Thurs
day evening, Rowland hall, CarrolPs
orchestra; tickets, 81. Ladies' union,
Universalist church.-adv.
Thomas Carroll, for several weeks
travelling through the middle Atlantic
states in the interest of the Carroll
Bros. Co. of Barre, arrived here from
Indianapolis recently.
Come and hear George Rivers and
the double quartet sing "Neber Yo'
Mind, Ma Honey Sure cure for the
blues. Spaulding assembly hall, Fri
day, April 20, s p. m.
James Mackie of Summer street, who
for the past week has been in Phila-
| delphia and Boston on business trip
for the Alexander & Co. granite sup
ply firm, returned to this city last
evening.
A social will be held at South Barre
grange hall Thursday, April Is. Dane
ing from till r. Admission, soc per
couple extra ladies, Zoe. New sugar
served for 25c. Good music. Public
cordially invited.-adv.
Waino Ketonen, the worlds cham
pion middleweight wrestler, according
to the Tuesday publication of the Bos.
ton Globe, defeated Peter Sturgis of
Worcester, Mass, in Portsmouth, N
H., by two straight falls, Sturgis, the
welterweght champion of the world, as
he claimed while in Barre but three
weeks ago, lost the first fall in 80 min
utes with a combination head and
wrist lock. Ketonen wrestles the ter
rible Greek, Mike James Of Brockton,
Mass, in the Montpelier armory hall
to- morrow night, and on Friday night
in St. Adams, will meet Joe Shirnkus.
During the week of April rs TO May
2 there will be made in this country
the biggest drive for money to carry
on religious work throughout the world
that has ever been undertaken The
Baptists of the Northern Baptist con-
vention are co operating with about 30
other denominations in this great
movement, The goal Of the l0666
Baptist churches in the great conven-
ton is 100000 900. 1t is expected
that this amount will be pledged dur
ing the week of the drive. to be paid
within the next four years. The Local
Baptist church is in this movement,
and the members and friends of the
church are asked to keep this in mind
and be prepared TO make their pledge
when called upon. The members of the
campaign committee that has this
work in charge are asked to meet in
the church on Friday evening of this
week at I O'Clock to complete their
organization Let every member be
present,
Joe Shimkus, the Lithuanian middle
weight wrestler and aspiring middle
weight champion of the world, who
during the winter months has made
Barre his headquarters, left here yes
terday for Burlington, where on Thurs
day he wrestles Joe Americas and then
goes to St Adams Friday TO meet
Waino Ketonen, the present worlds
champion of his class. Shimkus wres-
ties in but one more match after this
week and this one in st. Adams for a
hospital benefit, before joining the Bea-
con show troupe at Beacon Falls, \. Y.
Possibly he will return to Montpelier |
next winter TO make that city his head |
quarters under the management of
DAILY & Meigs, but this is not certain,
as the st. Adams promoters of wrest-
ling have also made him good offer. |
Regardless of this, he wishes TO thank |
the people of both cities for the sup |
port given him and the courtesy shown |
him during his first stay i'm Vermont !,