The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-11-16
TALK OF THE TOWN

Remember the Red Cross rollcall.
Bert Mercer of 8 Currier street Is
enjoying a week of duck hunting on
Lake Champlain.
| Alfred Edward of Prospect avenue
began work this morning in the Smith
Whitcomb & Cook foundry on NORTH
Main street.
j regular meeting of the Ladies
Auxiliary to Clan Gordon, No. II, viii
be held Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7:l5 p
m. Initiation.
( Don't forget to get cup of tea al
the Methodist ladies fair Tuesday and
Wednesday. Tea, sandwiches and wa.
.fers, l0c-adv.
Victor johnson of the Montpelier
road visited at his home over Sunday
and returned to the Towne farm IL
Waterbury, where he is now working
Sanitary window ventilators--Fresll
air without drafts, fust, rain or snow
Fits all sizes of windows. Let us show
them to yon Sadlier. 10 Keith avenue
! Richard Cruickshank of Laurel street
left yesterday morning for ST Johns
! bury to start field work in the inter
| ests of the civil engineering firm OF
Walker & Walker of Montpelier.
Harry Jones of $50 North Main
| street left this morning for Water
bury to spend the day. Mr.. Jones
plans to make use of his time in at
tending to personal business interests
The Barre firemen hold their annual
concert and dance in Rowland hall on
| Thanksgiving eve, Nov. "a. CAROLS
seven piece orchestra. Refreshments
free. Tickets, 81 so couple; extra la
dies, 35c. Come with your friends
! adv.
Miss Ida Rizzi, known to many peo-
ple in the Italian colony in Barre
since she once dwelt here, has but
recently returned to her home in New
| Haven, Conn, from Italy, after tour
months sojourn through the father
land.
The name of Jonathan Stewart was
Internationally omitted from the list
of artists appearing on the program
| Saturday evening at the Rainbow fair.
The Scotch selections by Mr.. Stewart
were one of the enjoyable parts OF the
entertainment.
John II. MeHardy of South Main
4
street. meat cutter at the Smith a
Cummings store during the past lew
weeks. finished work there Saturday
night in preparation to moving to chi
cago, H., with his family the latter
! part of this week.
Box sociable and card party will be
| held in Odd Fellows hall Friday eve
ming, Nov 10, at 8 o'clock, for the
| benefit of the Forester team OF Gran
| tie camp, $3.50, Modern Woodmen OF
America. The public is cordially in
vited. Each lady please bring lunch
for two.
| II "nerve" il worth anything then
| the man who walked down Main street
Yesterday, clad in the garments Of an
agriculturist. with a big wide -brimmed
straw hat, the forepart OF which was
turned down over his eyes, should be
considered a millionaire. Certainly his
"air" was nothing less than nonchalant
despite the extremes in clothing,
| straw hat upon his head while his
body was well protected with a long
| overcoat.
No less than % carloads OF rough
Barre granite were left on siding OF
| the Barre & Chelsea r. r. near Second
| street sometime yesterday. Every car
1 was marked with western destina
ton. The incident~is odd in view oil
the fact that business in the Barre
granite district is dull at the present
time. Manufacturing plants in the mid
| die west are not experiencing quite
such drop in the amount of their or
| ders for granite memorials, it seems,
The n. d. Phelps Co, due to a re-
cent addition to the section OF the
| Gordon building occupied by their
| hardware store. have not only been
(, able to make a material increase IN
| the floor space of their salesroom by
moving their office directly TO the rear
| of its former location into the annex
but in so doing have also had Installed
one of the most efficient and most at
tractive offices in Barre. The office IS
located in the rear of the building ad'
Joining the salesroom. This space Il
! divided into two parts. One part, the
| main Office. has dimensions of II by
! 30 feet. The other. Mr.. Phelps private
! office. communicates with the main Of
| flee through door on the rearright
4 of the larger Office. This room is ap-
Il proximately ten feet square. The main
room alone touches on the salesroom
\ II communicates with the latter
through single door and semi-par
/, titiop. The main room has complete
set of new furniture conveniently ar.
ranged on three sides Of the office. Mr.
Phelps office is designed for comfort
as well as business. IL contains q
roll-top desk along with black leath
or upholstered chair and couch "a
match. The color scheme does much e
aid the windows, switch take up th'
entire rear side of the office, in giving
to both rooms light and airy appear
ance. The dominating color u very
light glossy corn-color well brought
QUA by white enamel woodwork. Each
and every feature tends to make tbs
whole credit to the work and en-
deavor put into il.