The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-05
TALK or THE TOWN

| w. c. Clifford, jr., of Bethel was a
| recent visitor in Barre.
| NJ. s. Levin went to Burlington last
evening TO spend a few days with rela-
tives.
| Auction sale Saturday at ? and Z
p, m. at the City Auction Market. See
adv.--adv.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Truba of the
Montpelier road and Mrs Frank Ca
males of west hill left last night for
Boston.
Massive production, sentiment and
romance, entrancingI music, "Maytime,"
at the Barre opera house, Monday,
Feb. 9--adv
The w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs.
w. H. Richardson, l02 Merchant street,
Friday afternoon at $50. Members
please bring articles for the basket.
Over ! 100 seats sold for the Russian
Symphony orchestra concert next Mon
day at Montpelier city hall Be sure
of seats. Order to-day at Park theatre.
adv.
4 Miss Agnes Bishop, formerly en-
ployed as kitchen girl at the Baltimore
Lunch, has returned TO Barre after a
short vacation, spent at her home in
Bradford.
The next in a series Of parties for
the benefit OF the ladies' aid of st.
Monica's church will be held Friday
evening, Feb. 6. at Mrs. John Papin's,
90 Elm street.
Miss Rosamond Maekie. who is i'll at
the Crane Institute of Music at Pots
dam, n Y, is not as seriously i'll as at
first believed by her relatives here, her
illness being slight attack of influ-
enza.
Felix Orteli has arrived here from
Quincy, Mass. where he has been work
ing for the past two years in the gran
ite industry. He plans to continue
at his trade as stonecutter in the
Barre sheds.
Ugo Carusi, stenographer at States
Attorney l.. r. Davis Office. has been
appointed by Superior Judge +. N.
Butler to act as stengoprahie reporter
on the state case against George ..
Hale, which Is now being heard before
grand Jury in Montpelier.
1t is expected that the funeral Of
/ Miss Lucy Wells who died Yesterday,
will be held Saturday Owing to the
fact that relatives from a distance plan
to attend, no definite plans have yet
been completed, but they viii be an
nounced in to.moryow's Times.
Word has Just been received of the
death Of Miss Elsie Bjork, daughter Of
Rev. and Mrs John Bjork. No details
are given The family resided in this
CITY for number OF years prior to
1916, when Mr. Bjork accepted a call TO
his present pastorate in Auburn, !.
The day nursery of the Community
house is in need of old table linen to
be cut in squares and used as napkins
and old cotton cloth to be used as hand
kerchiefs. Assistance along this line
will help the workers to teach the chill
dren manners and morals that will help
them greatly later in life. Bcdclothes
are also needed very much.
In case the wrestling and boxing
bouts at the armory hall in Montpelier
tonight continue until after the last
ear has left for Barre, Promoter Dave
locmmodate Barre people with ono or
more elective ears TO be run through TO
this city. Il might be we'll TO mention
here that Bernard Pembroke's oppo-
nent in the preliminary wrestling
match is Charles Borclla, an Italian
from Newport.
This afternoon at = o'clock. at Grand
Juror Sargents Office in the Blanchard
block, the hearing OF the Edmund Rioux
estate VS.. the Antonio DePrato estate,
on claim for So 200 damages, occa-
stoned BY the death of Edmund Rioux,
will he brought before Commissioners
Arthur Tilden and George Maniatty
ATTORNEYS for the Rioux estate are
+. r. Davis. who will be represented at
the hearing by his son, Dean, and John
W. Gordon; for the defendant, Fred
Webster Of Swanton and J. Ward Car
yer of Barre.
With an invitation TO spend the
evening at card playing, Mrs. James
Mackay Of Park street entered the +.
NJ. Kempton home last evening at s
O'Clock only to find herself surround
ed by IL intimate friends and officers
OF KUHN cidpteis ANp. 90 ~. - - ih'
supposed card party merged immedi'
stely into surprise party for Mrs.
Mackav. when she learned that the Of
ficers of the lodge had planned an en-
ioyable evening for their worthy mat
I ron. Someone started the song shes
jolly Good Matron,' and the entire
! party Joined in. That song was the
first of many, some of which came from
the victrols. Card games were played,
and refreshments Of ice cream and cake
were served BY Mrs. Kempton. But
sandwiehed between these diversions
! was the presentation Of a handsome
morocco bound book of rituals of the
Order of Eastern Star by Mr.. Kemp
ton in behalf Of the officers Of the
lodge. The token was gratefully re-
ceived and in the response. Mrs. Mac
kay assured the group that the token
would long remain cherished article
to her Not until the midnight hour
did the group leave for their homes,
and only then with reluctance.
Notice.
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