The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-13
MONTPELIER

approaching marriage OF her sister,
Miss Loretta Macmillan of Ilion, N. Y,
who is visiting here. During the even
ing the announcement of the engage
ment of Miss Macmillan to John w.
Beck of BartIesviile, Okla, was made.
II was in the form of valentine party.
with presentation of valentines as ia
vors, in which the announcement of the
engagement occurred The evening was
passed with games and music. Refresh
ments were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey w. McAllister,
who have been stopping here for few
days, left last evening for visit in
Burlington. They came here Tuesday
afternoon and in the evening were mar
ried by Rev. Charles st. John at the
Bethany chlHch parsonage. The bride
was Mrs. Elizabeth G. McAllister. She
was gowned in blue georgette crepe.
After short wedding trip they will
return to Waitsfeld, where they are
well known and will make their home.
1t is customary to give shower about
the time of wedding but not the kind
that Mrs McAllister received Wednes-
day afternoon while walking along
Main street The snow slid off the
Deter block, striking Mrs. McAllister
with considerable force. AT first she
did not think she was injured but
Thursday she found herself quite lame
from her experience.
Yeeles, the Berlin, N. H.. wrestler,
did not show up Thursday evening, so
that the sport that was expected to be
seen in Montpelier did not take place.
Joe Shmkus was present to meet
| Yeeles Ii is understood Ieeles did
not make his train connections at Wells
River, for trainmen stated during the
evening that the Montpelier & Wells
River train did not wait for the con
neeti0ns Of trains that were some so
| minutes late, but il ii expected that II
| match between the two men viii take
! place next week There was a nice
| exhibition match between Prof A. A.
| Shapiro Of Norwich university and Der
nard Pembroke of Montpelier. They
| did not work for falls and allowed their
opponents to slip out of some close
! places to avoid a fall because it was
an exhibition match The first part OF
| the evening Raymond Mosher Of Mont
pelier and Donald Adams Of Canton,
! Ne. wrestled Mosher got the first fall
| in s. seconds aud then they wrestled
| for 10 minutes and Adams received a
| fall. Mosher was not feeling well,
| having eaten heavy supper, which
commenced TO show on his work. One
| boxing bout took place between Der
nard Pembroke and Frank Beaulleu.
| This was an interesting bout and IN It
some good boxing for young men was
/ seen. II is expected that a wrestling
match viii occur next Thursday even
ing.
DR.. X. l.. Cleaves presented the
club with very unique arrangement
to indicate the dealer in bid Whist
games. lie has made and designed
from materials used in his dental bust
aess, circular plate Of about two
and ono half inches in diameter, on
which is inlaid of silver, four char
acters i. l., L, representing the
PLAYERS. The Indicator moves on
pivot and by an ingeniously arranged
,pring Is kept at the proper tension,
which not only keeps the indicative
from swinging loosely, but also takes
lp much of the wear on the riyetlng by
which il is held TO the plate, the plate
II turn being riveted 10 small steel
spring. bent to fit any table; so far as
SHOWN. this is the first article OF ITS
Kind that seems practical in use.
The Jury commission as VI Is now
termed BY the statutes, met this morn
ing and revised the jury list in Wash
Inrton county. The frequent drawing
II iuries in the last few months Tor
the exceptional cases and the extra
: large number Of iurymen that have
been drawn almost made it compulsory
that new list be drawn
Charles c. Roncoe, who has been in
the city for a few days, arranging
ONE boxing bouts in the armory, went
10 his home in Boston to-day. Mr.,
Roncoe has been connected with ANA
eur boxing in the birmingham. Mass,
club. but recently relinquished his in
rerrsts there He was in conference
With 4. w. DAILY and T., 5 Meigs rela
tive to the matter. The first bout will
be staged Feb %, when one l2round
bout. one eight round bout and one six
round bout win be pulled OH Il Is the
purpose Of the promoters II this pne Is
successful to conduct bouts once in
two weeks for the remainder OF the
winter.
II. NJ. Davis has returned from Nil
ton, where he conducted an investiga
ton OF the weight Of carload Of coal
The coal dealer IN that town asked
ne scales be tested. These We're found
to be all right. SO the carload of Goa
Wa checked and il was found that it
was short about one.half ton from the
sale price. This was not sufficient to
warrant action. for that amount of coal
would probably be lost in transit.
II. NJ Davis, deputy commissioner of
weights and measures, il checking up
some Of the butter that comes into
Montpelier from creameries. He found
one to-day in which the pound was two
ounces short and is conducting an in
vestigation relative to the matter
The Champlain Country club Of St.
Adams has filed statement in the Of
fec Of secretary Of state that it desires
to Increase its capital stock from Sl0,-
000 to $4,000
j. G.. Brown. state fire marshal. Is
checking up some OF the municipal
buildings in the state and finds some
pretty bad conditions in connection
with some of these, more especially
that the municipal authorities have
been slack in connection with fire es-
capes on buildings that are used for
public gatherings; also. that the exits |
are not according to law For instance. I
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