The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-07-03
TALK OF THE TOWN

Slbley Young, student of the Uni
Versity OF Vermont, is now visiting at
his home on Hill street.
just received at Heath's. another
large shipment of wall and ceiling pa
per. "a North Main street.
Community club dance, armorv. in
Montpelier, Tuesday, July 9; CAROLS
orchestra, Price, 75c per couple. adv.
For the most complete line of fire.
works of all kinds, call at building
opposite Park theatre, Depot square.
II. A. Kendall and Blar Mariani.
Hugh Cole of Orange street left this
morning for Ocean Harbor, Me-, to act
asbest man at the wedding of a class
mate of the University of Vermont.
Herbert McMinn of Brookfield. who
has been visiting with Barre relatives
for few days, leaves for Detroit,
Mich, to-day, where he has secured
employment.
| Charles Maiden, an instructor of the
| United States vocational school, No.
6, at Nashua, n H., is the guest of
James A. Thomson at his home at 70
Brook street.
Mrs. A. Canton and daughter of Que
bee arrived at the home of MIR. and
Mrs. Fred Canton on North Main street
| yesterday to pass two or three weeks
with Barre relatives.
John Durkee of Fair Haven, a former
chief of police in Montpelier, was q
business visitor in the granite district
| xynasnrHn,r har ,.ftfh II nohnr
slate manufacturer OF Fair Haven.
Miss Louise Dashner of the war risk
| insurance department of Washington
| ID. c., arrived at her home on Wash
| ington street yesterday to spend q two
weeks vacation with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. j. j. Dashner.
Charles Collins and Max Mann, two
young Barre men now engaged in the
machine shops of Springfield, arrived
| in town yesterday to pass the holidays
at their homes, the former being the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Collins of
/ 20 Spaulding street and the latter the
son of DR.. and Mrs. w. +. Mann of rs
Orange street.
Mr.. and Mrs Paul w Waterman and
children of Montclair, n. j., are visit
| ing at the home of Mr.. Waterman's
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. d. 5. Waterman,
of Washington street Mr. Waterman
has resigned from the faculty staff
of the Montclair Military academy and
expects to go to Milwaukee at the fall
opening of school He, together with
his family, will spend the summer in
Barre, At present Mr.. and Mrs George
Ogden of Montclair are guests Of the
Waterman family, having accompanied
them to Barre for few weeks vaca
tion. Mr.. Ogden may be remembered
by some of the alumni of Goddard
seminary as Fat" Ogden, popularity
connected with athletics at the school
but few years ago.
Fire Chief John Heney requests that
anyone ringing general alarm for a
fire wait at the fire box until the ar.
rival of the department, that the fire
men may be directed Immediately To
the scene of the fire Quite frequently
the men are misled as to the location
of a fire by chimneys or engines emit
ting volumes of smoke. This hap
pened yesterday when the department
was responding to the Bradford fire, a
cloud of smoke from Barre & Chelsea
engine which was blown over Ayers
street, causing the fremen to believe
the fire in that direction and to go
up Ayers street before the fire was
discovered Drivers of automobiles or
vehicles, many of them. appeared to
be unaware of the law preventing We
hicles from running over lines of hose
at a fire, or at least were at the fire
yesterday. Such acts are punishable
by law.
A number of Barre people, including
many granite manufacturers and quar-
riers. visited either on Thursday or Fri
day the ruins OF the Y, Pellaggi gran
lite shed in Mortified, which was de-
stroyed by fire when lightning struck
the building Wednesday evening. Not
only the shed was destroyed with thou
sands of dollars worth of stock, but
also a box car filled with finished prod
ucts. The company's loss was exceed
ingly greater than il would be with
freight cars moving something like
normal As a matter Of fact, this con.
Germ had thousands upon thousands Of
dollars tied up in large mausoleum
stones, and an especially large amount
in the Woolworth mausoleum stones
About one-half of the stones have
been shipped to New York, but the
other half was finished and has been
for weeks, yet because of the freight
tie.up no shipments could be made.
Stones with Egyptian hieroglyphics
and Sphinx statues. work which will
be hard TO duplicate, lost their value
when enveloped in flames. Besides this
extraordinary contract was another
large mausoleum. finished and await.
ing shipment, together with another
destined for South America. The fact
that they were completed and became
total losses TO the Pellaggi firm
through no other reason than that Of
freight tie-up seemed more than doubly
unfortunate for the company. There
was one large pile Of rough stock, just
outside the shed, which remains I'M
harmed.