The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

| Ryland Parks of Plainfield is visit
| ing friends in Barre for a few days.
Don't forget the overall dance. How
land hall, Barre, Wednesday evening.
adv.
Dance in Rowland hall every
Wednesday and Saturday. Landis or
chestra. adv.
w. r. Calder and Allan Reid left
yesterday for points in the middle west
on business journey.
William Melvin and William Hurry
left for Windsor to-day to be employed
in the machine shops.
Walter Hitchcock and Laurence
Smith of the Morse block are business
visitors in st. Johnsbury Tor few
days.
The body Of Bernice Wilbur will be
removed from the vault TO the Wilson
cemetery at o'clock Thursday after
noon.
Alex Robertson of 50 West Patter-
son street left this morning for Wal
lingford to spend few days with rela-
tiyes.
Help the ladies of st. Monica's with
their charitable work by attending the
whist party and dance in X. OF Z. hall
to night adv.
George Fowlie of South Main street
went to Windsor yesterday, after OBJ
tanning employment in the machine
shops of that town.
One hundred best songs, words and
music. in book form, all for 10 cents
at store or IL cents by mail. Baileys
Music Rooms, Barre.
Mrs. n n Morse of Randolph re-
turned to her home yesterday after
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Parks of
Averill street for week.
Miss Eva Marin, who three weeks
ago had two operations at the Barre
City hospital was taken yesterday to
her home on Laurel street.
Mrs. Allan Reid and child of 25 Ma
pie Grove street started yesterday on
tourney to Cleveland o., where she
plans to pass week or two with rela.
tives.
Miss Leonide Marin. employed dur.
ing the past few weeks in Vergennes,
has finished duties as nurse and re-
turned to her home in this city yester-
day.
A. H. Temple, manager of the Union
Dry Goods store, returned yesterday
from several days business trip in
Boston and vicinity in the interest of
the firm.
Thomas Magner, superintendent OF
the Burlington district for the Metro
politan Life Insurance Co, returned to
Burlington yesterday after a brief Wis
it at the Barre Office.
Alex and George Rennie of Fairview
street and Rutherford knutson OF Cir
Gle street went to Schenectady, n. W
Yesterday to begin work with the
Western Electric Co.
Alfred Weston of Boston, who has
been employed for the past six weeks
by the Barre Electric Co. installing the
wiring for the Peerless knitting mills,
returned yesterday to his home.
Giovanni Martinelli, famous Italian
tenor, at Montpelier city hall May Ia
Reserved seats on sale next Monday at
Bailey's Music Rooms, Barre, and Bus
wells Book Store, Montpelier-adv
Thomas Nenner, John Blackmore,
Alex Matthews, James Stewart and
Claude Martin were among several to
leave last night for Hartford, Conn,
these men having secured work in the
United States Rubber Co.
Mrs. George Gender of New Haven,
Conn, who has been visiting her friend,
Mrs. p j. Hoffman, in Williamstown
for several days, returned to Barre yes
terday TO pasta week with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Mccarthy
of lO7 South Main street.
Miss Frederick Lander Of Washing
rapher at the Burke Brothers stoneshed
on Berlin street, has accepted a posi-
tion in the Office of the Dillon insuf
ance agency and began work yesterday.
William Adams of 40 Spaulding
street began yesterday afternoon
business journey TO Pittsburg, Pa, and
other points in Pennsylvania that will
extend over week or 10 days in the
interest of the Mari & Gordon granite
firm.
Miss Violet Ducharme OF South Main
street, only recently a graduate Of Al
bany Business college, began work in
mont Monday, filling the vacancy made
by the resignation of Miss Irene Sulli-
van.
Rev. and Mrs. Albert Abbott and
two children yesterday returned 70
their home in Moretown. Rev. Mr..
Abbott. with Rev. b. @. Lipsky of the
Hedding Methodist church, attended
the Methodist conference in Springfield
last week and in the meantime Mrs
Abbott and family were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. W. II. oliver of Elm street
All the progress possible to start the
actual work on the new South Main
street bridge is being done and the
territory on both banks of the stream
near the skeleton of the old wooden
structure is a hustling, bustling place.
Fifteen or more men are engaged in
the work and are apparently accom-
plishing considerable. The large wood
en- boom derrick brought from Wet
more & Morse quarry last week was
being hoisted to its position on the
north bank yesterday afternoon so
that in all probability the work of re-
moving the heavy beams from the
bridge to the banks will be started the
latter part Of this week. Just how
long the present bridge will remain
open to traffic is not known. A tenn
porary bridge is being constructed, men
afternoon being employed in
driving piles and weighing down the
for the bridge. BY pass
ing large granite chips, a workman on
the bank kept another standing on
plank over the stream quite busy plae-
mo The same about the pilipp. Other
workmen were digging near the old
bridge. preparing the ground for the
Of the abutments to the