The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-05-03
TALK OF THE TOWN

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| William j. Gilbertson Of 40 Beacon
| street, leader of the Barre City band,
to-day left for Springfield to make an
indefinite stay.
Charles Barrows of the Wright cloth
ing store in Burlington passed the week
end with his family in this city, re-
turning to the Lake city to-day.
Buy reserved seats to. day at Bal
ey's Music Rooms for the concert by
Martinelli, worth-famous tenor, and
Helen Marsh, contralto. at Montpelier
city hall, May l4.adv.
One o'clock dance tomorrow night,
Rowland hall. CAROLS orchestra. Tick
cts 81 per couple, extra ladies 35c.
Everybody has a good time. Ladies Of
| the Universalist church. adv.
The body of Mrs. B. w. Chalmers,
whose death occurred Friday in sana-
forum in Hartford Conn, arrived in
the city yesterday. The funeral is to
be held from the B. w. Hooker & Co.'S
chapel this afternoon at . o'clock.
Miss Esther Mccarthy, now en-.
ployed as a stenographer in the Bur
lington office of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co., returned to Burlington
this morning after visiting at her home
on Summer street over the week end.
Saturday, Agent George Marsh of
the American Express Railway Co.,
was notified that the embargo had been
lifted from Jersey City, n. j., and re-
ceived at the same notice that it had
been once again placed on Buffalo, n.
Y, one of the chief eastern railway
terminals.
Athol K. Bell, secretary Of the Gran.
lite Manufacturers association, and
editor of the associations magazine,
BARRE Granite" who during his service
for The Times gained state wide rep.
utation with his humorous and satiric
writings under the Mable Syrup col
umn, has introduced a similar section
in the associations magazine under
the heading of "Doin's in the Dees-
tricr.' It's first appearance was made
with the May issue, and contains the
quality OF humor and stamp of origi-
nality that came from Mable Syrup.
Secretary John McKernan of Barre
branch, G. c. /. A., in giving an esti
mate of the number of granite cutters
who have left Barre since the first day
of suspension, April 2, and 10 May |,
declared that approximately 900 stone
cutters had left, many of them accom-
panied by other workers of the indus
try. These figures, to be sure, are not
exact. since all the workmen did not
take out travelling cards; in fact, only
about 800 did SO, But the number Civ
en- in regard TO leaving for other
towns to seek employment was be-
Fieved by Secretary Mckernan to rep
resent fairly nearly the exact number
Secretary Robert d. Smith OF the
|. NJ. G p A., who is recuperating from
a severe illness, has been granted an
extended leave of absence by the board
of directors. An attack of influenza
early in the year left Mr., Smith in
state OF depleted health. He expects
to pass some time on the Pacific coast,
near San Francisco. The international
Office st Boston is left in competent
hands This is MFR. Smiths first va
cation of any moment in his ii years
OF faithful service His friends
throughout the granite industry of the
United States and Canada will hope
for his speedy restoration to health.
G. d. Waters, traffic manager Of the
Barre Quarters and Manufacturers
association, Is apparently well known
in Maine. for in the April o issue Of
the Norway Advertiser, published in
Oxford county, Maine, the following
item appeared: &C. d. Waters, who at
one time operated the Grand Trunk
railway as far as Norway was con
eerned. is now engaged in educating
the shippers OF granite at Barre Vt,
under the title of Traffic Manager
This conclusion is drawn from the
reading of the house organ OF the Manu-
facturers' association, which thismonth
is embellshed with his picture and
three articles from his pen. Clarence
is good writer and a successful rail-
road man. What more praise is need
ed?'
A main line train running from
White River Junction 70 Barre every
Sunday morning Is without doubt the
first main line train ever run INTO
Barre on regular schedule, Tbs
brings the Sunday morning papers TO
Barre readers much quicker than here
tofore. This. a. many know. is the re-
suit of the complete change OF the Dos
ton & Maine and Central Vermont rail
way time schedules and by il Is lost
the Sunday morning train going north
from Barre after 4:45 in the morning
NJ ,,ntiI A. AO in the a afternoon Is such
a train available from either Barre or
Montpelier. Then the paper train,
which tied up in this city at 9:2O in
the morning starts on it, return Tip
10 White River Junction Despite the
various notifications OF the railway,
many people missed trains Yesterday
and to-day, due to the numerous
changes