The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-18
TALK OF THE TOWN

Auction sale of Shepard cafe fur
nishings at p. m. Saturday. See adv
| 0. IA. Hale auctioneer.
+, Dance every Saturday night, Mont
peler armory, CAROLS orchestra. Spe'
| cial car to Barre-adv.
Long distance and general trucking:
truck is also equipped to carry parties !;
will seat between 10 and 20 people All
! pneumatic tires. Granite City Bottling
/ Works.
Special sale Of two, three and four
burner Kerogas oil stoves, the best in
| Barre. Largest line of new and Sec
/ ond- hand ranges in Barre. Get prices.
Z. A. P-indle. Worthen block.
Arthur Mason, son of Mrs. A. G..
Preble of Merchant street, has gone
to the Fore River shipyards near Quin-
cy, Mass, to work during the summer
vacation of Spaulding high school.
Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Carswell,
Miss Bertha Hooker, Neal Hooker.
Gerald Bixby and Maurice Watkins
attended the Theta Chi fraternity
house party at Mortified Tuesday eve
ming.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Giacherio have
completed Today wedding tour to
several points in Massachusetts and
New York City, and are now residing
in the Worthen block. Mrs. Giacherio
has resumed work for the N. ID. Phelps
Co.
Ralph Bracket the popular athletic
coach of Goddard seminary last year,
has been spending few days at the
seminary renewing acquaintance
among the student body before going
to Laconia, N. H., to play baseball
during the coming summer for the
Twin State league. Mr.. Bracket mo-
tored from Chicago, ILL.,, where he has
been athletic coach in high school, 10
this city, and proceeded on to New
Hampshire after two-day rest.
The shortage of bituminous coal
throughout New England has caused
some apprehension to a varied num-
her of industries and though Barre's
chief industry has not been greatly ef-
fected as vet the shortage will inevita-
bly, be felt here az well as elsewhere,
unless a sudden change in distribution
is brought about soon. The trouble orig
mated from the fact that 30,0O0,0G0
tons of bituminous coal is being sent
abroad TO take care of European indus
tries. This in reality is not an cx-
ceptional quantity to be exported from
the United States, yet its distribution
to foreign countries will inevitably af /
feet New England noticeably, for from
Is to is millions of these 30 shipped
abroad are taken from the sections fur !
nishing New England. Granite manu- /
facturers and quarters have foreseen 1
this situation which is bound TO con
front them and are now planning, that !
is some of them are. 10 return to the I
method adopted during the second year
Of the war. burning wood for power
fuel. Meanwhile, a protest against
the foreign shipments has been sent
bv the Barre Quarters & ManufactIr
ers association to the interstate com
merce commission at Washington. D.
c.. which met Yesterday J. J. Stor-
row. fuel administrators of New Eng
land. was in Washington yesterday in
the welfare of the New England indus 4
tries. II is understood II. J. NJ. Jones
of Montpelier, fuel administrator for II
Vermont, is in Washington also. The
only policy which promises to relieve
New England of this situation is an
placed on foreign shipments
If bituminous Goals until New Eng
and's demands are cared for and rem
died transportation facilities to New
England industrial centers. Household
RS need fear nothing as yet, for the
coal supply is about normal
md promises to continue so.