The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-15
TALK or THE TOWN.

| auction SAFE at 1lty auction MAJ
ket Saturday. adv,
o. II. Hale returned last night from
business trip to Boston.
! New and used sleighs for sale at Cut.
Ter Bros livery. Phone 100,
Mrs. H. A. Dunbar OF North street
| is visiting her sister. Mrs. H g. Wells
in St. Adams.
Come and get your present, past and
| future revealed at the Meadow Brook
Golf club carnival, Jan. liz, Rowland
hall.-adv.
Eli Bourbon, who refereed the wrest-
| ling matches IN Clan Gordon hall last
evening, returned this morning to his
home in Claremont, n. II.
The w. c. r. U. will hold business
meeting and social at the home of Mrs.
Waterman, 10 Orange street, Friday
afternoon at 2;30, A large attendance
is desired,
At North Montpelier last evening
the Little Wooden mills basketball team
was defeated on its home floor by the
Blue Ribbon team of Barre in a two
Commute period game, 25-l6.
The next in the series of whist par.
ties being given by the ladies' aid Of
st. Monica's church will be held Fri
day evening, Jan. l6, at 1880 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. John O'Leary, "a
Eastern avenue.
o-night at 1880 the strong ozarks
bowling team will meet the Tosi aead-
envy for the rubber game. The Tosis
won the first game by l53 pins and lost
the second game by 90 pins The game
is to be bowled on Merlo alleys.
CAROLS orchestra left this morning
for White River Junction, where this
evening they have an engagement
Luke Gallagher, who is on his way to
Boston, accompanied them to White
River Junction. Mr. Gallagher goes to
Boston seeking the surgical assistance
of specialist, who viii make exami-
nations Of his hands and perform oper-
ations if necessary,
Miss Ruth Parker, librarian Of the
Aldrich public library, in making up
her report for the year past. finds that
the circulation was smaller than year
ago. In 1919, books taken ont num-
bered 36,405, which was sos less than
in 1918 These were divided as follows:
Adult fiction, 23,457; non fiction, 2,444
juvenile fiction, 1000; non fiction, l,4l4.
During the year 1862 new books were
added to the library
Ernest Marchetti, the North Main
street fruit vender, was unpleasantly
surprised by 20-pound icicle yester-
day afternoon when it dropped upon
his head, INJECTING an ugly cut an inch
long or more. Forgetting for the time
that large icicles we're suspended from
the low roof at the north side OF his
store, near door, he stepped out and
the door slammed, causing the ice to
be loosened Marehetti was dazed for
short time but after having the
wound dressed by physician was able
to be about.
John MurIey, one Of Barre's patrol
men. has returned from d very success
ful hunting expedition taken with Louis
CARR of Summer street. For week
these men have dwelt In the forests OF
Groton, lurking by daytime near the
various swamps and familiar paths of
rabbits. They now have considerable
rabbit meat in storage for days to
come As reminder Of the expedition
IL is understood that Officer Murley is
contemplating having the hides made
into a large rug for his home
The Russian Symphony orchestra, di-
rected by Modest AItschuler, which viii
give a concert in Montpelier city hall
Feb. Q. is playing this month in the
following cities: Greehville, Charleston
and Columbia. S. c., Savannah and At
lanta. Ga, Lynchburg and Danville, Va,
ID. c., Philadelphia and
Reading, Pa Advance sale tickets viii
next Monday at Park thea
tire, Barre, Buswell's Book store, Mont
pelier, Grants Drug store, Randolph, |
and c. c. Sanborn's Drug store, North
field. Holders of advance tickets will |
have first choice of reserved seats. Buy
your tickets early and be sure to hear
this famous symphony orchestra. adv. |
Those who are interested in seeing |
an elaborate and artistic memorial of |
unique design would enjoy |
visiting the stoneshed of Charles BIZ |
anehi a Son on West Second street, |
where a memorial for the Watts estate |
Of Athena, Ore, is now completed. This
consists of ~ ton bounder, |
with broken column finely carved with |
roses, and life portrait figure of Mrs.
Watts cut on the face of the memorial. |
This work is all cut from one piece of /
granite from the Wetmore & Morse |
Another interesting display /
II carrying is to be found at the same
granite plant, the figures of two sol.
Tiers OF the world war for soldiers
being cut in granite. These
figures are nearly completed. and the
members of Charles Bianeh & Son
would be pleased to show the pieces OF
work to any who care TO visit their
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