The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-02
TALK OF THE TOWN

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Miss Alice Haley of Pearl street was
Sunday visitor with friends in North
field
A. regular meeting of the Ladies'
Auxiliary to Clan Gordon, No. IL, will
be held Tuesday, May 3, at 7;l5 p m.
Balloting and initiation.
f. A. Drown, the well-known drug
gist, has a special proposition for any
! one who is suffering with rheumatism.
Ask about the Rheuma plan.-adv
Baptist guild girls, Important lniti-
alton meeting at the home OF Marion
| Jones on Bolster avenue Tuesday eve
ming at 1880. New members and old,
please be present and wear white II
possible.
Regular meeting of the Cobble Fill
grange will be held Tuesday, May 3.
First and second degrees will be
worked. Program as follows: Piano
solo. Annie Nelson; reading, Mrs. D.
c. Roben: vocal solo, Mrs. Dickey;
items of interest, Mrs. Veino; vocal
solo, Rena Peake; guessing contest,
Mrs. Winter.
Under the auspices of the American
Legion, Barre post, No. 10, and the
Woman's Auxiliary, public dance and
concert will be held in Rowland hall,
| Thursday eveIrng, May 5. The Pest
talent in the city has been secured for
the concert program, which begins at
$50 and continues till o, dancing fol-
lowing till II. Dance and concert tick
cts. per couple, Sl.l0, including war
tax: extra concert tickets, SOC Car
rolls seven piece orchestra. Refresh
ments to be sold in the halliday.
The building on South Main street,
occupied for the past few years and
until last week by the Good-Fellow
Garage Co. was re-opened to-day as a
garage and paint shop by Alderman
| Thomas C. Mccarthy and George Brig
ham. It is the plan of these men to
conduct garage and automobile, mo-
torcvcle repair shop as well as the
painting shop. which viii be under the
supervision of Mr. Brigham, who COM
pleted work Saturday at the Oldsmo-
bile repair shop on Ayers street. He
previously conducted carriage paint
shop on South Main street, and viii
now specialize in automobile and vehi-
Gle painting.
Mr.. Carter, in connection with the
big celebration of the anniversary OF
the Blacks New England theatres, an
nounces the contest of skill in which
all the readers of this paper can par
ticipate. In brief this is the PROPOSE.
ton: On Friday next readers can look
through all display advertisements IN
The Times to see how many "9's" they
are able to find, The person finding the
most eos" Of different sizes will win
a prize. The prizes will be; First, two
weeks admission; second, one weeks
admission; third. three days admis-
sion. These prizes will be for the
week Of Nav 0, during which some ex-
ira good pictures will be shown.-ady.
Barre quarters among other eastern
granite producers are watching with IN
terest the experiments of quarrying be-
ing made at the granite quarries in
RAYMOND, Cal, which il successful
would mean saving of great expense
to quarry owners and enable them to
develop their quarry lands and produce
granite much cheaper than ever before.
The process involved to some seems i'm
possible, yet it worked TO satisfaction
in North Carolina and Georgia quar-
ries and is now being tried at Ray
mond. An excerpt from Mine and
Quarry" a publication issued by the
Sullivan Machinery Co. of Claremontr
n. H., and Chicago, ILL.,, tells an inter
esting story of the development and
gives one a good idea of the process
involved at Raymond: "ln order to
establish working faces, method sim
liar to that followed in North Carolina
and Georgia has been successfully en-
ployed A small shaft, widening out
at the bottom is drilled and filled with
water The top is then sealed, and
connected by piping, to high pressure
| pupms, which force in additional water
so that the granite is kept under heavy
pressure for days and weeks at time
until the split or seam, started at the
J bottom of the shaft. reaches free
face. A large sheet of granite Of vary
ing thickness is thus made available
for working. The largest piece Of
granite ever quarried at this operation
was 24s feet in length, 40 feet in widtf
and % feet thick.