The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-21
TALK or THE TOWN

Mr., and Mrs. Robert B. Perry of Wa
terbury were in the city to-day.
Mrs Bert Wheeler, and daughter,
Margaret, Of Greenfield, Mass, are Wis
iting in the city Mrs. Wheeler will be
remembered in Barre as Miss Margaret
Mathieson.
Misses Alice Persons, Edith Little
and Ruth Kelton, who graduated from
Goddard seminary last week, returned
to their homes in North Montpelier
yesterday.
Miss Frances Willard, sophomore
at the University of Vermont, was the
guest of Miss Marion Anker in this
city FOR the past two days, and to-day
left for her home in Brandon.
Attorney General F. G. Archibald,
who since Sunday evening has been
stopping Mt Hotel Barre, left this
morning for Chelsea and the Orange
county court, where tomorrow he will
appear for the state against Allie
Smith, indicted two weeks ago by n
grand jury for the death of his farm
hand, killed at his farm in Brookfield
last January.
The Baptist church and Bible school
will hold its annual picnic at Benja-
Minis Falls tomorrow "wednesday
afternoon. All who are connected Will
the church, both old and young, are
urged to come Meet at the church at
/ 80 and take the first car down. Bring
your basket of good things, with a
little more than enough for your own
family. The school will provide ice
cream.
Miss Augustine LaRochelle, teacher
OF Leonia, N. j., who has been visiting
her mother, Mrs. LaRochelle of Rail-
road street, left this noon for New
York, from where she will sail June
25 on the liner Chicago for Madrid,
Spain, where she will follow four
weeks course of study at the Univer-
sity of Madrid. Miss LaRochelle was
one of the 2,457 students to be con.
ferred degree by Columbia university
of New York June 10. Besides being
granted her A. Nv Miss LsRochelle
also received from the university di-
ploma of professional ability TO teach
Spanish. Miss LaRochelle graduated
with first honor from Spaulding in 1912
in 1916, and has been teaching Spanish
in New Jersey for the last two. years.
Two. years of failure of speech ended
in a fash yesterday, and Charles Colby
of Corinth, an ex-service man of the
United States who since suffering a
severe illness in the army has not had
the use of his speech or voice in any
way, spoke to ehiropractor in a
Barre office AS any person would.
While in the service of Uncle Sam at
Camp Devens during the war days of
1918 Colby, young man % years
of age, became seriously ILL., He with
other soldiers in training had been
vigorously engaged in trench digging
in the fall of rs, and somehow, as
yet unexplained by himself, remained
in a trench all one night and was
found the next morning severely i'll
with pneumonia after being exposed
to the pouring rains of that night. He
was taken to the camp hospital and
for several months remained patient.
He was discharged at the expiration
of the war and returned to his home.
He spoke but little upon the first day
of his arrival and after that said but
"ves" or fno" and gradually lost the
entire use of his speech while spend
ing several months reGnperating from
the illness. Paper and PENCIL have been
the means of his conversation for the
past two years, he having the full
power of his hearing and mental ia
cilities but being devoid OF speech.