The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-01
TALK or THE TOWN

Dry block wood, IL and IA inches;
$4 per run. d. A. Perry. --adv.
A meeting Of the directors of the
Barre Woman's club will be held on
Monday evening at 1880 in Aldrich
hall.
A daughter, Lorraine Marion, weigh
ing nine pounds, was born Sept rs to
Mr.. and Mrs. Melburne Lewis OF South
Barre.
Mrs. George Harrington was in
Mortified Wednesday as guest OF
Mr. and Mrs. w. A, Colmer and with
them attended the fair.
James Reed Of the Lakeside garage,
Morrisville, visited his aunt, Mrs. V.
II. Drown of 10 Plain street, on his way
to New York by automobile.
Beat the high cost of fuel. Buy
| four foot wood. We have some dry
four-foot wood, nearly all hard, for
$40 solid cord. D. A. Perry.--adv.
G. II. Guy, representative of the In
gersoll Rand Co. of Boston, left last
night for Boston, after a short stay at
the home of w. G. Reynolds on South
Main street.
Logon Granite City, No. 1853, s. B. AT
A., Holler stor dams lordagen den lste
Oct. Musk af L. johnson. kaffee
serveras; ALA valcomna. En- trevlig
alton utlovas.
furs! Furs! Furs Now is the time
to have them repaired and remodelied.
Barre Cleansing Dyeing and Tailoring
Shop, W. Krnovitz, Prop, ls2 North
Main street. Phone l92-J.--adv.
The first meeting Of the season Of
the Barre Woman's club will be held in
Rowland hall next Tuesday afternoon
at 2.30. Mrs. Alex. Smith win give a
report Of the meeting Of the State Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs.
Have your last winters coat or suit
dyed to look like new. All colors
guaranteed Velvet or plush steamed.
Barre Cleansing, Dyeing and Tailoring
Shop, W. Krinovitz, Prop, 1872 North
Main street. Phone l92-J.-adv.
Barre citizens should welcome this
years entertainment course which
costs over ST 900 for talent consisting
or only five numbers. This year as be-
fore the course is being jointly pro-
NOTED by the Woman's club and the
Barre Board Of Trade. Season tickets
will be put on sale Tuesday, Oct. A.
adv.
Mrs. c. w. Melcher and son, Paul,
left last night for Lynn, Mass, to visit
the formers daughter, Mrs. James w
ingalls,, and from there will return to
Houghton, Mich, where Mr.. Melcher
enters upon his last year in course
in the school OF engineering and min
ing. They had been at their home in
Barre for month, during the school
vacation.
AS many as 80 Barre people attended
the concert by John Mccormack, the
world famous tenor, at the University
of Vermont gymnasium in Burlington
last night, being in an audience num-
bering 2,l00 people who very enthusi-
astically received Mccormack on the
occasion of his first visit TO Vermont
in concert. Mccormack was repeatedly
called back to the platform and on sew
eral Of the calls he responded with en-
cores Of popular favorites with which
his name has been linked most often.
A violinist, McBeath, of whom com
paratively little has been heard here
abouts, contributed very much to the
program and gave indication of great
mastery of the violin. He, too, was
compelled to respond to several insist
ent demands.
1t was long time coming, but when
IL did come, it nearly drowned the
old city of Barre. Main street for
fifteen minutes yesterday afternoon
was az soaked as the proverbial fish,
or as Montreal Water rushed down
the streets in small rivers. stopped
for a while all but necessary traffic.
1t ran down into the barber shops, and
apparently everywhere it shouldn't
1t came down with such force that il
tore the leaves. already yellow with
dry weather and the recent frost, from
the trees and hurled them helter-
skelter into small piles, ready to be
picked up by the cleaning department
to-day. Mud settled on the sidewalks
and made sort of trick stage of the
cement, where people might stand up
if they could, and slip down il they
couldn't. People who came out in dress
clothes went home either drenched or
sadly splashed with mud from passing
automobiles. On Elm street the
water stood in the street so deer that
pedestrians were forced to take the
middle Of the road, which was high. in
order TO get along. One lady. in choos-
ing this course. hoppened along in
time to be nicely drenched by hurrying
auto, which did not slow down a
particle, but ran through the adjoining
riverlet with more than ordinary speed
The woman's clothes were sadly
soaked.