Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-12-15

Hon. IL. q. Gleason OF Burlington
is in the city.
The city schools closed last night
for three weeks vacation.
Philip Maffro left today for Bellows
Falls to visit there for few days
Charles MCGEE, of Fort Ann,N N. Y,
was visiting his customers yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. George N. Tilden
have returned from a visit in North.
field.
Frank Howe, of Jericho, was in the
city yesterday visiting and on bust
ness.
W. +. Hunt, If Burlington, mana.
ger of the N. e. T. & Z. Co., was In
the city yesterday.
Miss Mabel Nelson left last night
for her home in Burlington to spend
the holiday vacation.
Zinc and Grinding Make
Devoe Lead and Zinc Paint wear twice
as long as lead and OIL mixed by hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Edwards return
ed today from few days visit with
friend in Burlington.
Kendrick & Co., at the Red Cross
Pharmacy are displaying a fine lot OF
holiday goods. The assortment is SO
Iarge that extra tables had to be
built to show them off to advantage.
Union Sunday night at 7 o'clock a
meeting will be held in the opera
house in the interest of good citizen
ship. DR.. Seaver Of Montpelier will
be the speaker. His last lecture at
tracted large crowd and sent them
away feeling that the honr was we'll
spent.
Ladies and Misses coats at a big
discount during this week at Homer
Fits. 2O2tf
Thomas Parker and Mat Roben lost
their famous hunting dog "Rattler"
about week ago and gave up all
hopes of finding him again. Last
night an advertisement appeared in
the TELEGRAM saying there was a
dog found at East Barre. They drove
out there and found the dog. Moral,
advertise in tine TELEGRAM.
The McAuley--Patten Company
have arranged to present the following
plays the first four nights OF next
week: Monday "The Minister'S
Son." Tuesday "Royal Rags" We'd
nesday Peaceful Valley Thursday
1.-The Inside Track. For the balance
Of the week and matinee the an.
nouncement will be made later.
E. H. & F. L. Burr have placed
handsome jewellers wall case in their
store, which they will use to show
their holiday goods, in the shape of
cut glass and silver Ware 1t is made
Of antique oak with four sliding vim
dows, panels to show the goods on and
drawers to place them in. 1t is IA
feet long and feet high, and has four
shelves running the full length. This
firm is selling lots Of diamonds and
watches, and have disposed of third
part of the large stock Of cut glass
they had.
New gilt trimmings, gilt buckles,
oraids and silks. Veale & Knight.
l72tf
The regular meeting of the r. G. l.
P. A. was held Thursday night. One
candidate, j. A. Aloisi, was initiated
and he had several other applications
with him from Italian clerks, but
they were received too late for initia-
ton. One other application was re-
| ceived and committee appointed to
nominate Off .ers and report at the
next meeting. A further Committee
was appointed to draft a new agree
ment to be presented to the mer-
chants.
The Quincy (Mass.) Ledger says:
"Work in the granite sheds il a
little quiet just at present. This,
however. is nothing unusual although
different from a year ago. Then there
was prospect Of labor trouble ahead
and dealers, anticipating an advance
in prices, rushed their orders in, SO
that they could be delivered before
March. T. Others laid in supply
of rough stock. SO that the winter was
an unusually busy one This year
things are different. There is no
danger of labor trouble and of no in
crease in price of stock, so that deal
ers are in No hurry to place their
orders. Quincy firms have, however,
received g, Cd lot of orders for spring
delivery, and more are being received
every day. AS an illustration one
firm, that of. Mcdonnell & Sons, re-
ceived an order Tuesday from one
customer, for twenty monuments of
various designs and sizes, and SIXTY
markers. So it is all along the line
and the indications are that next sea-