The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-21
TOWN TOPICS.

This has been the best soda water
season ! have ever known" said a Main
street dispenser of popular summer bev
erages the other day. During the month
Of July / used nine tons Of ice.n
-lhe most popular drink Is ice cream
soda, although the fancy dishes like col.
lege ices, etc, have their patrons. Dur
ing the season thus far not a day has
passed without necessitating freezing a
quantity Of the Arctic delicacy, and Of.
tentimes more than once a day.
1t is no uncommon sight to see a
crowd lined up in this store two deep
waiting for a chance to be served, and
this in spite OF the fact that two clerks
were put on expressly for the summer
trade.
In Green Mount cemetery in Burline.
ton, standing modestly beside the tower.
ing monument to Ethan Allen, is a
plain slab of stone which bears this
quaint epitaph
Stephen Lawrence
Esq
Died April ., 1889
Act "A Years
He was the first man
who with his family
settled in Burlington.
1883
This stone is erected
to his memory Oct
1s1t--
Reader, mark the nigh
ty changes produced
IN Is years and learn
instruction.
The Stephen Lawrence, whose tomb
stone bears that peculiar epitaph and
who was head Of the first family to
settle in Burlington, was the great, great
grandfather of Mrs. B. w. Braley of
$50 North Main street, this city.
A certain hsrre youngster who hopes
TO be four years old soon, started on
his first summer vacation the other day,
after planning for it during the past
few months. He assisted his mother in
packing the large trunk, and saw that
the trunk was securely locked. just
before time to start he grabbed hold of
one Of the carrying straps and peeking
up over the top of the trunk said
Papa, you get hold Of the other end,
and we'll start The little fellow SEEM
ed much put out when it was explained
I to him that a team would come for the
trunk and that they would not have to
carry it.
He was sorry looking specimen He
was fairly well clothed, but the clothing
had the appearance of having come IN
too close contact with mother Earth.
He was on the rear seat of an electric
car coming from Montpelier to Barre
With every swing of the car he would
lurch violently this way and that, and
only when seemingly about to lureh out
of the car would he pull himself up
with a start The conductor came along
for fares, and the individual dug about
in his pockets and finally pulled out
nickel The car came to the next place
for collecting fares, and the man went
| through his pockets again and again.
Finally giving up, he turned a bleared
! face to the conductor and said "S'all
gone" The conductor pulled the bell
cord, the car stopped and the man was
deposited on the ground to make his
way to Barre as best he could.
A waitress in local restaurant anus
ed herself the other day when she was
resting from Singing hash, by inditing
the following, which has prominent
local man for the central figure, and,
the waitress claims, an application true
to fact:
said Dick to the waiter,
After big, long speel,
Bring me quick, if you please,
A nice large piece of veal,
a side of fried blue fish,
And don't forget the pease.
Dick ate the veal,
But the fish Oh dearl
He called it awful dry
And came into the kitchen
And bit the cooks ear.
Then left with an awful cry"
(Signed) "Shakespoke"
Allowing for a few slips in metre.
and an occasional hitch in rhyme, this
waitress should be scribbling odes to
gentle spring, or some such, instead Of
singing hash.
The beautiful outlines Of the Mathew.
son school building on Elm street are
greatly marred by the telephone pole
which stands directly in front Of the
building. There would not be SO much
damage done to the beauty were the
pole straight. But it is not straight:
it droops like as if it were burdened
| with the WEIGHT If fba onss;o xrhfah Is