The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-12
.TOPICS OF lie TOWN.

During q recent frlgid spell a young
man, whose name is not Jones, and who
does reside on South Main street, awoke
one morning with a desire to learn how
low the thermometer had gone. Slipping
\ out of warm bed and into bath.robe
and pair of socks, he glided out OF
doors into the gloom of the early morn,
intending to glide back again as soon
as he had consulted the mercury. But
! he hadn't reckoned with the spring lock
on the door. The door shut together
with a click, and the young man found
himself prisoner on the piazza.
And there he stood and stormed for
fifteen long minutes. The family were
not early risers. When he succeeded in
arousing the house the young man crept
sheepishly up the stairs, convinced that
the weather was cold. IL was nine be-
low zero.
| A local grocer and q travelling man
were engaged in conversation In the for.
mer's store the other day, when the
latter picked up flour tag. One thing
led to another, and finally the grocer
said
I'm bet you wouldn't put that on
your back and wear it up and down
the street"
IN bet | would" was the prompt
reioinder
If you do it I'll give you sack
of the -four" declared the grocer.
The travelling man was game and the
grocer pinned the tag on his back. Dur.
ing the remainder Of the day the tag
circulated up and down the streets. The
grocer turned over the sack Of flour, but
still thinks that he made a good bar
gain, because of the advertisement.
A Barre clergyman did eanvassing for
books to help him through college and
in the course Of bis work ran across
many funny incidents. He was telling
his experiences the other day. One OF
them was particularly funny. II hap.
pened in manufacture u town in New
Hampshire. Going into d home, the
college student spoke to the man and
woman and then began to tell the man
about the merits of his book. The man
heard the enthusiastic agent through
and then drawled out:
We'll, | p'sume yer books all right,
but We don't want it,
All this time the wife Of the house.
hold had been tending strictly to her
ironing. Her husband and "lordn had
no sooner finished his curt refusal TO
the college man than the wife broke in
with:
Eyes, we want that book. Our name
with emphasis on the "our7) is John
Turner. You deliver the book and we
(notice the WEI will have your money
for you"
A few days later the college student
delivered the book and found his pay
waiting for him. The man Of the house
was not to be seen. BE was perhaps
out doing the washing,
There's little miss in town who is
more than ordinarily precocious. She |
has not yet seen her fourth birthday. |
Recently she wanted her mother to do |
something, which the mother did not
think it best to do. After waiting what
seemed reasonable interval for her
mother to aecede TO her request the |
three-year-old cooked her head on one
side and enquiringly asked: Don't YOU
intend to give in TO meip The mother |
smothered a smile but didn't give in.
A local school teacher has been fipur.
ing up the distance which she travels |
to and from her place Of occupation
IN the course Of the year The distance |
is one mile and she walks it four times !
every school day. That make four miles |
a day. She figures that BY the end Of |
the year she viii have gone over the
route 100 times, making therefore 100
miles And that does not take into
consideration the number of miles she
dances, snowshoes and otherwise skins |
away from morning to night. But this |
teacher is Of the athletic kind and doesn't
mind exercise