The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-22
TALK or THE TOWN

Food sale, Baptist vestry, Saturday, 2
p. m.-ady.
Leggings and rompers for the children.
Tilden Shoe Co.
Dance in Socialist hail. Granite street,
Saturday night, good music.-adv.
The McWhorter Co. have four gentle
mems fur coats 20 close at discount
All new money. including new-style
dimes, will be given out in change at
Smith 4 Cummings Co., Inc, Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Miles re-
turned this morning TO their home In
Burlington, after passing several days in
the city.
Philip and William Squires left this
morning for Hardwiek. where they arc
passing the holiday season with ae-
quaintances.
Thomas Davidson of New York City
will arrive in the city this evening to
pass the holidays at the home of his
mother on Summer street.
Laws offers the finest line Of home
made candy in Vermont. Your Christ.
mas will be incomplete without a selec-
ton from our showing OF toothsome con-
! fections.
| All members Of the Universalist Sun
day school, who are in any way connect
cd with the Christmas program, please DO
at the yestry Saturday afternoons; little
ones at 2, older ones at 3 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. w. NJ. Douglas left to-
day for New York, where they are to
visit relatives until after the holidays,
En- route home, they expect TO remain
for a few days with friends in Spring
field, Mass.
j. II. Love has returned to the city,
after passing several days in Bethel. Mr..
Love is recovering from the effects of an
accident which he sustained in the stone
shed, having suffered an eye injury that
has prevented him from working.
+. s. Platt of Rutland, United States
Marshall Carpenter, G.. d. Bancroft, the
intermediary, and Miss Mary Donettii,
a stenographer, went to Graniteville this
morning to conduct a session of naturai-
zation court in Miles hall. Court opened
at | o'clock.
Charles Bissett of Maple avenue left
this afternoon for Montreal, z. O., where
he will remain with relatives until after
the holidays. Mr.. Bissett will be the
guest in the home OF sister and on
Christmas morning win greet another
sister who will arrive when the passenger
liner, Olympic. makes, port after yoy- 4
age from Liverpool.
A rich harvest of small change,
nickels, dimes and quarters, with the
largest sprinkling of coppers is being
collected by the Salvation Army officers
for the big Christmas dinner to be served
among the poor of Barre and vicinity.
Members of the Army corps say that the
public has responded very literally this
year and perhaps for the reason that the
officers, themselvs, were out early solicit.
ing for contributions, more than the
usual amount of good work will be done
this year and much real cheer will radi-
ate from the barracks in the old city
building. Housewives of Barre have been
asked to give OF their Christmas cook
ing and many have responded.
4. o. Frazier, formerly OF this place
but now of Alberta, northwestern Can
ada, arrived in the city yesterday with
his family to spend the Christmas holi- /.
DAYS with former friends. Mr.. Frazier (
has been living in Youngstown, Alberta,
for seven years, having taken up land
claim there. During that time he has
built his buildings, ana AZ present mas
titled his 100 acres of land so that he
has about 80 head OF cattle. He says
that during the past year the grain crop
was rather light in some rts OF the /
country and many lost their entire crops
bv terrific windstorms. lie speaks OF
one neighbor who had a good crop OF |
wheat one day and the next day storm /
came up, stripping all the wheat from
tlNstraw.