The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
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Il Special prices on silk and serge dresses
l Mrs. Shepard Co., Inc.
i Election of officers in l.. A., A. o. III
rooms Wednesday evening. Everybod,
come.
Monday we will have a special sale o
stamped goods for Sc and Zoe. Mrs
Beattie.
Perley Haskell of North Main street
left Saturday evening for Boston, where
he will make visit of few days will
| relatives.
Charles Mcdonald of Brooklyn street
left Saturday for Bridgeport, Conn.
where he has secured employment in q
large munition factory.
News is received of the birth of son
Nov 25 to Mr., and Mrs. Percy Keir OF
Craftsbury. Mr.. and Mrs. keir formerly
attended Goddard seminary.
We have received some of the sea.
sons latest models in hats, also max
ing special prices on winter hats from
our regular stock. Mrs Shepard Co, Inc
Miss Kathleen Letourneau, who re-
Gently completed a course in the Fanny
Allen hospital in Winooski, arrived Sat
nrday to spend a few days at her home
in Graniteville.
Eugene Maker returned this morning
to Burlington, where he is student in
the University of Vermont, after spend
ing the week end at the home of his par
ents on Upland avenue.
1T was William Martin of Prospect
street, not of Boynton street, who left
Saturday for White River Junction
where he was ordered to report, having
enlisted in the q. S. army recently.
The Both anniversary of the New Eng
land Order of Protection is to be oh.
served with a meeting of all the lodges
in this vicinity in X. of p. hail. Mont
peier, Dec. l3, at o'clock. Supreme
and grand lodge officers will be present.
Barre lodge, No. 1876, is especially in
vited.
! The condition of Miss Mildred Marion
OF North Main street who is seriously
Ill with tetanus. was reported to be i'm
proved to-day, the patient having passed
most comfortable night. symptoms of
lock1aw which developed during the
early days of her Illness are disappear
ing
Alton X. Briggs completed his duties
in the Homer Fits store Saturday even
ing and upon the occasion of his depart |
ure clerks in his department got together
and presented him handsome token of |
their good will Mr. Briggs responded |
with feeling. For some time he has been |
connected with the store in an important |
capacity He expects TO leave the city |
in the near future to accept position in |
Burlington.
An attractive souvenir booklet of
Barre has been turned out by the Lamb
printery for free distribution, and the
mere presence of foreword on the part
OF the printer does not detract in any
way from the value of the brochure as
a remembrance to be sent to former resi-
dents of the city now located in distant
places. Very little descriptive matter
appears, but the half.tones are of first
quality, and some of them have not ap-
peared in print before. We've of the city
are supplemented by pictures of the
quarrles and the reproduction of some
scenic effects along the central Vermont
valley.
Personal experiences az traveller and
sightseer within the walls Of the Holy
City were informingly related : by the
pastor of the First PRESBYTERIAN church
Sunday evening before a large congrega
ton. The clergyman gave a recital of
his own observations while on an extend {
ed tour of Palestine and talked particu-
larly of what he saw in Jerusalem, which $
city seems to be on the eve of an invest )
ment by the British forces. The sermon !
was one of series in which the pastor ;
has endeavored TO bring before his par
and others parishioners some r
Df the conditions which stand out in {
Doder relief over in Europe and Asia. o
George F. Mackay sang THE Holy City" a
Is part of the service. {
William T. Rees of Brattleboro arrived
n the city yesterday and day assumed II
lis new duties as manager of the Homer v
Fitts store. Mr.. Rees' experience in the I
Try goods business extends over a period s.
If 20 years, his career in that line of s.
having begun in Boston, .
where he was connected with the James e
\ Houston Co. Later he was a part of g
he staff of statesmen in the store ST the q
iolmes- Nelson company in Franklin, n U
/. More recently he held a managerial o
POSITION in the Chamberlain Syndicate
tore in the wideawake town of Brattle- lie
oro. Mr. Rees severed his connection m
With the Brattlehoro concern to accept Il
he management of the Fits store, and fl
ONES to Barre with excellent recommen- Il
ations as dry goods man. He is to W
ave entire charge of the store here. fC