The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-19
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Black Cat winter hosiery at Abbott's.
Old silver and gold wanted. Highest
price paid. f. e. Burr.
A regular meeting of the ladies of
| Clan Gordon will be held Nov 20 at 7:l5.
Call up II. L. Douglas and give him
your order for potatoes before they are
all gone.--adv
Music furnished for all occasions by
Montpelier M. band orchestra. Karl For.
sell, manager. phone Montpelier 252W.
Music furnished for all occasions by
Montpelier M. band orchestra. Karl For
sell, manager. phone Montpelier 252-W
l.. II. Baine, teacher of voice, will be
at the Aldrich block, room Is prof.
Wheaton's studio) on Tuesday evening.
Phone 245-l, Montpelier.
Special Thanksgiving dinner at 81 a
| plate. Telephone 600 how many. We
make special rates for room and board
or for table board. Hotel Barre, j. V.
Rowen, Prop.
The ladies of Barre can buy Christmas
gifts very reasonably at the Baptist
church Tuesday and Wednesday Nov. 90
and 81 Bags aprons, food, baby apparel
and fancy articles will be on sale.-adv.
Food conservation window cards have
Just arrived and those who did not re-
ceive one are asked to call at Mrs. Shep-
ards store, the Office of II. A. Phelps or
at The Times office, where supply will
be found.
The home economics department of the
Barre Woman's club will give a demon
stration tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 in
the X. of 2. hall. Members admitted by
mo nbara al r1 lat W
be procured at the door.
Auction sale o-morrow near Water
bury Center for the Allen H. Greeley es-
tate; 81 head of cattle, horses, hogs,
poultry, 300 bushels of corn, 100 bushels
of oats, 100 bushels of potatoes, IA bush
els of India wheat, 10 bushels of yellow
eye beans, four bushels of butternuts, 40
tons of hay, 25 tons of ensilage, large lot |
of farming tools sugar tools, some
household furniture. Sale called at 10
a. m. C. +. Smith, auctioneer.
Some 20 members of the ladies and |
pastors union of the Hedding church !
gathered at the home of Mrs Eva Huse
on Hill street about o'clock Saturday
evening, giving her farewell party.
The evening was pleasantly passed, dur
ing which Mrs. Huse was presented
leather travelling bag as a token of
esteem from the company, the presenta
ton being made by Rev. B. G. Lipsky to
which Mrs. Huse responded. The affair
was a surprise to Mrs. Huse. Light re-
freshments were served. Mrs Huse
leaves Wednesday for Tampa, Fla,
where she will spend the winter She
will be accompanied by her son, Arthur.l
According to dispatches from Washs1
ington, d. c., dated Nov. IL, retailers +,
have been directed by the food admins
tration to discontinue combination sales,
complaints having been made that some
retailers were refusing to sell sugar un- !
less customers purchased from 81 to
$3.50 worth of other commodities. The ;
only exception to this rule is in the in !;
terest of wheat conservation and makes
it possible for the dealer to sell sugar in ,
combination with corn meal, at the rate !,
Of one pound of sugar with two of corn
meal. Complaints which centered around
alleged combination sales were made by .
householders in Barre Saturday, when a II
few dealers made it incumbent upon a
customer TO make purchases aggregating a
80 cents or 81 before sugar would be sold. Il
Another dealer who received nearly three j
barrels of sugar, doled it out in two
u.
In no instance, it is said, did the dealers n
of Barre attempt to charge more than a
the normal price for the commodity. IL
To-days snowfall buoyed up the wan
ing hopes of hunters and while little is
time remained for deer slayers to push te
the seasons toll up to the aggregate of b
last year, old hunters looked for garri- ri
son finish of a season in which nimrods tc
have been far less successful than in for ii
mer years. The deep SHOWS of last win
ter are held responsible for the present h,
iearth of venison, as it indicated every p
where that many deer persisted. A HI
hunter who recently recently from Essex Al
county quotes native as saying that Ia
no fewer than 30 carcasses of deer which Ia
lied in the snow were found on the up
Der Connecticut last spring, Among the
hunters who succeeded in bringing down -
deer toward the end of last week are: y
T. NJ. Little and son, who killed a 200 ~
POUND buck over in Orange; and +. H. ~
Slayton, who met with success on Hard 80
wood mountain in Plainfield. Mr.. Stay v"
on's deer weighed close to 200 pounds.
lanes X. Prize, the well known VIII ma
Jamestown quarryman, delivered the an II
FOODS to-day when he returned from his Oh
uniting lodge on Niggerhead pond with ~ y,
good sized buck. Wv
A large attendance marked the con- ma
lusion of the annual three days bazaar
saturday evening at the Rowland hall,
nder the auspices of Clan Gordon, No. su
2, O. S. c., and the ladies' auxiliary. t'
BUSINESS at the various booths continued I've
risk throughout the evening, while the ~ ~.
hooting gallery in one corner of the hall
vas frequented from first to last with an r.
ager crowd of marksmen, who seemed '''
nxious to display their skill. Interest :
n the evenings program was centered in STA
he highland dancing for adults, in which as
everal were listed as participants. The IN
idges selected to award the prizes con- Gle
isted of William Barclay Scott, Ken uu
eth Milne and George Robertson, while tnt
,ustace Richie acted as piper. The ms
rst prize was awarded to Robert Stew SCI SCI
TT, and Thomas Mcdonald was the win Oh
er of the second prize after great =
cal of consideration as the judges found
no easy task to decide the winners.
he remainder of the evenings entertain
tent consisted of delightful vocal solo
. Miss Alica Walker she being an