The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-26
TALK OFTHT TOWN
See Abbott's Christmas cards.

see ADDOtt christmas cards
First dancing class begins tonight al
I o'clock in Clan Gordon hall Theresa
Carroll.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Cross Of North
field were visitors in the city Saturday
and Sunday.
| Music furnished for all occasions by
/ Montpelier NJ. band orchestra. Karl For
| sell, manager. phone Montpelier 25o-W.
/ Frank Brady of Bakersfield has been
! passing few days in Barre as the guest
of his sister, Miss Gertrude Brady, a
teacher in the city schools.
The Netop class of the Methodist
church will hold social with Mrs. DR..
! Gage, North Main street. Tuesday even.
ing. 1t is hoped every member win be
present.
Christmas tree shipments are occupy.
ing much of the spare time of freight
house attaches on two roads in Barre,
and many teamsters and automobiles
are busily engaged in transporting the
Iuletide foliage from its native heaths
in Washington, Williamstown, Brook.
field and other nearby towns. 1t is est-
mated that more than so carloads have
left Barre in the past three weeks.
Liquor commissioners of Washington
county met in the council chamber at
city hall Saturday afternoon to consider
evidence brought out in the hearing Fri.
day. when j. E. Murphy was summoned
before the board to show cause why his
first-class license should not be revoked
This afternoon it was stated that the
commission was not ready to announce
its finding and that a decision will not
be given out until tomorrow.
Few of the mothers, sisters. fathers |
and sweethearts of Barre who are mail |
ing Christmas boxes to soldier bows cover
there are consigning packages to the
Holy Land, but Palestine is the destina
ton OF a holiday box mailed by Mrs.
James Steven of Madison avenue to her
brother, Sergt. David Richardson Just
now Sergeant Richardson is with the
British forces and, as the whole world
knows, they are making history these
days in their struggle with the Turks.
At the outbreak of the war Sergeant
although So years of age,
saw an opportunity to crafty boyhood
by becoming a soldier He en-
listed in the Kings Own Scottish Border.
ars. Now, after arduous service in Pal
estine, he is with that section of the
British army which is nearing Jerusalem.
War sermons from the pulpit of the
First Presbyterian church were contin-
ned last evening, when the pastor, Rev.
Edgar Grassland, addressed large con
gregation on the subject. rs This War
- The clergyman took his
hearers back to the time of scriptural
prophecy and pointed out the passage
where il was said that all the nations of
he earth should meet on the field of
located in the holy land
lust now, he went on. circle with ;
irmageddon as the center may be de-
cribed to include all of the warning
rmies, although in the opinion of the
peaker the big battle of the nations will
re fought on the western front and not I,
m the plains of Armageddon. In the !
curse of his remarks he hailed as ripe /.
he time when the holy land shall be ,
nder the cross instead of the star and +,
resent.
Attorneys, magistrate and attaches at i
court busted themselves in v
leaning up an accumulation of Barre I
own cases Saturday. with the result t
hat two pleas of guilty were received v
rom persons implicated in the wholesale e
aids of the week previous. Fabian Can
era, who lives in Websterville, ac- lC
selling offense and paid 4
ne of $500 and costs aggregating S36s7 In
he case against Mrs. Cantera was mol h
rossed and liquor seized was condemned a
nd ordered destroyed. Albert Villa re- !
ersed his original plea of guilty and b
n law violation He will II
e sentenced next Saturday and in the Il
leantime bail Of $500 permits him to be a
liberty. The case against Mrs. Villa q
as been taken from the docket. Prose "
Itions were in charge OF States Atty. al
srle r. Davis and Grand Juror A. c. n
ickey of Barre Town, Atty. j. Ward 4
arver appearing for most Of the re- NJ
,ondents. n