The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-07
TALK OFTHE TOWN

see those special coat values at AD
bolts.
Lyman A. Taft. of Mount street is il
Il with the grip.
Last week in which to pay up you
thrift club. Quarry Savings Bank.
For money saving prices, trade a
Sheas. Saturday several good specials
Something doing every minute at tn
sevencent fair tonight. Admission, Il
--ad.
Don't forget your baked beans Satur
day night. Presbyterian church supper
| adv.
Did you know that you could get
gift certificate" at our studio? Come il
! and let us tell you about it. Shores
Studio, Depot square.
Mrs. H. 0. Stafford of Burlington, VIII
has been visiting at the home of her par
| ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Brechin of Web
ster street, returned to her home to-day
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
Troup will make photographs of you
that are real portraits and that will de-
light your friends this holiday season
Phone for an appointment to-day. The
Troup Studio.
The men of the Baraca class of the
First Baptist church will hold food sale
tomorrow Saturday afternoon at the
church from 2 to o'clock All kinds of
food will be on sale.-adv.
The ladies' aid of the Baptist church
will hayea Christmas sale Dec. ii and
II. Supper viii be served Tuesday night
and there will be fiye.cent social on
Wednesday evening. Everybody welcome.
Among the guests arriving at Hotel
Barre last night and this morning were
the following people: II. A. d. Leggitt of
Burlington. Il. G. Irving of Lawrence,
Mass, r. II. Bracket and II. S. Ballou
jr, of Boston, w. f. Carlin of Warren,
o., Harry II. Lane of Springfield, III. A.
of Burlington, Louis n. Provost of Rut-
land, John A. Cross of Mortified. L. Il.
Freshour of Springfield, Mass, r. H.
Brigham of Springfield, Mrs. G. A. Mae
Donald of Boston, III. S. Hildreth of
Westford, Mass, George H, Blanchard of
Baldwinsville, N. Y, Thomas NJ. Dargan
of Worcester.
A Washington county committee is
back of a drive in this locality to aid in
recruiting to its full strength the old LIST
Vermont regiment, now stationed at
Charlotte, n. c. Every man in Wash
ington county who is eligible to the draft
is in receipt of notice advising that the
recruiting party is to be in Montpelier
and Barre Saturday and Sunday Lo
cally, the recruiting station will be
opened at city hall, where all who incline
to enlistment at the present time may
apply Sunday. According TO the circu
lar the present situation is that any man
of draft age not already in service or
called by his local board can volunteer to
enlist up to noon Saturday Dee. Is, and
such volunteers in the LIST Vermont may
receive extra state pay of $40. All men
between the ages of is and Al are eligible
for enlistment
Jockey Hollow, South Barre, Plainfeld, |
Williamstown and Washington to name |
only a few of the precincts heard from
joined the oldest inhabitants choir to- |
day by proclaiming it the coolest Dec |
within memory, and with the mercury |
sinking to unaccustomed depths in the |
week succeeding Thanksgiving, all of the
stories were easy to believe. A whole |
generation of weather testimony is back
of the claim that the Dec. reading of
1917 will not suffer by comparison with |
anything in the immediate past, Here
in Barre indicators registered subzero
readings of IL, - and Is. Down on the
flats the mercury seemed to be preceded
by an effective barrage, for il found
nothing to hinder its progress short of
minus 10. Ii was warmer on the heights,
if warmer is the word. At South Barre
the report was Ia, and the station
agent at Williamstown vouched for a
minus 20 reading. Plainfield, Washing
ton and Montpelier trailed along in the
teens.
Mothers, brothers, sisters and friends
Of enlisted, drafted or draftable men are
to petition Congress at the present SEES.
sion for its support of bill in behalf of
the Purple Cross, nationwide organiza-
ton of undertakers, which seeks the
privilege of caring for the bodies of men
who may sacrifice their lives for their ,
b. W. Hooker & Co. of this ;
sity are affiliated with the Purple Cross /,
and any who are related by blood or q,
other ties TO the men of the services may =
'ign one of the petitions by calling at !
he store. The purpose of the bill now !
pending before Congress is to render !
possible the return of the bodies of our \
oldier dead to their home burial grounds
n a sanitary and recognizable condition. .
t is planned to make temporary burial {
n France, after the remains have been r
emblamed, and to have the \
'ody and grave so identified as to permit I
hipment to America at the close of the 9
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