The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-04
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| Fits.
French sisters, palmists, Wednesday
last day; AZ Main street.
Last week in which to pay up youi
thrift club. Quarry Savings Bank.
N Feed hens green cut bone for more
eggs A. B. Coffin. IL Church street.
| Mrs. John Kendall of Hill street, who
has been quite ill., is now gaining.
Buy your Community silver at Rus
sells with half money and half coupons.
II =. T. Austin returned home yesterday,
after passing several days with friends
in Burlington.
/ Five cents on every dollars worth Of
cash register slips for cash purchases at
| N. ID. Phelps Co.
| Ladies of Clan Gordon will hold reg
ular meeting Dec at 7:l5 p. m. lnitia-
ton refreshments and business OF i'm,
portance.
The condition of c. +. Millar OF the
| Consolidated Lighting Co, who has been
| seriously i'll at his home on Cliff street,
| is reported to be considerably improved.
Luke II. Gallagher of Short street left
last night for New Haven. Conn, where
he was called by the illness Of his broth
er, William Gallagher, who has been EN-
ployed in a munitions plant there.
The Universalist ladies are asked to
come to the church vestry any time after
0 a. m. Wednesday. prepared to sew.
The call is urgent. In the afternoon at
1880 the monthly business meeting will
be held Several important matters are
to be considered.
knights of Columbus of Barre and
Montpelier are to meet in this city to.
night for the fifth of their pool and crib
bage series. The Montpelier knights are
leading by margin of two points as the
result of signal victory won week ago.
Contrary to the original plans, another
match win be played before the holidays,
as the two councils are TO meet at the
capital next week.
New overcoats for the Barre police de-
partment have arrived and yesterday
most of the officers stepped into ''the
finest of blue and the brightest of brass"
for the first time. Az police toggery goes
in the local department, the new gar
ment is something of departure from
/ the outer apparel previously worn in win
ter. The coat conforms somewhat to the
prevailing trench" model and lends a
military appearance to the wearer The
coats were purchased through the Moore
& Owens agency.
| Red Men OF Barre are not going to sui |
| fer their brother braves in trench and |
camp and aboard ship to go without their
| tobacco this winter, and TO the end that |
all members of Iroquois tribe, No. 10, |
who have enlisted under the colors, an |
effort il being made to obtain the war
addresses of all tribesmen who are going |
| or have gone "out there 1t is planned t
to send the packages in mid December or
whereabouts, and Ira Wright of South I
Barre is completing a list OF addresses
Eagles of Barre are to enter the lists |
again tonight with their fraternal broth
ers OF the Montpelier aerie on the oppos-
ing side. Bowling, billiard, pool and card
matches are to be played in the capital
this time, as the local aere entertained r
its opponents in this city a fortnight
ago, at which time the. Barre team won
nearly every contest by wide margin,
All local Eagles are asked to take the
Gas car for Montpelier. and it is an
nounced that special car for the players
will leave the capital at midnight
There is little probability that the city
of Barre will be officially represented at I
the fuel hearing in the council chamber
at city hall tomorrow afternoon, as all
of the departments, whatever their other I
problems may be, seem well supplied
with coal. Members Of the aldermanic
committee state that the bins
at the fire station and at city hall are
comfortably well filled with fuel, and
including the city farm, there 4
seems TO be enough coal and wood for J
ordinary uses The hearing is to be held I
before the local fuel committee at
o'clock. !
Edwin Ross. Depot square barber,
is in receipt of letter from his brother, '
Private William j. Ross of the Canadian
army. advising him Of his return to Que.
bee on leave of indefinite length. after
seeing strenuous service in France. In
the years before the war, Private Ross
was an occasional visitor in Barre and ?
is fairly well known here. In the late
summer of 1914 he enlisted in the first 5
Canadian contingent and three times dur
ing his stormy career under the British n
'olors he was a patient in a base hospital, &
It is possible that he will visit his broth
sr here before returning to his home in n
Regina, Sask. Is
Statisticians of the street and engi-
leering departments are figuring out the :,
'ost of the South Main street paving and =
sidewalk project, recently completed, and y
With it continues the task of reckoning =
he assessments to be paid by abutting =
and owners The cost of every bit of
and the amount of material :
lsed is to be figured out to the last 4
lace in the column of numerals which is
fling up in the engineers office. Prop \
rty owners will know in very short Z
ime how much of the cost they are to
ear and before long, the street depart
nent will be able to ascertain whether
he amount which the council was au-
horned to raise by bonds will be suffi. /:
lent to pay the bill. Members of the
treet committee are confident that the !
ost will not exceed the appropriation.