The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-17
TALKOFTHE TOWN

See Abbott's line of toys and dolls
Il Buy dress goods for Christmas at Alb
\ bolts
Save your cash register slips and brint
| them in for cash. n. ID. Phelps Co.
Mrs. William Turner is passing severa
DAYS with relatives in st. Johnsbury anC
Ryegate.
| Rehearsal for Christmas concert at thu
Methodist church Tuesday afternoon i'm
mediately after school.
The /. o. +. will give a dance Tuesday
evening, Dec Is, in X. of G. hall. Car
rolls orchestra
| Music furnished for all occasions by
Montpelier NJ. band orchestra, Karl For
sell, manager, phi 2ne Montpelier 252-W.
Anyone who has not received his
Christmas club check is requested to call
at the Barre Savings Bank & Trust Co
Parlor golf game, ''the king of indoor
sports" an ideal Christmas gift. Regu-
lar price ST. Special for this week, soc.
The Homer Fits Co.
Il Officer John w. Dineen of Cleary street
resumed his duties in the police depart
ment this morning after weeks vaca
ton, part of which he passed in Bur
lington.
! As | am closing my millinery parlors
Dec. "a until the spring season, | offer
some very good bargains in hats at your
own price. Call and see them. Mrs.
S. Z. Laviolette.
The postponed opening of the pool, bill
lizards and card series between the Apollo
club of Montpelier and the Vincitia club
will be held in the rooms of the latter
club in the Blanchard block Wednesday
evening.
| Daniel +. Sullivan, supreme warden Of
the n. T.. o. p, who has been making
number of visits among lodges of the or,
der in Vermont, returned Saturday to his
home in Boston. He was accompanied
on the tour by Judge H. w. Scott of
Richardson street, who returned home
from Bellows Falls on the same day.
That surprising amount of interest
is being shown by the boys and girls in
the Competition contest" for prizes of
500 is attested by the telephone calls
that have come in to the Peoples Ma
tional bank from the city and surround
ing towns. The boys and girls are EVIL
IDENTIFY going after the money with de-
termination that speaks wonders for
their future financially. All the condi-
tions are given in advertisement on page
ADV.
John c. Booth, Robert B. Jones and
George Mulch left the city this fore
noon for Boston, where, rs special dele
gates from the Barre Granite Manufac
turers' association, they are to attend the
annual meeting of the National Associa-
ton of Granite Industries. They were
accompanied by William ID. Macdonald,
recent president of the local associa
ton. who will attend the Boston meet
ing, before returning to his home III
Springfield, Mass.
a photograph of the members of the
Goddard seminary football squad, to-
gether with Coach Hoernle, was taken
this morning at the Shores studio, after
which the captain for next season was |
elected, he being Clarity, the tackle of
this seasons team, who figured promi |
nently in the Brookline high school team
before coming TO the hilltop school this |
fall, and who was leading factor in
winning several of the games played dur
ing the successful season recently closed. |
The outlook for a promising team next |
season at the seminary is especially |
bright at present, as only three players !
VI tH1S sthsou -Iudd hic W pS ioob ~ !
graduation, they being Smith, Soule and
Wallace, they all being first-string men,
while there is an abundant amount of
second string material for another sea
son.
Attaches at the postoffice are antici-
pating one of their busiest weeks and to
the end that the public may be served
with as few delays as possible, extra
clerks are to be employed, as in former
years The annual appeal for early ship
ping has been made by Postmaster G. w.
and under this urge il is ex-
pected that the handling of bulky
Christmas mail will be greatly facilitat
ed Much of the mail matter addressed
to soldiers in France is out of the way,
but postoffice patrons who have domestic
shipments to make are confronted with
an opportunity to be of service in the
face of unusually congested postal condi
tons People who are sending Christmas
mail are reminded that seals and ex-
trsneous stamps should not be pasted on {
The address side of letters or packages.