The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-23
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II Ladies', read Clarkson's big adj, page @
II Only one left $3.50 sewing machine
II to close ut 1885, at Fits.
H the Morals Of Hilda," fve-reel fea-
II ture, at the Bijou to-day. adv.
Il Regular meeting Of Sons Of Veterans
\ auxiliary, No. 8, Wednesday evening, Jan
II "a, at 1880.
II The ladies' union viii hold 500 social
1 at Mrs. Grant Lanes Wednesday after
noon from 2;30 to 5.
II w. r. Weinz, a monument dealer OF
Allentown, Pa, is passing several days
in the Barre granite belt ON business.
H Ralph Bemis, who has been visiting at
his home in Barre for week, returned
\ this noon to his work in Hartford, Conn.
/ Mrs. Eleanor Pollard Of Brook street
| LETT yesterday on a business trip to New
| York in the interests OF the McCuen
store of Montpelier.
| Miss Harriet A. Silsby Of CIaremont,
n. H., has entered upon her duties as as
sistant to the superintendent at the
Barre City hospital.
The amusement committee of the |. o.
o. L., NJ. L., will meet at the home of
Mrs. William Stephens, Pleasant street,
Tuesday evening at O'Clock.
The Maccabees will have another 500
and whist party in X. of p. hall, Blaneh-
ard block, Wednesday evening, Jan. "A.
Light refreshments, Public cordially in
yited. Admission, l0c.-adv.
The condition of Charles Hoyt day
baggage master on the Barre branch,
who has been quite seriously i'll at his
home in Maple Grove for several days,
is reported to be improving steadily.
/ Robert w. Simonds Of ST. Johnsbury,
chairman of the state industrial accident
board. is staying at Hotel Barre while
passing several days in Washington
county on business He is accompanied
| by the other members of the board, f. ).
Pease and S. A. Daniels, who are to con
duct hearing in this city tomorrow.
Among the guests registered at Hotel
! Barre last night and this morning were
the following people; Alexander t. Beat
on of South Ryegate, G. NJ. Ahern of
Burlington, Fred S. Pease of Burlington,
Aaron Berman of Littleton, n. H., 4. A. |
Corwin of Chelsea, Il. NJ Kingsley OF
Rutland, Robert W. Simonds OF st. |
Johnsbury, W. f. Miner of Paducah.
Ky, Mrs. L. d. Gale Of Boston, w, ID. |
Smith OF Lexington, Mass, William N
Gleason of Poughkeepsie, n. ", III. II. /
Milne and j. w. Adams of Burlington
and William Weiss OF Allentown, Pa.
Local people who subscribed to an is
sue of afr folios and at the same time
received guarantee that the payment
of stipulated sum of money would en-
title them to handsome piece of furni-
ture, have succeeded, some of them, in
effeeting satisfactory settlement OF
their contracts. Yesterday a business
man who went in on the deal was mott.
fed that leather upholstered chair was
his for the claiming at the freight sta
ton. Some months ago he had aban
doned all hope of receiving the premium
and the latest development in his favor
has encouraged Others to believe that
they shall not go unrewarded.
A Maple avenue woman who stepped
into the celarway of her house yester
day forenoon to get articles in which to
start her dinner became locked in when
a o-year-old child snapped the lock :
and failed to understand the working OF
the key when he tried to turn it the
other way. The mother in her anxiety
to get dinner under way started new
method of release from her cell and with :
the use of long pole which happened /;
to be in the cellar and an old red shirt .
which had been discarded and used for
purposes OF late, she opened !;
the cellar window, pushed the shirt on
the end of the pole up through the snow
and waved it in the air to draw some at
tention from the street for over an hour :
before the sign of distress was discerned
by a neighbor, who saw the shirt way
ing in the air for several minutes before
she could understand what it meant.
a portable mill has been installed on
the timber tract located near the Dodge :
farm on the Montpelier road and II. G.
Bennett of this city is getting ready to !
mill large part of the lumber cut that ]
is being made in the woods. A tempo
rary bridge across Stevens branch has
been erected TO facilitate the work of
firewood and finished lum- r
Der to the main highway and thence to c,
he market in Barre. A large number OF n
yoodsmen are at work on the tract and G,
Quantities of wood have been brought to II
he city already. The mill has for its :,
oundation a heavy wharfing and cleo h
ricians recently completed the work of 81
wiring the mill for motors. Back of west II
ill, on the road leading from Berlin h,
,ond to Williamstown, w. j. Clapp OF in
his city is in charge of large lumber; .,
ng project and A. Tomasi, who recently :,
purchased a wooded tract just west OF a,
he pond, is getting ready to install OF
'ortable mill.
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