The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-02
THE RED CROSS PILE.
Additional Donate Are Constantly Be-
ing Made TO II.

Only four days TO the first installmcnt
of the Goose Green carnival and winter
cattle show for the benefit of the Barre
Red Cross branch, and still the gifts are
piling up. A dozen committees are burn
ing midnight oil in their eagerness Ia
have all preparations completed, and ii
some OF the old Vermont blue laws are
violated tomorrow by these same com
mitteemen. the transgression may be
pardoned on the score Of excessive zeal
! Tor the cause. Meanwhile all donations
may be left ~ the Barre Savings bank,
with w. A. Drew, or at the store Of Rcy-
nolds & Son.
The floral hall committee has been
designated as follows; Mrs. c. A. Brown,
Misses Phelps, Miss Eula Averil, Mrs.
n. S. Love, Mrs Geoffrey Rollason and
Mrs. William Cole. Mrs. w. A. Drew
will take charge of the sale of carna.
tions, and Mrs. G. w. STEELE of the cluny
lace.
Stacks and stacks of donations remain
to be recorded. Among to-day's acquisi.
tions was box OF Oregon apples from
the United Fruit company, which has
also volunteered TO install hook in the
carnival barn and donate a batch of mo.
ihsses tdHul 10 tue lHnu i@ikt u Dolb
from the blue came the announcement
late this forenoon that Beattie & Dun.
can, the millinery firm, had donated a
silk "Billie Burke which is the subject
of a good deal OF speculation in Goose
Green male circles Here are more do
nations; 100 carnations, William Ems
lie; gold sconce, H. O. Holmes, the jew
eler: 10 gallons Of ice cream in cones,
Barre Creamery Co.. two bushels pota
toes. DIR. j. w. Stewart; Il pint cans
vegetables and fruit, Mrs. Elmer Il. |
Perry; s. cash, Mrs. s. i. Jones and
Hattie Waite; hand-patched quilt, eighth
grade, Spaulding school; gas hot water
tank heater, Barre Gas Co.; three dozen
eggs, Peter Thom; one-half box whiting |
lines note paper, l.. S. Gates; barnyard |
hot water heater, Mrs. A. w. Persons |
five gallons of ice cream in cones, Barre |
Drug Co.; one quilt, Mrs. j. +. Roberts;
80 Gilt Edge cigars, Wesley Hoffman; So |
cash, Mrs. l.. A. Houghton; half doz
en- solid silver teaspoons, Gretchen Sib-
ley; onehalf dozen solid silver coffee
spoons. Gwendolyn Sibley; fruit cake,
Mrs. Ella Sawyer; George L. Bond, So;
Dillon insurance agency, $40; six suits
John Berinato; John +, Cook,
$40 cash: H. l.. Scott, S5 cash; Lamb
Printing CO., bookbinder
In continuance Of the Goose Green cor
GOOSE GREEN THE 2
vii Drew, Presdt, Barre VT.
Aour vii: Thew/south Barre cityzuns
IN Patruns III Hudbundrie sartin are
um aktiv en- aour behalf an yew kin
est bet yore bottum dollur thet thar IL
xcitemunt daown that way whn sech |,
vimmin ez Missus Howurd. Woostur,
sIanchurd, kar, Hughse, Withum, Dudd
lie an uthurs Civ up taere Mundey wash
MS an leve there sweepin an kleanin til
he mex day so % tew serlicit hens an ]
listers fer the Kattil departmunt
Yew know, Will they be gud fellers
ew. They be goin tew Civ ernuthur
anse the weke arter the karnivul an a
iv the perceeds tew us also. Evury-
udy frum the Green shud dew hiz
horrs Garlic thet mite an go aout thar !
ar the evenin. sr Wii ail uf thet I
aown IL cnmin daown tew the HARMFUL 2
ties in OK temes, hayraks, speshuI !
aems, etc.
Et aour metin las mite ct wliz com '
lunly rumured thet j. Corskie he'd givn
full bluded Buff Orpington ruster tew E
omplete thet pen Missus Smith Civ. .
hut dew yore rekords show, vii? l.
We dew be hopin thet slayin kontinus 2
nd an the sports frim Granitevill,
'ebsturvil, an eest Barre KUN daown u
sum gud times an thns vii be shower a
W them. Yew know, vii, speshul y
ages an teens be riinin frum Orang
/ Washington tew brin thoz peepul O
Town tew the Barn. Yores trewlie, a.
Goose Green Committy. a.
Hubbub Hill, la Wide Awake Ave. "
February 2s, 1918. =
'esd't Red Cross, Barre, Vermont G
Mi dear Will Since we've red some o. !
em letters in T. Langiey's famous
mes asking for donashuns to make se
EN- things fer those soldiers over there er
NO Mans Land" things hev been ~
rry buzie up here in Jake Spaulding's Si
rn on Hubbub Hill ie
Sum of MS fellers up hear thot YOU III
rodent kick about takin another do w
shun. A fue of the smart uns sez we go
max one of those han patched quilts tn
we done So AZ
We calculate thet we will all be over
" the village an tax look in at How ou ''t
IDS big Barn. We spose thet all yer ,.eo
ty folks will be dolled up them mites 80, p
al, we recon thet us fellers will show
good par of hosses when we cum La !.
'os der way. &c
We hope you viii make pile OF mon or
on our quilt becoz we want to sho ~
I'm City foks we can do just IL good J, no
rk as youse Goose Green folks. 10
From Your Young Friends Up in Jake 40 40
aulding's Barn. M H'