The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-03
BIG RED CROSS BENEFIT.
st, Adams Fair Nets Several Thousand
Dollars.


st. Adams, Sept. 3-The second an
nual Red Cross street fair, which opened
in this city last Friday evening, closed
last night after days events which in
ciuded big parade in the morning, a
baseball game nm the afternoon and a
high-class concert in the evening, besides
the activities at the various booths, the
Red Cross restaurant and the rummage
sale
In line in the parade, which was over a
mile long, were between 100 and 200 SOL
diers from the mechanical school at the
U. " NJ, with nine army trucks There
were 30 mothers of soldiers, II wives
and % sisters, each carrying a service
flag. An automobile carried the oldest
and the youngest knitters, viz, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Roberts, 90 years old, who came
here few months ago from Brandon,
and Master Frederick Holmes Brown,
younger son of Mr. and Mrs f. G. Brown
Of South Main street, aged seven years,
Mrs Roberts averages to knit pair Of
socks week Master Frederick Brown
did his knitting In school when he was
six years, knitting afghan squares. An
other car carried blind knitter, Mrs.
Edna j. Miner, an enthusiastic war work
err Mrs. Miner has knit lao pairs Of
socks. A car representing Bellevue chap
ter, Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton, contained Mrs. George W. Parker Of
Barre, former ST. Albanian % years,
who is real daughter Her grandfather
was the youngest son Of Seth Warner.
Mrs Parker is SO years old.
The allied fighting nations were repre-
scented as follows France, Miss Dorothea
B. Smith Of this city; Belgium, Miss
Helen Thorndike of Boston; Italy Mrs.
H. NJ brennan of this city; England,
Mrs. Harry Gordon Sloan Of Cleveland,
o., Canada, Miss Virginia Gibson Of
Hartford, Conn; America, Miss Kathleen
Walsh of this city Miss Thorndike
was one Of the organizers Of the Vincent
society which had a tea room on Boyl-
ston street in Boston, from which be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 was realized.
She gave her services at the tea room all
last winter Mrs. Sloan, who formerly
lived in ST. Adams, came here few
weeks ago with her husband, Dr. Sloan,
VIM - lAun ia hiAH sti ftNNs 5NAhlbilIb dl
Fort 0glethorpe, Ga. Miss Gilsons par
ents are former St. Albanians and her
father is now in the service
The concert last night was given by
Miss Vera Barstow of Pittsburg, Pa,
violinist, and Mrs Fl. F. James of this
city and New York, vocalist, with Mrs.
0. G. Stevens aceompanist. Miss Bar
stow, who has been frequent guest of
Mrs Stevens at her summer home here,
has studied the violin since she was nine
years old She won the Pittsburg con-
servatory scholarship three years She
studied three years in Vienna, appeared
with leading symphony orchestras in Eu-
rope and America, toured the United
States four years. She is about TO sail
for France, being sent over by the Little
Theatre league of New York for the Y.
M, G. A., to play for our men in France.
She will return Jan. to resume concert
work here. Mrs James, who has studied
with Madame Morris in New York, has
sung in that city and many times in St.
Adams During the past winter she has
been singing good deal for charity in
New York.
Charles b. Schoff of Smith street had
charge of the arrangements for the fair,
which will net several thousand dollars
for the Red Cross.