The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-16
TALK OF THE TOWN

Of his uncle, John Ennis.
The annual meal and ale of the Glen
ugie club will be held in Clan Gordon hall
on Nov. Is at 1880 o'clock. All members
and lady friends please attend.
Rumage sale at the Methodist
church Nov. 90 Contributions may be
left at 20 Church street or brought to
the church early ON the day of the sale
adv.
Perfection oil heaters and wicks, Andes
ranges and heaters, three second hand
Glenwood ranges for wood or coal, stove
pipe and elbows and stove boards Cali
at +. A. Prindle's, Worthen block,
Ted Theriault, who closed the Eureka
restaurant some months ago, has decided
to reopen the establishment, and to that
end the place is being thoroughly reno
waited. The proprietor expects TO resume
business Tuesday.
Miss Eva G. Smith and Miss Archi-
bald of the Spaulding high school faculty
are passing the week end in Randolph,
where they are the guests of Mrs. Ball,
who is remembered in Barre as Miss
Dudley, former member of the high
school faculty.
Deputy Game Warden Charles Keith
of North Seminary street has returned
from Warren, where he has been doing
patrol work during the deer season. Mr..
Keith says that the killing this year has
been far below the average. He will pass
the remainder of the season in this end
of the county.
In Marshfeld this afternoon at \
o'clock funeral services were held for
Mrs. Nellie A. Buxton Of IS Summer
street, this city, whose death at the City
hospital Tuesday followed weeks ILL
ness of pneumonia Rev. L. #. Fortney
Of Plainfeld was the officiating clergy.
man. The body was taken TO Cabot for
interment in the village cemetery.
John Mitchell of Montpelier, who has
leased the north store apartment in the
Boyce- Durkee building, is moving his
furnishings from the capital. The store
will be utilized as candy kitchen and
the proprietor is to install soda foun,
tain. He is yacating store on Main
street in Montpelier, which he has occu-
pied for the past four years and will be-
gin business in Barre Dec. |.
At Elmwood cemetery this morning
at $3.50 o'clock committal services were
said over the body Of A. NJ. Hannaford
Of Claremont, n. H., whose death oc-
Cured in that place Tuesday. The body
arrived in the city last evening Rev.
J. b. Reardon, pastor of the Universalist
church. was the officiating clergyman,
and interment was made in the family
lot, beside the remains of Mrs. Hanna.
ford, who died several years ago.
Manager John b. Eames OF the Park
theatre received few cuts about his
face, but escaped more serious injuries
yesterday when the touring car which he
had driven down Washington street,
skidded on the sticky highway and col
lided with a telephone post near the
east end of City park. The shock shat
tered the windshield and destroyed a
headlight, in addition to damaging the
radiator, but the engine was left intact
and Mr.. Eames was able TO drive the
car to a garage.
Glenugians will celebrate their an
nual fall harvest festival in Clan Cor
don hall this evening, with dance and
supper "Meal-an' ale" viii be the cen
ter of attention, and despite the fact
that conditions growing out Of the war
combine to modify the festivals cee.
brated in the years before the war, the
program will adhere strictly to the
round Of events which marked the OBJ
servance in Scotland many years ago.
james X Prize of Graniteville is 10 be
the host.
On the last lap Of their drive for war
thrift stamp sales, city and rural letter
carriers at the Barre postoffice are look
ing for an opportunity to make big
squirt on the home stretch, inasmuch as
considerable number of pledges made
during the campaign last summer re-
main to be redeemed Thus far the ag.
gregate sales credited TO the city post
men and the carriers Of the rural deliv.
cry are slightly over $4,000. The car
riers are at loss to ascertain their rela-
tive standing in the friendly competition
arranged early in the year, for the bulle-
tin service In the work room at the post
Office appears to have been discontinued.
The last returns were posted in October,
and while the carriers have not relaxed
their efforts to dispose of as many
stamps as possible, they are unable to
maintain the rivalry which existed when
the regular posting of returns kept every
carrier informed.
Payment Of war chest dues was in or
der to-day, and the custodians of Barre's
war fund were hoping throughout the
afternoon that the number of subscTib-
ers who called to settle their arrears
would be sufficient to make easy the con.
| tribution Of S2l 900, Barre's quota, to
the United War Work campaign. The
county campaign committee is banking
on a 100 per cent subscription in Barre,
and it will be easily possible ii those
who have pledged themselves to stand
back Of the war chest do their duty. Aft
err tonight one more day Of active cam
paigning remains, and when the returns
are received Monday night the country
will know whether or not the people in.
I tend to stay with the boys until they
have landed safely on the home shores.
| Subscribers are urged not to let their
gratitude for the sacrifices made by boys
end prematurely. Everywhere campaign
ers are driving home the fact that the
nations duty to its fighting men does
not end until they are safely home.
Barre boys at the front are looking to
the home folks in this critical hour
To meet and fraternize once more
with comrade- in-arms whom he had
not seen in 81 years was the unusual ex,
perience of Nat Bond, janitor at the fed.
eral building. Early this morning Mr..
Bond got telephone message from a
man who said he knew him as an infan-
tryman in the Civil war. The Barre man
was unable to associate the voice with
anyone he remembered, and SO the mat
! ter rested until Joseph a. Irish Of