The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-08
GERMAN ENJOYS REACH FOCHS
HEADQUARTERS TO GET TERMS
BARRE JOINED IN.
Lid Popped OFF When Feeling of Exulta-
tion Boiled.

Barre fell hard for the fictitious peace
reports last night, and while the demon
stration which finally celebrates the COM
plete subjugation over the Hun undoubt-
edly will be much more pretentious, the
rejoicing which followed the circulation
of the unconfirmed reports could hatdly
have been more sincere. The first story
made its appearance in the streets soon
after the noon hour. Ii seemed to gather
momentum and before dark, in many
minds, there was pretty well defined
suspicion that the German dancers on
both sides of the Rhine were even then
beginning to settle with the fiddler,
Nothing lacked but confirmation, and
more eager spirits, after aseertaining that
celebrations were in progress elsewhere,
set about to put Barre in line
AT 8 o'clock the premature celebration
began. Stoneshed whistles, one by one,
joined the chorus which the fire alarm
and church and school bells had set up
People issued from their homes and
streets ordinarily deserted In the supper
hour were filled with children. While
the victory peans continued, parades
were organized and before long every
neighborhood was staging celebration
of it's own.
Soon the delirium spread to city hall.
The city council, some days since, quietly
planned celebration commensurate with
the impending developments. With the
receipt of the rather vague reports, the
mayor decided that the time was ripe,
and while because of the uncertainty not
all of the plans were put in motion, two
bands were engaged and while the crowd
increased the musicians played.
Many tempered their enthusiasm with
the thought that mistake might have
been made Others went the limit in
celebrating The Times bulletin service
played TO a big crowd throughout the
evening. To those who could not escape
the conviction that peace had finally
come, the news offered little consolation
In the face of repeated and emphatic Of
fetal denials of the peace rumor, denials
which emanated from Washington, Lon
don and Paris, the Associated Press con-
sistently held to its declaration that the
German envoys had not signed the armi-
stice terms and this attitude naturally
was reflected in its bulletin service
Young America enjoyed to the fullest
lhe opportunity W Ctieufdtc- a uulupti
Of bonfires were started and in some in
stances, reported to the police, such es-
sentials as doorsteps, chicken coops, wag-
ons and sleighs were used for fuel Some
one was caught tampering with fire
alarm box at North Barre and later the
overflow Of exuberance caused someone
else to turn in general alarm from box
20 at city hall The fire whistle had
been heard above the din for two hours
then and the crowd paid little attention
to what sounded like real alarm. The
police force was augmented by special
officers, but despite the general tendency
TO make the celebration a memorable one
signs of disorder were few and infre-
quent.
As the evening wore on even the most
skeptical convinced themselves that the
earlier reports were erroneous and almost
az suddenly as the celebration began it
died down, expiring without an effort
around $3.50 o'clock.