The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-09
E4ST MONTPELIER CENTER


When in Chelsea, stop at Chelsea inn
adv.
The congregational and Methodist pas
tors OF Montpelier are expected Il
preach alternately clce each month al
the Center this year, and have Gael
preached one Sunday In January There
was very good attendance Of those IN
terested in the two fine sermons preached
aud the good music under the direction
Of Mrs. Lila Greene. There viii be
Sunday school at o'clock Sunday, with
preaching service at for an hour and
all are cordially welcomed by those IN
charge of the service.
The next meeting of the Ladies club
will be held next Thursday afternoon
al the home of Mrs. Fannie Strong,
where il is certain all members who can
go will do so. A good program will be
| given.
Mr.. and Mrs. w Z. Fiske, who went
to Norwich, Conn, just before Thanks
giving to spend the winter with DR.
Arthur Freeman and wife (nec Eya.An-
ME Bisbee) are now in Someryillc, Mass,
visiting relatives, and write they will
soon be at home,
A. /. Greene has closed his large house
at the Center and with his mother left
town last week.
The Ladies' club met with Mrs. Lila
Greene Thursday of last week and
good time was enjoyed by all, with a
fine program OF music reading, etc, and
each lady told how she was economizing
in new war ways.
Mrs. Orlando Clark is recovering from
serious illness of about two weeks,
first with tonsilitis and then with
quinsy sore.
Several members of the Barnes family
have been suffering the past two weeks
with a sort of epidemic nearly like the
grip.
Miss Esther Mills, teacher at the four
corners school attended the teachers
convention at Montpelier last week, then
went TO her home in Orange, returning |
here Monday night, but could not teach |
Tuesday because of the severe weather |
that day
very interesting letter from Mrs. |
II. II. Templeton, in Cuba for the winter,
was read at the last meeting of the La
dies club at the Center, and also at the
last Red Cross meeting at the east
village. Her many friends could easily
detect from the tone of her letter that
Cuba, with its delightful climate and
fruits in winter, was nice in a way for
A short time, then home TO good old Yer
mont and East Montpelier for a perma-
nent place to stay the year round, tax
ing the cold as it comes and as expect
I'd in certain months of the year. She
IS with her brother, DR.. Scion Dodge
and wife, who own ranch 20 miles
rom Havana from which city they 90 TO
he ranch by horseback conveyance, as
here is no other way to go yet, There .
ire only three other English speaking !,
aides in the colony and Mrs. Templeton :
las been studying Spanish a little this =,
winter but does not expect TO know ,
much about it by the time they leave ,
|uba for Montpelier as soon as they can
et away. There is so much red tape j.,
bout passports it took three weeks {
inc to get them to go there last fall u
nd will take as long to get return pass Il,
orts. or longer, they expect. She writes
hey will take bee line for home and q
riends and civilization, where one does
OF need to watch out for their lives c
gainst ignorant and ugly Cubans. who $
ate all Americans without any reason
|
nd liked very well were recently muir I
cred very near Dr. Dodge's ranch in a
aylight, for a little money and loot. as d
hey kept small store. Snakes are
cry friendly as they often come in the t
ouse and get in nice places to scare c
Dlks, hanging to curtains and getting /
n pantry shelves, into dishes where /
hey cause some surprise to ladies not G.
sed to their presence in a baking tin +
hen they get it to use for dinner. Mrs
empleton writes she had long wished
} spend winter in Cuba and is now
ore than satisfied She will be ready
nd willing always to stay in Vermont -
she ever gets back alive and well. She
so says her brother and wife will come m
lck when she does if she has to take d
lem by the foretop and bring them 3
it'll her. .