The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-19
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Children of the Baptist Sunday school
are asked to come to the church Friday
after school for Christmas rehearsal.
Miss Katherine Roberts has returned
to Bradford, after visiting in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. +. E. Craddock Of High.
land avenue.
tending business college in Albany,
N, Y, is passing the holidays at her
home on Washington street.
! Meeting Of Glenugie club will be held
in Clan Gordon hall Friday evening, Dec,
20, at o'clock sharp. New members will
be initiated, Per order president
Miss w. Ruth Glysson, student at
the University of Vermont, Burlington,
is passing fortnight with her parents,
Mayor and Mrs. E. c. Glysson of Perry
street
Howard Cole, member of the S. A.
I. c. at the University Of Vermont, until
it was demobilized, has commenced work
in the Office of the Granite Manufactur
ers' association.
Miss Florence Hill, who came here
from Boston to be the guest of DR.. and
Mrs, 0. G. Stickney of Washington street
for few days, left this morning for her
home in Burlington.
The Spiritualists will hold a conven-
tion in G. A. r. hall, Montpelier, Friday,
| Saturday and Sunday Of this week.
| speakers, Rev Welman G. Whitney and
j. Herbert Yeoman-ad
! If you cannot find what you want in
Victor and Columbia machines and rec
ords, books, toys, games, etc, in Barre,
call at Buswell's Book Store, Montpelier,
which carries a large line.-adv.
The officers and teachers of the Con-
| gregational Sunday school are requested
to meet for few minutes at the close Of
prayer meeting tonight, as there are two
matters of Importance TO be decided.
The lecture at the X. of z. hall to-
night will be one of interest; subject,
| Facing Your Own Record, and When ~
One of the most definite prophecies of the
Bible, silencing infdelty Lecture by
Evangelist F. S. Hartwell.
A son, Harold Burbank, was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. 4. L. Robinson of Fairfax
Monday, Dec II, but died that night and
was brought to Barre for burial in Hope
cemetery. Mrs Robinson will be remem-
teacher in the city schools.
/ Leroy AnutIsoHy VINO has Dtbh
an enlisted man in the navy for several
months, has returned to Barre to live
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. +. An
derson of Warren street. He recently re-
eeived an honorable discharge while sta
toned in Boston.
The body Of James Manson, former
resident of Barre, whose death in Lynn,
Mass, late in September, followed an
illness of pneumonia, viii be brought to
Barre over the Central Vermont railroad
Saturday morning Interment is to be
made in the family lot at Hope eeme
terry.
Tuesday evening at the usual supper
hour the members of Everyman's class of
the Hedding Methodist Sunday school ate
supper together at the church. Immedi
ately after supper brief entertainment
was provided, and an enjoyable occasion
was the verdict of all. With few guests
the number of men totaled "a.
The ladies in charge of the sewing for
the Red Cross branch of Barre were much
pleased at the increased number Of wom
en- present for sewing yesterday, and a
goodly amount of work was also taken
out to be completed II is hoped that
yesterdays attendance will be duplicated
or increased at every meeting, at least
until the large amount Of work on hand
is finished.
Mainly to accommodate city employees
who desire TO draw their pay before
Christmas, which occurs on the weekly
pay day this year, the next regular meet
ing of the board of aldermen viii be held
Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, in
stead Of in the evening. The fact that
the city fathers wish to pass Christmas
eve elsewhere than in the council cham
Der also influenced them to change the
hour of assembly.
Announcement of the leaving time for
trains to Milestone hill was made this
morning, following notice that week
end passenger service to Graniteville,
Websterville and East Barre would be
resumed Dec. 81. The afternoon train
will leave Depot square at $50 o'clock,
and the hour Of departure in the evening
is to be $50. The first weekend pas
senger train to make the ascent in many
months viii take the grade Saturday aft
ernoon.
Beginning last evening a number Of the
mercantile establishments remained open
after supper to accommodate Christmas
shoppers, Extra shopping hours in the
evening viii be the order until Christmas,
Trade was brisk yesterday and buying
even more active to-day. Merchants are
taking more optimistic view of business
conditions and it will not be surprising il
the total at the bottom of the sales col
umn will compare well with the business
of former years
Efforts to find the Mrs. Gordon to
whom the Canadian war office addressed
telegram regarding Private William
. Wells having proved futile, Manager R.
! L. Hudson of the Western Union office
has notified the Office at Ottawa that the
message remains undelivered. The name
William Wells, was not recalled by a
number of people whom Manager Hudson
interviewed in the matter. The telegram
said that Private Wells was receiving
treatment in a debsrkation hospital at
] Montreal, p. O., for illness incurred over
seas.
Twenty-three dollars worth of window
glass is included in q bill of charges
which someone must pay as the result
of frontal attack on an empty tene-
ment house at the east end OF Bolster
! place. Boys with a variety of missiles,
J such as stones and frozen carrots, are
held accountable for the destruction of
I many panes of glass in the building,
which has been unoccupied for a number
of months. The owner, after estimating
the damage at 1923, eonfded in the po-
! lice, with the result that the alleged