The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-17
NEWBURY

The missionary society met Win MISS
Keves this week Wednesday, while the
w. C. T. U. met Tuesday with Mrs 81
mer Avery.
F. L. Cobb is in town. We expect he
came all the way from Boston just to
take his wife to the Nellie ellis this
evening.
Next Sunday afternoon you will all
receive calls from the committee who
make up the every member canvass The
envelope system was so satisfactory
that it is thought best TO continue 1t an
other year.
Sergeant Oscar c. Chase, who for the
s,sst 10 days has been on furlough, re-
turned to his regiment at Washington,
d. G., Tuesday of this week. Sergeant
Chase will be remembered as the popu-
lar clerk in Hale's store, also as the cap
tain Of the crack basketball team Of
Newbury high school AT the time OF
his enlistment he was in the employ OF
Swift & Co, Chicago, at their branch
house in Manchester, n. Fl. That firm,
showing their appreciation of this young
man, retains him on their payroll until
the end of the war This unassuming
NOuiE man Aiho hiltANt NM -pV hsSA' 49,
are in training for overseas.
Thomas BARRIERS horse showed out
Toms characteristics last Sunday by
taking short cut to church just at the
time there was no service and ended up
by landing on his knees in the parsonage
ward. No doubt the horse thought Tom
was somewhere in the procession, and
that was the way he always went to
church, on the run, but the old nag had
one more thought coming. This time it
was chip of the old block who should
have held the rens and if we should tell
from what dooryard that horse started
IL would give him away to all Haverhill,
So mum is the word
S. D. Morgan, the contractor OF Lis
bon, N. H., has a gang Of men repairing
the Barnett house, now the property OF
Charles H. Bayley of Boston.
In the Sept. IL issue of the Congrega-
tionalist and Advance is very interest
ing article by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman.
The editor is former guest of Newbury,
who is pleasantly remembered by all
those who had the pleasure of meeting
this genial gentleman. He has just left
for overseas, and while waiting at an
Atlantic port writes an account of What
a Landsman Sees and Learns on Board
a SUPERINTENDENT" He states, There
was a time in the not distant past when
| was inclined to look with apprehension
upon the appropriation of some seven
teen millions of dollars for single bat
tleship, but when a fellow is about to
cut the ties with the homeland and set
his face toward the European theatre OF
warfare, the more dreadnoughts and
cruisers and submarine chasers and de-
stroyers he can see in the offing the bet
ter" He concludes with, This brief
visit to a magnificent battleship, with
its gallant officers and crew, gave me a
new respect for that essential arm Of
the national service of which it is a part.
The next time | give out the hymn 'Eter-
nal Father, strong to save, Whose arm
doth bind the restless wave,' | shall think
fondly and gratefully of the special
group with which | consorted that sum
mer afternoon just before | slipped out
on the unknown deep, where they are
so much at home and where their pres
ence and that of their sister ships make
my crossing possible
Ut. LeDHdTQ o. JONusUHs sun W OiuntN
and Mary Elizabeth Ford Johnson, born
Nov. 26, 1872, educated at Phillips Exc
ter academy and Dartmouth medical col
lege and for p years one of the leading
physicians of northern New Hampshire
with his home and Office at Franconia
having been called to give up his prac'
tce, his home and for the timebeing his
many friends, to serve Uncle Sam, with
the rank of captain, left last Friday fol-
an Atlantic port prepared to go wherever
duty may call him. He dined at the old
homestead last Thursday and on his ar.
rival home at Franconia found a large
gathering of his townspeople, who greet
ed him with singing Aud Lang Syne,
Shall old acquaintance be forgot
Friends from Newbury were present and
most enjoyable evening was spent. A
purse of 500 in gold was presented the
doctor as a token of their esteem. As
the friends dispersed and babe adieu tC
this man who has minstered to them sc
faithfully, who has stood beside theil
beds of pain, who has sympathized witt
them in their sorrow they felt PROUD
that our nation had such representa-
tive from Newbury and Franeonia anC
that our army and navy weresmade W
of men of this calibre.
Mrs. w S. JENNIE is in town for few
days.
Freeman Cilley of Barre is with Vi
this week.
Miss Inez Stowe of Manchester, N H,
is the guest of Peter Glasses family.
If Mrs. John Hale lives until mex
Monday, Sept. %, she will be 90 year
old. Her home for the present is 2.
Brookside avenue, Menands, N Y.
While canning, Mrs, Frank Mesery
met with serious accident by having