The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-14
TALKOFTHE TOWN
Don't miss sheas shne sale.

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Don't miss Shea's shne sale
See Abbott's line of house dresses,
t'nisersalist dance Feb. ID, Howlan'
hall, CAROLS orchestra adv.
Michael David of Granite street went
10 Burlington this morning on business
trip.
Il. W Tracy went TO Bethel yesterday
to pass the remainder OF the week with
relatives.
Glcnugie club will meet in Clan Gordon
hall Thursday Feb II, At o'clock e,
/ Keith, president, j. Club, secretary
4 Edward Ennis of North Main street,
/ who has been i'll for several days, was
able to resume his duties In Miers' up
town barber shop Yesterday.
Mrs. Albert Abbott and Mrs. Bates
returned yesterday afternoon TO their
/ home in Moretown, after making short
visit with relatives in the city.
! John Laney, who recently completed
] his duties in the Drown garage. left
yesterday for Boston, where he is max
| ing business visit of several days.
Angelo Colombo, Antonio David and
Charles Sass left this forenoon for
Lanesboro. where they have secured EN-.
ployment with numbering concern.
The rehearsal of the Hedding Method.
list choir will be held Friday evening at
$3.50 o'clock sharp in the league rooms.
All members are requested to be pres
ent.
J. w. Paine Of Havana, Cuba, who has
been staying al Hotel Barre since coming
here from Montpelier several days ago,
has gone to Burlington TO receive treat
ment in private hospital.
Attend the farce entitled Miss PRINTS
kindergarten, given by the sophomore
class at the Spaulding chapel Friday
evening at o'clock for the benefit OF
the Y NJ. C. A. Admission l0c.
Fred A. johnson of 90 Beckley street
left yesterday for White River Junction,
there to entrain for Fort Sloeum, n. Y.
Mr.. Johnson expects to be ordered at
once TO Camp Greene, Charlotte, y. c.,
where he will join the LIST Vermont in
fantry,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Abbott and daugh- |
ter, Marion, of fremont street left the |
city late yesterday afternoon for Cali !
fornia. where they expect to make a /
stay of six weeks. During their absence
they viii visit among former Nermonters
in Los Angeles and elsewhere along the
Pacific coast, and call on Leon Abbott,
who is stationed at Camp Kearney.
A soldierly appearing group of men
appear in a photograph of the lst Yer
mont regiment which is exhibited in the
display window of b. w. Hooker & Co.
The picture was taken before the LIST
,n,7f 20 t,tr hnuu, IN nrnHf bxv tha |
drive which recently termi-
mated in this state. 1t was sent north
BY one of the Barre boys who has been
N the infantry for several months.
Rev. Charles A. Boyd of Burlington,
ield secretary of the Vermont State
Sunday School association, who has been
with workers in several
county towns, arrived in
Barre to-day TO meet Sunday school .
reads and teachers In the vestry Of the !
church this evening the
ecretary will give a lecture, accompa !
lied by stereopticon views, and the gath
ring il to include all Sunday school
workers in the city Others who may be
Interested are invited to attend.
Although the amount of coal in stock I
liUIlEI4 juAdi IAEi ufdiHFS are iEfStA~
ng numerous orders, and the system Of q
Inspection inaugurated by the local fuel h
and the city council a week 4
90 is easily iustifying its existence. g
Dealers are reduced to the necessity of
alying largely upon the inspectors re
ort, and on all orders relatively small !
of coal are being doled out. The {
resent spell of mild weather has reduced |
the danger of an acute q
heritage such a. was anticipated when /
ne prolonged cold snap showed no signs }
abating, Some hundreds of tons of Q
,al so one dealer estimates, have been G
wed by conditions which permitted peo- 9
lie to get along with low fires. .
George W. Mann is interested in I
awspaper clipping from Winchester, Va, :
which the people of that historic town .
e reported to have seen a large Amer
an flag in the sky. Presently the folds
the flag opened and file after file Of i
ammies in khaki marched through the
,avens. The Winchester scribe explains
le rather unusual happening by ascrib-
z it to mirage, or reflection on the
ouds of soldiers marching far away
he reporter goes on to say that the
'ectacle was reproduced in the sky by
lie angle of observation aided by Pc
liar atmospheric conditions prevailing
, Mr.. Mann the story bears all the
rmarks of authenticity, he says, for at l
c age of Ia, in March, 1861, while lv- :.
G a few miles from Barre he witnessed
ueh the same spectacle. Northern bows Z
IRE then marching ont of Washington,
d the colors as we'll as the ranks of I
au were plainly visible in the Vermont