The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-26
BARRE DAILY TIMES
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER &c, 1918.
TALK OF THE TOWN

cdlltu Oh ITlenus III IHe GUY Yesterday.
Bring your family and friends to the
Cafe Shepard for Thanksgiving dinner,
all the iixings, so cents.
Special glove sale at Fits; 1925 and
$3.50 women's French kid gloves, sizes
81 and 6, reduced to $l.40 per pair.
Hear the Norwich jazz band Wednes-
day evening Nov. q, at the armory,
Montpelier. Admission, 75c; ladies free.
adv.
George +. Howe of South Main street,
a motorman on the interurban trolley
line, is detained from duty by severe
cold.
Notice: Now is the time to save money
on Andes ranges and heaters, also nice
line Of second hand stoves. See us. IL. A.
Prindle & Co., Worthen block.
Grand Thanksgiving dance in Howland
hall Wednesday evening, Nov. q. Gill
bertson's orchestra of eight pieces will
furnish music Dancing from until g
Admission, 81 per couple; extra ladies'
l5c.--adv.
William Gearin, who has been EN-
ployed as fireman at the central sta
ton for several months, left this morn
ing for New York, there to rejoin his
mother. Mr. Gearin expects to be EN-
ployed in New York.
David Mcdonald of Addison place, who
was stricken seriously i'll with the infiu-
enza while employed temporarily in Ben
nington last month, is able to be out Of
doors, having returned to Barre last
week, much improved in health. He ex-
poets shortly to resume work in the
plant of the Presbrey Coykendall Co.
Assessor A. NJ Rossi has returned from
Plainfield, where he claimed a large buck
which he shot in Peacham during the
open season. The deer possesses an NJ
usually fine set of antlers, and was Sc
cured by the assessor after brief So
ljourn in Peacham. Friends assisted him
in bringing the carcass to Plainfeld.
The case of State vs. James Grogan,
charged with burying dead body with
out license, was not heard in municipal
court to-day. The magistrate said that
the prosecution had received word that
counsel for the respondent would be un-
able to represent his client in court until
later day. A second continuance in the
case was granted.
nG community tluu uEih
its monthly meeting at the schoolhouse
on the East Montpelier road last
evening with a good attendance.
Vice President Andrew Johnson presided
in the absence of the president. Music
on the victrola was furnished, also sing
ing by the audience of patriotic songs.
/ Through the kindness Of Miss Kirby,
teacher Of the Brookside school, the pu,
\ pills put on their Thanksgiving play,
which was very much appreciated by the
audience.
Potatoes struck bottom yesterday
when a Cabot farmer, who had shipped a
carload of the 1918 crop to this city
from Marshfeld, disposed of his hold
ings at $l.25 per bushel Buyers who
/ had paid $3.50, and in some instances
more, for tubers Of no better quality,
went after the Cabot crop without par.'
ley, once the price became known. Six
lty bushels went 10 one consumer, and
the remainder were removed from the
car before nightfall.
Il Forrest Batchelder of Hill street. a
drug clerk, was able to resume his duties
in the Red Cross Pharmacy to-day, after
having been detained at home for the
past ten days by an accident which oe-
cured while he was running TO catch
street car. 1t happened downtown, and
in making the try, young Batchelder
twisted ligament in his left foot He
was crippled Immediately, and friends
had to get a conveyance 70 take him
home. The ligament has not been fully
RESTORED, although the condition of the
foot is improving steadily.
John P. Coreoran, who resigned his
I position as q clerk in the Barre postoffice
some months ago to accept an opening
in the office of the Fairbanks scale works
in st. Johnsbury, is visiting his mother,
/ Mrs Lucy Corcoran of West street, hav-
ing resigned from his duties in the Fair
banks plant Mr.. Corcoran has accepted
a position as travelling deputy in the
/ United States revenue department, and
expects to have his headquarters in
Portsmouth, N. IL He will assume his
new duties within a few days. Mr.. Cor
coran was attached to the Barre post
office staff for nearly ten years.
Almost for the first time this season,
birds of passage felt the icy hand of
winter last night, and the cold norther,
which grew colder as the darkness deep
ened, drove many Of them to seek shell
ter in unwonted places Police head
quarters, which is a nightly rendezvous
for wayfarers during the winter months,
twas the haven which some of them
sought. 1t was far too cold for mapping
on park benches or in the bandstand.
Lately closer scrutiny is being made
of stairways and halls along the street,
and the campers are in bad favor at
| the railroad station So some of them
bunked in the cell room at the police
station! No charge is made for the ae-
commodation, and invariably the tray
elers, af0er a hasty toilet. in the morn
ing, are ready to resume their journey
ing.
Barre, in common with towns and cit
les throughout the nation, will have a
community sing on the afternoon Of
Thanksgiving day, in accordance with
the request of the national committee OF
public safety. In a circular sent out by
the committee it is urged that a service
of Thanksgiving for the armistice and
the victorious peace about to be con-
cluded be held in every community.
Here in this city, the committee has OBJ
tanned the use Of the opera house, and
the exercises viii begin at o'clock in
the afternoon A large chorus is being
assembled, and the program will include
a variety Of patriotic songs, including
4 the national anthems of the allies. II is
not the purpose of the committee to in
4 clude program of long, drawn out
speeches, but the musical numbers will