The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-14
TALK or THE TOWN

were shopping in the city yesterday
The Tourist club will meet with Mrs
Hutchinson Monday afternoon at 2.30.
Special lunches for Christmas shoppers
at Cafe Shepard. Turkey dinner Sun
day.--adv.
Mr.. Avery, the popular trap drummer,
will play in Rowland hall Saturday
evening.
Rummage sale, Congregational church
2 to 8 p. m. to-day. Good bargains in
mems suits and oyercoats. lady.
| Alden Burke and Clarence Burke, who
have been enrolled at the University Of
Vermont, returned to the city yester.
day.
A special centenary program, with
short addresses by four minute speakers,
at the evening service in the Hedding
Methodist church.
! w. G. Scott, who has been employed
in the vulcanizing department at j j.
| Hastings establishment on North Main
street for several months, has completed
| his duties.
Shall We Forgive Germany2' or
What Shall Be the Attitude of a Chris
tian Towards Germany will be the
theme Sunday at 7 p. m. at the Presby-
terrain church--adv.
| James Young, a former employee at
the Barre postoffice, has returned home
| from Norwich, where he was a member
of the students army training corps I'M
til it was disbanded by the war depart
ment.
j. J. Dashner, real estate agent, has
sold for Mrs. Alex 0gston of Springfield,
Mass, her house ON Franklin street to
John P, Saporiti, formerly of Montpelier
Mr.. Saporiti buys for home and has
already taken possession.
Mothers, don't throw away your old
clothes. Bring them to me and have
them dyed, repaired, cleaned or pressed
and make them look like new. IL will
pay you to see me. Joe Kovalsky's Tail.
or Shop, Eastman block.
Salvation Army kettles, with their 81.
lent appeal for Christmas offerings, made
their appearance on North Main street
yesterday. The kettle fund, along with
other offerings, is to be used TO finance a
Christmas dinner for the poor of the
city.
Sgt. Paul d. Leavitt, who returned to
Barre fortnight ago from Spartanburg,
S. G., where he was attending an officers
training camp when the armistiee terms
were signed, has been passing several
days in Boston. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Leayitt.
Lester W. Heath has gone to Boston
\ where Mrs. Heath is employed in the
P. F. Bonney's Sons store. Mr.. Heath's
friends will be sorry to know that his
years treatment at the Vermont sana.
forum at Pittsford has not been as
beneficial as was hoped
Private 0rville Benedict, formerly a
baggage master at the Central Vermont
station, arrived in the city this morning
and left at once for his home in Plain.
field Private Benedict has been sta.
toned at Camp Devens, where he re
Gently received an honorable discharge
from the army.
Alexander Paul of West Patterson
street, who enrolled in the s. A. Il, G. at
Middlebury college two months ago, has
returned home, having been released
from service when the corps at Middle
bury was demobilized. Two other Spauld.
/ ing high school graduates, Alexander
Rennie and Alfred 0'Connell, having been
honorably discharged from the corps, are
visiting in Claremont, NJ H., and vi.
entity for a few days, before returning
to Barre.
A slight lowering temperature sue
eeeding yesterdays ante-January thaw
swept away nearly every vestige Of
sleighing and left travellers hesitating
between wheels and shank's mare TO.
day. Walking was a precarlous under.
taking, for every sidewalk was a skating
rink. Horses managed their footing with
great difficulty, and autoists had TO be
on the alert constantly, even though
their cars were equipped with chains
The driver Of one Of the Vermont Truck
ing Co.'s freight autos undertook jour
ney to South Ryegate with some trepi.
dations, although he felt that safety lay
ahead, once the truck had negotiated
Orange heights.
Manager R. L. Hudson Of the Barre
Western Union Office announced to-day
a scale of reduced rates for short over.
II night messages, which is to become oper-
alive Jan. l. The new rates, he says
are calculated to develop a new class Of
telegraphic correspondence, consisting OF
short communication in the mails but
which will not stand the higher rates
necessarily charged for the longer night
letters. The new service, known as night
messages, is designed to supplement and
round out the night letter service. The
minimum night message rate is 20 cents
and for Is cents ten.word overnight
messages may be sent considerable
distance, while the maximum rate Is Sc
cents, as against maximum of 81
heretofore charged. II is stated that
the new rate is expected to prove useful
to business men and to lead to larger
use Of the telegraph in social cores
pondence.
IT Is getting to be too late to shor
early, but plenty Of time remains fol
making Christmas purchases before the
annual llth.hour drive through the mer
camille section. Store windows, having
assumed a particularly attractive ap
pearance, indicate that Barre merchant;
are living up to their reputation for pro
viding a profusion of useful gifts for tn,
shopper to inspect. During the week be
! fore Christmas the stores will remain
open every evening. In other ways, too
shopping has been facilitated. In a ma
iority of mercantile establishments ex
ira clerks are already on duty and mer
chants are placing special stress OF
prompt and efficient service Every yeal
the number of dissenters from the shop
at-home grows more negligible, and ev
erywhere in Barres business section thii
season there are well chosen and variet
stocks to prove that out-of town shop
ping, including mail-order purchases, arr
unnecessary.
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