The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-13
BARRE DAILY TIMES
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1919.
The Weather
TALK OF THE TOWN
Sunday fair and continued cool.


day.
| Special exhibit of trimmed millinery
at Mrs Birnie's millinery opening, Mon
day and Tuesday, Sept. l6 and l7.-ady.
Miss Dora A. Biouin has returned
home from visit with friends and
relatives in Montreal, p. g., and New
/ port.
/ The Knights of Pythas viii hold a
corn roast at Chamcey Bixby's farm ON
Beckley hill Monday night, weather per-
hitting.
Congregational Philatheas, attention I!
A brief business meeting will be held
Immediately after the morning service
/ tomorrow.
/ Special for Saturday, % trimmed hats
in black and colors, your choice, $3.50
each. Miss Whitney's, l6S North Main
( street.-adv
The Gaiety club will hold its monthly
/ dance at the X of G. hall Tuesday even
! ing, Sept l6 CAROLS orchestra will
i furnish music.
! William Moir of Liberty street, who
has been visiting in White River June
tion and attending the fair the past
/ week, has returned.
i Members Of the Eastern Star and their
/ families are invited to corn roast at
i Shepard's grove on the Montpelier road
Tuesday evening, Sept, l6.
! Mrs. j. p. Nourse, manager of the
1 Adams company store, has returned aft
i er spending few days in New York in
/ the interests of the Adams company
store
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bishop of East
( Barre have gone to Boston to visit their
! son, George, and also to Worcester,
! Mass, to visit his brother, who resides
I there.
/ A meeting of the amusement commit
tee of the Degree of Pocahontas will be
/ held at the home Of Mrs. JafFrey 50 Cur
rier street, Monday night, Sept. Is, at
I Z o'clock
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Flint of Boston,
who were married last Wednesday in
Boston, arrived last night and are visit
! ing friends and relatives in Barre for a
few days,
Max Fisher Guy Varnum and Neil
Hooker have returned from Burlington,
where they went to attend the meeting
of the representatives Of Vermont in the
American Legion,
Edwin Smith Of White River Junction,
formerly a teacher in Spaulding high
school, is now teacher in the Central
high school at Springfield, Mass, having
entered upon that engagement this week.
Mrs. Mariani will hold her millinery
opening Saturday. Ladies Of this vicini-
ty are invited to inspect her nice line of
the seasons latest in hats. Money saved
on purchases now No Pearl street.
adv
The three deputy sheriiTs, Jerry Dona-
hue of Graniteville, George Howe and
Harry Gamble, who were assigned TO the
state fair grounds to assist in patrol
work there during the past few days, re-
I turned to the city last evening, since
the fair was brought to a close yester-
day Dellas Merlo and Paul Scampini,
/ who had sideshow there during the
week, returned last evening with their
two headed mystery of the animal world.
/ Mr.. and Mrs Raymond G. Fuller, who
! have been visiting at the home Of Mrs.
! Fuller's parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. How.
ard Of g Ayerill street, left to-day for
/ their home in Brooklyn, \, Y. They
spent most Of the summer at Joe's pond,
4 West Danville, where Mr.. Fuller, who
\ i publicity director of the national child
/ labor committee and managing editor Of
1.-The American Child" prepared for pub
! LEGATION a report OF state recreational
survey which he made in Kentucky last
1 spring.
While driving towards Williamstown
! Wednesday evening in his Overland run
| about car. j T. Sullivan lost front
/ wheel of his car as the result of col
lision 4 large seven passenger Buick
ear going al a fast rate en- route from
the state fair crashed against the small
er car, bending the mudguard back to
! the body OF the ear and dividing the
wheel into several pieces. Neither Mr..
| Sullivan nor his wife, who were riding
in the smaller car, suffered any injuries
/ and it was fortunate for them that they
| didn't, as the larger ear continued on its
| way with hopes of eluding the owner of
the runabout Mr.. Sullivan secured the
fleeing cars number before il had time
to get away from sight.
Back in the old DAYS when folks who
subscribed to The Happy Home Circle
| (52 numbers for 25 cents and over in
the column next TO Odd Items from
Everywhere read the alluring adj that
offered four full quarts for 49, with a
! handsome decanter to boot, and occasion
! ally pint of some other aged brand
| back in those DAYS when soda fountains
were pleasure resorts for women and
children, il used to be said that Old John
/ Barleycorn possessed the ingredients
| that cured headaches and opened eyes.
! This myth found favor for many years
! thereafter, and John Barlcycorn held his
| throne with Kaiser Bill Both have been
| dethroned, but now after travelling for
! two months across the sands Of prohibit
tion many of the old-timers are asking,
! "Will John Barleyeorn ever come back
Has he suffered the fate of the Lost
Charlie Rossi7 Those are tho popular
questions in and about Barre by those
who consider Adams Ale (pure spring
water only as a FIRE eXtinguisher or
| garden invigorator. yep, he's coming
back Here on or about Oct. |. These
| Alternatives are accredited TO those who
are keeping tally on the number of men
that are getting home from France. Ever
! since June 30, bartenders and licensees
have kept open house in their Lodge of
| Sorrow, with the one consohng thought
that John Barleycorn would be resm-
rected It has been pretty dull sum
mer for merchandising beverages of the
amber hue and the TINT punch, and if
they read the signs Alright the folks most
interested next to the downright thir-
sty--in the prohibition wave will
soon be donning their white aprons 1t
is explained that the period of demobil-
ization is almost at hand; that when
the presidents proclamation definitely
| fixes Rehabilitation as already accom-.