The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-18
NEWBURY

THE king is dead. Long live the
king Dr. Mckinley has given up his
practice, sold his real estate and left us,
much to the regret of his many friends,
who honored and respected him. Dr.
p. A. PioH, a graduate of the University
of Vermont, 1915, with a Is months in
ternship in the Mary Fletcher hospital,
and with eight months in a New Hamp-
shire hospital, where he specialized in
surgery and mental diseases and wound
mp with II months in the army, is with
us, with his wife and four month old
baby Let Us give him a royal welcome
to the good old town of Newbury, and
may this young man of promise never
regret his coming to our village. For the
present his office will be at the residence
Of VI. c. Knight,
Mr.. Jones was in Burlington last Fri
day attending the headmasteTs' sssocia-
ton meeting.
We overheard the other day that they
are going to raise cotton on one of our
back farms; but we don't believe there
is anything to the report
Mrs. Sarah JENNIE Knight who has
figured lately in some of our leading
= Is
took toboggan slide without her tobog-
gan, down the back stairs and landed in
heap. She was equal to the emergency
by exclaiming, Lori The slide did not
hurt me a bit. 1t was when lit that I
realized there was a much safer way in
going down stairs" Mrs. Knight is get
ting along nicely and her many friends
congratulate her on her escape from Sc
rious injury, Mrs. Knight is the mother
of our town clerk, NJ. c. Knight a man
we'll known throughout the state.
We notice in a galaxy of pictures
published in the Boston Herald of March
2 that of Hon. Edwin A. Bayley. We
feel that the honor bestowed upon Mr..
Bayley in being classed with such men
as Eleazer Wheelock, founder of Dart.
mouth college, Daniel Webster, the ia
nous alumnus, Ernest Martin Hopkins,
president of the college, and Prof. John
King Lord reflects great credit on New
bury. This is a most interesting paper
and deserves to be preserved in the ar
chiyes of the Tenny Memorial library.
Miss Reyes spent the week end in St.
JohnsbuTy.
Many local friends of Thaddeus
Wheaton will be interested to learn he
is now sergeant. Sergeant Wheaton
sailed from Camp Merritt Oct. is, hav-
ing enlisted July /. He is in the repair
unit of the motor transport corps, locat-
ed in st. Nazaire, France.
Mrs James Barber was called to Cam
ada the first of the week by the death
of her nephew, the four yearold son of
her brother.
Clyde Richardson is home.
We ran across the other day the fol.
lowing program of the annual prize
speaking of Newbury high school, Feb.
20, 1892. This may be interesting read
ing to some, as it shows what smart
boys and girls we had 81 years ago:
Part First--Music; prayer Rev. J. L.
Merrill; music; Miss Anna Eta Kim
ball, "'The Roll Call" (Shepherd) Will
lis McAllister Abbott. "The Death of
Hamilton" (Nott); Miss Nella Maud
Perkins, Luke bret Hart); John
Thomas, "Rienzi" (Mtford); Miss
Blanche Nora Bailey, Marjorie Gray"
(Thorpe); Miss Laura Helen Chamber
lin, How the Old Horse Won the Bet"
Or. Holiness Miss Marion Estelle Bail
ey, How Tom Sawyer Got His Fence
White Washed" Twain Miss Idella
Olive Robertson, The Young Gray
Head" (Southey). Judges, Prin, D. B.
Lock, Bradford; f. w. Bittinger, Woods
vile; Miss Anna S. Morse, st. Johns
bury; Mrs. E. r. Kimball, Newbury;
o. c. Doe, South Newbury. The Edwin
A. Bayley gold medal was won by Idella
Olive Robertson, the Edwin A. Bayley
silver medal by Marion Estelle Bailey.
The residence of Bert Hatch, the bar
Der. has been wired for electric lights.