The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-05
$230,000 Now Signed Up for
the Knitting Mill
Project
$4,000 TO GET BY
TOMORROW NIGHT
Committee Is Ready to Meet
Manufacture. First
of Next lex

Secretary Drew : .e Board of Trade
reports this me IS that $23o,Ooo in
subscriptions q - ready signed up and
on file at his This brings the de-
sired amour os ar at hand and gives
much hope - che committee in charge
that the s. 900, which must be sub
scribed before tomorrow night, will be
an actuality.
There are still many scattered. pros
poets which are being cleaned up and
many good sized subscriptions have come
In from surrounding towns from people
who are satisfied that a seven per cent
tax free investment in well managed
proposition will prove very desirable in
the years to come.
There is reason to believe that there
are still some who have previously sig.
nified their intention to take some of
this stock but have not yet sent in their
cards. 1t would be very helpful to the
committee, who have worked so siren
uously through the many doubts and
misgivings of the past few weeks, il
these people would come forward with.
out further delay. 1t is felt that every
thing that could be brought to light re-
garding this concern or its prospects has
been thoroughly aired and it is incom-
prehensihle that people of large means
should purposely ignore this opportunity
TO secure a good investment and at the
| same time lend helping hand to the up
building of Barre If there are any such,
they are very few in number, for the
subscriptions already on file cover near
ly everybody connected with the profes-
sional, mercantile, and industrial life OF
the city.
We have only $4,000 to go now and
we must clean this up in short notice.
If there are any large investors who
have not as yet done anything, here is
chance for them to come to the rescue
and take the balance Of this stock and
save the committee a lot Of hard grilling
work which the placing of this amount
in small subscriptions would entail.
Who will stand up and say "We'll take
the last twenty ana put it over the top.
Here's challenge. Who will come for
wards Who win have the distinction
and honor to play the winning card 2
There ought to be some good sport who
will do this. If somebody doesn't do it
1t means that the committee will 60 out
and sell it in small lots for it has got to
go and go it viii, in Apite of our old
friend in Hades.
The committee is tired to death but
highly elated over the prospective ac.
complishment of doing something big,
which is worth while and will stand for
long time as testimonial to the en-
ergy and foresight of Barre and her citi-
zens. And in this connection let it be
said that the splendid help which she
has received from her neighbols in near
by towns will long be remembered and
will cement more solidy those ties Of
friendship which have held Barre and
her sister towns in mutual esteem.
Barre has been through many hard
campaigns and each time she has come
through with finer community apirit,
freer from personal prejudice, and with
clever view of what constitutes conNmu.
nifty responsibility and obligation. And
further each campaign brings out The
fact that there is almost no limit 20
the development which board of trade
can bring to a town, provided that theIe
is only unity of purpose and operation.
1t is highly gratifying that Barre posA
sesses these essential qualities in so
marked degree.