The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-26
MONTPELIER
Community Christmas Tree Was Held
Thursday Evening.

The Woman's club, which has gen.
orally. in part conducted the affair,
agreed with the council to the end that
the tree was in the auditorium II. d.
Hopkins led community singing for half
an hour, after which well towards 900
packages of candy were distributed
among the children. There were enough
left over so that many received q sec
ond helping to the supply The ar.
rangements for the most part were in
charge of Mrs K. f. Bliss, president Of
the Woman's club, although Mayor II.
.C. Shurtleff presided over the affair and
explained its purpose, giving general
directions for carrying out the plans.
The Magnesia Tale company of Wa
terbury reported this morning that
their automobile truck slid off the road
between Waterbury and their plant in
Moretown Dec. II and that telephone
pole was broken. Three other accident
reports were received this morning at
the secretary Of states office.
The state highway department has
received from the war department a
request for information relative to
whether the department can use the
state quota Of army cook field ranges,
also that there is a planimeter that has
been shipped to the department for use
in road construction
The announcement that the annual
meeting Of the Vermont Bar associa.
ton. will take place in Montpelier Jan.
% has been received by the attorneys
who are members Of the association.
The usual Christmas observance oc-
Cured in the Mt. Zion commandery
hall at high noon Thursday, with some
80 members attending Among the
speakers were w H. Herrick, j B.
Estee and A, G. Eaton
The police and telephone operators in
Montpelier were made glad Christmas
day by the receipt Of several gifts in
appreciation OF the services of the de
partments
Miss Mary Ford, who has been EN-
ployed by Boyle brothers in White Riv.
er Junction, will commence work the
first OF the year as stenographer In the
office OF the board Of charities and pro
baton
Officer Frank Baldwin was called to
the Victory hall on Mortified street
about $3.50 o'clock Thursday evening
because Of some trouble that three
young men We're making One Of them
squared away to meet Officer Bald
win. who piled the three men up in a
heap III corner Of the room and then
advised friends to take them home OF
they would 20 20 jail. One Of them,
named ChildS, later appeared al the
dance in the city ball aud fell down a
pair Of stairs, making further dis
turbance.
The dance given by The company Of
young men in city hall in Montpelier
Thursday evening was not az largely
attended as was expected it would
have been owing perhaps TO the feet
that some Of the pastors in the city
referred 10 this as no proper recreation
Tor holy day CAROLS orchestra fur
nished music Miss Merle Turner sang
two selections. Miss Josephine Mitchell
gave o dance. Mrs Fred Laird, r. gave
two piano selections and G s. Casavant
of Burlington sang two baritone solos.
Dancing was in order until about /
O'clock The hall was we'll decorated.
Word was received here Thursday
that Cecil Moore was HI in hospital in
Cleveland, Ohio. with pneumonia
Miss Jessie Watkins has resumed her
work in the insurance commissioner ;
Office after two weeks vacation
NJ. G. Baldwin Of iauesboro was in
the city today in connection with his
duties as forester Of that section Of
the county He has found some nice
spruce timber on the 5000 acres Of
land recently bought by the state
Mrs, Eliza Greenwood, aged 50 years,
died al her home on Court street on
Wednesday night following the break
ing down Of old age. She was q native
Of St Ours, r. g. but had lived in
Montpelier for great many years.
Her daughter, Mrs William Miller died
recently. both Of them having been in
the hospital at the same time4 Her
nearest relatives are nieccs and among
these is Mrs, Raphael Lanier Of Mont
pelier. The funeral took place at Q
o'clock this morning, Rev r. i. Long
officiating Interment was in the Cath.
Ollie cemetery
Christmas was observed in Montpel
Ter with fitting exercises in some OF
the churches. These included midnight
service at the Episcopal church. with
special music by the choir The mid
night mass at st. Augustine's church
did not occur this year, the custom
having been dispensed with for the
first time i'll many years Special mu.
sic occurred at the morning masses At
the Methodist church program was
given in the evening after which tree
was unloaded Of gifts for the children.
Exercises resembling hose in the Meth.
odist church took place at the Baptist
church. Those at tho Episcopal church
occur Saturday afternoon and The Con-
gregational church Sunday afternoon.
The trains on the Central Vermont
railway We're late all day Thursday
Beginning in the morning. the two
night trains were both late in reaching
the local station, the northbound arriy
ing about four hours late, due to heavy
Christmas passenger and mail traffic. d
part of the lateness being due to con
nections at White River Junction. This
made the branch train 20 TO Williams
town late, SO that it did not get back
to Montpelier before the main line
morning mail trains arrived, resulting
in both these being late in leaving the
local station. When the branch train
made its second trip to- Barre during
,Tv morning it was again late in re-
.'Tning to Montpelier, so the south
bound noon train was late ar result
Of this The late afternoon trains were
all late because Of the heavy business.
The regular city council meeting oc-
Cured Wednesday evening when con
sideration of business was done The
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