The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-10

Word was received last week of the
death of Mrs Il. j. Credeford mother
of Rev George H. Credeford, a former
pastor of the Congregational church at
Wells River Mrs. Credeford's death
occurred at the home of her son at
Ward HILL Mass, Dec. 2, after a long
illness which had confined her to her
bed since last May and which finally
developed into pneumonia. Her funer-
al took place Thursday, Dec. 4, and her
remains were taken to Lewiston, Me-,
for burial in the family lot. Her daugh-
ter-in-aw, the wife of Rev. q. II. Crede-
ford, will be remembered by many of
the Newbury people as Miss Ella Blk
by, whose girlhood was spent in our
village,
There viii be special meetings at the
Congregational church on Friday and
Saturday evenings of this week, con
Quoted by the Dartmouth college dep
utation team, and on Sunday these
young mon will have full charge of the
services. Friday night there will be a
social hour in the yestry and lantern
talk on college and outing club life
Saturday morning hike with the boys
and in the evening social time in the
vestry. May we all show our interest
in these college boys with our presence
at these gatherings.
1t has been decided to have com.
munity Christmas tree and judging
from the following committee all hands
mr. lan,ltnn a hanI -, II
success: Mrs. George c. Fabyan, chair
man, Mrs. Greeley Darling, Mrs. Will
mar Perkins, Mrs. Hubbard, Miss Bail
ey, Mrs Harold Hale, Mrs Currier,
Misses Hartwell Wallace, Fabyan, Me-
lendy, Gould, Mrs. Chase and Mrs.
Elmer Avery. The responsibility of
getting the Christmas tree rests on the
boy scouts, Rev. Henry S. Ives, Harley
Fulton and Warren w. Bailey, jr.
Mrs. Sidney Perkins wears with dig
nifty the title of great grandmother, as
her granddaughter, Mrs Rufus Dunbar,
is the mother of fine baby girl born
Dec. ,. Mrs. Dunbar was formerly
Miss Gladys Mcneil, daughter of Rev.
Mcneil of West Newbury. and a well
abAtiN i0AtOi " W bbi
Mrs. Thomas G. Keyes has closed her
house and left town for her winter
home in Florida.
The Bradford academy boys made
the wclkin ring with their cheers when
they came into town last Wednesday
night with just one object in view and
that object was to scalp the Newbury
high school team, but, like the Arabs
of old, they folded their tents and ST.
lently stole away" leaving their curly
locks behind them to a tune Of ID to 8
in favor of the Newbury boys A good
number of Bradford people were pres
ent and all seemed to enjoy the game.
The story is that all the deer migrated
over into New Hampshire last Satur-
day when they got word that Harry
Hibbard was after them and that their
trip was unnecessary on account of
Harry getting far into the depths of
the primeval forest, far from the habi-
tat of man, and then and there discoy-
ering that he had his fishing rod instead
of his trusty rifle. We can readily be-
lieye this part of the story, as Harry
is disciple of Izaak Walton and has
a well developed forgotten but the deer
part of the story is con'dummed lie.
Harry Crane, former principal of
Newbury high school, was in town the
latter part Of the week,
R. s. ChiIds of Brattleboro spent the
week end in town. Mr.. Childs has been
coming here for the past 40 years as
an ambassador of one Of our largest in