The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-06
WRUNG CLAIMS NECKS.
And Did Other Atrocious Things at
Shoemen's Annual Outing

One hundred and twenty five repre-
sentatiyes of the Vermont Shoe Retail
ers' association were present AZ he
annual summer meeting and outing
held yesterday at the Woodstock fair
grounds, Woodstock Barre's repre-
sentatives number 2s. A good, old
fashioned clambake was the feature
of the noon hour, following which WAS
a short musical concert, a few speeches.
and a ball game.
1t was originally intended for the
speaking to take place in the morn
ing, but the difficulty of getting The
people there in time from the distant
towns made this impossible, and the
time till the dinner hour was spent
in dancing and riding the merry GO
round. The dinner was as good
one as ever was held at a sea shore,
the clans having been obtained fresh
from coast markets and served up pip
ing hot Though at the start OF the
dinner hour there was tendency TO
polite society manners, this soon gave
way to distinctly picnic and careless
methods OF wringing the neck OF the
wilv clam By the time the DINNER
hour was passed all coldness and diff
dence had disappeared, due, perhaps, IN
some degree, to the pink lemon soda
punch. which everyone, even the tenn
perance people, pronounced as some
punch.
Directly after the luncheon had 'oeen
cleared away, various musical num-
bers entertained the throng. b. NJ.
Shepard sang. Frank Costello of Put
land told stories, and Miss LAWN and
Mrs. Clarence Brown offered several
| selections.
An hour of speaking followed the
musical entertainment, with Miss X.
I NJ Hanev Of Boston, associate editor
of the Boot and Shoe Record, as the
principal speaker. Her remarks were
Of an extremely interesting nature ;
but she cut the speech short in order
to allow more time for the games OF
| the afternoon. J. s. Greenwood OF
Brattleboro. and c. A. Brown OF Rut-
land also spoke. George n. Til'len OF
Barre presided
The remainder of the afternoon was
given over to the ball game and dane
ing. Teams were formed from she ct
les of the east side and west -ide OF
the state, and battled for five innings
with the east side of the state victor
l2 10 8. Plenty of excitement pre-
vailed during the course of the game
| Clouts 10 the COW barn, far IN the
field. were common features, and gave
both base runners and felders Ilenty
of exercise.
Immediately after the game, young
and old alike repaired to the dance
hall and merry go-round, and trippec
the light fantastic and rode the .umpy
dromedaries until the strains of Home
Sweet Home" sounded over the grounds
at $50 o'clock Autos pulled int
Barre last night at all hours up u
1890 o'clock. some of the reveller
stopping for short times at towns
along the way for further entertain
ment and more eats.
Much Of the success of the dinne
i due to J. F.. Roberts of Barre, vh'
had the clans in his particular care
and the success of the dance vas Gu'
primarily to Lsndi's orchestra, wh'el
PLAYED as long and as often as ther'
was anyone to dance. The people II
charge of the fair grounds at Wood
| stock did all in their power to eid III
entertainment, and to use the word
of one who attended, used US white