The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-04-25

gether with the assistance Of the chic
character named in the item. We read
The Argus last week stated that
| Joseph Ward paid the regulation
fine" for being intoxicated. The
only part Mr.. Ward played in the
police court that morning was to
go bail for Jack Burke. 81 don't
care anything about it," said Jo-
seph, but I'd just as lieve it
hadn't been in"
Summary treatment of cases il
court was furnished by The Towr
News like this:
! Charles Martin was arrested
Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Cook
for being how-kem- you.so; STOOL
Cosby talk to make his newspaper
entertaining" as he proposed in his
! first issue to do, is thus INDUCED in:
Phelps brothers and A. f. Batch
elder have been dickering the past
week. Land for mares, and mares
for land.
A little shaft of wit is fred at the
couple whose marital troubles caused
the wife to sue her spouse for "intol-
cradle curiosity" to know what she
was about in the odd hours when he
1.-THE husband wasn't around.
The mantle of charity which is gen.
orally drawn in obituary notices of the
present day was oftentimes swept
aside with sweep of the Taylor pen.
Perhaps even the author of those obit'
uaries regretted later in his career
some of the ill-advised course which
he took in his early journalistic eff
forts. For instance, the case of the
young lady Of Montpelier whose death
in a Montreal hospital was the occa-
sion for laying bare some of the drab
features of her life which led up to
the unfortunate end. The more judicial
"B. L. T." of later years surely would
have drawn the mantle of charity in
that case.
Less susceptible to blame, perhaps,
but still unnecessarily lacking in char
ity was his obituary of an elderly man
in Montpelier whose "peculiarities of
temper and crotehety disposition has
made it practically impossible for his
children to live with him." the obituary
going on to say that although his
daughter lived next door father and
daughter were as strangers, as every
one seems to think, through his fault.
But "B. L. It's" pen was not always
dipped in vinegar or vitriol, as one
can readily see by reading really ap
preciative sketch of the life OF John
G. Nichols, long merchant of
Barre and father of Frank W. Nichols.
who now conducts an electrical store
in the block built by his father. As an
commentary in connection
with the obituary, the writer told how
Mr. Nichols, along with eight or nine
other young men of Barre, proposed 10
take out life insurance and all we're |
accepted except Mr.. Nichols who, be- !
cause of his appearance of i'll health,
was refused as bad risk, only 70 have /
Mr.. Nichols live 30 years more and see |
all the other men laid away in their |
graves.
Taylor's penehant for raising
laugh or pointing a moral by use of an
original heading on somebody else's
was early exhibited in his
efforts in Barre. For exam
pie he quoted an article from the Lyn
Ion Union concerning the appearance
u Mary Howe, the gifted Brattleboro
girl who has been rapturously received
Dy some of the most critical audiences
n Europe" The Lyndon Unions critic
Her execution is fine, though not
what it win be later on. The rapid
'uns, in chromatics and regular work,
acked the flute accuracy which aston
shes an audience in the execution of
Patti. But she may reach il later. We
nave an impression that she will get
here
Taylor's comment was in the follow
ng heading:
Mary Howe Need Not Be Dis
couraged.