The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-02-14
NEWBURY

That minstrel show last Friday night
by the Coon Towns brought out a full
house and as the girls say WAS q
scream" from the moment the curtain
went up until it went down. The jokes,
with their stings pulled out, seemed to
hit the pcculiarities OF the individuals
There were so many of them that we
can only remember few and these hit
the other fellows which tickled us just
about to death William Henry was IN
his element, as well as George Gibson
in his clog dance, while the girls IN
the cake walk took the cake. we are
not going to say anything about the
end men, but Billy LaRue and All his
men could not hold a candle 20 them.
The management appreciates the pat,
ronagc from their lover the river
friends and among the bunch recog-
nized many of the loyal Nellie Gill old
timers. We trust that they were well
repaid for their efforts in coming.
John Ninshull, who for the last fiji
teen or twenty years has had the SUI
pervision of the Greer brothers. COW
barns, received the surprise OF his life
last Thursday when he landed ,ker-
PUNK at distance of ten feet from
the COW which he was milking when
John came to he was III quandary
as to what had hit him. He Thought u
was either cyclone or train OF cars
but finally concluded che heifer had re-
sented his seeming familiarity and had
protested by giving him vigorous
| kick. John is now nursing dislocated
thumb and several other minor injuries
but demonstrates his English grit "
sticking to his job.
Oscar Chase spent the week end
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs Peter
Chase.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fl. Deming Of
Montpelier were the guests OF The
Hales the first of the week.
Mrs. Minnie Green, who was vie
tim of fall last week, has been taken
to Woodsville hospital, where the \
ray discloses a broken hip. This means
much suffering and long time IN the
house.
Those who so pleasantly remember
the Dartmouth boys who held services
in our church about year ago Will Be
pleased to learn that they are 70 be
with us again this week. Will be here
Friday night to attend the banquet
given by the boy scouts for the "a
theirs and friends of the boys and on
Sunday next they VIII conduct the
services in the church.
The death of Mrs. Page Johnson oc-
Cured Friday morning For some time
Mrs. johnson had been an invalid. She
leaves a husband and two children, and
her funeral was Monday at the home
OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs T. a
Lund. Burial was at Groton.
Mrs. Eugene Foss returned TO her
home in Boston last Monday morning
Her son. Noble Foss, accompanied her'
Mrs. Raymond Worthen, who for the
mast few weeks has been in Boston, re-
turned last week.
Mrs. Warren w. Bailey, jr, is in
Boston this week.
Rev. Howard S. Briggs of the kurn
Hattin home gave an interesting taik
In the Congregational church last Sun,
day. He had with him Master Robert
Gildersleeye, young man OF twelve
to fourteen years OF age, who read the
following paper, his own production,
which will no doubt be of interest 60
MANY of this village who have by Their
contributions helped maintain this in
stitution which is doing so much for
worthy BOYS: 'sKurn Hattin is located
on a hill mile from the town OF
Westminster. 1t has fine view OF the
mountains Of New Hampshire and OF
the Connecticut river ] came to kurn
Hattin April 26, 1919. at the age OF
twelve years, my parents died when
| was too Young to remember IT, nay
aunt and uncle took my sister and
home with them where we lived
for several years. During my three
wears stay here, ] have visited my
relatives four times, and my uncle has
been here three times. Now ! will tell
YOU Of the life Of the boys here. There
are about seventy Of us; some OF us
live in the main building and some IN
the Ainsworth cottage. We have o
good school building on the grounds,
with three teachers. We have chapel
services every morning. We have a
good up-to-date barn and forty-seyen
head of cattle. A group of boys, under
the supervision Of the farm manager,
do the work. We also have steam
laundry where all the work is done by
the boys. Each boy has certain
amount of work to do every day. We
have time for recreation. such as skat
ing. sliding. skiing and some OF us
have snowshoes. In the summer we
go swimming every day as our work
is not so hard then. Last summer each
boy had garden TO care for. When
the vegetables were ripe he could sell
them to the home at the market price.
We expect TO have garden this spring.
We have two basketball teams this
winter. and have played several games,
winning All but one, and If possible