The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-12-27

Dear reader Of the Newbury column
4 This il Christmas week and there ha
been lots of doings in this good Oh
town in the past few days and wha
! / want to do is to tell you all abou
4 It, and as Grindle, the old merchant "
at Hadlocls's Mills, Me, says: IF ! 81
through without Citing my wire
crossed an fergitting more'n a dozel
things an not maxim no inimies TO
life, I'll consider myself lucky In thu
first place Webb, our tinsmith, lost !
ten cent piece Of tobacco last Friday
and If the Teller who took it, or rathel
found it, will return IT, he can have
good "big chawn ana win be M
questions asked. We notice that there
are lot Of our boys and girls home
from school, college and the marts o.
trade, and among the number are
Misses Isabella Hartwell, Alice Dodge
Patricia Smith, Miriam Taggart, Jesse
and Mary Flanders, Marguerite and
Matilda Chasse, Marion Noyes, Helen
Temple. Martha, Leighton, Ruth Cur
rier and her mother, Mrs. Emily Cur
rier, Mrs Thaddeus Wheaton and Miss
Elena Wheaton, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Stiles and daughter. and amongst the
boys, we notice Charles Smith, Milo
Leighton, George Tewksbury, James
4 Hibbard, Oscar Chassee, Charles Tag
CART and Warren Bailey. There may
be some others who have come home
to see dad an marin, but their names
did not appear on the custom house
/ register so we are not to blame If we
did not get them. What. might have
been a serious accident, but happily
! turned out otherwise occurred in
/ Webb's shop the other morning when
the mercury registered 80 below. Web
is a man Of few words, SO we viii
tell the story in his own language:
"You know that keep everything but
what drink water / mean in cold
storage these winter mornings and in
| the front window Of my shop had a
display Of faucets, when in came one
OF the Carpenter boys, of about 10 .or
IS years Of age, and wanted to know
IF | had faucet that would not leak
| told him to blow in one of those in
the window. He had no sooner done it
than howl went up that would wake
as that boy could get detached from
| that piece of metal, his language,
which am not used to, shocked me,
and what might have been serious
accident to the faucet was averted, but
that boy, his lips looked as If he had
been kissing red hot stove" We are
glad that it was no worse. Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Hale and Kenneth Hale
spent the week end at st. Johnsbury.
George Leslie Of Montpelier was over
Monday. The exercises in the school
last Friday were interesting indeed
There was a Christmas tree, with pres
ents for the pupils and the little ones
all took part and made creditable
showing. Principal Jones believes in
placing responsibility on his pupils, so
Cecil Temple. one Of the larger boys,
presided There is some thought OF
sending this boy over to the legisla-
ture and let him preside over the House
OF Representatives, but Cecil will not
90 this winter, as he and James
Whitehill have other fish to fry with
out going into politics. They tell now
that there is nothing in the report that
Robert Meserve is going into deep
mourning for the next two weeks while
his mind is in st. Johnsbury Robert
feels bad enough, but he is not going
to the expense Of wearing Grape.
John Goodwin says he has Just found /
out why our state taxes are so ---
high. John uses rather forcible lam
guage at times to express his ideasl |
After John got Tit up mean his
pipe, he told us in confidence that |
one of the reasons was the shameful /
neglect of road machinery. Whyl says
John, fright out in front of Widow
Taisey's house is road scraper that
cost the state good money; il is left
to the mercy of the elements. The 9TH
er night when the mercury went down
to thirty below, the poor thing fairly
shook with the cold, and Will Taisey
came near getting up in his pajamas
and going out with newspaper t.
cover the poor thing up. By the holy
smoke if they put two-cent tax on
gasoline | will report this waste, this
neglect TO the governor, II / have TO
walk to Montpelier" Nine times out
Of ten John Is right, and in this case
he is. The state, no more than an in
iividual can afford TO let its property
70 to waste.
There seems to be considerable dis ,
as to our electric lights ,
Since they raised the price, they have
the service and, as one farm
II tells us: There is nothing that gets
lis goat any quicker than when he gets !;
lis milking machine ready to milk
Iome fifty cows than TO have the cur |.
'ent go off and leave him in darkness
With his thoughts. ten-minute walk
rom lantern with one or two seuttles z
Up. If Charles Prouty had heard the
language a -faring man made in one !
4 our country stores the other night ,
ust as he dropped nickle on the
loor and the lights went out at the
anne time, he would hunt round and :
md Dickey and they would both come
ack and straighten this electric light
rohlem out. We want the lights, we =
re willing to pay for them, but what
Fe want is service. Last Sunday morn
ng Doctor Ives gave ms good Christ :
ass sermon and there was extra
lusic. Mrs. Harold b. Hale at the
Ryan while Mrs. Wilmar Perkins and
frs. Richard Darling each sang solo,
hese ladies backed up by choir OF
Oxen voices upheld the reputation
ihich this church has held for the last
ne hundred ycars-excellent music.
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