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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1908
Page
6
A Barre Daily Times advertisement urges readers to consider life insurance now with National Life Insurance Company. The copy stresses timely coverage and mentions a 60th year milestone, inviting inquiries about policies and rates through local agents.
A jumble of advertisements and notices lists auctions, rentals, music stock, and a stockholders meeting. Items include furniture and crockery at City Auction rooms, a typewriter and chair sale, a Catholic family paper offer, tenement rentals at South Main and North Main, music catalogs from McKinle Masse Co., and details of InterCity Athletic Association stockholders meeting on April 20. Chas Wishart mentioned. new veterinary hospital at 12 Cottage Street led by Arthur H W Lewis D V S with 12 horses and 20 dogs capacity plus telephone numbers.
The city warns that violations of the revised ordinances carry a penalty from five to fifty dollars. The notice names local firms and individuals involved in a contested refund offer for a tar treatment product. The City Council urges compliance and prosecutions for noncompliance.
Almost everybody knows the place to send Beef Hides Horse Hides Calfskins Sheep Pelts Tallow and Bones is to C. & Page Hyde Park Vermont who pays highest prices remits the day following the arrival of goods at Hyde Park pays the freight on shipments of 200 pounds or more and keeps his customers posted as to market values.
Go to Osborne's for your first class groceries and provisions. Right prices and cash discounts. Will be in new quarters soon with lots of new goods.
H. Hooker of 101 Pr it street Barre Vermont testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved years of kidney pain and back ache after trying other remedies. He reports lasting benefits and urges others to use the product sold by Poster-Milburn Co Buffalo New York, 60 cents per box.
The poem laments death of Thomas Davidson of Barre Vermont last Friday. It speaks of northern homeland Aberdeen Scotland and the sea between, as friends mourn and long for reunion in a happier land beyond Old Country memories echo across Barre and Bonny Scotland hoping for solace.
Len Dow is on the sick list. Mrs L J Bastian and Rosie Bowldry visited St Johnsbury. Bowldry was in Batre part three. Ernest Adams visited his father in Ely for a week. Aura Clark finished work at Peacham and is with her father. Harry Boyce and two girls are in Marblefield for a week. R H Hawkins finished work at North Danville and shops at WR Tibbetts’. Doris Clark sprained her wrist playing. Dr Warren set it. The Modern Woodmen Maple Leaf Camp plans a May Day ball and drill on May 3 at Allen lull. Meeting of candidates and interested parties for a deep ball carnival at Graniteville lower schoolhouse Tuesday evening, April 24, 1905. all members requested to be present.
Chelsea residents Arthur and Yvon Manvom of abridge plan Friday business. Probate court appointments discussed in Washington. Mrs. Amanda Allen visiting Barre City. Mrs. Emily Bacon returns from South Washington. George M. Davis travels from Weston to Chelsea. several towns mark visits, rentals, and household changes. Camp No. 28 Sons of Veterans set May Day event with Chelsa band. introductions by local committee members.
Josef Morrie of Skipers Virginia nearly died from pneumonia and severe cough in spring 106. He was urged to try Tr. King's New Discovery. After two bottles he recovered and found it effective for coughs and lung disease. Sold under guarantee at Red Cross Pharmacy with trial bottle offered.
A damaged fragment from Williamstown reports a child born to Mr and Mrs Charles C Badger last week. Bart Young finished moving goods by July 1 near Batte camp after employment. Carl Seaver had a fall. Frank Ward of Barre visited his home Sunday. The Beaver farm fire last night caused losses with fire suspected in the upper stable. Rev BT Currier returns from Darko where he has been. He plans to move his family to Brownsville soon to preach and there will be a joint installation of the Masons and Eastern Star. A public meeting featured a speaker and an event program.
Broadway theatre notes praise The Vanderbilt Cup musical comedy as the main attraction with strong scenery and simple yet appealing plot set in the Blue Ridge. The program includes Mountain Idyl and The Power of the Crome, with Corsican Vendetta and A Cowboy's Bride as additional pieces. Vaudeville changes and a sofa pillow giveaway for thirty cent ticket buyers mark the engagement.
A description of a bustling New York night includes a baroque comedy scene, a car parade, and the Fiske Stock Company at the opera house. The troupe promises a mix of new plays and vaudeville features, with a patriotic air and lively satire surrounding contemporary events.
Easter was celebrated by two town churches with large congregations despite a calf rain. The Universalist service featured pastor Irving Towe nigee distributing nearly a hundred decorated eggs to children, while Rev. Mr. Perkins assisted. In the Baptist church four angels named Life Hope Day and Pearce delivered messages as Pastor’s daughter Miss Bertha Perkins greeted worshippers. J D Tillotson and John Lyman were noted for home duties and work, respectively, as schools opened with staff listed across districts including Brookfield Newton Randolph and South Washington.
Orange residents report Fe Ni Poake going to Montgomery and Thema Welch resuming work after a brief absence. Dean Poake returned from Barre. Henre Whitcomb and James Lond elected as delegates to Burlington with Aero Noyes and Hattie Whitcomb to the Montpelier state convention. School reopens Monday April 29 with teachers Nora Rochen Kimball Corner Edna B. Davie Cutler Corner Orville Miller Center Edna Beard East Orange Beesie Simpson Clark district Gara Rice Clement district Nellie Tillotson.
Ad copy notes cut glass dazzling in brilliancy and design, appealing to discerning buyers. It touts quality silver ware with a guarantee and promises low prices during a Spring window sale.
Randolph notes invite residents to an event at G A R Hall with a half dozen members and visiting friends. Lyman Rix returns from Concord with an ill uncle, while Mrs Chambectin and Mrs Martha Digi face diphtheria and health concerns. A cottage sale and move near South Pleasant replaces Frank Wood occupancy, and Dr Join P L returns from a six month trip. Reverend Hamilton moves from Woodstock to assume local leadership amid church disruption.
Berlin residents led by E R B Houxe produced about 1500 pounds of maple sugar and several hundred gallons of syrup. Two Berlin boys, Fred Bald and Tien, worked on sugar making at Mirror Lake school, while Miss Mabel Stewart and William Davenport were mentioned with health and schooling notes. Henry Webb and J G Webb are noted regarding winter activities and plans to return home to Plattyburg, New York.
Emma Goldman and her party were thrown out of a San Branciano hotel by the manager who objected to the notoriety and the presence of a worm anareliat, following a disturbance noted in the local review.
The body of Thaddeus Varnum of Detroit, once a noted writer from Peacham Vermont, was found in the Huron River near Geddes by two Ann Arbor residents. He had been missing since March 18, with investigators noting an apparent suicide during a period of acute mental distress.
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