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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
8
Our Christmas Linen stocks offer every facility for the selection of acceptable gifts. Beautiful Damask by the yard with Napkins to match if you want them Lunch Cloths Tray Cloths Center Pieces Dresser Scarfs Doilies and Fancy Pieces in endless array. The prices on these goods are very low and will certainly please you.
Advertising copy notes that all women admire pretty furs and any woman not yet supplied will be glad to receive such a gift this Christmas. The shop boasts a wide variety including scarves muff and matched sets to suit almost any woman.
Spaulding high school plans a temporary editor board for its first issue named Madeline McDonald Vivian Marrion Deane Davis Hildreth Martin Frank Wells Corinne Eastman John Gaul. The Spaulding Sentinel will cover athletics notes finetions and school affairs with monthly publication planned before Christmas recess and a permanent board to be chosen later.
Williamstown residents will gather in the Congregational church parlors Friday evening to rehearse the Christmas cantata Star of the Star The Rural Good Lick club will hold a gentlemen's night in Lynde hall Saturday evening.
Abbott’s advertises half price suits and bath robes for Christmas. Mrs Beattie’s sale offers Hesofa pillows at 5c. Burlington trip note for two, and local educational and church events including a Universalist girls’ dance in Howland hall and a Holy Week meeting. Recruit drives announced by Co. F Home Guard and Montpelier alarm system riot drill details. Barre city court room head Sunday recruiting event.
A jumble of notices covers silk hosiery boxed for gifts at Neset L Rivers and an interior project on silk and serge dresses. Community events include a theatre office, a dance at Howland hall, a Universalist ladies’ club function, and a venison dinner for Dr C street’s hunter success. Also noted are local thefts, a serious tetanus case involving Miss Marion, and officials discussing probable January February school closures with a circular from M B Hilliras.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a prewar fair program at Heldard Seminary with scattered event names such as rival vendors and stalls. The readable portions mention ameetings, cycles of displays, and vague references to activities, but lack clear dates, participants, or outcomes.
The weather forecast notes warmer conditions Friday with light variable winds becoming northeast.
Readable items include social gatherings, sales, theater notices, church events, and club meetings with names like Mrs Hattie Davis and the Clover club. Also listed are hospital births, a ballet of community announcements, and plans for holiday photos, studio gift certificates, and a recruiting drive at White River Junction for the old 1st Vermont regiments.
F L Knight head of the Little Wanderers home in Boston spoke to Vermont board of charities and probation about detention homes for children. He urged cautious legislation, praised Governor Graham, stressed improved standards, and warned against punishing children without examination and treatment. Officials then inspected Brattleboro retreat and Austine institution for context.
Public notice expresses gratitude for condolences and support from neighbors and friends after the death of a family member. It thanks those who visited, sent cards, or offered help during the bereavement.
The readable fragments describe a disjointed scene with names and places but lack a coherent event or outcome to summarize. No clear entities or actions emerge to form a factual newspaper card.
Everatson Smith of Swanton drove a Cadillac on Maint street when it struck a telephone pole then another pole head on. Homer Hungerford suffered a scalp wound requiring stitches, and Smith sustained facial injuries as Leroy Harrington and Albert McHenry in the rear woke to the crash. Glass and wine bottles scattered, wheels and windshield damaged, Smith placed in the lockup.
Floyd Denton of Stowe was given a grand jury hearing in Hyde and will be tried at the December term of Lamoille county court for assault with intent to kill Mrs. Frank Wright. Mrs. Wright, shot in the back, returned from Mary Fletcher hospital and is recovering after an operation in Burlington to remove the buffet.
Survivors of the British steamer Apapa say a second torpedo sank a boat carrying about twenty passengers. Several were killed and most of the rest drowned, eight of the fourteen women aboard the Apapa perished.
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