Weather Forecast for Barre Daily Times
Snow expected tonight and Sunday with rising temperatures. Fresh east and southeast winds.
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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
8
Snow expected tonight and Sunday with rising temperatures. Fresh east and southeast winds.
A crowded Barre column lists a dance in Howland hall with door prize details and ads for shops. It notes Mrs Henry Petrie ill at home, piano sales at Bailey's Music, a Mass. visitor with J. R. Wilson, and several local residents noting hunting trips, theater plans, and society meetings.
A collage of ads and brief items notes new outings at Fitts and Bailey's Music Rooms, with locals like Kenneth Macran and Frank Tummley visiting Burlington and Northfield. A turkey theft leads to arrests and guilty pleas in Montpelier city court, Orlando and Ernest Robinson sentencing details, plus a joke exchange from the Boston Transcript about salaries and cigars.
Boston Transcript quotes a joke on marriage noting the heart may be willing while the pocketbook is weak, reflecting social attitudes on matrimony.
A regular meeting of Local No 423 of engineers is scheduled for Monday evening December 8 at 7 o clock in Miles. The agenda includes hearing the conference committee report and related business.
Classified lines offer contracting for hauling lumber from a mill and seek bids on tonnage and price per thousand feet. Wages and positions include a boy for trader work, a woman for tea-work, a drattaman or bookkeeper, and various sales roles. Listings mention addresses and brief contact details amid scattered typos and partial phrases.
Alfred Richardson, shot Friday, is improving at Heaton Hospital with a deformed but usable right hand after a heavy cartridge charge blew the gun. The day also saw a Montpelier Congregational bazaar, Woman’s Club decorations, and a Serb student group at the Vail School aiding agricultural studies. Other items note a muzzled dog complaint, Woolen Mill visit, ticket office improvements, American Legion funding for a baseball team, and local rail and court proceedings shaping Vermont Guard and civic life.
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