Weather Preview for Barre on Friday Night
The Barre Daily Times notes fair weather tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Moderate north to west winds are expected, shaping a calm end to the week in Barre.
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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
8
The Barre Daily Times notes fair weather tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Moderate north to west winds are expected, shaping a calm end to the week in Barre.
Mrs Henry Batchelder arrives from Plainfield for a several day visit. A A Lamorey returns from a Boston business trip. Mr and Mrs Wallace EB Gilbert come back from Montreal. Miss Nellie Corakie due home from Boston area. School sessions resume Tuesday January 2, with Goddard Seminary on Jan 1. Gladys Weir returns to Graniteville. Allen M Flanders heads to Marshfield for hunting at Pigeon Pond with Barre sportsmen. Mrs Emily Henry and William Mersons wed at Presbyterian manse. Groom works for Barre & Montpelier Traction. Spaulding High junior class to snowshoe hike Saturday at 5:30. Edward returns from Sherbrooke after business. Miss Rath Munroe returns to Barton. Earl Lewis on vacation replaced by Thomas Nelson as city mail carrier. Hibernians and Foresters end 45 tournaments with dinner at Knights of Columbus. A O El and St Johns Court attend. Women’s Congregational Society elect officers: President Mrs W H Gale, VP Mrs George Annis, and others. notes a prosperous year.
H C Crane of Wallingford visited the city yesterday and Homer Fitts plans a big shoe stock sale at Shea's next week. Miss Thomasina Keason started work at Mascott Candy Kitchen. Various locals travel to Northfield Falls Montreal Narre Richmond Plainfield and Burlington for visits business or weekend stays. The city fire department examinations and staffing changes are to be discussed by the aldermanic fire committee tonight at city hall.
Mrs N F Clark left for Michigan to visit friends and relatives while Leslie Hoffman travels to Fayston after a city visit. James Lee Wilson returns to New York from Barre on business Hicks and Mackenzie of Groton visit due to illness of Mia Rulfo. Rural carrier Clarence Carr ill, Newle Manchard covering. Mr and Mrs Robert Sweet of Burlington visit Main Street and Websterville. Almon Hussey leaves for Berlin to work in a paper mill. George Lander and Mrs Lander depart for Shelburne due to illness of Mrs Lander's brother. Timothy L McKeegen travels to Woodsville en route to Berlin NH. The Colony Players present The County Pair at Pavilion theatre with vaudeville between acts. Telegram reports death of John H McCarthy, longtime Barre granite dealer, linked to Hitere and McCarthy firm. monument, famous Barre granite shipments, and memorial base significance noted.
Quincy N. Masters returns to his Ripton home after visiting Maple avenue friends. Mrs. William Robertson and her two sons travel to Burlington to spend the weekend with her parents. Mrs. Beattie ships household goods to Haverhill for relocation with husband and daughter. Her son George Beattie, a driver for American Express Car, plans a transfer to Haverhill soon.
Residents note seven reels shown tonight including the first two episodes of Pathe serial The Exploits of Elaine. A bereaved group thanks neighbors and friends for sympathy and acts of kindness and for the beautiful moral tributes. Signers include E J Rulfo Ewen Mackenzie and several Mackenzie families.
FE. G. Boutwell stayed with relatives in Williamstown. Miss Elva Townsend of Plainfield visited for a day. O. W. Jones of Syracuse returned home after a business trip in Barre area. FE. J. Wl. Trask, Bay State Well Co. manager, arrived from Warner to spend several days promoting company interests.
Join the Christmas club this week at Barre Savings Bank & Trust Co. The bank will be open Saturday night from 7 to S o'clock for members to enroll or make deposits.
In Plainfield next week every farmer will get his money's worth at the school of agriculture. Millinery at unusually low prices to close out winter stock offered by Nourse & Wilson.
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