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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
6
Barre readers are urged to contact National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier Vermont for definite and reliable life insurance. Agents Ballard and associates promote a 59th year mutual life policy with local Barre coverage and reach.
A mixed page item notes a new song at the Comique tonight and lists local bargains from Burr the Jeweler and the Cafe Real Estate Agency. It mentions jewelry prices, greenspan offers, and nearby services including a clairvoyant schedule and hardware goods.
M Harden of Silver City North Carolina recommends Bitters for many ailments claiming it does all that's claimed and is excellent medicine. The testimonial notes Bitters helps for chills malaria and general weakness drafts. Sold under guarantor at Cross Pharmacy Rickert Wells' drug store. A notice proclaims pasture leased by Charles Norris and bans trespassing during pasturing season by Ai L Nixon Barre June 22.
Harry Marcott returns from camping in Enfield. Miss Sadie Lamb visits with sister Mrs. W. J. Viall in Northfeld AN Hayes ill with erysipelas. Osgood and Roundy suspend foundry work due to low water. Families travel between Lebanon and area. Tenement quarantine lifted near Main street bridge. Mrs. Whitten improving with hopeful recovery. Several women guests of Mrs. Lillie on School street. Grace and Boulin Mayor depart for Northfield for Moody school summer work. Carrie and Ruth Draper take summer vacation with parents. Mr. Draper showing little improvement. McCallow property sold to G. W. Panton for meat market. D. T. Dyre now sole tee deliverer. W. He Perton expands bakery. new room under construction. Federated church session yields officers. executive committee elected. Meeting at Baptist chapel planned for Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Duther Wade released from house of correction. guardianship issues for three children. A. H. Kreedle, overseer of the poor, involved but no action taken. assistance secured for neglected children. Mrs. Watts, mother, sent to workhouse. father on probation. Randolph scene reveals pitiful case, stirring local sympathy.
Town of Barre directs citizens to prohibit sale and use of fireworks except on the 4th of July under penalty of prosecution. Warns all persons not to burn or expose fireworks within view of the public and to observe protective clothing requirements. Authority: town officials.
Plainfield short notices list Charley Parker finishing work at the livery stable. Dr VF Carter travels to Montpelier on business. Frank and Mrs Frank Martin visit East Barre. Mr and Mrs William Saserott spend time in East Calais. Miss Heasie Brown visits Mrs Helen Murti. Munroe Barnes of Burlington calls on family. Mrs J W Leavitt and Miss Mary Knopp travel home from Huest Calais for a break. Mrs Elia Kidder and Miss Blanche of Montpelier visit Derby Lane. Andrew Lawrence of Philadelphia stays with sister Amanda Batehelder. Dr F P Gale goes to Burlington for health board school. Ernest Hatehelder and wife of Barre visit Emma Hatehelder. George Duke of Natick visits parents Mr and Mrs S V Dulko. Mrs William Adams and daughter from Montpelier help at Emma Batchelder’s. J Burton Pike of Shrewsbury travels to Watersbury to escort Mrs Merton Potter to hospital. Mrs William Present visits from Rhode Island noting egg price and weather hints.
In East Montpelier, Rev G D Taylor will lead an open air service Friday evening in front of the pastor’s home. The annual joint picnic of Sunday schools and the People's Union of Montpelier and Barre churches will be held July 4 with a large delegation expected from Montpelier and Barre. All friends of the Sunday school and church are invited to spend the day at the camp grounds.
Fragmentary OCR text notes a sale or notice dated July 6 mentioning Sylivster Mourt, a formal order by a weighed secretary and a public sale event. Names and details are unclear due to garbled text.
A fragment notes the quality of a bread ingredient being assessed for purity and standard grade. It references measurement and quality checks implying a laboratory style evaluation of cereal or flour components. No names, places, dates, or organizations are readable in the snippet.
A scrambled local notes roundup lists residents such as George C Cary ivill, M I Richardson, Maurice of Morrisville, and J D Martin with various town movements. It mentions Beecher's Palla retirements, Hyde Park Monday visits, William McDonald in Susinons vine, W Bpantding in St Johnsbury, W A Bridgep's move to Sumit house Sugar Hill, and Hebert returning from Holyoke to seek a position in St Johnsbury. Miss Lusa Wills attended Burlington commencement. A Wolcott Camp 1100 degree team plans to attend the Burlington log rolling on July 40th. Mrs Nathan Colgrove died in May of heart trouble, survived by a son and two daughters. Funeral services were held at the Congregational church. An item notes Ray CO St Clare operating an intement in Fairmont.
A garbled local report mentions East Barre activities with reference to meetings in Burlington and Williamstown, plus social events and upcoming installations. Names and dates are partly unclear, but notes a regularly scheduled meeting, a social ice cream event, and lodge activities.
An announced wage cut of ten percent for International Paper Company employees takes effect August 1. The action, outlined in New York, affects workers nationwide, with a one year agreement spanning from July 3, 1907 to July 31, 1908.
In Oneonta New York Miss Caroline Andrews head of the Ladies Aid and WCTU chapter vanished with a debt tallying thousands. Reported loans total seven thousand dollars from numerous prominent women and others, triggering bank engagements and risk of bankruptcy for elderly Mrs Wentworth who indorsed notes under Andrews pressure. Misconduct spreads to multiple church affiliates and neighbors as investigations continue.
Dean I R Roberts travels with family to Sargentville Maine while Prof Tucker stays in Danville. Governor Fletcher D Proctor and other trustees are noted. War Department remarks affect Karl Baldwin awaiting instructions before Fort Leavenworth. Mentions Col William A Treadwell Col Curtis S Barrett and various NH volunteers with historical service. Coaling port Malta cited and railway supplies classifying materials for sale at a convention.
The Barre city treasurer announces that the 1908 tax bill was placed for collection and is due by August 10 1908. Taxes paid by August 1 receive a five percent discount, with fees as permitted by law. City of Barre Vermont July 1 1908 Jane Mackay treasurer.
Manila reports no cholera cases with only Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija provinces affected. Partial outbreaks remain in two towns as overall numbers fall, indicating a broad public health improvement. Local authorities note the strain is easing and normal life resumes citywide.
Republican voters are notified to meet at Miles ball on Thursday evening July 2 for nominating nineteen delegates and nineteen alternates. Attendees may also attend the county convention at Slankpelice on August 8 to conduct proper business. Frank Howlind, J. W. Scott, Secretary.
Chicago July 2 4 labor leaders George H M Lakey and Charles J Crawl agents for the party were sentenced to thirty more in jail for involvement in the arson and destruction of buildings under construction.
Speech garbled notice states the Barre Town Republican caucus will meet at Fireman's Hall East Busty at 8 o’clock pm to elect eight delegates to the county convention. Resolution and timing appear in a dusty local brief.
Charles He Drosser of Hartford has received a counsel letter stating that a Supreme Court decision implies the St. Paul safety fund does not belong to the company’s present management. The communication concerns a long running dispute involving policyholders in the Hartford area and the company’s reserves.
M. J. Spaulding of Tranch street Barre Vermont reports five years of kidney trouble caused by his trade. After using two boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills from E A Crowns drug store his backache subsided and kidney function returned to normal. Sold by all dealers price 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York sole agents United States remember the name Dean's.
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