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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
5
We explain the moth problem and recommend Tennesee Red Cedar Chests to protect furs and woolens. A good assortment is offered from seven fifty to eighteen ninety, with prices designed to make ownership affordable and practical.
Bathing cape prices at Russell's and coats priced at Ab-8, plus an excursion to Fort Ethan Allen or Plattsburg advertised. Notices report William Milne visiting Boston on business, and various local meetings and gatherings including AOH Thursday, June 7, and a Guild of the Church of the Good Shepherd meeting. Also announced are baptisms, church events, a fire department fund repaint, a Pythians memorial service, and a Brook Street School concert plan with a piano fund goal.
All property owners and residents in Barre are urged to continue cleanup of the area prior to Monday, June 11. The city will move the refuse on Monday at two o'clock, with collections starting at the south end of Hill Street and progressing toward Perender, as directed by the Health Committee.
The June graduate can use our new gloves ribbons hair ornaments belts bags neckwear corsets silk hosiery waists and muslin underwear. Orders can be sent by free parcel post from A P Abbott Co with a liberal quantity available.
New handkerchiefs in crepe de chine Jap silks and fine linen lawn embroidered with modern patterns priced at 25 and 50 cents. Lace collars 25 cents to 1 dollar, fancy ribbons at old price, wide plain ribbon 19 and 25 cents per yard. Shetland sweaters in Nile pink rose cobalt lavender light blue and corn at 6.50 each. Silk corset covers newly arrived described as expensive but pretty.
Specials advertise Lazell's Talcum Powder in several scents at 19c per box and Storfer Spooner large can powders at 12c. Also offer Silk Fings spearhead sticks at 19c. Flags and wash goods priced, Kimono Aprons 49c. Items stated for decorating, automobiles, and miscellaneous basement stock.
The store promotes wash skirts that resist shrinking and endure repeated washing. Printz-Biederman and Wooltex skirts are pre shrunk with both cloth and waistbands, in various styles and materials ideal for the season, priced from 3.00 to 8.50. Other shrunk cloth skirts range 1.00 to 3.98, offering good value and early purchase quality.
Jacksons native asparagus fresh daily. Vermont Fruit Store hosts an excursion to Wort Bethan Allen of Matsburg. Lead lime discussed for gardens. Recruiting events at Howland hall and Barre. Private Eugene Kapit enlists and receives furlough. Austrian applicant rejected for English, then studies. One thousand automobiles parade and flag raising in Waterbury with Governor Graham and Guy P. Benton speaking.
Vermont Fruit Store promotes a Fort Ethan Allen excursion from Platteary while HN Nimbull of Enorburg Falls visits the city. Anthony Tomasi previously of North Main street returns from a business trip to St Albans where he once resided.
Rutland on June 7 hosted the annual Vermont Optical Society convention at the Berwick with morning, afternoon, and evening sessions and a banquet. Mayor Henry C. Brie lin of Rutland was guest of honor as Dr. J Iascal of New York spoke on eye measuring power and Mr s Hum phey of Northfield discussed practical optometry. Officers elected: President C F Cleveland Rutland, vice president B R Parish Burlington Humphrey Northfield, secretary A D Barter Middlebury, treasurer Clayton W Parker Fair Haven. The 1918 convention will be held in Harrington.
The Vermont Ambulance Company No 25 formed by the Vermont branch of the American Red Cross on government request awaits orders. Lt William Stickney of Rutland leads a unit of three surgeons and 12 men from 20 towns withDr A A Coes of Williamstown Lt Lovejoy of Manchester and Mr Wark of Barre as lieutenants. About 125 men have been accepted with more volunteers. The unit will serve as ambulance drivers mechanics cooks stewards buglers and orderlies transferring wounded from the frontline to field hospitals. The company will be trained and then sent to the trenches in France, with Vermont towns and outlying places contributing personnel.
The Lake Mayefield Trout club held a June dinner and meeting at the club house on the lake. De. H. C. Brigham of Grandis Michigan was re elected president with Q Lovejoy as vice president and O K Luce as secretary and treasurer. Directors elected included G C Stratton Montpelier D C Burt Stowe M C Lovejoy Stowe C L McMahon Stowe L Moody Montpelier. James A Whitcomb of New York donated a 30 acre farm and house and another 100 acre parcel near the club site. The club voted to purchase 14 Holstein cows from Dr Brigham and thanked the Brighams for their welfare efforts. The Brighams declined a renter privilege stating their pleasure was compensation.
Baptist church ladies invite the public to a Friday supper featuring hot mashed potatoes hot beef, brown gravy, pickles tea and coffee. Insurance offices G H Pape Taige Campbell and J W Dillon to close Thursday afternoons for June through September.
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