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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1911
Page
4
The Barre Daily Times lists weekly publication details and subscription rates. It notes office postage, second class mailing, and a publisher’s imprint for Frank E. B Langley with weekly production information.
The column surveys Vermont topics from Northfield and Rutland to Richford and Barre including gifts to Moody schools, a Northern league baseball nod to Jick Coombs, and a Curtiss flying display at the state fair. It also notes tax comparisons, Senate election debates, Utah death by firing squad as brutality point, and local public works delays.
The annual union superintendents conference will run June 20 to 30 at Queen City Park. Arriving Monday afternoon, attendees stay until Saturday for a pool rate of 0.80 and 6.00 diary rate for others. Governor Mead, Mr Prosser, and others deliver opening addresses.
Local residents and visitors are listed with recent departures and arrivals. Miss Funie Sleek returns from Hancock after illness while Mrs A J Kimball and many others stop through or plan brief stays. Names include Whitcomb family in Boston, Roy Smalley returning to Montpelier, and Miss Floroner Noble heading to Montpelier.
Vermont crop data for the late census year show declines in corn barley and buckwheat while hay forage and potatoes rise. The gloom is shared by neighboring New Hampshire where the 1900 crop report reveals losses in most classifications, signaling a broader regional agricultural problem.
A collage of quips and witticisms from periodical humor pages. Dialogues touch on mock medical folly and mockery of aging and taste, with satirical lines about modern childhood and women humorists. The pieces echo 19th century spoof prose and cartoon caption style.
A roundup of Marshfield events and personal notices. A. T. Davis and family in ad camp at Groeten pond. Miss Mary Balle Darling of Spring Held linked to Milton Northrop. Mrs. Flora Busx attends funeral in Calais for D. L. Soote. Mrs. William Lang ill. Lang receives sympathy. Frank Brown’s death last week. vet called, body found Monday. Wallace Spooner moving cats to Barre. Spooner family with friends. Prof E. W. Saxby hosts a school picnic at Calais farm. Lawn party at 8 H. Unwin’s on Land farm Friday June 10 with grange help. music and readings. Marshfield Building Association annual meeting June 14 at 8 pm in K of P building to act on officer reports.
Montpelier high school claus day exercises were held at the school building with Mrs Terrill in charge of rhetoric. Participants included Mina Bartha Lind any, Misa Gertrude Comstock, Mise Ina Nelson, Miss Alice Barlow, Frank Corry, Miss Ethel Berry, Mayo Drew, Mina Florence Downs, Miss Helen Bowman, and Miss erite Edson. A portrait of Superintendent F J Brownacombe was presented. Later a play titled A Real Burglar was performed with Albert Willett and Miss Dora Savoy married in St Augustine's church by Rev W J O'Sullivan and planning a trip to Canada before residing with the groom at the National Granite Co shed. In sports, seminary high and high school teams played at Intercity park, the high school claiming northern Vermont championship with a 6 to 1 win. The Stevens Valley Electric company filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, seeking 810,000 capital to serve Barnet, Peacham, and Bar net, with signers including Wilbur Nelson and others.
Mrs Trene Ginodell visits daughter in Cabot and others attend encampment at Hennington. Regular meetings of Stowe post No 29 and Stowe Relief corps No 80 held after Memorial Ball. Hathaway dies at home, leaves widow. Foster leaves for West Point for son Sidney’s graduation. Families travel to Montpelier and Boston. Children’s Sunday observed at old Davis church with renovations and soon a minister expected. Mrs Willis Gould dies in Metcalf Mass, buried in Middlesex VT. Rev Hathaway ill with facial erysipelas. Gene McAllister improving from rheumatic fever. Universalist church anti-gal meeting well attended. Washington Agricultural meeting plans barn project for coming fire season.
The piece details 28 mail bag types from pennies to 2106 dollars each, including special bags for bees, sled travel, and pneumatic tubes. It notes durability, materials, and dedicated mail bag hospitals that repair thousands weekly, plus a winter holiday spike in damage. Also mentions Cornell's rowing prowess defeating Harvard, Yale, and Pennsylvania in two mile races.
The annual National Power Boat meeting will be held in Detroit on August 4. The message notes America lost the 1916 Olympic meet to Berlin by the international committee. The Golf Association of Philadelphia will host the individual championship in early June across June 2, 7, 8, and 10, with twelve colleges sending athletes to Travers Island for the Intercollegiate Swimming Association championships on June 17 after a July date was moved.
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