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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
5
Local items list visitors travelers and small events in Barre and nearby towns. Mentions include Alton Briggs Homer Pitts Sevegny and Homer Fitts stores, Red Cross activities, vacations, arrivals from Boston Cabot and Denver, and social notices at St John the Baptist Church. Also references to end of one swim season, funeral notices, and routine business ads.
Fabrics that enhance sport track jacket and skirt, featuring new patterns checks stripes and plain white effects. They are up to the minute in style and materials and sold at the right price just when you want them.
Summer specials promote children’s parasols in varied colors and ruffles priced from 25 cents to 1.19, girls’ parasols ages 5 to 18 at 75 cents to 1.19 with a special 87c. Ladies sun umbrellas update parasols offering durability and year round use, prices from 5 cents to 7.50 with a basement special at 9 cents.
The store showcases Reception Voiles at 29 cents per yard, wide 40 inches, in many colors and designs, with samples available by mail. Also promoted are motor weave robes 60 by 80 inches priced at 6.75, described as all wool, washed and guaranteed for automobile and porch use.
Visitors from Plainfield include Luciqa Knapp and families while residents welcome the National Association of Cemetery Superintendents. Plans for the August convention feature tours of local quarries and cemetery sites with leaders from Philadelphia Pittsburg and New York. A Central Labor Union meeting is slated for Friday evening in Worthen block.
Lemon sherbet and vanilla caramel ice cream advertised at Cummings & Lewis' drug store. Walden resident Charles Smith in town on business. Prod Rowell moved his house. Lowell Crown and Walter Tobin went to Joe's Pond for a few days camping. New shipment of hats at Mrs. H. Miles' Dodge's Jewelry store. Mrs. Susan Parks of Pisinfield visiting her son Harry S. Parks on King Street. 1917 Spaulding graduation class members urged to secure a large picture from the president. About 25 young men hosted a firemen party at John McDonald's Bassett Street home. McDonald to Fort Ethan Allen with Co. C last week. Mrs. Leon J. Carroll and others traveled from Essex Junction to attend funeral in Brookfield. Reunion of infantile raivers postponed. Perry homestead Plainfield to-morrow, rescheduled for summer. Melville Robinson from Springfield, Mass., joins navy, heads to Burlington then Newport R. I.. he is related to local residents.
Albert St. Cyr of Plainfield is visiting town on business and will attend a dance at Woodbury pond Tuesday night with Cleaves' orchestra advertised. Abbott's offers a motor weave robe for sale in town.
A brief item notes Abbott's features a nursing staff display with a tag reading Hear the new Victor records at Cummings and Lewis, and promotes desserts including orange pineapple sherbet and chocolate and vanilla ice cream at Russell's.
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