The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-25
Barre.

BENJAMIN TENNEY is at home, having fin
ished his college course at Dartmouth.
w. A. PERRY and P. G. Camp went TO Sara
toga last Thursday to spend few days.
JASON G.. BRIGGS and wife went to Old Or
chard Tuesday, to be gone week or ten days,
T.. l.. SMITH is putting up a new stone shed
west of the railroad track and north Of the rest
of the sheds.
WILL KELLEY and George w. Mann are
building houses ON the Templeton meadow,
near the stone sheds.
THE works at the fork shop are partially
shut down to take account Of stock and look
over matters generally
ORvuLE W. LANE Is in town for short time,
being away from Plymouth, N. N, on leave Of
absence on account of poor health.
d. w. MOWER and wife and A. B. Averill
and wife left here last Friday for York Beach,
Maine, they driving their teams down.
G. w. CROCKETT is excavating and putting In
walls and underpnning on his lot at Twings-
vile, preparatory to putting on the timbers.
REV. w. M. KMMELL and wife are away on
vacation; they have been gone some two
weeks and are to remain a week or 80 longer.
N. S. ROBINSON is erecting dwelling-house
near his father-in-law, Enos Fuller. Sherm
will soon have it ready to occupy, as he is
pushing the work right along.
THE Sunday-schoo excursion from Barre to
Burlington, with ride on the lake, is to come
off ON Wednesday, August 1st The train
leaves Barre at eight o. clock A. NJ.
REV. p MCMILLAN started on vacation
trip of six or eight weeks last Thursday He
will visit New York city and other places be-
fore his return, which will be about Septem-
| Der 1st
MIR. NILES of Plainfield ran meat cart into
town two days last week, selling thirty five
| dollars worth one day. We did not learn how
much the next, but presume he did as well as
the first Yet butchers say a man cannot make
anything in such business.
The freight tonnage at this place during
June aggregated 535 tons received as compared
with 1913 tons received in June, 1882. The ship
ments during the month included 987 tons OF
| granite as compared with 1868 tons Of granite
| in June, 1882, and the total shipments aggre'
| gated 1,076 tons as compared with 469.
c. N. BENEDICT received telegram Satur
| day from Lebanon, n H., announcing the
death of p. f. Davis of that place. who died
suddenly Friday night. Mr.. Davis was quite
| well known here, having been here considera.
| bic the past year or Two as manager of his
| wife's farm, the Sam Davis place on the East
Montpelier road.
FRED W. SHERBURN, Lewis Dodge ant
Frank Townsend took bicycle ride to South
Royalton via Chelsea, and return last Thurs
day. being on the road ten hours. The dis
lance travelled was sixty-five and one-fourtf
miles, as registered by a cyclometer on Sher
burns bicycle, which we think pretty fair fol
riders not accustomed to long distances.
X. P. BLANCHARD opened a meat marke
anu commenced running meat cart Monday
Kim" will get good trade, as he give
good meat ana at reasonable prices He vii
also keep for sale choice table butter from hi
own dairy, and his fortune is made, II the En-
terpriSe will only tell him where to find tn
boneless beef, mutton and pork, that it init
mated last week was to be had
MRS j. X. BARNEY of Providence, r. l., oc
cupied the desk at the Methodist church Sun
day forenoon, delivering very interesting
sermon. In the evening she gave temperate
address in the same place under the auspice
of the Young Womans Christian Temperate
Union of this place The house was well file
considering that only few hours notice wa
given. Mrs. Barney is well liked here, and
good speaker
THERE was suit or arbitration at L. W
Bisbee's office Monday before Justice Geo. "
Tilden, assisted by Justice K. Z. Patterson, tn
case being John rrow Us. Dexter Trow, in n
gard to the right and pay from the town of
certain watering tub and water in the highwa
just above John Trow's Dexter having T,
ceived pay from the town for several veal
under the laws relative to watering trough
etc., John claimed the water and pay as bein
his. After hearing both sides and argument
, Messrs. Tilden and Patterson brought in a We
dict for the plaintiff of twelve dollars and fift
, | cents and costs 5. q. Shurtleff for plaintiff
| q. ii. Heath for defendant.