The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-16
Barre.

REV. ]. II. HINcKs exchanged pulpits last
Sunday with Rev. p Mcmillan
THE reading circle meets Friday evening at
the Congregational church.
MRS HENDERSON, fell and broke her wrist re-
Gently, but is now doing well.
JUDGE PARKER and daughter Of Elmore
were in town few days since.
THE Unversalsts hold their sociable with
Mrs. Enos Fuller on Friday evening.
SINGINa-soHooL at the Methodist vestry
next Friday evening, at seven o'clock.
CHARLEs BAssETT has rented the Leonard
barn. and now has his team stabbed there.
THERE was a meeting Tuesday evening OF
the Young Mems Christian Association at
academy hall.
o. w. LANE Ia making friends In town q
visit, and is to study medicine, we understand,
with DIR. Packer.
MRS JOHN PAINE had a stroke Of apoplexy
last week Her daughter, Mrs. Smith Of Bos-
ton, Is now with her.
WALLACE PARKER's youngest child fell from
q chair, last week, and received quite severe
injuries about Its head.
o. B. BoYoE, Esq. and j. II. Batchelder
started from here Monday on a business trip
West, to be gone ten or twelve days
L. E. HEATH, for the past three years en-
gineer for Wetmore & Morse, leaves to take
charge of a hotel at Woodbury. Center.
THE Congregational people are requested to
meet at the church this evening at seven
o'clock sharp to consider the plan presented
for the remodeling of the church.
BARRE was the objective point of two sleigh
ing parties last week, one Thursday evening
and one Saturday afternoon. Both we're Mont
pelier parties, the latter Seminary students
AT the annual meeting of the ladies' pnion
the following officers were elected for the en-
suing year: Mrs. N w. Braley, president
Mrs George Reynolds, vice-president; Fannie
West secretary and treasurer.
LET the people turn out tonight and give
Hon. J W. Patterson full house. He is one
OF the finest orators In the country and is
thoroughly conversant with his subject and
will tell some truth Barre people ought to hear.
THE next regular meeting OF the Young
Mems Christian Association will be held at
their rooms in Sheplee & Jones' block. The
rooms are nearly ready for occupancy, and
consist of a reading-room. supplied with the
latest papers and magazines game room,
supplied with chess, checker and Backgammon
boards, and like amusements q parlor, and
a cloak room. The rooms will be open por-
ton of each day and evening for the use OF
members.
AT the adjourned annual meeting, held Sat-
urday evening, the following officers were
elected: Moderator, L. E. Heath clerk,
Charles Smith; treasurer. o. G. Sheplee; pru.
j
Reynolds and B. W. Bradley; chief engineer,
Clark Holden; first assistant, E. w. Bisbee
second assistant, L. w. Scott; third assistant,
Charles Moorcroft; fourth assistant, II. III.
Wetmore; auditors, A. E. Field, E. W. Bis
bee, L. w. Scott. 1t was voted to pay the ire
men (the number not to exceed sixty fifty
cents for actual attendance upon each meeting
and one dollar for attendance at fire, with o
fine of fifty cents for absence.
WE are not authority on the drainage ques-
ton, but we would like to see the one who is
take care Of the water which is continually
OVERLOOKING in the business center OF the vii
age. Barre should have village organiza-
ton, and then several things would be righted
which are now an eye-sore to the community.
As 1t is now, short streets and lanes are laid
out here and there and the village is being cut
up in such a manner that soon there will be nc
symmetry, and the man who desires TO build a
nice residence will be troubled to find a suit
able location. Probably there is no town in
the state that has grown more than Barre in
the past year, and now Is the time to think Of
some OF the impending Inconvenience.
WE clip the following statistics from the
| Barre correspondence Of the Boston Journal
which give very. good idea of the business
done at our depot last year: 1.-THE shipment,
of freight from this station during the veal
1883 aggregated 7,O49 tons of granite and !, GA;
tons of other freight Including forks and
plOws, as manufactured articles, and butter
potatoes, maple sugar and wool, as leading
agricultural productions) making a total o.
1862 tons forwarded, as compared with 664I
tons shipped in 1882. The granite shipment,
were 2, 1876 tons in excess of the same in 1882
while the paving stone business, which con,
tributed 100 tons of shipments in 1882, gave nc
business in freights in 1883, showing the actua
increase in granite exclusive of paving stones
to he 2, 915 tons. The tonnage received durinl
1888 aggregated 7.725 tons, as compared witt
6.196 tons in 1882, an increase of / ,529 tons
making a net increase of 3 574 tons at the sta
ton or more than twenty-seven per cent, in it,
freight business"