The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-14
Barre.

REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT of Montpelier
occupied the desk at the Universalist church
last Sunday afternoon.
o. f. JAcKMAN has sold his stove and tin
ware business to N. ID. Phelps of this place.
We wish Mr.. Phelps all possible success in
his line.
The Choral Union is still alive, and
money has been pledged to secure Professor
G.. w. Foster as instructor of the union for
some fifteen evenings.
THE second annual Barre social will be
held at the Pavilion Hotel, Montpelier this
week Friday evening. 1t is expected that a
very pleasant company will be assembled.
THERE has been postoffice established
at Carnes' Mills, East Barre, with Nathaniel
Carnes as postmaster. 1t will be in running
order as soon as the regular red-tape routine
is completed.
w. III. GALE has opened another singing
school here commencing last Monday even
ing money having been raised last week for
the purpose of sustaining one some twelve
or fifteen evenings.
AT the auction of the Judge Wood estate
last Saturday, all property sold at fair prices
The farm was bid off by William Mears at
S4,350, which we should consider o good
bargain at considerably more money
j. NJ. BAILEY had the misfortune to break
his leg, last week, as he was telling trees for
wood. One of the trees becoming lodged,
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being great deal of ice, he slipped, when
the tree, coming down, fell across his limb,
breaking both bones below the knee
f. l.. EATON, having secured the position
of cashier of the First National Bank at
Montpelier, will close his connection with
the bank here this month, we understand.
Mr.. Eaton has become very familiar with
the business and customers of the bank, and
will be missed by many of his friends here.
They will all congratulate him. however, on
his new position.
GODDARD SEMINARY.
THE lyceum, Friday evening, in which the
question of the town system of schools was
debated, resulted in verdict in favor of
the present system.
Mr.. GOODWIN, a former member of this
school, made us call the other day, and on
departure presented the school with fine
collection OF birds eggs of various kinds,
collected in various countries-a good ad-
dition to the geological department.
Warren.-The school at East Warren, I'M
der the management of Miss Smith, sister of
our superintendent, is prospecting finely.
Also the school in No. 9, taught by Miss
Edna Boyce, is running smoothly and
proitably The school in No. 8 recently
came to a sudden stop, the superintendent
having determined that the teacher was not
equal to the occasion. Mrs. Julian Joslin
vi w dilShtll Is HOW ledCUlIR Illt SCHOOL.
Her husband is teaching the school in No
Z, and, as usual, is making success of it.
Joseph Eldridge is teaching in No. 6, and
his school is the best conducted in town.
The schools in Nos and II are very good,
but the upper school in the village is a
very conspicuous failure. What the school
needs, and should have had, is a male
teacher. When the proper time comes, we
opine, there will be change in the admin
istration of our schools. - The Allen
Brothers, having hired the Cardell & Bragg
mill, are doing large business manufacture
ing ash and bass lumber. They pay $13 per
thousand feet for ash logs delivered at their
mill. They are both keen business men,
and things are humming around their mill
- The Good Templars are soon to pre-
sent the drama, "Down by the Sea-" at the
town hall. - We have new enterprise
in town. George Bannister having bought
the old tannery property of James Cardell,
has fitted up machine-shop, put in a trip
hammer, etc, and is to manufacture mill
picks, stone cutters tools, etc. He deserves,
and will doubtless obtain, success. Many
an old axe has he purified with fire. -
e. l. Hewitt has a pair of yearling steers
that weigh twenty-six hundred seventy
pounds. Who beats?