The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Washington County.
Barre.

Barre.
THE last lecture in the course was given
last week Tuesday evening by Judge A. w.
Tourgee. Owing to a delay of trains the
lecturer was unable to reach here until nine
o'clock in the evening. He was greeted by
good-siZed audience. - The baiiffs
held a meeting Wednesday evening and
talked matters over in regard to village
business. S. b. Bemis was appointed chief
of police. - Mrs. Lucy Wood of Gospel
Village should be added to the list of Yer
mont centenarans, as she passed her one
hundred and second birthday Monday,
January 16. - The Ladies Aid Society
of the Methodist Episcopal church gave an
oyster-supper and sociable at the vestry of
the church last Friday evening. - II.
w. Blodgett, treasurer of the Savings Bank,
was married at st. Johnsbury last week
Tuesday. The newly-wedded pair have
been spending few days in Boston and are
expected here this week. - The Hun
garian Gypsy Quartette will give an enter
tainment in Opera Hall this week Thurs
day evening. - l.. A. Bisnett has moved
into tenement-house on Currier Park.
- There is some talk of starting
a cheese factory in the north part of the
town, in the vicinity of the Dix and
Beckley neighborhood. If the enterprise
should succeed it would accommodate
great many of the farmers in that part
of the town and East Montpelier -
The Central railroad engineers have been
doing some surveying from a point near
ID. a. Camps towards the quarries. -
Ex-Governor Smith was in town last
week on railroad matters. - ID. A.
Camp started for Florida last week Wednes-
day to look after his property there and also
escape portion of Vermont's cold weather.
- The item last week in regard to pay
ing the Indebtedness of the village by bor-
rowing money was wrong. AS there was
balance of some 81 200 in the treasury, it
hoe
urer to borrow money for current expenses,
when necessary, than to raise another tax
on the list of 1887, as one had been raised
some months ago - The Ladies' Union
will give a sociable at the vestry of the Uni
versalist church Saturday evening. Supper
from half-past five to eight o'clock. -
A large company gathered at Opera Hall
Monday evening to hear the report of the
committee appointed the week before to
confer with the officials of the Wells River
road to see on what terms road could be
secured to the quarries from this village
w. f. Whitcomb presided and short aud
terse remarks were made by Messrs. l.. T.
Kinney, f. L. Smith, l.. j. Bolster, j. w.
Gordon, s. o. Wells, A. ID. Morse, G.. W.
Bassett George Mackie, o. B. Boyce and
b. B. Hawse. The proposition presented
from ID. r. Sortwell was this: " Whereas,
1t is proposed to build a railroad from
Barre village to the granite quarries in
the town of Barre, by organizing rail
road corporation under the revised laws
of Vermont, and to aid in the con-
struction and equipment ID. r.. Sortwell
hereby makes the following proposition to
the citizens of Barre: That in case the cit-
zens of Barre will subscribe for stock sutfi-
cient to grade and ballast said road and
pay the land damages, he will furnish
the ties, iron or steel rails, and the spikes
and connections for the rails and sufficient
rolling stock to equip the road, and take
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the road" 1t is thought that it will be
necessary to raise some thirty or forty
thousand dollars TO secure this, and If the
meeting of Monday night is any indication
! it will be readily raised. l.. 7. Kinney, L..
f. Aldrich, b. b. Hawse, George Mackie,
A. ID. Morse, l.. j. Bolster and G. l.. Currier
were appointed committee to receive sub
scriptons.
Cabot.
Miss ELLA NJ. LANCE has just closed a
successful term of school in Marshfeld and
returned to her home in this town after a
continuous term of twenty weeks with but
| three days vacation. 1t was her fifth term
of teaching. 60 An educational meeting
was held by the town superintendent, j. p.
Lamson, at Lower Cabot last Friday even
ing. The question discussed was School
| Discipline" 1t was ably handled by teach
ers and other ladies' with essays and extem-
poraneous speaking by the gentlemen. The
same subject is to be considered at a meet
! ing at the village next Friday evening.
- Sunday morning the mercury regis
tered thirty-four degrees below zero. -
| The following mortuary record of Cabot for
| the year 1887 was kindly furnished by Mr..
| G.. NJ. Seabury: January Mrs. l.. Z. Cole,
Mark Heath; February, William Swan, and
the infant child of Geo. Kinnerson; April,
John ID. Lance, Mrs George Kinnerson;
| May, w. S. Atkins, James w. Lyford, Dan
| iel Gould; June, the son of Frank Russell,
| William Sulham; July, Clara Morse, Mrs,
Israel Smith; August, Mrs. S. II. Moulton,
Mrs. Jason Britt September, the child of
/ George Noyes; October, Jason Britt; No
vember, Frederick McDuffee, the child of
| George Tibbts and Mrs Benjamin Bagley.
East Calais.
NELLIE WHITE is home from Pawtucket,
! II. l., on a two weeks vacation. =-
| Mercury stood at 32o below zero Sunday
morning and 2So below Monday morning.
| - The Good Templars are to hold their
annual oyster-supper at their lodge-room
! next Saturday evening. - AT the annual
meeting of the Sunday-school A. Dwinell
was elected superintendent, John Thomas
| assistant superintendent @. Il. Dwinell
| clerk, |. NJ. Pearce treasurer and A. n.
! Bliss auditor == At the auction sale of
the Gray property the shop known as " the
! old peg-factory " was sold to Levison x
Lamb and the dwelling-hou was bid off
/ by Will Hall. =- Jefferson Ormsbee died
last Saturday at his home at North Calais
and his body was brought here for burial
on Tuesday. 60 The Skating-rnk Club
are TO give bean-bag party at the hall next
! Tuesday evening.
East Montpelier Center.
THE Center school will give another en-
tertainment next Saturday evening, con