The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-20
From Town Correspondents.
Washington County-Barre.

A village meeting was held last evening.
The granite block has been connected
with the sewer.
The fire department will have a dance on
Thanksgiving evening.
The new two-story school-house in district
No. IL is nearly finished.
The canvass for the new directory was
completed on Thursday of last week.
Quarry land is advancing in price, and the
music of a ful.hedged boom is in the air.
Carnes, Ainsworth & Co. had handsome
offer for their Morrison quarry last week.
The Teachers Association met on Mon
day of last week. Supervisor Booth was
present.
new organ has been purchased by the
Presbyterian society and placed in Thomp-
sons hall.
The lecture Of Will Carleton at the Opera
house on Monday evening was largely at
tended and very enjoyable.
There was a loan exhibition of art and an
oyster-supper at the Universalist vestry on
Friday evening of last week.
Not lady was to be seen among the four
hundred fifty persons who took advantage
of the Sunday excursion to the quarries.
Post 56, G.. A. r., will hold a fair this
winter, and preparations are already being
made. The post has siXty-eight members.
National Granite Company at the old Wet
more & Morse sheds on Wednesday of last
week.
Clan Gordon gave an interesting concert
at Grand Army Hall on Tuesday evening of
last week. There was very large at
tendance.
1t is expected that nearly all the quarries
will be worked this winter. There has been
such demand for stone that there is no
stock on hand.
The Presbyterian church will probably
begin work on the foundations of new
church on their lot opposite the Catholic
church next spring.
The revival services will continue through
this week at least. There were about sixty
visitors from Montpelier on Wednesday
evening of last week
The road commissioners were in town on
Thursday of last week, looking at the So
called Chubb sugar-place, with an idea Of
putting hi hway through it,
The Vermont Granite Company has sold
to 5. Il. Gates four acres of quarry land
The price was $4,000 The company has
made other large sales recently.
H. N. Parkhurst, not being able to get
cars to cart his granite from the quarries,
has hired several of III. g. Leonard's six
horse teams to haul his granite to the village.
Smith, Whitcomb & Cook have made
nearly hundred derricks this season. One
of new style, and with a capacity of a
hundred tons, is now being made for the
new Sortwell K Morse works.
The foot of Felix McCarty, brakeman on
the Barre railroad, was crushed by a wheel
passing over it as he was attempting to get
on freight train on Friday last. The larger
part of the foot was amputated.
After the usual fight, school district No.
Is has decided to build on Gazly's cor
ner." We understand Mr.. Gazly saws it
will take $500 to get it, as he wishes to
build summer residence near the corner.
Parties are negotiating with Lewis Keith
for the purchase of the ten-acre lot of
granite near the Barre railroad, north of the
S INNER Kimball farm, which is considered
TO be one of the best light stock sheet quar-
ries on Granite Hill.
Building lots are in great demand on
Granite Hill Carnes, Ainsworth & Co.,
Merrill Eastman, G. II. & II. Z. Wheeler
and Lewis Keith have sold several within
the last week. A store will be Immediately
erected on one of the lots purchased OF
Merrill Eastman.
The district suit recently brought against
III. A. Rugg ct al will not be tried, having
been quashed. Mr.. Rugg will remain the
occupant OF Hotel Barre, which is undergo
ing important repairs under the supervision
OF Mr.. Rugg, who will continue to cater &c
the public in hospitable manner.
Some person attempted to interfere with
the running Of the Sunday excursion train
to the quarries by pouring oil on the rails
near l.. f. Aldrichs, but it was discovered
and sanded in time TO prevent any trouble
Had this been done on the mountain side
where the grade is two hundred -four
feet to the mile, and not discovered, the
consequences might have been fearful.
Stillman White, the granite king" has
sold this year, to date six quarres and has
ID. b. Wheelock engaged in running out tn,
lines OF another. This places him at tn,
head OF the individual wholesale grant,
dealers in the United States, He now hal
seventy-five acres of the finest dark Barre
granite in Barre, Mr.. White il undoubtedly
one OF the best judges OF granite lands il
the state. When he bought several worth