The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12
From Town Correspondents.
Barre.

next week for a recess of two weeks.
Eugene A. Gould has purchased Henry j.
Smiths meat market and took possession
last week.
The work of excavating for the cellar of
the new school-house lacks but little of
completion.
Merton Cheney is enhancing the beauty
of his new house by grading the grounds
thereabouts.
Major Danes lecture on "Australia,"
Friday evening, was both instructive and
! entertaining.
The next lecture in the course occurs on
Tuesday evening, November 10, when DR..
| Willis will speak.
A bill to incorporate the Barre Savings
Bank and Trust Co. has been introduced
into the legislature.
viii Mcconnell of Chelsea. at one time in
l.. NJ. Averills store, has bought four build
ing lots at East Barre.
a concrete crossing at the foot of Acad-
envy hill was laid last week Tuesday 1t
meets long-felt want.
Treasurer c. n. Field of the Granite Bank
is prospecting in Fort Payne and in other
lively cities of the South.
An addition is being built on the Central
Vermont railroad depot, in which mems
toilet room will be provided
Milne & Wylie have just shipped very
uut monument 10 w dItTDurY, Comb, nav
ing been one year in making it.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Congrega-
tioual church gives clam chowder in the
vestry Friday evening of this week.
Miss Lucy Allen entertained large num-
Der OF Goddard students at the home of her
father, G. r. Allen, on Saturday afternoon.
The work of concretng the street from
Depot Square to the park is now com pleted
and the cost OF doing the job is said to be
$500
Misses Mary and Fannie Holister. God
dard students, were summoned west last
week by the news of the death of their
father.
Brassaw Bros. have put in foundation
for "A house for Doane Cooke, brother of
Frank Cook, and house is being built
thereon.
Mrs. Carl Spencer and Miss Lizzie Orig
ware have rented rooms over Wheeler &
Taft's store and will have dressmaker's
shop therein.
Herman Potter received severe bruises on
leg while at work in a stone-shed last week
Wednesday morning by block of granite
falling upon it.
At auction, Friday, October "a, w. e.
Whitcomb bid off the Grigware place in
Gospel Village for $1,240. This was
forced sale, sure.
The Goddard Seminary football eleven
walked away with the Norwich University
team Saturday by score of 96 to 0, on the
Goddard campus.
Some four hundred legislators and peo-
pie from Nj ontpelier inspected the granite
industries on Wednesday, through the
courtesy of the Barre railroad company.
In a railroad collision near Cincinnati,
Friday morning, f. A Shaer, at one time
this summer book-keeper for the National
Granite Co., received some injuries about
his breast.
Alexander Williams was severely kicked
on the left side of his face last Sunday by
his horse which became frightened at "A car
riage wheel, carried by Mr.. Williams, fall
ing behind it.
Rev. j. Lester Wells of Newark, n. j.,
under the auspices of the Presbyterian
Christian Endeavor society, gives stere-
opticon lecture in the opera-house next Sat
urday evening
Burney, the fourteen.y ear.od son of Will
lam Flanders, while in the act of loading a
rifle recently, was shot in the foot by an ac-
cidental discharge, the ball going clear
through the foot.
Mrs. j. NJ. Bond will occupy the south
store for millinery shop, X. Blanchard
Will have "a restaurant in the rear rooms,
while the north sore in the new Worthen
block has not been rented as yet.
Conductors Markham and Morse are to-
alternate weekly III running on the Barre
branch and the main line OF the Wells
River railroad, the work OF the latter being
too severe for the health of Conductor
Morse,
1t has leaked out that one of Barrels most
popular and goOd-loOking young men and an
estimable young lady of AN adjoining town
are to be married about the first of Decem-
her and will live in rooms of one of the
newest business blocks.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Cougrega-
tional church reorgauized last week Tues
day by the election of the following officers:
President, Mrs. Hamilton Webster; vice.
president, Mrs. ID. b. Minard secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. Perley Chandler.
The new postmaster has received his com
mission and will formally take possession
Of the post office next Saturday, November
II. He will retain the present clerical
force and add one thereto, Miss Lucy Wells,
who leaves her position III Perry & Camps
to accept this.
The Barre railroad company is LAYING a
side track from the main line to Charles
Young's sheds and will also continue this
side track to Mcdonald & Buchan's pol
ishing mill, probably this fall Ward &
Douglass are doing the grading and are
building the abutments.
Mr. and Mrs. w. l.. Stafford and Miss
Isabel Stafford gave an elaborate drive
whist party, Thursday evening, attended by
eighteen couples, who enjoyed themselves
to the limit. The first prizes went to Ii. G.
Marvin and Mrs Eta b. Miller, the boobies
TO Holmes Jackson and Miss Stafford.
That old landmark-the academy board
ing-house-does not exist now as IA whole,
it being too cumbersome and enormous to
be moved through the streets 1t has been
cut into halves and the south wing is being
moved to a lot on the Richardson property
on Stony Hill road. 1t is not known what
will be done with the north wing.
Horace Fiheld, one of Barrels oldest
citizens, died Thursday, at the age of eighty
three. Two weeks ago he was about start
ing on a trip to the West when he was taken
sick with typhoid fever, his illness ending
in death Mr.. Fifeld had been notable
character in town, and his departure re-
moves another of the old landmarks.
AS DIR. Packer was driving at a good
pace near the Williamstown line about mid
night, Wednesday, in answer to profess
sonal summons, his horse got out of the
road in the darkness and struck an obstacle
with such force that both horse and carriage
were overturned and the doctor was thrown
out, landing on his right shoulder and
spraining it 80 badly that sling has been
necessary ever since. 1t was narrow es-
cape from fatal accident.
Owing to the lateness of the hour, the res
al. III.