The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-05
From Town Correspondents.


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Two verandas are building on the
Riverside house.
The stone-sheds now close work at half
past four in the afternoon.
The Phillips block is being frightened
by an application OF paint.
Three incandescent lights are to be put
into the militia boys armory.
w. f, Richardson has sold his milk route
to j. w. Nichols and ID. A. Camp.
Rumor has it that George e. Wheeler
is soon TO join the aAny OF bsnedcts
The Spencer Rifles, beginning Monday
night, are to drill twice week in their
armory.
There will be a dance in Thompson's hall,
South Barre, next Thursday evening, No
vember 8.
The plate glass windows for worthen's
new block have arrived and have been put
in position.
The next entertainment in the lecture
course will he Friday evening, Major Henry
q. Dane being the speaker.
Mrs. Almira Trow, mother OF John Trow,
died last Sunday, aged seventy years.
Her funeral will he held to-day
William p Bowman has bought a small
farm in South Royalton and will occupy it
as soon as he can have possession.
Reynolds & Co.'S scales, having been re-
paired, are in first-class shape, and their po-
sition now gives ample room for a sidewalk.
So far as can be learned, the indebtedness
of Ranney * Magoon amounts to about
$1,000, while the assets are merely nominal
The widow and child of the late Edgar
Norton will be the recipients OF $1,000, the
amount of his insurance in the Royal Ar
canum.
The Washington county Christian En-.
deavor societies are to hold a convention in
tho Congregational church on Friday of
this week.
The painting in W. f. Colby's show
window, representing the homestead of
Dexter Trow, is by Miss Bess Averill, whose
age is fifteen.
d. NJ. Miles has bought OF d. A. Fraser
several building lots at Grantevile, and j.
II. Lucia Of Montpelier has bought several
Of the Vermont Granite Co. at the same
place.
Mrs Deborah Paine fell down stair. re-
Gently, and it is a wonder that she was not
seriously injured as she is quite feeble and
eighty years old. A cut over the eye was
the only injury.
A sharpener, named Charles, working for
Jones Brothers. while at his forge last week
Tuesday, was struck in the eye by a red-hot
piece of steel, and at the time it was thought
the sight would be lost, but happily the
injury is not so severe as that.
The general committee OF Goddard Sem
mary, at a meeting on Wednesday evening,
| discussed the advisability OF building
! gymnasium, to be located near where is
now the baseball backstop" and to be
seventy feet long by thirty-two feet wide.
1t is probable that such building will be
constructed soon.
Half dozen quarrymen have made
| themselves obnoxious by repeated sere-
nades OF a newly-married couple at Gran
| iteville. Being complained Of they were
arrested by Policeman Bemis and Sheriff
Camp. At the trial last Friday they were
| fined five dollars each, with costs, from
which they appealed.
George Wheatons three-year old colt.
driven by Otis Freeman, became frightened
the other day by a cat running across the
road, and ran against an electric light pole
at the corner OF Elm and Eastern avenue
breaking a leg and throwing out the driver,
who narrowly escaped serious injury. The
horse had to be shot at once
Before Justice Barney on Friday, Mrs.
John Hearn was fined $50 and costs for
assault on Miss Ina Choate, the school
teacher at Milestone Hill. 1t appears that
Miss Choate had occasion to punish son of
Mrs. Hearn for disobedience, and the re-
spondent took this way OF manifesting her
displeasure at the treatment OF her unruly
son.
A box car, while being loaded at Duffy's
sideng at the quarries, Thursday, got away
and started down the grade with IL. A.
Duffy and a workman within It. The latter
jumped, but Mr.. Duffy kept aboard and
fortunately received no worse injury than a
good fright, as the car ran off the track at
one OF the numerous safety switches, after
attaining a high rate Of speed.
Edgar Norton, whose fatal illness has been
previously reported, died last Wednesday
morning, having been sick for some eighteen
months. Deceased was born in Maine and
had lived in Barre about ten years OF his
life, He was an excellent granite work
man, and, had he not made an unsucces,-
full speculation in quarrying a few wear,
ago, would have left considerable property.
His ago was thirty-four, and he leaves a
widow and child OF eight years.
L. NJ. Averill and wife are taking a reel,
In Massach usetts, for pleasure and business,
. - Mr. and Mrs. Albert George of
East Calais lately visited their son Bert
a student OF Goddard Seminary. -
Joel Worthen of Boston has been stopping