The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-14
From Town Correspondents.
Barre.

DIR. o. II. Reed is i'll.
G. L. Jackson is in Boston
N. ID. Phelps and wife are in Boston this
week.
George L. Bates is bookkeeper at the fork
factory.
George Hall was fined S10.51 on Monday
for drunkenness.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Charles died on Monday.
The Burns Club will give its masquerade
ball next Friday night at Music hall.
Revival services were held at the Meth
odist church each evening last week.
j. 7. Parker has sold to Henry Kendall
his house and land on Stony hill, for $1,000.
The foundation of one of the new houses
of Cheever Brothers, on Summer street, is
about in.
The remaining part of the liquor seized in
the raids of September % was spilled on
Saturday.
George Houston has gone on hunting
aud fishing trip to the region of Lake Me-
gantic, Canada.
Granite City Court of Foresters will hold
its first annual concert and dance on the
night of November 6.
Rev. j. A. Sherburne goes to Enosburgh
Falls to-day to attend the meeting OF the
Vermont Bible Society.
There will be an excursion from points
between st. Johnsbury and Wells River to
the quarres on Saturday.
A. b. Averill has sold to w. T. Kenerson
his house and land on Eastern avenue
The price was about $1,000
w. G. Jones has sold his ice-cream and
lunch establishment to Fred Mears, who is
now carrying on the business
The plate glass for the new Bolster and
Gordon blocks arrived last week. That for
the Bolster block has been set.
Chauncey e. Harris has received an in
crease in pension from SO to IS, through L.
j. Deavitt, Esq, of Montpelier.
A promenade concert will be given under
the auspices of the Good Templars at Music
hall this "wednesday evening.
George G. Mackie has moved into his
new house on Washington street 1t is a
very pretty edifice, costing about $4,000
A new hose house is being built for Tor
rent No. 3, near North Main street, oppo-
site the new works of Whitcomb Brothers.
Lizzie McCloud fifteen years of age, died
at Graniteville of typhoid fever on Tuesday
of last week. The funeral was on Wednes-
day.
The Barre branch of the Granite State
| Provident Association has recently made
two loans, the gross amount OF which was
S4,40O.
| An excursion TO Une QudTTleS lTOu pOlnJS
along the Wells River road was well patron
lied on Saturday. There were six cars in
the train.
Charles Young, who recently sold his
granite business to Tayntor q Co., started
for Scotland with his father on Tuesday OF
| last week.
The quarry and plant of the estate Of
Mcleod & Simpson are to be sold at auc'
ton, October % and a. There are three
acres of land.
Smith, Whitcomb and Cook are putting
up two-story building between their
foundry and machine shop, to be used as
an Office and pattern store-room.
Hon. Charles II. Allen of Lowell, Mass
republican candidate for governor in that
state, began his education in Barre. He
| afterwards went to Amherst College, from
which he graduated.
Lambert Packard of st Johnsbury, archi
tect of the new Spaulding graded school
was in town the latter part of last week
He expressed himself as well pleased with
the progress being made on the building.
After concluding his work here on Thurs
day evening of last week, Rev. e. l.. Wal
bridge, the state evangelist of the Congre
gational church, went to Orange, and serv
ices were conducted by him at East Barr,
on Sunday.
Colonel U. A. Woodbury. camp, Sons o
Veterans, is to hold fair November ant
6, and Colonel Woodbury., Governor Pag,
and Ex-Governor Dillingham; have been in
vited to be present. An interesting enter
tanment has been arranged for each even
ing. The first evening there will be a min
strel show, the second campfire and liter
airy entertainment, and on the third mis-
cellaneous programme will be presented.
The Catholic fair last week was attended
each evening by large crowd, and tn,
various booths and stands were well patron
lied. To add to the enjoyment of thos
present there was music each evening
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings
large number of persons came from Mont
pelier, late return train being run Satur
day evening. There was also a specia
train from the quarres on the last-name,
evening. The fair was so successful that !
was decided to continue it on Monday an,
Tuesday evenings of this week.
A committee of Baptists went to st. Al
bans and Richmond on Thursday of las
week, to examine churches with referenc
to the plan of the new Baptist church here
AT a meeting of the committee on 1uesda
evening, it was voted to purchase of Jane
and w. A. Perry the lot on Washington
street. opposite the park. The price pa
was 50 800, although the owners had bee
offered $500 by persons who wished to pu
up livery stable. The Messrs Perry ais
contributed $500 each toward the churc
fund. A subscription is now being mad
Before Rev. G. T. Raymond went to Bosto
81 ,2S0 had been secured.
West Berlin.
! Oscar Jones has rented the Sawyer house
Rev. w. b. Worthen has built new corr
barn.
: The ground was frozen to the depth of a
inch, Monday morning.
, Cornelius Chandler has enlarged his co,
stable, it now being thrty-two feet b
seventy-two feet, divided into twelve boz
stalls. Mr.. Chandler has fine herd
, registered Jersey cows, and believes in gi,
ing them good quarters.
, Some twenty merry huskers assembled {
8 the barn of NJ. ID. Drew, last Saturday ever
I fng, and after husking about seventy.tiy
t bushels of corn they repaired to the hous
4 and partook of bountiful repast that la
g been prepared for the occasion.
: Brookfield.
I Some good yields of wheat are reporte
a in town, this year. Ira Carpenter raise
fifty-two bushels from two bushels OF see,
and Fri Batcheder raised fifty-six bushe
from the same amount of seed. What
the m ttar with Varmont for farminu