The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
From Town Correspondents.
barre.


day.
Perry Brothers new hotel will be opened
soon
RI. George and wife have returned from
York Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Boyce are at York
Beach, Maine.
The water-pipes on Washington street
have been relaid.
Miss Alice NJ. Wheeler has returned from
a three weeks vacation.
j. E. insolvency is the new doctor, and
he lives on Main street.
A daughter was born to Mr. ana MIS- DO
seph Gillespie, August 9.
r. A. Hoar and friend are spending
week in the Adirondacks.
Woodbury. Camp, Sons of Veterans, has
elected NJ. w. Jones captain.
Mr. and Mrs. w. IL. Gladding were at
The Wers, N. H., last week.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
John Dix on Wednesday last.
Rev. j. Harry Holden Goddard 81 is
spending his vacation in Barre.
Mrs. E. A. Earle has been very sick with
typhoid fever, but is now recovering
Herbert J. Stearns and wife of Caven-
dish were visiting in town last week.
The second quarterly conference was held
at the Methodist church last Sunday
The Italian band of ten or dozen pieces
played on the square, last Thursday even
ing
Miss Fannie West of Reading formerly
teacher of painting at Goddard, is visiting
in town.
Mrs. A. L. Smith and Mrs. A. d. Morse
attended the music festival at The Weirs,
last week
Mrs. Smith and Miss Mary Cram of Provi-
dence, r. l., are visiting their cousin, DIR.
G.. w. Steele.
Mrs. Winnie Rice Richardson and Mrs.
Nellie Rice Leonard are sick at the home of
their sister, Mrs. George Bishop.
Miss Kate West, money-order clerk at
the post-ohice, entertained brother and
niece from Maiden, Mass, last week.
While pushing swing on the picnic
grounds in Granteville last Friday, Mrs.
Charles Recor fell and broke an arm.
George Badger, teller in the Barre Granite
Savings Bank, has moved into the upper
story of the Hill house on Hill street.
Fifty or sixty members of the ladies'
branch of the Order of the Iron Hall made
an excursion to the quarries last Friday.
H. Mann, Jr. speaker of the house of rep
resentatives of the present legislature, will
spend next Sunday with his cousin, DR.. w.
f. Mann.
The Barre Bicycle Club are arranging for
atwenty-five-mile race, open to riders in the
state to occur between Barre and Mont
pelier, September %.
Norris Laughton and his sister, Miss Bes-
sic Laughton, both of Boston, have been
visiting Mortimer G. and Nadine G. Mich
OILS for the past week.
The Presbyterian church, Sunday school
and friends are to hold their regular annual
picnic at Benjamin Falls to-day. A large
attendance is expected
There is talk of building a new highway
from Graniteville to Websterville. A new
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made to save at least three miles of travel.
Colonel U. A. Woodbury. of Burlington
will visit Barre the last of the month, and
Woodbury. Camp, Sons of Veterans. is max
ing preparations to give him a rousng re-
ception.
H. A. Allen of Brooktield, former stu
dent in DR.. w f. Mann s Office who has been
in the Boston Dental College for the past
year, will again enter the doctors office on
Saturday.
Barclay Brothers have purchased gran
lite polishing mill of j. III. Batchelder &
Co., and have also purchased the Barre
column-cutting works from Stafford &
Batchelder.
Fred b. Deberville, who has just closed a
seven weeks term of select school in the
academy building, started for his home in
Hinesburgh, last Saturday, on bicycle
accompanied by NJ. G. Nichols.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Wednesday, but the election of officers was
postponed for one month, owing to the alb
sence of large number of the members.
George Frasier was arrested "a week ago
last Saturday, for selling intoxicating
liquors on the day of the Clan Gordon
was brought before Justice o. b. Boyce.
Barney & Hoar defended, and Frasier was
acquitted.
Frank Nichols and Will Holden started
on their bicycles, last Sunday, for New York
by way of the Hudson Valley. They will
60 into Pennsylvania, returning through
Connecticut and Massachusetts, and will
be gone three or four weeks.
From time to time much rubbish has been
dumped into Stevens Branch from the rear
OF the business blocks on Main street, and
last week the Branch was dredged and
thoroughly cleaned. 1t is hoped that greater
care Will be exercised in the future, and
that all rubbish will find its way to the e-
gitimate dump.
The foundations for the Presbyterian
church are laid, and the church structure
will be pushed as fast as possible. This
church will be made of wood, will cost Sc, 900
or 81 600, and will have an extreme length of
eighty-siX feet The audience-room will be
forty-two by seventy-siX feet, with a seat
ing capacity of 400.
Daniel Murray, who had eluded the Off
GERS for over two months, was arrested last
Friday by Deputy Sheriff Cook. Murray
was arrested on a charge of disturbing the
peace on June 4. Since that time he has
worked twenty-three hours, spending the
rest of his time in guarding against the APP
preach of the sheriff.
The third meeting of the Green Mountain
Trotting Park Association occurs to-day
and tomorrow, There are six purses the
.. 10 class, 500; the three-mnute class,
$780, the 2; 80 class S125; the .: 40 class,
$50; the 2; 81 class, S175, and the open race
for trotters and PAGERS, purse 5000 A
large number of entries have been made,
and an unusually interesting meeting is an
ticipated.
The six months benefit society, with
headquarters in Boston, has many wailing
victims here. A good number have already
paid in over $780, with little hope of recov-
ering cent. A band of fifteen or twenty
have sworn that they will neither eat nor
drink until they have visited the Boston
office and inflicted dire punishment. DR..
franklin well said, Experience is a dear
school, but fools will learn in no other"