The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-30
From Town Correspondents.
Barre.

Miss Anna Taplin is visiting in Boston.
w. A. Perry, town clerk, is in Boston on
town business.
DR.. o. n. Reed and wife have returned
from the West
Rhea and her company had good house
Saturday evening
Ward Il Co, have changed the name of
the firm to the Dirigo Granite Company.
Frank Duffy went to Syracuse, Saturday,
to see his brother Thomas, who is very i'll.
e. L. Smith & Co. are going to put up a
new travelling derrick at their stone shed.
Il. V. Wiley has been chosen supernten-
dent OF the Sunday-school at Granite
vile.
Charles II. Sawyer was in Marshfed on
business on Thursday and Friday of last
week
The Mountain King" brought twenty
carloads of stone from the quarries, Monday
morning.
Dr. j. Henry Jackson aud daughter went
to New York on the Lake Champain ex-
cursion last week.
The horse of n f. Cruikshank of Granite
vile was badly cut by running into
barbed wire fence, last week.
Eleven new members were admitted to
the juvenile temple Of Good Templafs on
Thursday afternoon OF last week.
Alex Stevens is to occupy the sheds of
the National Granite Company, which are
being vacated by Barclay Brothers.
f. G.. Rowland and wife returned last
week Wednesday night from their carriage
drive in the northern part of the state.
NJ G. Hurlihy has purchased a lot of
land at East Barre, and will build dam
across the stream and put up granite
works.
Beginning next Saturday evening" the
Granite City Dancing Club will have
dances in Music hall every Saturday
evening.
The brick school-house at North Barre is
being turned into a station of the Wells
River railroad. A platform is being built
around it,
The family of Hiram Smith of Williams
town, formerly of Barre has received news
Of the death of their son, Hiram f. Smith,
in Colorado
"Anita's Trial, or Our Girls in Camp"
is to be given at the opera house Thursday
evening in order to raise money to supply
the public library with daily papers.
There are three James Frasers in town,
and it is the one who came from New
Hampshire who was sent to the house of
correction on Monday for drunkenness.
He was given 100 days in that institution.
A district Odd Fellows meeting will be
held early in November with Hiawatha
lodge. The new rooms on the third floor of
the Gordon block will be dedicated on the
same day. There will be street parade
and banquet.
A man named Wood was arrested at Davis
block on Sunday for beating his wife. On
Monday he was tried for drunk enness and
fined, but as no one appeared against him
for the assault on his wife, he was not tried
on that charge.
Anthony Donahue of Graniteville was
arraigned on Thursday of last week for
selling liquor He pleaded guilty and was
fined S17.31 George Hall and Felix
Mp(urty alqO Of (,ranitayil1a nlaaHaI
guilty to the same offence, and the former
was fined $13.3l, and the latter $1651.
Rev. c. w. Longren went to Plainfield
on Monday to assist in the religious SER
vices of that evening and all day yesterday.
Rev. E. L. Walbridge, state evangelist
of the Congregational church, is to be in
Barre on Friday and Saturday of this week.
for the purpose of conducting similar SER
vices here
The body of Michael Tebeau, about forty
years of age, was found floating at one of
the wharves at Plattsburgh, n. Y, last week
Friday morning. He was employed until
recently by Ward & Co., and was dis
charged for intoxcation. When he got off
the steamer at Plattsburgh, on Thursday,
he was intoxicated
The railroad company was preparing to
build stone pier at the Stevens bridge,
back of John w. Gordon's block, when an
injunction on the part of the village author
tiles was talked Of on the ground that the
structure would tend to block up the river
and cause damage to property Nothing is
now being done by the company.
Eugene O'Neil was prominent in a
drunken row at Graniteville on the Goth
instant, and in the fight he pounded James
Huse so seriously that the latter has been
laid up since. O'Neil got out of the way,
and for time it was not known where he
was 1t TRANSFERRED, however, that Dave
Watson drove him to the New Hampshire
line Monday night.
The National bank is enarging its quar-
ters by taking that part of the block which
was formerly occupied by the grocery store
of Il. l.. Clark, who has moved into the ell.
A directors room, cashiers room and a
toilet room are to be finished off, and there
will be new door on Washington street
and one on Main street. Other changes of
less radical character are to be made
The bank will undoubtedly have trst-cass
accommodations when these innovations
have been completed.
Last week Friday afternoon the officers
made a number of liquor seizures A keg
OF beer and jug of rum were taken from
the Central house, a barrel, a keg and
twenty-five bottles of beer from A. Branchi,
Tour cases of beer from a team of f. l..
Hayden, and three kegs of beer from the
freight depot of the Wells River Railroad
Company. The liquors have since been
condemned by Justice o. b. Boyce. These
seizures had depressing effect on ntox-
cation Saturday, and very few persons were
seen drunk. George Jeffords proprietor of
the Central house, has pleaded guilty to
the charge of selling and has paid his fine,
which was over $50. When the officers
made the seizure at the Wells River sta.
ton, the station agent, S. S, Ballard, refused
to open the door Of the room in which the
liquor was stored, and it was found neces-
sary TO break it open. The warrant which
Officer Camp served was torn in two by Mr..
Ballard. The grand jury is now nvestiga-
ting the matter. After the aforementioned
raids had been made, the place of James
Branchi was visited, and barrel of beer
and small quantity OF whiskey were
seized. Branchi has since left town.
Saturday was a perfect day for the pa
rade and inspection of the fire department,
and the variety of attractions brought into
town very large crowd-one of the larg-
est ever here The contests passed off
pleasantly, and were very successful. The
procession formed at about ten o'clock,
with the Barre band at the head of the col
umn. The red and blue shirts of the diff
ferent companies made a handsome and