The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18
From Town Correspondents.
Barre.


Mrs. H. A. Rugg is to spend the winter in
Mrs. Frank Tilden of Hinsdale, N. H., is
in town.
Mrs. M. Goodenough of Walden is visit
ing in town.
Mrs. John Griswold of Brookfed is visit
ing Mrs. l.. X. Abbott.
Mrs. Lewis Wood, mother of Israel Wood,
is very low with paralysis
Mr.. and Mrs. James Grant and Charles
Young are in Aberdeen Scotland.
Rev. p. G. Abbey of Hinesburgh has ac-
cepted call by the Barre Baptists.
A. G. Whitcher is back from Boston,
where he has been year and half.
The William Moorcroft mill is to be shut
down in about two weeks for the winter.
Mr.. Childs of Boston is putting in the
heating apparatus for the new school build
ing.
Miss Lila Dodge has gone to Worcester,
Mass, to clerk in store run by her
brother
More than 100 couples attended the con-
cert and dance of the Foresters, last Friday
evening.
G. B. Richardson has rented the Justus
Ketchum farm, and expects to take immedi-
ate possession.
The well-known II. X. Brennan was in
town Monday. His dramatic company ar
rives November 80.
The contingencies of the Barre Ma
tional Bank are being enlarged by the addi-
ton of the store formerly occupied by II. L.
Clark.
Five new cellars are going in at the old
Richardson place on Washington street,
. owned by Phelps Brothers, John Trow and
~. A, Bradford.
e. B. Wood has bought the Erastus Ed
wards farm and land across the river for
I'd 1OH. Erp1 Edwards hOnpht the
near Mirror lake for $3.50.
The skeleton found by the Enterprise
under the floor in the old Drew boarding
house, has been identified as the osseous
remains of mammoth bed-bug.
Fred B. Bosworth is back from trip to
Chicago, and has been i'll with a cold for
few days. AS soon as he is himself again
he is to make another trip toward the set
ting sun.
A former resident, now of Dakota, who is
visiting in town, was astonished at the large
audience at the temperance meeting, Sun
day evening. They probably don't turn out
that way in Dakota.
Wallace King died last week Monday
morning, of typhoid pneumonia Mrs.
King was very ill at the same time with ty-
phoid fever, and died last Sunday forenoon
Both bodies were taken to Brushton, N. Y.
A special meeting of Granite Lodge was
held last Monday night, when the degrees
ferred Another meeting was held last
evening, to confer the degree of Most Ex-
cellent Master
The lecture, last Monday evening, in the
opera house, by Rev. j. j. Lewis, on the
"Passion Play of Oberammergau," at
tracted large audience. The entertain
ment was under the auspices of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Julius Gladding, brother of w. II. and
Edmund Gladding, died last Sunday at the
home OF the latter, aged forty-fve years.
He leaves wife. Mr. Gladding had for a
long time been a resident of West Ran
dolph. The funeral is to be held to-day,
Rev. j. A. Sherburne Off ciating.
Miss Freeove Aldrich, aged seventy-nine
years, died last Sunday night, the result of
a paralytic shock The funeral was yester-
day afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. Lester
Warren of East Montpelier officiating. The
interment was in Barre cemetery. De-
ceased was sister of Leonard Aldrich, and
had lived in Barre all her life.
The only steel derrick in the world is be-
ing erected at the quarry of E. E. Taintor
& Co. The mast is ninety-niue feet long,
and the boom sixty-eight feet. It's lifting
capacity is one hundred and sixty tons.
1t is not merely the only steel derrick but
1t is the tallest unsupported metal column
in the world. There is about mile of guy
ropes.
The funniest lawsuit on record occurred
last week. George j. Towne bet $40 with
W. A. Bradford as to the length OF time
Maynard Winch had owned Horace
Mann's horse. Towne won; Bradford
"squealed." Fred Slayton was stake
holder, and promptly paid over the money
to Towne, whereupon Bradford sued Stay
ton to recover. w. A Boyce had an inter-
est in the $40, and figured in the suit as
counsel and co-plaintiff Towne being rep
resented by r, A Hoar and John w. Cor
don. Bradford was defeated.
Mr. opd MIRO Nan Mol God ara ,.oro,.+, - Q
bouncing boy, grandson to w. A. Brad
ford. A son was also born to Mr. and Mrs
George Inglis last Sunday - Concrete
sidewalks are being laid to the south en-
Frank Eaton, clerk for G. A. Smith, is i'll
with jaundice. - Richard, son of E. A.
Wilkinson, is recovering from pneumonia
e. Frank Hunton last Monday took his
four-year-od daughter to Mary Fletcher
hospital, Burlington, for treatment of leg
disease. - A son of A. d. Burgess has
been quite ill with fever. - Mr.. and
Mrs. A. w. Clark last week became par
ents OF son.
Rev. A. b. Truax preached at the SER
vices OF quarterly meeting at the Methodist
church on Sunday, and in the evening adj
dressed the people in the opera house on
the subject of temperance His discourse
was plain and direct. He believed action,
not talk is the present want. He referred
TO the existing movement for the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law in this county,
and pointed out some of the dangers in the
situation, chief among which was the fail
ure of leading citizens and members of the
church to interest themselves actively in
the work 1t was stirring address, to a
hall crowded with interested listeners
Moral force is given to Elder Truax's words
by the fact he is a man of deeds as well as
an exhorter.
The adjourned town meeting came to a
conclusion, last Monday evening, at the
engine house, and the plans for a granite
tomb, presented by the committee through
George Lamson, were accepted The com
mittee was then instructed to prepare work.
king plans and specifications, and report al
future meeting. 1t was the sense of the
meeting that the tomb cost not more than
$1,000. A meeting was held in the after.
noon to see If the brick tomb scheme could
not be put through, but it could not. Barre
is granite town, and is naturally proud OF
its leading industry. 1t is but natural thai
her citizens should like to see the village