The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-08
From Town Correspondents.
Barre.

hospital.
Mrs Warner Colby is seriously i'll, as is
Mrs E. A. Prindle.
Miss Fannie Winch of Marshfeld is in
town, visiting Mrs. Samuel Childs.
The Girls in Blue" Barrels female mil
itary company are to give leap year ball,
Friday evening
David Brown, with w. NJ Emerson, has
resigned his position, which has since been
filled by Jim Albin
Miss Belle Ammidon of West Burke is in
town caring for her sister, Mrs f. w. Cam
eron, who is seriously i'll.
A. e. Batchelder has sold his home place
at the corner of Main and Seminary streets
to Mrs. Byron Phelps, for 5000.
w. A. Perry and wife have an addition to
their family in the shape of an eight-pound
daughter, born last Wednesday morning.
Cbildren's day is to be observed at South
Barre, next Sunday, with exercises by the
children and remarks by Rev, j. A. Sher-
burne.
Fred Sherburne, George w. Tilden and
George Wheeler went to Brandon, Thurs
day, with Mt. Sinai temple, Mobiles Of the
Mystic Shrine.
Fred Bruce returned last Saturday, from
Greensboro pond, and has kept closely in
retirement since his arrival The catch is
reported to have averaged one per day.
The Granite City Trotting Club has leased
the tracks at LlttleJOn, ana Hilton, n. H.,
and is to give races on the former July
and 8, and on the latter July II, IL and a.
Robert Monroe, who has been in Montreal
at the hospital for treatment for some
time, returned Saturday, and was taken to
his home from the depot on stretcher. He
is in a precarious condition
s. S; Ballard, N; d, Phelps, s. p. Allen,
George Towne and other leading piscatorial
minstrels are away this week from Cham
plain to Maine, hunting for fish.
DR.. McSweeney's carriage was badly
smashed at Graniteville, last Saturday. the
horse becoming frightened at the cars and
running with the vehicle while the doctor
was attending patient in Lewis Keefe's
house.
Eugene L'Anctot left the employ of the
Granite City Clothing Company last We'd
nesday evening, carrying away his normal
jag and an unsettled cash account. E. A
Kingsbury lately with Frank McWhorter
is taking his place.
The residents of "Smith's farm have
made application to the village for hydrants,
and to the water company for the village
water. There are about twenty-five fam
lilies on the addition, which is just across
the river from the Y"
Ex-Governor w. P. Dillingham; was in
town, Saturday, acting as counsel for some
of the cutters who claim to have had their
rights INSTRUCTED by fence built across a
by-path by George Mann. On Governor
Dillingham's ADVICE Mr.. Mann removed
khe fence.
The town listers completed their work,
last Saturday, and lodged the list in the
town clerks office. The number of polls
! shown this year is 1888, as against 2,073 in
'91, 800 in 80, and ,603 in 'S9. The list
shows nearly forty persons or firms in town
with tax of over 500.
The end of the cold Spaulding academy "
occurs next Saturday, at two o'clock P. NJ,
when the building now used for graded
school will be sold at auction to the highest
bidder The dedication of the new build
ing comes in September, if the work con-
tinues to progress as favorably as at present.
R. S. Curriers' residence was visited, last
Wednesday evening about eleven o'clock,
by sneak thief who tried to steal some
thing out of an open window, but awoke
Mrs Currier, who gave the alarm and
frightened the thief away. Several trif1ing
thefts from clothes-lines and hen-coops have
been committed during the past week
Henry Harris died last Saturday evening,
aged thirty-three years. He leaves father,
mother, wife and eight-year old child. The
funeral was held Monday forenoon, at the
residence of his parents, and was attended
by Hiawatha lodge OF Odd Fellows and
Granite lodge of Masons. Three bearers
from each society accompanied the remains
to Worcester, where the interment took
place.
The Nicollet," sleeping-car from the
Canadian Pacific railroad, came to town,
last Friday afternoon, and carried away o.
B. and w. A. Boyce, j. A. and William
Perry, Drs. Worthen and Scribner, G.. n.
Field, Charles Austin and John Starr.
Porter j. w. Scott, one of the Oldest en-
ployes of the road, will care for the comfort
OF the party until they arrive in Mime
apolis
The programme at the twenty-third an
Il
as follows: Sunday, June 10 GLASS Sunday
Sermon before the graduating class, Rev.
Arthur G. Rogers, ID, Salem, Mass, in
Universalst church, Is P. M. Monday,
June 20 GLASS Day)-Class Day Exercises,
at2r; M; Commencement Recital, by mu:
sial department, in Seminary chapel, at 8
P. NJ. Tuesday, June 81 alumni Day.
Annual meeting of Alumni Association, at
81: 80 A. M; Literary Exercises Seminary
chapel, 10: 80 A. M; Address, Rev. l. A.
Priest, 80; Poem, Ralph A. Stewart, 'S8;
Class Reunions and Lunches, p M; Re-
union Banquet Of Alumni Association, at
P. M; Prize Speaking, by seniors and
juniors, opera-house, P. NJ. Wednesday,
June % (Uommenment Day)-Exercises OF
Graduating Glass, at 10 A. NJ. Reception
by teachers and class, in Seminary parlors
SP. NJ. This year occurs the second grand
reunion of the Alumni Association, and
graduates are most cordially invited to at
tend. All alumni intending to be present
dio icuuooucu W nOlliy ". ~ IlOlllSbtr
secretary Of the hospitality committee
All other guests please send word to the
principal
Barnard.
Eight persons over seventy six years old
have died in this village since December ,
last.
Many farmers had sheared their sheen
before the snowstorm, and many sheep died
from exposure.
But little corn has been planted, as yet
The spring is very backward, theug grass
is looking well. Hay will be entirely used
up hereabouts, this spring.
Wool-buyers are offering twenty cents fol-
medium wool, and eighteen cents for fine
Poor hay has been selling for $40 ton
Farmers are the only buyers.
e. S. Putnam has in training promising
young stallion by "Wesmont." His dan
is descendant of old Clifford Morgan" g
noted horse in Barnard fifty years ago
His get were noted for their style, beauty
and action
Braintree.
The grass crop looks very promising now
having improved very much in the last ter