The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-23
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME OF
CURRENT EVENTS.
Barre.

Barre.
Edward whitehead is i'll with typhoid
fever.
Norman B. York is visiting in Raymond,
Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Smith are visiting in
Newport
Tbs fall term at Goddard will open Tues
day, September 3.
G. f. Holmes was seriously i'll last week,
threatened with fever.
Forepaughs circus will exhibit in Barre
on Thursday, August 81.
Fourteen Gamewell fire alarm boxes have
been purchased by the bailiffs.
Miss Jennie Lowell of Boston is visiting
at the home of Chauncey Harris.
W. A. Wheaton of St Paul, Mimi, pre-
sided at the Congregational organ last Sum-
day.
"Roy F,' owned by Hamilton Webster,
won the free-for-all race at Tunbridge last
Thursday.
Professor w. H. Gale returned from Bos-
ton last Friday, where he has been for sew
eral weeks.
A photograph social will be held by the
| Epworth League in the Methodist vestry
this evening.
The Congregational Sunday-school picnic
| was held on Tuesday in the grove near
! Barre transfer.
| Raymond infant SOu Vi anu MIS-
Charles A. Smith, died last Monday, and
will be barred to-day.
Mrs. Ellen Ryder returned from Chicago
! last week, where she has been visiting Tor
the past eight months.
Rev. A. A. Smith held services in the
school house at East Barre last Sunday,
morning and evening.
Frank Perry attended the annual races OF
the Burlington yacht club, held on Lake
Champain last Thursday.
John Whepley has been taken to the
house OF correction, at Rutland, to serve
out his sentence of sixty days.
Gould & Nichols sold handsome B'asius
pianos last week to DR.. Carpenter OF South
Royalton and Martin Riley of Barre.
Rev. w. R. Davenport officiated at the
wedding of Patrick Teffey and Miss May
McKane, at Graniteville, last Friday even
ing.
"Phil W." owned by W. l.. Stafford ar
rived in Barre last Wednesday, and will
take part in the races at Green Mountain
trotting park this week.
The large hoisting engine for use on the
light quarry of the Vermont Granite Com
pany has arrived. 1t has a capacity of lift
ing twenty tons weight.
The premises of B. Thomas ON Summer
street We're searched last week by Officers
Rowland and Nichols. Six bottles of al
legged lager were seized.
G. j. Kinsley of the Leader went to Rut-
land, last Saturday, to act as night editor of
the Rutland Herald for two weeks during
the absence on vacation of the regular man.
Charles Mari and Miss Addie L. Godfrey
were married, last week. by Rev. G. w.
Longren, at the home of Mrs. G. S. Wallace.
They went to Philadelphia for a brief bridal
trip.
Patrick Murphy, formerly well.known
stonecutter in Barre, died last Thursday at
| xvh hn haa OF
work for the past three years. The burial
was at Hartford.
A hook and ladder company, composed of
fifteen business men of the village, was
formed last week, also a third hose COM
pany. These new organizations will meet
to elect officers some time this week.
A reward has been offered by the parents
of Fred Kralinger for his body, dead or
alive. He was granite cutter, and lived
with his parents. He disappeared mysteri-
ously about eight weeks ago, and foul play
is feared.
Marr 4 Gordon are to cut 1000 monu-
ment for ex-President Harrison, that is to
be placed over the grave of Mrs. Harrison
in Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. The
Hinsdale Granite Company secured the
contract, for which there were forty COM
petitors.
Justice A. NJ. Jackman has created con-
sternation among the vendors of Eureka
| beer by pronouncing it lager. He condemned
a lot last Saturday and ordered it spilled.
The vendors of the Eureka are numerous in
| Barre, and several arrests for its sale are
both anticipated and feared
1t has been decided TO hold a grand re-
union of Washington county veterans in
Barre some time in September The date
will soon be fixed, and as it will be the first
reunion of the kind held during the past
ten years, special efforts will be put forth to
make it a memorable and enjoyable occa-
sion.
The boys who went from Barre to Rut-
land, last Wednesday, to compete in the
bicycle races had everything their own
way. Welsh won the fve-mile race, George
! Wheeler the two-mile race, and Wheeler
and Walsh the relay race. Wheeler and
Sherburne rode from Rutland TO Barre on
their wheels.
Samuel Stacy was 10 have been tried last
Thursday morning for third offence of in
toxication, but skipped early that morning,
! teoNTINuRD ON FOURTH PAeE.l