The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-26
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUNE or
CURRENT Events.
Barre.

". E ISlCUdTuSOHs
Charles ID. Persons and wife visited her
parents in Chelsea last week.
Concrete walks are being laid on Church,
Main, Summer and Elm streets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Fifeld of Claremont,
n. H.. are visiting relatives in town.
Charles Barbeiri paid $50 and costs last
week for keeping liquor with intent to
sell.
DR.. Fl. G. Darling of South Ryegate WIS.,
tied DR.. j. B. Darling, his brother, last
week.
Much. needed repairs to the platform at
Central Vermont station were made last
week.
Rev. II. 1. Cushman of Providence, II. l.,
will preach in the Universalst church next
Sunday.
p. o. Wheaton is to shut down his stone
works for one month while he takes in the
Worlds Fair
Torrent Hose Company, No. /, partici-
pated in the parade at the fremen's tourna-
ment at st. Albans last Monday.
Union lodge, knights of Pythas, of Hard
wick visited Vincentia lodge of Barre last
evening and worked the third degree.
Orvis b. Batchelder has sold the mill
| privilege with two acres of land to Mr.
Emerson, who is building residence.
The children of Albert b. Downing
formerly of Barre but now of Aver, Mass,
are spending few days with DR.. G. n. Bar
| ber.
Ward & Douglass have the bank wall
near the Spauldng graded school building
nearly completed, and it is a most creditable
| piece of work.
The eighth annual picnic of Clan Gordon
will be held at the trotting park on Satur-
day, August 3. An interesting programme
of sports has been arranged.
Nelson Jackson formerlv clerk in the
drug store of Charles A. Smith, was one of
the graduates at the medical college in Bar
lington last week, and will practice in Mary
Fletcher Hospital.
Three large pieces of finished granite at
the works OF Stevens & Reid were ruined
last Saturday night by miscreants who
broke off the corners with hammers and de-
faced the lettering
Several of the best bicycle riders in New
England are booked for the races at the
annual meeting of the Vermont division,
league of American wheelmen, to be held
at Barre, August 3.
The reported failure of j. j. Sullivan, a
granite dealer of Minneapolis, Mimi, Gre
| ated an uneasy feeling in some localities in
Barre, as it is said that Sullivan has $4,000
worth of work placed among local dealers
The tax bills are in the hands of the col
lector and must be paid before October 1S to
secure the four per cent discount. The to-
tai tax inside the village limits is 50 50 on a
dollar of the grand list, outside it is S1.3l
on the dollar
W. L. Carrick and L. w. Watson had a
bicycle race at the trotting park last Friday
that attracted a large crowd. CarrcB
made half-mile in minute and forty
seconds, regular Yankee Luck " clip
and won the race.
Rev. S. B. Blunt held service last Sunday
evening at the house of John Chynoweth il
Granitevile. 1t was the first Episcopa
, service ever held on the hill on Sunday, anC
an effort is being made to have Mr.. Blum
supply regularly there.
; Loren Watson, prominent farmer o
! Barre, died last Monday. He had been on
; of the leading members of the Methods
/, church for many years. His funeral viii
! ! be held from his late home this morning
, Rev. W. r. Davenport officiating.
Six new streets were laid out last wee
1 on Smith meadow near the buildings OF tn
Producers Granite Company. They ar
y named Howard, Hyde, Pike, George, Ger
ter and Oswald. Several desirable buildin
< lots are in the vicinity of the new thorough
$ fares.
n Winslow w. Avery of Plymouth, Mass
] has been in town for the past week, al
4 companied by his wife and two children
r llr. Avery is one of the publishers of tn
:. Old Colony Memorial and is the postmastt
n of Plymouth. He returned to his home la'
9 Friday night.
u The Universalsts are to join in the unio
picnic at Owls Head next Friday. III
II train will leave Barre at s; so A. NJ. An e,
r cellent programme will be rendered at Il
l. stand at the foot of the mountain, after dil
g ner, which will include remarks by j.
,f Gordon and Quintou Cook, and recitatiC
g by Miss Grace Page.
s. Allen Bates and William Farwell we
q the only owners of horse-sheds under I'll
I H. 81
= We're so ungaliaut as to refuse to sell the
u 10 the ladies of that denomination. that Il
" unsightly things might be moved ava
- All the others have been purchased by Il
'e ladies and will be torn down at once
/. Crandall Relief Corps will give a par
|, next Friday in honor of Miss Sophia Woo
,r daughter of the late Mrs. Lucy Woo
n Miss Wood is the oldest member of the c
n ganization, and on that day will celebra
"A the 18th anniversary of her birthday. III
+. mother was the oldest member of the ord
ia in the United States at the time of h
ia death
et The hearing in the case of State Y. Jol
1T and Murdo Murray of Graniteville W
No finally concluded last Thursday in d
Of office of Barney & Hoar. w. e. Barn,
e. and E. w Bisbee appeared for the sta
c. and #. l.. Laird of Montpelier for the
rs spondents. The former was fined So al
" costs and the latter S10 they being foul
1t guilty of only simple breach of the peaC
~ Lightning struck the house occupied
10 l.. A Averill last Saturday noon, creatil
. considerable havoc, but fortunately not Sc
a. a. ting fire to the building The bolt stru,
y the chimney, ran down a rafter and out
20 20 water spout, melting the latter as
~ passed. There was no one in the hou
40 but domestic at the time. and to say tn
ie ,S she was frightened but feebly expresses Ii
u feelings.
r The reports of the recent discharge
al granite cutters in Barre have been great
a. exaggerated and have created a wrong il
al preston. Business is not driving, by Al
Il. means, and about fifty men in all have be,
ar temporarily laid off, but the prospect of
le general shutdown OF of numerous falur
ar exists only in the vivid Imagination of ct
A. tain individuals who know nothing abo
or the facts in the case.
m In its Barre items of last Saturday, d
n Free Press says, "A new granite curbil
IS and concrete walk is being laid on Ma
g street from the Gordon block to dep
t. square" This is indeed news to the peop
r who have been obliged to travel in d
middle of the road from Gordon block
depot square since the middle of la
June, or walk over sharp granite chi
while the work of completing this niue