The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-30
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME OF
CURRENT EVENTS.
Barre.


A. B. Averill is building a house on
Church street
The foundation for new fountain is be-
ing laid in Barre cemetery.
Rev. G. o. Webster of Montpelier preached
for the Baptists last Sunday,
James o. Sowden of Hbernia, n j., is
clerk in the store OF w. II. Eastman.
A necktie party was held at the Congre-
gational vestry on Tuesday evening.
A union temperance meeting was held at
the opera house last Sunday evening.
George T. Badger has sold out his insur
ance business and expects to leave Barre.
A young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Coburn
Jones died last week of typhoid dysentery.
Crandall Relief Corps gave birthday
party to several of the members on Tuesday
DR.. J. Henry Jackson and family re-
turned from Chicago last Saturday evening.
The granite curbing has been extended
up the east side of the walk on Washington
street.
Mrs. Clarence Nourse was badly burned
last Wednesday by the explosion OF kero-
sene lamp.
The Methodist Sunday-school of South
Barre had picnic at Williamstown Springs
last Wednesday.
The members of Barre lodge OF Knights of
Pythias visited Union lodge at Hardwick
last Friday evening.
Rev. G. s. Nickerson has returned from
his vacation. He occupied the Universal
ist pulpit last Sunday.
Rev. G. s. Nickerson was one of the
speakers at the state Universalist conven-
tion at Northfeld on Tuesday
The annual meeting Of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union is to be held
this afternoon with Mrs. W. G. Jones.
1t was the infant son of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles f. Smith who was buried last week
and not Charles A. Smith as reported
W. A. Wheaton returned to St. Paul.
Mimi, last Friday after spending the sum
mer with Charles Wheaton, his father.
The time of holding the state Christian
Endeavor convention has been changed
from October IL and II to October II and IS.
| Barre is expecting the biggest kind of a
crowd on Thursday, when Forepaugh's cir
Gus will spread its canvas on the trotting
park.
The Christian Endeavor Society of Plain
| field were to have visited the quarries on
Tuesday, but rain necessitated postpone
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Harrington and daugh-
ter Ina, and Alvah Eastman and daughter
Eva, returned from Chicago last Friday
morning.
Rev. S. b. Blunt and wife attended a
meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of the
Episcopal church, held last week at St.
Johnsbury.
Thomas Flynn, in the employ of the EN-
! pire Granite Company, was painfully in
jured last Wednesday by falling on a steam
drill that was in operation.
The Methodists have raised $1,000
towards their new church editce and are
advertising for proposals for construction.
See elsewhere in this paper.
Mr.. s. X. Yatralsky, native of Bulgaria,
who is attending Harvard College, will de-
! liver lecture on Bulgaria at the Con-
| gregational church on Thursday evening.
Hon. L. f. Aldrich is reported as slowly
improving from the shock of paralysis re-
ceived by him last April at Stanbridge, p.
o., and his ultimate complete recovery is
looked for
The Free Methodists are holding an eight
days meeting on land owned by l.. NJ.
Averill on Hill street. The meetings
opened last Saturday evening and were
well attended on Sunday.
James Carry was seriously injured last
Wednesday by being hit by one of the en-
gnes of the Barre railroad. He was thrown
several feet, striking on his head. Garry
claims that the engineer was in fault in not
ringing the bell
The owner of Lady wilkins " refused
the offer of Bud" Austin of Winooski to
Wilkes " for a race for $500 a side, which
Austin was anxious to have come off in
Barre last Friday.
The members in Barre Of the Friendly
Aid Society, which went TO the wall two
years ago, have received small crumb
of comfort in a notice saying they will soon
be paid dividend of from 50 to SS, accord
ing to the amount paid in. The society
promised TO pay each member 500 six
months after joining. Some of them had
paid in $50 and will receive $3.50 as an
equivalent.
Clinton #. Holmes died last Wednesday
morning Of typhoid fever at the home of his
parents on Academy street, aged twenty
two years. Mr.. Holmes was taken i'll the
first of the month, while on vacation at
Old Orchard Beach, and on his return home
grew rapidly worse. His funeral was held
from his late home last Saturday morning,
Rev. Walter Dole OF Enfield N. H., officl-
ating, and the burial was in Barre cemetery.
Mr.. Holmes was one OF the sterling young