The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-19
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTER ESTING RESUME or
CURRENT Events.
Barre.

The annual excursion to Keths grove
occurred yesterday
The Enterprise is well settled in its COM
modious new home on Elm street.
yankee Luck" was entered for the
races at Worcester Mass, on Tuesday.
The failure of Peter b. Fraser throws over
twenty stone cutters out of employment.
Buel j. Lamb is at home from Concord,
n. H., where he has fine position in a rail-
road office.
Lightning struck the spire of St. Monica's
church last Monday evening. The damage
was slight
Attention is called to the advertisement
of the Granite Savings Bank and Trust
Company in another column.
Ward & Douglass are grading the branch
to be built above the trottng park extend
ing to the sheds of A. E. Batchelder.
The locomotive Salisbury got off the turn
table in the Central Vermont yard last
Friday. 1t took till Saturday noon to get
things in shape again.
Austin Hazen, Jr., of Richmond visited
last week at the home of Charles A. Smith
He sails for Europe to-day, where he is to
study for the next Two years.
Rev. Alfred ii. Wheeler of Island Pond
exchanged last Sunday with Rev. S. B.
Blunt and administered the holy commun-
ion at the close of the morning service.
f. w. STANYAN has purchased the interest
of j. b. Brewster of Oskaloosa, Ia, in the
Brewster buggy jack, in which the genial
railway superintendent sees prospective
thousands.
The work of erecting the new block for
d. Il. Sortwell, corner Main street and
Depot square, is being pushed under the
superintendent of Cheever Brothers, the
contractors.
Frank Yawtaw has sued Q. O. Calef of
Washington for $1,000 damages. Caef re-
Gently struck Yawtaw with hammer,
breaking his arm. The case will be tried at
the September term of Washington county
court.
The statue of Memory" to be shipped
next week to JENNIE & Melbuch, Utica, n
Y, by G.. H. More & Co., is an exceptionally
fine piece of work. 1t was cut by Louis
Baldini, an expert sculptor, weighs $500
pounds, and is seventy-tive inches in height.
conference of the ministers and dele
gates of the neighboring Baptist churches
was held here yesterday to recognize Rev.
William Fuller, former Free-will Baptist,
as a regular Baptist minister. After the
conference the ministers and delegates took
"A trip to the quarries.
n. ID. Phelps returned from Boston last
Thursday. He was naturally much elated
on Friday evening. when a telegram in
formed him that " Yankee Luck " had won
park. The best time made by that fleet
footed animal was ,: %.
A half barrel of ale and a quantity of
whiskey were seized last Wednesday even
ing by Officer Mason at the kitchen bar
room of John Omero on Smith meadow.
Officers Mason and Buchanan also raided
the ranch of Angelo Braggi on Cleveland
Avenue and confscated a barrel of ale. The
liquor was spilled,
The Universalists of Washington county,
with their friends of the Church of the
Messiah, Montpelier, and people from Gale
dona county and Woodsville, n. H., are to
hold grand reunion picnic at Owls Head
on the Wells River railroad, on Friday,
July 2S. There will be speeches, recita-
tons and music. Train leaves Barre at
s (: 80 A. NJ, and Montpelier at A. NJ See
posters.
DIR. j. Henry Jackson has been appointed
one of the judges in the manufacturing de-
partment of the Worlds Fair The exhibit
of monumental work from Barre is included
in the group to which DR.. Jackson has been
assigned. No better selection could have
been made, and the people of Barre, espe-
cially the manufacturers who have work on
exhibition at Chicago, are much pleased
with the appointment.
IL things go on in Barre as they have OF
late iron hitching posts and granite monu-
ments will have to be locked up at night.
Two rose bushes in bloom We're stolen one
night last week from the yard of Deacon A.
NJ. Jackman. The judge will gladly give
months wages to any one who will give
him information that will lead to the con-
viction of the thief, and woe to him when
he comes before Mr.. Jackman for a hearing.
Mrs, Cynthia Mary Wood died last Thurs
day evening at the residence of DIR. D.
Henry Jackson aged seventy.three years
| Mrs Wood was a daughter OF the late
James Kinney, and was born in Barre,
October II, 1890. In 1913 she married Abel
Wood, who died in 1876, Since the death
of her husband she has lived with Mrs. j.
Henry Jackson, her only surviving daugh-
ter. She was sister of the late Liberty L.
Kinney. Mrs. Wood has been lifelong
member Of the Congregational church. and
was always active in good works Oh
cheerful, sunny disposition, her presence
was a benediction to all who knew her
Her funeral was held Saturday afternoon
from the residence of Dr. Jackson, Rev H.
Tenney OF Waterbury officiating and the