The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-13
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RES U.HE or
CURRENT EVENTS.
Barre.


There are over seven hundred pupils in
the Spaulding graded school.
Judge A. NJ. Jackman left on Monday for
Bridgeport, Conn, to visit G.. w. Jackman,
his son.
The holiness meetings are now held in
Central House hall every afternoon and
evening.
Page Brothers have several horses en-
tered for the races at the ST. JohnSbury fair
this week.
William A. Bigeow and Miss Lillian l.
Breno were married last week by Rev. G.
w. Longren
II. f. Dickenson has disposed of his
painting business and expects to move to
Bridgeport, Conn.
Ibid Man Fall in the Garden of Eden"
will be the theme of Rev. c. S. Nickerson's
sermon next Sunday evening
Mrs. w. H. Eastman went to Boston last
week, where she is to resume her studies in
the Boston Conservatory of Music.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Fits have gone to
New Jersey to remain four weeks, hoping
the change will benefit Mrs. Fits health.
The Graniteville parish has presented
Rev. s. B. Blunt with a horse and buggy
which is aptly called /" a missionary team" :"
The September number of the Monumental
NelCS, published at Chicago, has full page
illustration of the exhibit of Barre granite
at the Worlds Fair.
James Ingram leaves for Chicago, this
week, to place in position the large granite
spire recently shipped to that city from the
sheds of f. l.. Smith & Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Austin were given a
surprise party last week by about twenty of
their friends who left an elegant mantel
clock with the newlywedded couple.
The store in the Sortwel block, corner
OF has
rented by the American Clothing Company
OF Burlington. The annual rental is 5000.
The officers of the new hook and ladder
company are T.. NJ. Wheeler foreman w.
F. Colby and NJ. l. Towne, assistants; DR..
c. M. Scribner, secretary, and Frank j.
Martin. treasurer.
Prof. A. w Pierce, Rev. c. s. Nickerson
and w. III. Gladding are three of the nine
delegates from Vermont TO the national
Universalist convention, TO be held October
Ii, at Washington, d, c.
A special train was run from Gran
itevile and Barre to Montpelier, Tuesday
evening, when Rt. Rev. Alexander Burgess,
Bishop Of Quincy, confirmed large class
from Barre at Christ church.
Rev. William Jackson of Kingston, Ont,
is visiting DR.. j Henry Jackson, his uncle.
He preached last Sunday in the Congrega-
tional church before large congregation,
and created most favorable impression.
Evening service was resumed at the u nj
versalist church last Sunday evening, when
Rev. G. S. Nickerson spoke on " How the
World Came to Be, the first in a series of
Sunday evening lectures to be delivered by
him.
III. f. Cutler of Hardwick and b. &. Web
ster have made an exchange of their busi-
ness interests. Mr.. Cutler will come To
Barre to run the livery business formerly
owned by Mr.. Webster, and the latter will
go TO Hardwick to embark in the grocery
business.
Miss Clara L. Houghton of Boston, who
has been the guest of DR.. and Mrs. Nj. ID.
Lamb during the past summer, has been
engaged as instructor of vocal music at
Goddard Seminary. Miss Houghton also
sings in the Unitarian choir at Burlington
every Sunday.
The Washington county veterans reunion
| will be held in Odd Fellows hall, Barre,
Friday, September -, Preparations for a
rousing good time are in progress under the
direction of members of Crandall Post.
Governor Fuller and Hon. w. p. Dilling'
ham will be among the speakers at the
camp fire in the evening.
The meetings Of the state Christian En-
! deavor convention, to be held in Barre, Oc-
! tober II and IS, will be in the opera house
! Several hundred delegates from all parts OF
the state will be present, and eminent
| speakers from abroad will deliver addresses,
among them Mr.. Shaw of Boston, treasurer
of the national association.
A man giving the name of W, \. Powell
Lowell, VT, is under arrest in Barre
! charged with horse-stealing. Last Saturday
morning he drove into the yard of w. w
Bellivue at Graniteville and wanted to ex-
change a good horse, carriage and harness
! for cheaper one. The trade was made,
but later Powell returned, hitched up the
best team and drove away. He was cap
tured that afternoon by Deputy Sheriff
Camp and brought back To Barre. IL is
thought the team he had in his possession
was stolen at Brandon.
Thomas McLane of Graniteville went tC
DR.. O. f. Camp, last Friday evening, for q