The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME or
CURRENT Events.
Barre.

at their armory last evening.
George Mcfarland took advantage of the |
cold weather last week and filled his ice |
houses.
Rev. 9. S. Nickerson was in Boston last |
week, making arrangements to move his |
family there.
The Caledonian choir, of which James
Grant is leader, will sing at a concert in |
Burlington this evening.
j. Desmond of Aver Junction, Mass.
has purchased the black mare Spider, for
merly owned by f. A. Stay ton.
Rev. L, Nj. Hardy of Bishop Hopkins
Hall, Burlington, oficiated last Sunday at
the Mission of the Good Shepherd.
Miss Eliza Sowles and children went to
Keene, N. f., last Saturday, to remain
through the winter with her mother.
owen Hutchinson has taken the place of
Clinton Beede in the school at East Barre.
The latter is i'll with nervous prostration
The Methodists are to hold series of re-
vival meetings, commencing January 1, in
which several out-of-town workers will
participate.
A public installation of the officers of
Crandall Relief Corps and G. S. Page Camp
Sons of Veterans will be held the evening
of January 10.
The two new snow-rollers, recently pur-
chased by the town of Whitcomb Brothers,
do good service, and have been kept pretty
constantly in use Of late.
Rev. e w. Cummings OBLIGATED at the
funeral of John ingram last Thursday af-
ternoon. The members of the Granite Cut
ters' Union attended in body.
The Universalist. Ladies' Union cleared
| over 500 at their recent art and loan exhi-
| bition. The ladies propose to hold series
of sociables the coming months.
George Mckenzie, Alexander Mccormick
| Duncan Mcmillan and G. w. Mcmillan,
| f..~ A
land last Wednesday, on the Teutonic
Principal A. w. PIERCE, of Goddard Semi
nary, attended the wedding in Boston, last
Wednesday, of John Pattie and Miss Ger
trude Way, former students at Goddard.
The members of Crandall Post and Gran
dali Relief Corps gave A. j. Dudley pound
| party, last Friday evening, which proved a
vertable Santa Claus to him at this time.
The selectmen have recently paid the fol-
lowing claims for damages done to sheep by
| dogs: John McClaflin, 81; Malcolm Gamble,
$780, David Bowles, Sc; w. A. Smith,
$40.
Crandall Relief Corps will hold a memo
rial service this evening in Grand Army
hall, in memory of Mrs. Lucy Wood and
Miss Sophia Wood, to which the public is
invited.
The socalled liquor seized at the dom-
| Giles of B. Thomasi and Mrs Peter Salvetti
to the town agent, and Justice Boyce or
dered it spilled.
Among the students at Tufts College,
home for the holidays, are Charley Wells,
L. G.. Blanchard, Philip Austin and Frank
Gale Mr.. Wells preached at Felchville,
last Sunday, on his way home.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. George B.
Persons are planning to assist them in cele-
bratng the twentieth anniversary of their
marriage, next Saturday evening, at their
home on the East Barre road.
The track at the Green Mountain trotting
park has been put in excellent shape for
speeding horses, by means of rolling and
scraping, and several of the crack trotters
of Barre are exercised daily there.
The store of Hayden & Gould, in Gordon
block, received wetting. down with hot
water, last Thursday forenoon, caused by
the pipes above getting disconnected while
a new radiator was being put into the office
of j. w. Gordon.
Miss Blanche Skinner and W. A. Lebour-
reau took first prizes at the whist party
| held in Bolster hall, last Thursday even
ing, with Mrs. f. G.. Rowland and Daniel
Mcleod at the end of the procession The
next one will be held tomorrow evening.
Every body is taking hold with will to
make the New Years ball, to be held next
Tuesday evening in Boster's hall, large
sized success. A concert will be given
from half past seven to nine by the Mont
pelier orchestra, after which dancing will be
the order.
Officer Shepard arrested Matthew Gar
vim at Graniteville, last Wednesday, and
the next morning he faced offended justice
| charged with plain drunk. The court &C.
| Cepted the 90 stranger racket and the SIG 81
that Garvin was obliged TO put up for sec
ond offence
The business men, and people of Barre
generally, appreciate the enterprise of Post
master Wells IN sending team to Mont
pelier every Sunday morning for the mail.
f. j. Gale runs an express team for that
purpose, and will carry passengers, II any
such are belated in Barre or Montpelier.
The following have been elected Of
ficers of the Universalist society for the
year ensuing: E. w. Bisbee, chairman; DR..
H. E. Packer, clerk; j. w. Gordon, S. D..
l.. Bates, treasurer; John Dix, collector;
Homer Fits and g. n. Kenyon, auditors
The services at the Universalist church,
last Sunday, were tinged with sadness
because of the fact that it was the last Sum
day Rev. G. S. Nickerson would otficiate
as pastor. Rarely is pastorate of a few
months productive of such a warm per-
sonal attachment as exists between Mr..
Nickerson and the members of his church
in Barre, and his departure is sincerely re-
GREETED by all classes and conditions of peo-
pie. Mr. Nickerson's address is Is Arthur
street, Somerville, Mass
At the semi-annual meeting of the local
Epworth League, held last Thursday even
ing, the following officers were elected
President Clinton w. Huntington; first
vice.president, department of spiritual
work, w. w. Jennings; second vice-presi-
dent, department of mercy and help, Mrs.
B. b. Jackson third vice president depart
ment of literary work, Miss Edith Barnes
fourth vice-president, department of social
work, Miss Alice Beckley; treasurer, Edwin
Sowden; secretary, Mary White; organist,
Miss Mabel Gale; cornetist, b. b. Jackson.
G. o. Staples of Meriden, Conn, state
counselor of the United American Work
men, was in Barre last week, and Wednes-
day evening, in Boyce's hall, instituted a
lodge of Daughters of Liberty, an auxiliary
to the above-named order. The officers
elected will be installed next Friday even
ing, and are as follows Counselor, Mrs. g.
w. Steele; assistant counselor; Mrs. Fred
Edwards; vice counselor, Mrs. A. e. Gid
den; assistant vice counselor, Mrs. Victor
W. Curtis; recording secretary Miss Ida
Colburp treasurer, Mrs. j. A. r. Glidden
guide, Mrs. Bert Royce; inside protector,
Mrs. #. II. Johnson; outside protector, III.
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