The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-02
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE,
INTERESTING RESUME or
CURRENT Events.
barre.

o. b. Boyce visited in Northumberland,
N. H., last week.
Mr.. and Mrs: 9. l.. Houghton are visit
ing in Lyme, n. II.
The Epworth League held picnic at
Berlin pond last Wednesday.
The suburban trains carried over $500
people to Montpelier last Wednesday.
Miss Irene Garland of Dorchester, Mass.
is the guest of Miss Mabel Richardson.
The cost of the new school building to be
erected on Summer street will be in excess
of $4,000.
A party of young people from Barre spent
last Sunday at the Lake View House, South
Woodbury..
John Omera was fined $50 and costs last
Friday by Justice Boyce for keeping liquor
with intent to sell.
A stone fume has recently been put in at
the fork shop of the Stafford & Holden Man
ufacturing Company
Mr.. and Mrs. John McCago attended the
funeral of Thomas McCago, a brother, at
Winooski last Wednesday.
Thomas Williams, president of the Ma
tional Granite Company, went to Chicago,
last week, on business trip
James Oswald and John r. Mckenzie
have recently purchased building lots on
Oswald street, on which they are to erect
residences.
Rev. E. w. Cummings was the principal
speaker at the union monthly temperance
meeting held last Sunday evening in the
opera house.
A union camp-meeting is in progress at
the camp-ground near Websterville. 1t will
continue over next Sunday, closing next
Tuesday evening.
G. j. Sheldon of Boston has purchased
of N. d. Phelps, for $1,000, the celebrated
trotter Yankee Luck" Mr. Phelps paid
$500 for the animal nine months ago.
The annual picnic of the Sunday.school
connected with the Mission of the Good
Shepherd will be held to-day at Benjamin
Falls. The train will leave Barre at nine
o'clock
Charles X. Tileston, formerly with Wells
* Lamson, has gone to Syracuse, n. Y. G.
j. Halves is to occupy the tenement in o.
ID. Shurtleff's house on North Main street,
vacated by Mr.. Tileston.
William B. Scott, formerly of Barre, died
last Sunday in Enfield, n H. ,.aged eighty
years Mr.. Scott was born in Barre, No
vember 81, 1918, and lived in Vermont for
fifty-fve years of his life. Four children
survive him.
The report that j. NJ. Sullivan, the retail
granite dealer of Minneapolis, MINI, had
failed, was not correct. Mr.. Sullivan denies
the statement in toto, and says that all con-
tracts which he has placed in Barre will be
carried out in full.
Charles Townshend was relieved of his
pocket book on the circus grounds at Mont
pelier last Wednesday afternoon 1t con-
tanned only ST. and as Charles had another
dollar in his inside pocket he was able to
see Columbus and the orang-outang.
The establishment of Luther Fairbrother,
at Graniteville, was searched last Thursday
by Policeman Camp, and quantity of lager
was seized. Farbrother was fined $50 and
ID
with intent to sell. He appealed the case to
county court.
The picnic under the auspices of Clan
Gordon, to be held next Saturday at the
trotting park, is sure to be as successful as
former ones have been, which is saying a
good deal. Clan Gordon will parade at
half past ten in the morning, carrying the
new banner lately presented to the clan by
the ladies' and escort their friends to the
grounds.
The following item in the Leader last
week would lead one to think that Rev. F.
II. Blunt had started gospel wagon, and
was travelling around the country singing
"glory songs: "Rev. and Mrs. F. II.
Blunt of the Richford Episcopal church.
visited Mr.. Blunt's brother, Rev. S. B.
Blunt, of Barre this week, coming from
Hardwick, where Mr.. Blunt preached Sun
day, in team, via Plainfield"
j. Parker Page died suddenly, last Thurs
day morning, of heart disease, at his home
on Silver street. aged seventy-four years
Mr.. Page came to Barre from Plaintield at
the age of fifteen years, and has ever since
resided here. He leaves two sons-Frank
of Barre, with whom he lived, and Abraham
of Boston. Mr.. Page was musician in the
band of the Eighth regiment, Vermont Vol.
unteers, and during the active years of his
life was a well-known veterinary surgeon.
His funeral was held from his late home
last Sunday, Rev. Lester Warren of North
Montpelier officiating.
The list of entries for the annual meeting
of the Vermont division, League of Amer
lean Wheelmen, to be held at Barre on
Thursday, is the largest ever known in the
state, and the success of the gathering is
assured Charles f. Nelson of Springfield,
Mass, the crack rider, will surely be pres
ent and contest for prizes for which he is
eligible. Among other noted riders entered
are: j. A. McDuffie, Maiden, Mass. Fred
r. Roberts, Concord, N H.; A. j. Caldwell,
Manchester n. H.; f. Barrow Stowe, Con-
ton, Mass; Henry w. Hall, Rovers, Con
cord, n. H.; Fred l.. johnson, Rovers,
Concord, n. H; w. G. Scofeld, Morris
Vile; Felix 9. Seguin, Capital Bicycle
Club, Montpelier, and the following mem
bers of the Barre Bicycle Club: w. G..
French, G. ID. French, j. G. Walsh Ora
A. Gale, George ID. Wheeler, Walter Thurs
ton, Clarence Kendrick W. A. Bishop,
Ernest ii. Jahnes.
Superintendent f. w. Stanyan was at
Wentworth, n. H., last week, where Mrs.
Stanyan is at present stopping. - Dan
iel Spaulding of Morrisville visited Mrs.
b. b. Halves, his sister, last week. -
Miss Matilda Lyon of Waterbury Center
visited Mrs. w. e. Halves, her sister, last
week. - DIR. G. f. Camp attended the
medical convention at Hanover, n. H.. last
week. 60 Mrs G. j. Bailey visited last
week in South Ryegate, - Editor Kins-
ley of the Leader visited his sister in Rut-
land over last Sunday. - Dwight Wells
is at home for brief vacation. - Miss
Ethel Higgins of Boston is the guest of Mrs.
w. III. Eastman. - Rev. H. III. Blunt
and wife of Richford were guests last week
of Rev. S. B. Blunt brother of the former.
60 Abner Woodward and wife of
Thompsonville, Conn, visited last week at
the homes of j. G. Harris and Bert Griffith
- Mrs. V. w. Curtis and Mrs. j. b.
Edgerton of Newton, Mass. her sister, are
visiting relatives in Randolph. - A. G.
Fisher of Chicago is visiting Mira Emma w
Lapoint, his sister. - Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Briggs of Manchester, n. H., visited
old friends in town last week.
South Barre.
On Monday a valuable horse owned by