The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-27
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTER ESTING RES UUE or
CURRENT EVENTS.


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Mrs. B. W. Braley returned from Chicago
last week, where she has spent the summer.
Mrs. George II. Blake Of Barton was the
| guest last week of Mrs. G.. b. Whiting, her
sister.
Granite City Court of Foresters is making
| preparations for "A grand ball in the near
| future.
A. ID. Burgess and George johnson took
a carload Of horses to North Sutton, N. II.
| last Friday.
S. r.. Emerson of Orange has purchased
of Henry Recor his residence in Brook
| Ign " for $3.50
Mrs. G. n. Kenyon attended the funeral
! Of Mrs. G, X. Genness, her sister.in-law, at
Lyndonvile last week.
G. II. Brown and wife have gone to Port
land, Me, hoping the change will be ben
efcial to Mr.. Browns health.
"Charlie Co." owned by Ad." Batchel-
der, took second money at the Northtield
| fair in the race in the 80 class,
Because of the frequent depredatons
among the stone sheds ON Burnham meadow,
a night Waterman has been put in that To-
cality.
The postponed game Of football between
the Goddard and St. Johnsbury teams will
be played on the Goddard campus next
| Monday.
Miss Matte Hogan went to St. Adams
Her place in the telegraph office is taken by
l.. G. Howe.
The Montpelier a. Wells River railroad
will run "A special train to Barre next Friday
evening after the performance at Blanchard
opera house.
The Epworth League held Worlds Fair
meeting last Friday evening, when those of
| its members who have been to Chicago this
summer made interesting remarks.
Tho I,a6iaai CIuh will uiNa hnn-bon
party and dance at Bolster's hall next week
| Thursday evening, for which the Mont
pelier orchestra will furnish music.
A sale of Vermont bred horses will take
place on the trotting park the third week in
October. If successful, il is proposed to
hold an annual sale in Barre in future
Fred Whitcomb's new house corner of
North Main and Brook streets, is nearly
ready for occupancy. 1t will be one of the
finest residences in that part of the town.
Rev. G. S. Nickerson will preach memo
rial sermon next Sunday morning in mem
DRY of those members of the Unitarian
church and parish who have died during
the past year.
Peter Rigoa one of the Italians who have
been disclosed on of late, was convicted last
Monday morning of one first offence of sell
ing and fined S25 with costs. He appealed
his case to county court.
DIR. G f. Camp, the health officer, is au
thority for the statement that there ha,
been but one case of typhoid fever in Barr,
village in lS93-a record that compares mos
favorably with some former years.
Deputy United States Marshal Faiey o
Burlington was in town last week on tn,
trail of liquor sellers who are doing bust
ness without government license. Som,
interesting results of his visit are not i'm
probable.
Mrs. Charles H. Rouelle died last week o
consumption, aged forty-one years. He
funeral was held Thursday morning from
st. Monica's church, Rev. Father McIaugh
lin officiating, and the burial was in tn,
Catholic cemetery.
The marriage of Frank Hausch Of Cleve
land, o. and Miss Sadie Averill, which oc
Cured last Saturday at the residence of A
b. Averill, father of the bride, was quite
social event. Rev. j. A Sherburne was tn,
!, officiating clergyman.
John Wilson was arrested last Frida,
evening by Policeman Buchanan for
J straight case of intoxication. The justice
before whom he decorated took up colec
ton of S10.5l for the benefit of the state
; and Wilson was allowed to depart.
DR.. j. Henry Jackson has recently pre-
J scented to the Congregational church tw
} handsome Shields which have been place,
! near the entrances to the edifice. The,
) were designed by DR.. Jackson, and give tn
: hours of Sunday and weekday worship.
5 George Jamison and Archibald Cameron
' were both drunk last Thursday and wer
run in by Officer Rowland They wer
0 amerced the usual amount the next morn
ing and Cameron has proceeded on his wa
to Scotland, whore he was heading for whe
the load he was carrying overcame him.
n L. Boyden, chairman of the board c
> trustees of the Randolph Normal SChOo
3 and Professor Edward Conant, the prime
pal were in Barre last week and locke
over the Spaulding Graded School buildin
= with view to embodying some of its eX
cellencies in their new building which the
are to erect to replace the one recent
> | burned.
j. w Haggerty and j. p. Nickerson, tn
two experienced men who are at presen
| engaged in getting ont a souvenir edition q
2 the VERMONT WATCHMAN, have been il
Barre a couple of days during the pas
week looking over the prospects of gettn
ont IA similar edition devoted to Barre. TIL
! business and professional men take to
) kindly, and the project will undoubtedly
soon take shape
A systematic liquor raid among the ter
ement houses was made last Saturday after
noon. AT an Italians domicile ON Rive
q street quantity of beer and liquor was st
. cured. 1t is said that Intoxicating liquor
illegally sold in more than sixty teuemeu
n houses within the village limits IT. is to b
hoped that the efforts Of the Law and Orde
= league in suppressing this traffic Will h
crowned with success.
e NJ S. Stone, state superintendent of edit
cation, is to speak at the county teachers
+ institute at Barre, Thursday morning, o
~ How to Make the Most of an Institute,
and Friday morning on "The Natur;
;, Method in Reading and How TO Teach II.
y Professor S. j. Blanpied will speak Frida
forenoon on Reading, Its Place in Schol
Il Work" The opening address this evenin
IS will be delivered by Principal E, NJ Smtl
If ID. D., of the Vermont Methodist Seminar,
on Ideals in Education"
/ The WATCHMAN reporter called o
g Father Brelivet last Saturday to congratl
70 late him upon his safe return to Barre aftt
r, an absence of nearly three months. I'll
10 reverend gentleman left Barre June
If last and sailed for Havre, France, the 70
lowing Saturday. He spent most of I'll
time he was in France AT the home of h
# aged mother and of his childhood at II
N cranan, department of Finistere, althoug
I he spent some time in Belgium and Ho
+ land. Father Brelivet returned on the ell
D. CANT new steamer La Turaine of the Frenc
Transatlantic Line, recently built at a co
of 100000 The full force of the souther
tornado was encountered, but the good sh
behaved splendidly, and made the ru