The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTER ESTING RESUME or
CURRENT EVENTS.
Barre.

The funeral OF Miss Hattle Blgel0W is TO
be held this morning.
Charles Brown spent the Fourth at his
home in Union, Maine.
Granite sheds have been erected near the
trotting park by j. G. Daniels
Ninety-seven tickets were sold for the ex-
cursion to Weirs last Saturday.
Mrs. o. II. Hale took her Sunday. school
class to Benjamin Falls last week.
Miss Mabel Brown of South Hardwick is
the guest of Mrs. George A. Houston
Harry johnson, the alleged horse thief, is
out on bail, pending his trial July 10.
Charles II. Wells is to supply pulpit at
Felchville during the summer vacation.
Frank Lamb of Boston, of the Pinkerton
agency, visited DR.. NJ. ID. Lamb last week.
Philo Lambkin of Riceburg, p. O., &C.
companied L. +. Aldrich to Barre last week.
S. Fontana & Co., granite dealers, are to
sell out their stock and go out of the bust
| ness.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
| has been petitioned to make Barre a night
Office.
j. w. Gordon was at Hanover, N. H., last
week to attend a reunion of his college
| class.
| Charles A. Smith and son attended COM
mencement exercises at Burlington last
week.
Miss Belle Stafford left for Chicago last
Wednesday, expecting to be away several
months.
Samuel Cults has purchased of H. o.
Camp, for $4,000, his residence on Highland
| Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Ketchum of Sd
lem, Mass, are visiting at the home of j. n.
| Ketchum.
Rev. c. s. Nickerson spoke on "Our Lib
| Hat ia 1naN St,,,
day evening.
The Central Vermont railroad is laying a
side-track to the Producers Granite Com
panys works.
| Mrs. John NcPhee and son arrived from
Scotland last week. They are visiting Mrs.
Donald McPhee.
Rev. Harvey Webster of Swanton as
sisted in the services at the Methodist
church last Sunday.
An annual dividend of six per cent. has
been declared by the Granite Savings Bank
and Trust Company.
Andrew J. Canning was one of the grad
yates in the business course at the Univer-
sity OF Vermont last week.
H. s. Hopkins went to Concord, N, H.,
last week, where he is at work for the New
England Granite Company.
j. E. Walsh took first prize last week at
White River Junction in the bicycle race,
W. G. French and o. A. Gale fourth.
| l.. F. Aldrich was brought to Barre last
week Tuesday evening from Stanbridge,
Pc, He is still in critical condition.
The Barre National Bank has declared a
semi-annual dividend of three dollars per
share of its capital stock, payable after
July 1.
Mrs. w. H. Eastman has returned from
| Boston, where she took course at the Con-
servatory of Music in piano and organ
| tuning.
| F. w. Stanyan went to Boston last Sat
urday evening to spend Sunday at Charles
| town, Mass, where Mrs. Stanyan is at
present.
Ralph Arey and Florence Nightingale
were married last Thursday by Rev. G. w
Longren. They are in Montreal on a brief
wedding trip.
Arthur A. Clark of the American Fire In.
surance Company was in town last week to
adjust the loss sustained by that company
in the Page Brothers fire.
Mrs. G. j. Bailey returned to Barre last
Saturday evening from Chelsea, Mass,
where she has been visiting at her old
home for the past three weeks.
William Luther has secured the position
of foreman in the weaving room in the
wooden mandatory of Joseph Gould &
Sons, at Gouldsville, and will move his
family there this week.
Canton Vinton and the Daughters of Re
| becca have made arrangements for an ex.
cursion to Ausabe Chasm next Tuesday
July IL. The trip is fine one, and includes
ride on Lake Champlain.
G. S. Currier and H. A. Richardson were
engaged last week in assisting in the sur
vey for sidetrack from East Montpelier
station, on the Montpelier and Wells River
railroad, to the sheds of Jarvis & Willard.
Rev. f. l.. Goodspeed, the Memorial Day
orator at Barre, sailed last week for Europe
He will visit Scotland, England, Holland
Switzerland, Germany, Italy and France
and expects to return about September |.
A reunion of graduates of Goddard Sem
mary now residing in the West is to bt
held in Chicago next Friday. Hon. A. w
Dana of Topeka, Kan, former principal
is to be the orator of the occasion and III. III
Whittemore the poet.
Among those leaving Barre to-day for Mont
real to attend the National Christian En-
deavor convention are Rev. G. w. Longren
Alex Dunbar, Mrs. S. S. Ballard anC
Misses G. Mills and Edith Averill
1t is said that the Italian who was 81
badly cut up in the drunken row May IA
and since reported dead in Montreal, is still
very much alive, and his supposed muir
derers. who fled the town after his deatl
was reported, have returned to Barre.
The officers OF the New England Order o
Protection to be installed this evening are
e. NJ. Bugbee, S. p. W.. Mrs. Nellie Kid
der W.; Mrs. Anna P Mudgett, V. w.
j. II. Cook, f. S.. John Robbins, 7. The
installing officer will be e. q. Smith
Professor A. w. PIERCE, Professor H. A
futile, Misses Nadine Nichols, Flora Smitl
and Nina Brown left for Chicago last Sat
urday afternoon. They will attend tn,
Goddard alumni reunion there next Friday
Professor Peirce will return to Barre abon
August l.
A special freight train composed of tire,
carloads of granite left Barre last Sunda,
over the Montpelier and Wells River rail
road, containing the dressed granite for thu
Estey vault at Brattleboro. The larges
stone weighed fifteen tons. Its dimension
were eleven feet three inches wide by six
teen feet long.
The livery stable of Page Brothers Oh
Bridge street was Quilted by fire last Wed
nesday afternoon. A load of hay had beef
driven into the barn and on loosening tn
binder the driver discovered that his loa,
was on fire, it probably having caught fir
from locomotive sparks. The building wa
a mass of flames before the fire department
could reach the scene. There were thirty
nine horses in the barn, which were safel.
removed, although those hitched to the Loaf
were badly burned before the harness coul,