The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTIN RESUME or
CURRENT EVENTS.
Barre.

DdEEo.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. f. L.
Mower died last Sunday.
Mrs. j. f, Cushman of Burlington visited
Mrs. w II. Messer last week.
One hundred twenty-five tickets to Bos-
ton were sold in Barre last Wednesday.
The Barre Epworth League will visit the
Montpelier league next Friday evening.
Several will be baptized and received into
the Methodist church at the service next
Sunday morning.
A. s. Cheever, with Houghton Dutton
Boston, is visiting in Barre, accompanied
by Mrs. Cheever.
The subject of Rev. c. S. Nickerson's
lecture next Sunday evening will be The
Coat OF Many Colors."
Joseph Lowry died last Wednesday, aged
twenty-five years. The body was taken to
Leeds, p. O., for burial.
Mrs Benjamin Richards returned to
Manchester, n. H., Monday, after visiting
q. w. Bassett, her brother.
Dan j. McIver, well known in Barre,
was recently married at Rockland, Cal, to
Miss Hattie Smith of that city.
Dr. j NJ. Ryder of West Randolph has To-
Gated in Barre, and it is rumored that he is
to open hotel "a, North Barre.
A job of work which required three cars
for transportation was shipped to Cum
IllIRSNlllci O.i lhob WtCh, W ~ i1 NAhi'h'
Dr. and Mrs George Ii. Newton OF Iras.
burgh were guests of Mr. and Mrs Charles
Swasey, parents of Mrs. Newton, last week.
The bankrupt stock of f. w. Jackson is
being sold at auctiOn each afternoon and
evening, with o. II. Hale welding the ham
mer.
DR.. c. w. Steele goes to Boston, this
morning, to attend a meeting Of Mobiles Of
the Mystic Shrine in that city tomorrow
evening
Mrs. A. I. Skinner will give report Of
the recent state Sunday-school convention
at Rutland, at the Methodist Sunday school
next Sunday.
A horse owned by Harley Cutler was
driven so hard by X. Markham last Fri
day that il died soon after. The animal
was valued at 500.
The Woman's Guild of the Mission of
the Good Shepherd will hold box So
ciable on Thursday evening at the mission
hall in Nichols block.
The little daughter of DR.. and Mrs. w.
Mann was badly burned in the mouth, last
Thursday by attempting to swallow
spoonful Of boiling syrup.
The Junior League OF the Methodist
church gave a very successful entertain
ment Monday evening under leadership of
Miss Lucy Cave, the superintendent'
The Empire Granite Company sent for
waru, last week, lHe ldSt sh' pihohs VI Vio
family vault for Gen Il. n. Alger, Detroit,
Mich. It required seven cars to transport
it.
The barns OF j. A. Gold'hury at Thwings-
Vile were burned last Monday evening,
together with live cows, a quantity OF hay
aud grain and twenty-five cords OF wood.
Ocigln unku)wn.
Both of the quarries OF the Vermont
Grauite Company have been connected
with the telephone exchange. A derrick
of fifty tons capacity, with a ninety foot
mast, was placed in position at their dark
quarry last week.
The erection OF the new Baptis church
it will probably be so far advanced by cold
weather that the work on the interior can
be carried on during the winter.
The Avenue House was raided last Thurs
day night by Officers Rowland, Nichols and
Shepard. In a bed lounge they found