The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-20
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTE X ESTING RES UWE or
CURRENT EVENTS.
Barre.

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A son was born last week to Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Dempster.
The Green Mountain Athletic Club held
dance at the Central House last Saturday
evening.
The Loyal Mountaineers will be presented
at the opera house by local talent some time
in January.
A union debating club is now in the in.
cubator and will probably soon be full
fledged chick
Frank P. Merrill of Boston, past grand
commander of the Sons of Veterans, visited
in town last week.
WE Scott has the agency OF the Waltou's
Vermont Register, and has them on sale at
the Enterprise office.
A memorial service for deceased mcmbers
will be held by Crandall Relief Corps next
Wednesday evening.
The Montpelier orchestra will furnish
music for the New Years ball, to be held in
Bolster hall January 2.
Charles A. Smith is able to be at his
place of business once more, after a severe
illness of two weeks with bronchitis.
Rev. Joseph Hamilton, presiding elder of
the ST. Johnsbury district, preached in the
Methodist church last Sunday evening.
The selectmen will be at the office of
Town Clerk Perry this afternoon to hear
claims and adjust damages done by dogs.
Miss Alice Beckley entertained the mem
bers of the local Epworth League at her
home on Beckley hill last Wednesday even
| ing.
Mrs. d. Lumsden Of New York delivered
a free lecture to mothers and daughters in
the Congregational vestry last Saturday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton n. Field have re-
| turned from their wedding trip. They will
be at home Wednesdays at their house, 2G
| Spaulding street.
The show window of Gould & Nichols
store is very attractive place these days.
and reflects great credit on the taste and
| good judgment of the owners.
Officers Buchanan and Mason made raids
at the residences of b. Thomasi and Mary
Salnetti, last Saturday evening, securing
considerable liquor and beer at each place.
The Ladies' Union of the Universalist
church will meet Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. NJ. ID. Lamb. This society will hold a
church reunion in the vestry on New Year.
day
w. E. Barney has been elected superin-
tendent of the Methodist Sunday-school; b.
b. Turner, assistant; Ezra j. Sowden, sec
Rotary; f, l.. Page, treasurer; and Miss
Alice Beckley, librarian.
G. NJ. Doten and his men set a large mon
ument last Wednesday in the cemetery at
| WllliamStOwn over the graves of Mr.. and
Mrs. Moses Ordway. 1t weighed thirty
tons, and was a cold job for zero weather.
The attendance was ninety-six at the
meeting of the Ladies' Whist Club, held last
week in Bolster's hall. Mrs. John Dillon and
Charles Davis took the first prizes The
boobies went to Miss Blanche Skinner and
G. l. Jackson.
Miss Etheynd Could a graduate OF the
Emerson School of Oratory, and Miss Kate
NJ. Healey, the well-known teacher of mu-
sic in Barre, gave a dramatic and musical
recital at the Universalist church, Tues
day evening, that deserved larger audi
ence than the one that listened to it.
The Restaurant Club has elected the fol-
lowing officers for the year ensuing: Pres
ident, Henry Kendall; vice president, Ii.
G. Kotton; general manager, Thomas Baird
secretary, Dan Il. Bisbee; treasurer, Frank
Duffy; sergeant-at-arms, owen Pierce del
egate to state encampment, James Ingram.
DIR. II. o. Worthen fell on the icy pave
ment in front of Boyce's clothing store,
Saturday evening, breaking two ankle
bones. He was conveyed to his residence
on Keith Avenue, where several of his
brother physicians soon arrived and set the
fractured bones. He is probably booked
for the house for several weeks.
A colt owned by Henry NJ Farrand be-
came frightened by an engine, last Thurs
day evening, and ran up the track of the
Montpelier x Wells River railroad. The
animal got hung in the trestle near Bridge
street and was eXtricated by Conductor
James Markham, DR.. g. NJ. Scribner and
others. Its legs were badly cut, but nc
bones were broken.
At the meeting of the Retail Merchants
Association, held last Wednesday evening
in Miles hall, the motion to apply for d
charter and become an incorporated body
was adopted by large majority. Walter
Williams, Professor w. II. Gale and By
ron Jackson were appointed committee
to look into the ACCESSIBILITY OF hiring d
leader and resurrecting the Barre Corne'
Band.
The thermometers at Barre registered all
the way from twenty-siX To forty degrees
below zero last Thursday morning, accord
ing to the elasticity of the consclences OF
the owners 1t was one of those mornings
happily infrequent in this latitude, when
everything animate and inanimate seems Il
shrink and shiver in the intense cold, and
the rise of sixty degrees within twenty-foul
hours was very acceptable.
; The following officers of Crandall Wo
mans Relief Corps We're elected last Thurs
day evenings Mrs. Emma Lapoint, pres
dent; Agnes Brown, senior vice-president
, Sue Kenerson, Junior vice president; Lizzie
Duffy, treasurer; Cora Taft, chaplain; Olive
Cults, conductor; Nettie Mann, guard; Anna
Hutton, secretary; Agnes Brown, delegate
to state convention; Emma Williams alter
nate.
, The members of the congregation worship
ing at the Universalist church have not ye
: recovered from the surprise that the resig
nation of Rev c. S. Nickerson, the pastor
caused. 1t is a subject of universal regre
,, among all classes of citizens that Mr.. Nick
, erson has decided to leave Barre, where h
has done such good work, and where hi
, sterling worth is appreciated, He has beel
engaged TO do general work in eastern New
, England for the denomination with whicl
; he is identified. His home and headquaI
I ters will be in Boston
j. The expression on the face of certain
j. undertaken in Barre can better be imag
. ined than described when two individual
f of the Hebrew persuasion called at his stor
5 last Saturday and tried to rent casket I
= use in taking the remains of decease
. friend to Burlington for burial. The custor
= prevails among people of that religion
/ faith OF burying the dead simply in a robe
= and the thrifty individuals who tried to dee
l. with the Barre undertaken thought the
) might as well save the expense of a caske
1 10y hiring one for few days. No second
1 hand collins were kept in stock, however
B, and they were obliged to purchase one out
Il right.
o II. X. Ballard of Burlington visited S.
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