The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-29
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME or
CURRENT Events.
Barre.


All the schools in the Spauldng graded
school district are closed for two weeks.
S. s. Ballard has added the North Ger.
man Lloyd line to his list OF steamship
agencies
The Daughters Of Rebekah gave their
brother Odd Fellows a supper in Odd Eel
lows hall last Friday evening.
Professor o. d. Mathewson and wife are
spending the Thanksgiving vacation at the
old home OF the former in Wheelock.
Lucien E Howe OF Underhill, formerlya
telegraph operator in Barre is in town for
lew weeks engaged in piano tuning.
A union temperance meeting was held in
the opera house last Sunday evening. Rev.
W. X Davenport was the principal speaker.
Rev. George Hooker left for New York
last Monday and is to sail for England in
about two weeks He is to spend the win
ter studying in London.
w. NJ. Edison OF the local express office
returned from Bellows Falls last week with
his bride They have taken rooms at the
residence of Walter Morse.
A large number from Barre attended the
Catholic fair at Montpelier last Thursday
and Saturday evenings. A special train
was run for their accommodation.
A surprise party was given Miss Nellie
Krelinger last Wednesday evening, it be-
ing her nineteenth birthday. The young
lady was the recipient OF several valuable
presents.
Flora, wife of II. n. Parkhurst. died last
Friday after an illness of many weeks. Her
funeral was held Sunday afternoon from
her late home on Summer street, and the
burial was in Barre cemetery.
The members of the Mission of the Good
Shepherd rendered Rev. and Mrs. s. b.
Blunt a reception at the mission hall on
Monday evening. Mr.. and Mrs. Blunt left
Tuesday morning for their new home at
Middlebury.
A. d. Burgess, proprietor OF the Avenue
House, went before Justice Boyce last FRI
day and pleaded guilty to three offences of
selling intoxicating liquor. Mr.. Boyce
fined him $3.50 and COSTS and bis case was
appealed to county court by his counsel.
A special train was run to Montpelier
last Sunday morning to accommodate the
large lumber of people who wished to at
tend the services at Christ Church, where
Rev. S. b. Blunt was raised to the priest
hood by Rt Rev. Alexander Burgess,
Bishop of Quincy.
The body of Mrs. Charles Rood, who died
last week Tuesday at Bethel, was brought
to Barre last Thursday, and funeral services,
conducted by Rev. g. S. Nickersou, were
held at the Universalist church. The in
terment was in Barre cemetery. Mrs. Rood
is well remembered in Barre as Miss Mary
A Wiley.
The members OF the senior class of the
! ii
der classes last Friday evening in the chapel
Of the Spauldng graded school building.
The ball was very pret'i lily decorated for the
occasion, and a short literary and musical
programme was rendered after refresh-
ments had been served.
The clerks of Barre held meeting last
! Thursday evening for the purpose Of form
ing an organization that shall be perma-
nent. c. +. Hanson was elected president,
A. E. Badger vice-president, w. II. FArrar
secretary, and w NJ. Hayward treasurer.
/ The aim of this new organic alton is mutual
| benefit to the members, and to increase the
! social life of Barre.
Heavily falling snow and various counter
| attractions prevented large attendance at
the concert given in the chapel of the
! graded school building last Wednesday
evening for the benefit of the school library.
| A irst.class programme was rendered, con.
ssting of vocal and instrumental music,
drills by the pupils OF grade five, and STIR
ring chorus.
The boycott against the non-association
! firms by those who are members of the as
/ snciation, which has occasiOned some talk
Of late in Barre, has not reached any large
| proportions and probably will not, II is a
matter in which the cutters are not inter-
ested, and with the scarcity of work at
present, it would appear the height of folly
| to close any quarry or shed, because of such
aditliculty.
| Y, to care for f l.. Smith, her father, who
/ is still confined to the house with "A sprained
ankle - Johu $. Hall has gone to Ma
| pie Grove, p. O., for an indefinite stay
- j. b. Dillon is able to be on tho
street once more after wearisome contiue-
ment at his home with the grip aud kim
dred ailments - ID. E. Spcer has gone
| to Montpelier TO work for the Capital Gran
! ite Company - III. III. Duffy and wife
have returned from Syracuse, n. Y.
] Miss (1rlpa (,nnVHar and Mrs Nj q
yer are visiting IN Providence, r | -
Mrs Leighton Scott is quite seriously ill
with rheumatism. - Mrs. Fannie Samp-
son of Rutland is TO spend the winter with
f. l.. Sampson, her son.
East Barre.
H. T.. Jones has broken up housekeeping
and is boarding with Bert French.
j. A Plested has sold his interest in the
! grocery store Of III. f. Sargent & Co. TO II.
! Il. Sargent.
The East Barre Hose Company is to hold
a meeting to elect officers on Tuesday night
| of this week.
The South Barre Dramatic Club will give
| an entertainment in the school-house hall
next Friday night.
Emery Perkins of Plainfield is to open
meat market in the basement of the opera
house block the first of the month.
Berlin.
The sick ones are improving.
Did you hear the earthquake?
h. ID. Stewart is building new l. to his
| house.
/ Renie Hubbard left on Tuesday for a three
| weeks visit To friends in Boston and vicn-
| ity.
BY invitation of William Brown, the
| grange held its last meeting, November 2l. at
/ his pleasant home on the east road. Al the
| close, refreshments were served, aad Mabel
! Brown favored the company with some fine
selections on the plano.
! The fall term OF the village school, taught
| by l.. l.. Trott, closed Saturday for two
weeks vacation. The three months work
ended with an afternoon candy pull, the
morning hours being devoted TO last day
exercises" The boys express their appre-
citation Of the older girls rendering OF
"Cass History" " Glass Prophecy" ""Class
Ode" etc, while the young ladies extend
! thanks to the masculine portion of their lit
tie community for the graceful ease and
ready cooperation in the process Of con
suming fifteen pounds OF sugar.
| Rathel