The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-25
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME or CUR
RENT Events.
Barre.

| guest Of l.. J.. Austin.
Charles Richardson visited last week at
his home in Burlington.
The Baptists held social with J. NJ. Ma
| son last Friday evening.
| w A Streeter is visiting his brother AL
bert in Bolton this week.
The post-oflice at Graniteville has been
made money order office.
A. j. Lamb of Granville visited Dr. M. ID.
Lamb, his brother, last week.
A division OF the Sons of Temperance is
! to he instituted here next month.
| Charles Moorcroft is running the station
airy engine Of Mcdonald & Buchan.
The Epworth League is to hold party
with G. w. Potter next Friday evening.
w A. Boyce was in Sherbrooke and Stan
| stead, p @, last week on legal business.
Carl w. Hall sold handsome bay mare
| to Charles Doian of Burlington last week.
w. A. Lord of Montpelier speaks on the
! Kelley cure at the Universalist vestry to-
night.
| The Universalist ladies held social last
Friday evening in the Congregational
! vestry.
! w. f. Morse and wife attended the must
cal convention at Littleton, n. H., last
! Friday.
Mrs. J. r. Chadwick of West Randolph
visited DIR. W. II. Gladding, her brother
| last week.
The Granite City Band is arranging for a
| fair, to be held at the opera house, February
| 8, 9, 10 aud II.
| II. ID. Segel has leased portion Of the
/ building which the Italians are building in
/ Depot square.
| The Presbyterian Christian Endeavor So
cety now meets Thursday, instead of Sun
| day, evenings.
Granite City court of Foresters held a
! special meeting Saturday evening to discuss
the new ritual
Rev. c. w. Longren spoke on the life of
! John Bunyan at the Congregational church
| Sunday evening.
The Baptist society has engaged the
Grand Army hall for Sunday evening
! prayer-meetings.
Agnes Towers, teacher in the Washington
graded school, spent Saturday and Sunday
with friends here
Miss Myra Cheney was the guest last
| week of Rev. and Mrs. II. X. Crane at their
! home III West Berlin.
The first division of the senior class at
| Goddard Seminary is to deliver its essays
next Monday evening.
Twin sons were born last Thursday to
| Mr.. aud Mrs. skip" Sawyer, but both
| died within few hours.
James Brown has hardly recognized his
| old acquaintance since last Friday. Twins
| this time, aud both boys.
Mrs. Anna Hutton was called to Sher-
brooke p @ Friday evening, because OF
the illness OF her mother.
W. f. Colby went to New York on Monday
to attend the semi-annual banquet of the
| furniture dealers association.
Martin Blanchard has been elected chief
counselor of the order of United Friends, in
place of c. X. Tison resigned
Ernest Leonard attended a dance at
| Washington last Thursday evening aud
lost his watch, or had it stolen from him.
The drama Above the Clouds" will be
presented early in February at the opera
house by the Brotherhood OF st. Andrew.
The necktie and apron sociable to be held
last week by the ladies of the Presbyterian
church has been postponed to February /.
f. G. Briggs has purchased large black
smith shop in Manchester, n II. He takes
possession February 1, and is to employ six
men.
The Universalist choir for 1898 will be
Miss Ada Smith, soprano; Mrs. Abbie Gale,
alto e. H. Glldden, tenor; George Inglis,
bass.
AT the village meeting last week, the
bailiiIs were instructed to put in an electric
fire alarm system at a cost not to exceed
S3 800.
James Anderson has purchased of f. A.
Hutchins, for Sl7 900, his house on the cor
ner of Maple Avenue and North Seminary
street.
The Junior Christian Eudeavor society of
the Congregational church gave magic
lantern exhibition at the vestry on Tuesday
evening.
Twenty-Five couples from Barre attended
the dance at East Barre, last Thursday
night A special train was run for their ac.
commodation.
The lyceum at Goddard Seminary last
Saturday evening wrestled with the uues-
ton whether society or books have a more
civlizing influence.
Woodrotfe Il CO., the glass blowers, are
| Filing weeks engagement in Music hall,
under the auspices of U. A. Woodbury.
camp, Sons of Veterans.
Miss Smith, the instructor OF vocal music
at Goddard Seminary, has been engaged to
sing soprano at the Universalist church un-
til commencement time.
S. W. Jones of Boston, of the firm OF Jones
Brothers, was in town last week and at
tended the annual banquet at the Pavilion
last Wednesday evening.
Tracy Jeffords, a former Barre boy, now
a prominent attorney at Washington, d.
O., was one of the speakers at the Chicago
Sons OF Vermont banquet.
" How to be Lights in the World was
the subject OF the Young Peoples meeting
at Goddard Seminary last Sunday after
hooh, Win hdpel u Smltn as leauer.
The one hundred thirty-fourth anniver-
sary OF the birth OF Robert Burns will be
celebrated this evening by the Burns club
with appropriate ceremonies and exercises.
Melt" Phelps has a story regarding
burglar-proof locks, and two hours in the
- dark hole OF Calcutta" that he might re-
late to his friends If he could be induced TO
do it.
Charles Halliday, travelling freight and
passenger agent of the Chicago and North
western railroad, and II. A. Clay of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, were in
town last Friday.
Professor Donald Downie, the brilliant
orator whose lecture on Napoleon is no.
ticed in the Montpelier locals, gave an il
Illustrated lecture on Scotland AZ the opera
house last evening.
The cold weather OF the past week has
not frozen the enthusiasm at G oddard Sem
mary for gymnasium work, and under the
new instructor the interest taken in the
work is very gratifying.
AT the meeting of the independent whist
club, held in Gordon's block last Wednes-
day, Miss Edith Avery and Mr. r. VaIe had