The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-09
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RES UME or
CURRENT Events.


m dSS., are visiting IN town,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Prindle of Troy, N.
Y, are guests of E. A. Prinde.
Mrs. Olive Beal is seriously ILL. The
ladies OF the Relief Corps are caring for her.
The members of Crandall Post will visit
Brooks Post at Montpelier next Tuesday
evening
Editor j. W. Ramsey of the Leader packed
his collar-box and started for Chicago last
Saturday.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union met last Wednesday with Mrs. Frank
p Kenerson.
A petition is in circulation for a highway
from the terminus of Aver street to the
Washington road
Bert W. Abbey left Barre last week to
Join the Chicago baseball league He was
released by the Pttsburgs.
Rev. f.. w. Cummings returned last Thurs
day from Maine where he has been on
vacation for the past four weeks
A detailed report of the visit to Barre of
the granite manufacturers of Quincy, Mass,
may be found in another column.
Division Commander W. NJ. Sargent of
South Royalton inspected U. A. Woodbury.
Camp, Sons Of Veterans, last week.
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. l..
Tarshis died Of congestion of the lungs last
Wednesday. The burial was in Burlington
on Thursday.
Thirty men were discharged from the
employ of c. E. Tayntor & Co. last week
Slow collections and slackness of orders is
the alleged cause.
Rev. G. w. Longren has returned from
Pemaquid, Me-, where he has been spend
ing his vacation, and has resumed the du-
ties of his pastorate.
The insurance company has settled with
st. Monica's church, for $780, for the recent
n hv linb ba
made necessary are nearly completed.
H. G. Kottou of Philadelphia is in town.
with his family, and proposes to make
Barre his home for the present. He is an
architect of more than local reputation.
Will Letourneau had his right leg badly
bruised last Wednesday at the quarry of
the Langdon Granite Company by getting
it caught under heavy block of granite.
The Free Methodist camp meeting, held
last week in the grove at Websterville, was
well attended and some hopeful CONVEX
sions are reported. Rev. DIR. A. Hart of
Boston was in charge.
Thomas Long, Charles Milne and James
Jameson were arrested for intoxicaton
last Sunday by Officer Nichols. Before
Justice A. M. Jackman they were each
| fined S10.51, Monday morning.
VIC. Nye and wife left last Thursday,
accompanied by the mother of Mrs. Nye, for
Holyoke, Mass. They expect to be absent
some four weeks, visiting at various places
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gladding, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Hiram Martin, Mrs. ID. W. Mower,
Mrs. 7. b. Nichols, Mrs. Clark Day and
Mrs. Ii. o. Hatch are attending the Uni
versalist camp-meeting at Weirs, n, H., this
week
Rev. w. K. Davenport preached last
| Sunday morning on " The Southern Prob
| lem," and in the evening on Heaven" one
of an interesting series of sermons he is de-
livering on the subject, After Death,
| WHAT"
Miss Carrie Wheelock and w. II. Glad
ding are delegates from the Universalist
| church to the State Universalist convention,
to be held the last three days of August at
| Mortified. George Allen goes as delegate
from the Sunday-school.
Luigi Savini was tried last Wednesday
| and convicted of second offense of keep
ing Intoxicating liquors with intent to sell.
He was sentenced to pay fine of S75 and
| costs and to be imprisoned at hard labor in
the house of correction at Rutland for thirty
days. He appealed his case to county court
w. L. Stafford's PAGER was frightened last
Wednesday, while being driven to the trot-
ting park, and got beyond the control of its
| driver, who was thrown from the sulky
against an electric light pole The mare
slipped and fell against barbed-wire fence,
| out neither driver nor morse was seriously
hurt.
The young son of jeremiah Mccarthy
was badly hurt last week by falling under
| the hind wheels of his fathers wagon,
which was loaded with stone. 1t was
thought at first that the lad was fatally in
jured, but, although his feet and face were
badly jammed, he is on the road to sure
recovery.
The annual meeting of the Vermont Di
viSin of hA of 1arin haa oil
men was held at Barre last Thursday fore.
noon. F. w. Sherburne was elected presi
dent, George ID. Wheeler secretary and
treasurer. The president, with G. III. Ste
vens and G. l.. Capron of st. Adams, were
authorized to draft new constitution and
bylaws for the government of the division
Mardo Mcleod, in the employ of the EN-
pire Granite Company, had a miraculous
escape from instant death last Thursday.
He was standing over a blast when it pre-
maturely exploded. Mcleod was hurled
out of the quarry, distance of twenty-five
feet. He was rendered unconscious, and
his eyes and body were filed with sand anC
bits of granite. No bones were broken, ant
it is thought he will recover.
The Stafford * Holden fork factory is u
be merged into company organized for thu
manufacture of granite tools. The Trow &
Holden Tool Mandatory has been dis
solved, and John Trow and Clark Holden
the Stafford & Holden Company, are to b,
the active members of the new firm. Tn,
annual meeting of the Stafford & Holder
Company was held last evening, when tn,
final arrangements for the dissolution o
the old firm and the organization of the new
were completed.
Notwithstanding the intense heat las
Saturday, the annual picnic of Clan Cor
don, held at the trotting park, was attende,
by over 1000 persons, Headed by piper
in Highland costume, the members of til
Clan paraded the streets in the forenoon
.. and marched TO the park, where the game
were held, in the afternoon. Following i
a summary of the principal events; Throw
ing heavy hammer-Charles Laing, 20 fee
IL inches j. Logan, 81 feet inches
! A. Milne, 63 feet inches. Throwing ligh
hammer-Charles Laing, S5 feet inches
A. Milne, so feet 8 inches; George Logan, s
feet 10 inches. Putting the stone-Nel Nc
liver, SO feet inches G. Laing, 80 feet
, inches; A. Hunter, q feet 4 inches. Hor
step and Jump. Rannie, SO feet 81 inches
, j. Kennedy, 81 feet inches; Neil McIver
, SO feet 10 inches. Running high jump
a Milne, 4 feet 10 inches. Pole vault-Nei
: McIver, s feet; r. Webster and j. Coutt
tied at feet 10 inches One hundred yard
: dash--E. Tobin, first, II seconds; p. RaI
: ME- second. Boys race, 100 yards-Victo
I Brown, first; w. Hunter, second; N. Milne