The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-06-07
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME or
CURRENT Events,



G. w. Doty, department commander. will
make an official visit TO Crandall post, june
Ezra Sowdon has bought two BUILDING
lots, corner Third and Main streets, of A ID
Morse for 5000.
w. w. Lapoint is at Brattleboro attend.
ing the annual meeting of the Vermont
division OF Sons of Veterans.
The annual prize speaking by the punils
OF Spaulding Graded School will occur
thursday evening in the opera house.
The sidewalk from Gordon's block TO
depot square is to be raised eighteen inches.
The work is to be commenced at once.
Miss Mabel B. Frew of Chicago will de.
liver free lecture Co ladies only, on Thurs
day evening, at Miles hall, on " Unlearned
Lessons"
Benjamin HAYES broke his right shoulder
olade last Wednesday by falling from a
ladder while at work on his house at
Thwingville.
Inc extension to Aver street has been sur
Xeyed. The building of highway through
That locality would open up several eligible
building lots
J9hn walker, stone-cutter, aged twenty
tnree years, was drowned in the river last
Monday evening while bathing The body
was recovered.
A portion of the half carload of beer and
whskey that was seized, Memorial Day, bv
Ofhcer Nye, has been claimed, and the rest
has been spilled.
Two hundred sixty tickets were sold to
the excursion to Highgate Springs, last Sat
urday, under the auspices of Granite City
Court of Foresters.
John M. Way, the noted criminal lawyer
OF Boston, who died recently in that city.
was an uncle of Mrs. S. ID. Allen. He was
a native of Rochester.
The Senior class at Goddard Seminary
held its annual ride last Monday. and a
banquet was given them at the residence of
Hon. Ira Calef in Washington.
The Spencer Rifles will join Company
OF Northfield and Company III of Montpelier
at the capital, Thursday, for inspection and
battalion drill by Capt. H. E. Tutherly.
D. ii. Ward is soon to erect row of ten
ement house on Highland Avenue. The
houses OF Edwin Carleton and H. o. Camp
on that thoroughfare are well under way
On complaint of Fish Warden George J
Iowne, John Briggs and Henry Russ were
arrested, last week, for having trout in
their possession less than six inches in
length.
Pietro Constantine was before Justice
Boyce last Wednesday morning, charged
with a plain drunk. He paid the reguia-
ton SlO.51 for his diversion of the previous
evening.
The body of Miss Alma Watson, a former
preceptress at Goddard Seminary. passed
through Barre last Wednesday for Wash
ington, where the burial took place. She
died at Reading. Pa.
Torrent Engine Company, No. 1, was re-
organized last Wednesday evening with
thirteen men, K. F. Smith was elected
foreman, ID. l.. Scott first assistant and
David Cilley second assistant.
L.. W. Scott of South Barre, a man of
truth, veracity and soberness, says he
caught trout in Greensboro pond, last
week, that measured eighteen inches in
length and weighed over three pounds.
Fathers Fitzgerald and Coffey were unable
to attend the ceremony of blessing the nav
organ at st. Monica's church last Thursday |
evening because of illness, but an ENJOYABLE |
programme was rendered by Frank Don
ahue OIL boston, organist, and Miss Kate
Delany OF Winooski, vocalist A fair was |
held in the vestry after the concert, which
was largely attended.
The Barre Choral Union is the latest adj.
ultlon to the musical organizations of the |
town. Its officers are Edward Mitchell, |
president; Beatrice Robbins, secretary;
Llzzle Clark, treasurer; w. III. Gale, Mile |
Beal and Jennie Hilton, musical committee.
1t is desired to increase the membership and
the society will be glad to receive any de- |
sirable persons as members.
The body of Frank Rogers, who died last
week at his home in Milton, passed through |
Barre last Thursday forenoon en- route to |
Iopsham, where the funeral was held that
afternoon. Mr.. Rogers was well known in |
Barre, he having represented Reuben Ring
" 20. OF Boston on the road for many |
years. Several of the business men of the |
town accompanied the remains to Topsham. |
An immense crowd gathered in front of
the opera house last Saturday evening.
clamoring for the doors to be open that they |
might witness sparring match that had |
a Ia Mo tlA,
a protest from the Law and Order league, the |
authorities refused to open the doors for |
such performance. The crowd that came
from the quarries were more than mad, and
IL was bad Saturday night in Barre
The many friends won in Barre by Austin
Hazen, Jr., while he was clerk in the drug
store of Charles A. Smith, have watched
with pride and interest his career since that
time. He graduated last week from the
Hartford Theological School at Hartford
Conn, with the highest honors. His ora
tion on The minister's programme of So
clai reform IS spoken of highly IN the as
ISOLATED press dispatches and in addition
he was awarded the William THOMPSON
fellowship prize, which will allow him TO
spend TWO years at the Berlin University.
Mr.. Hazen goes to Chicago this week to al
Iehd the wedding of classmate, and will
WISH IN barre about two weeks before going
abroad the last of July. 0H
The latest sensation in Barre was the ar
resi- last Friday evening of man who gave
ms name as Alexander Bissette, and his res.
ldence as the Nicholas block on Berlin side
near Montpelier His appearance tailed
exactly with the description sent out of the
portuguese Jose Correiro, wanted in Fall
RIVER, Mass, for the murder of Bertha
N manchester. He was taken to the office of
Barney * Hoar and subjected to a search
ing examination. He told more different
stories than it is probable the recording an
gel hau time to write, but the fact that he
was acquainted in Hinesburg and Burling.
ton and could speak the English language
convinced the authorities that he was not
the man who was wanted. He was released
from custody and ordered 60 get ont Of
town TO escape a ducking in the river. No
such person is known in Montpelier or Rer-
I'm, and 1T is probable that his story regard
ing residence there was purely fabrica-
tion. He feigned fit during his examina-
zion, but on learning that he was likely to
be washed" he recovered very onicIIv
Inc Boston papers got wind of the affair
and sent their representatives in Barre in
to use unlimited space should tbe
suspect prove to be Correiro, but, unfortn.
nately for the newspaper men, he proved to
be only a shiftess tramp. W
s. c. Forsyth was in Boston ON business
last week. - Rev, ID. II. Palmer ia car