The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-12
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTfNG RESUME or
CURRENT EVENTS.
Barre.

Barre.
Miss Nellie Perrin left for Chicago last
Wednesday,
r, b. Frasier has assigned for the benefit
OF his creditors.
The meetings of the choral union will be
omitted until September.
D. E. Walsh intends to enter the bicycle
races at Springfield, Mass, this fall.
new flume has been put in by the Stat
fora u Holden Manufacturing Company.
Mrs. Clark Holden and daughter Flor.
ence returned from Chicago last week.
The Granite City returned from the
repair shops last Monday morning as good
as new
The foundation for new engine house is
being laid at the works of Mcdonald &,
Barclay.
The members of the Crandall Relief Corps
Will hold picnic at Ben amin Falls on
Thursday.
The Green Mountain Trotting Park AS
soclation Will hold its next meet August
% and 26.
The new freight and passenger station at
Langdon's, on the Barre railroad is nearly
| ready for occupancy.
Miss Kate West, NJ. G. Nichols and Miss
Nadine Nichols were expected home from
Chicago last evening.
o. f. Richardson of Brockport, n. Y.
has purchased the bakery of G. w. Potter,
and has taken possession.
Mrs. W. f. Shepard and S. S Ballard
have recently purchased handsome BIasius
pianos OF Gould x Nichols.
g. X. Tayntor has purchased of Sortwell
q Morse and Milne & Wyllie two pieces of
land adjoining his granite sheds.
Baptiste Albusetti and Adale Maffini
were married at st. Monica's church last
Thursday by Father Mclaughlin.
Rev. Father Mclaughlin of Burlington
is acting pastor of St. Monicas church dur.
ing the absence of Father Brelivet.
The first of a series of sermons on What
Universalists Believe was preached last
Sunday evening by Rev. g. S. Nickerson.
Forsyth & Ingram have purchased of T..
Il. Smith the large spire that was intended
for the granite exhibit at the Worlds Fair
Mrs Il. E. Andrews of Maiden, Mass
is visiting in town. Mrs. Andrews is pleas.
antly remembered as Lucy Benjamin of
Berlin.
Tracy Jeffords, formerly of Barre, has re-
Gently been appointed a special United
States district attorney for the District of
Columbia.
Rev. P. G. Abbey, the Baptist pastor,
preached at the Congregational church last
Sunday morning in the absence of Rev. C.
w. Longren.
w. X. Wheatley and family are in Brook
field to attend reunion of the Carpenter
family, which occurs this week at the home
of Ira Carpenter.
II. j. Carrick was in Brattleboro last
week setting the Estey monument shipped
by G. E. Tayntor & Co. The total weight
of the structure was $1,000 pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. Jackson, Bert Hooke.
and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. o. X. Hollisterr
Miss Anna Tapln and Will Reynolds went
into camp at Greensboro Pond last Mon
day.
The kitchen bar-rooms of Frank Gobbie
and another Italian with an undecipher-
able name were raided last week by Police
men Mason and Nye and lot of ale and
beer were seized.
Phil w." owned by w. l.. Stafford. il
entered for the races at Mystic park near
Boston, this week. Eugene " and yankee
Luck are also entered for the same races.
They were sent to Boston last Friday
The funeral of Miss Aurora S. Flint was
held last Wednesday from the Riverside
She had recently returned from Mary
Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, where she
had been treated for an incurable malady.
Rev. c. w. Longren will go to Kenne-
bunkport Beach, Maine, for his annual va
cation before returning to Barre. The other
delegates to the International Christian
Endeavor Convention at Montreal returned
yesterday.
The officers of the newly.organized circle
of Kings Daughters are Mrs. Mary E.
Hale, president; Edith Boyce secretary;
Lula Colby, treasurer; Lillian Webster,
Nervie Whitehead and Belle Breno, execu- !
tive committee
The Enterprise is moving this week to the |
new building on Elm street, second door
north of the public library, that has been
erected expressly for its use. The lower
11or will be used for the office and the up |
per part as residence by Editor and Mrs. |
Scott
bloody row occurred at the quarres |
last week Tuesday. In drunken quarrel,
quarryman named Austin was assaulted |
by a gang headed by the Murray brothers
and pounded into insensibilty. The Murray
brothers bear hard reputation, and were
obliged to skip two years ago for similar
crime. No arrests have been made and no
prospects of any.
Professor w. II. Gale is to succeed Miss
Kate Healey as instructor in vocal music in
the Spauding Graded School for the COM
ing year. Wherever Professor Gale has
taught his talents and ability have been
recognized and his success has been marked
Under his able management and instruction
the vocal department of this institution is
sure to take high rank
II. ID. Define, general superintendent of
the observation-disclosures farm owned by
George Cassie, has this season sowed sixty
one acre field corn, two acres fodder corn,
one acre potatoes, and one-half acre turnips.
At this farm can be seen thirty.nne Shet-
land ponies imported by Mr.. Cassie, which
are kept for breeding purposes This is one
Of the best farms and pleasantest locations
in town, and glance about the premises is
sufficient proof that Mr.. DeLime is a first
class farmer.
The annual meeting of the Vermont AS
sociation Of Universalsts, held in Barre last
Thursday and Friday, was attended by about
three hundred persons from out of town,
and the meetings were interesting and
profitable. The programme published last
week was substantially followed. The mass
meeting Thursday evening was very largely
attended. Rev. III. Il. Lesh, Professor
Walter Dole and Rev. Costello Warren
were the principal speakers. The next
meeting will be held with the Church of the
Messiah at Montpelier.
The eighth anniversary of the mastering
n of the Spencer Rifles was observed last
Friday night at the armory by banquet
to the veteran members. Only
Our who joined the company July Z, 1886, |
are now in the service-Orderly Sergeant
f. w. Jackson, Quartermaster g. L. Thwing
nd |