The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-15
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESI- 1fE or
CURRENT Events.
Barre.

Barre.
The Central House was posted as a nui-
sanCe last week because of violations OF the
prohibitory law.
The excursion to Queen City Park, last
Saturday, to hear Ingersoll, was very hber-
ally patronized.
1t is expected that the new Baptist church
will be ready for occupancy the nrSt sum
day in September.
Professor II. p. Woodruff of Bowdoin
College will preach at the Congregational
church next Sunday
The Spencer Rifles left for muster on
special train last Monday morning with fifty
one officers and men.
Mrs, j. A. Sherburne entertained the
Methodist ladies' aid society of South Barre
last Thursday afternoon.
The engagement is announced of Profess
sor H. =. futile of Goddard Seminary and
Miss Laura Odds, class of 49,
Professor o. X. Hollister of Goddard Sem
mary is seriously i'll with typhoid fever at
his home in East Montpelier.
A meeting was held at the armory last
| Saturday evening for the purpose of forming
| young mems republican club.
The Barre Railroad has been sued by Fer
| gus Carlow for damages received last winter
while passenger on that road
The Barre Mandolin and Guitar Club &C
companied the Spencer Rifles to muster at
Brattleboro last Monday morning.
Another carload of cattle from Chicago
arrived in Barre last week, consigned to
| Pitkn & Skinner and Smith Brothers.
DIR. Joseph w. Jackson has an interest
ing and valuable collection of copper coins,
| including penny of every year from 1913
| to 1893.
| Pax- Tobr w Ruclbo,n Of Ga1an1 Maaa
preached for the Congregationalists last
Sunday. He is son OF President Buckham
of the University of Vermont.
Mrs William Melvin, Miss Maggie McMil-
Ian, Mrs. William Cassie and Mrs. George
Angus left for Scotland last week, expect
ing to be absent several months.
The flower show to be held Friday and
! Saturday of this week by the society with
| the long name promises to be fine ex-
hibit. and it deserves liberal patronage:
w. II. French, formerly of Barre, was re-
Gently married to Miss Alice M. Briggs of
| Charlestown, Mass. The newly welded
couple are visiting in Barre while on their
wedding trip.
| Peter Jondreau was taken to the house OF
correction at Rutland last week by Con-
| stable Buchanan to work out a fine OF $40,
and thirty days additional, for second Of
| fence of intoxication.
Michael Harmon dropped dead last Fri
day morning just after eating his breakfast.
| Heart disease was the cause of his death.
| He was a well-known trackman in Barre,
and leaves large family.
| Several members of the knights of p ythias
| in Barre are planning to attend the national
Knights excursion to Washington,.D. c.,
this month. The tickets will be good from
August 90 to September 16, and a great
gathering is confidently expected.
e L. Smith and James Ingram have been
| summoned to Quincy, Mass, as expert
witnesses in the case of the Quincy Quarry
Company against the park commissioners
| of that city, to be tried September /. About
1870 acres of land belonging to the quarry
company were taken by the commissioners
| for park purposes, and the suit is over the
price of the land.
Barre was packed with a good-natured
mass of humanity last Friday, gathered
| from within radius of fifteen miles or
more, to attend the performances and wit
ness the parade of Ringing Brothers cir
| Gus. No serious accidents were reported,
| and everybody enjoyed the day. Nothing
! but words of praise are heard of the circus
| and its management
An elaborate programme is in preparation
for the second annual meeting of the Wash
ington County Veterans Association, to be
held in Barre, August "a and %. In the af
ternoon of the first day, there will be "old
mems sports" at the trotting park, and in
the evening a rousing campfire will be held
at the opera house, with Commander
Branch Governor Fuller and others as
speakers. On Saturday there will be 6
slow horse-trot and other sports at the park
All veterans will be cordially welcomed.
Eugene NJ. Tayntor, one of the village
bailiffs and secretary of the Granite Man
ufacturers, was placed under arrest las
Thursday on suit brought by Hugh Recol
of Graniteville for $1,000 damages for mali
| IL ftrrn 20 al lAh NV
that Tayntor, in 1892, by threats, caused hi
discharge from the employ of paving con
tractor, thereby damaging him in the above
sum. M. f. Jackman, chairman OF thu
board of bailiffs, entered as surety for Tayn
tor, and the case will be tried at the Sep
TENDER term of Washington county court
The annual picnic held at the trottinl
park last Saturday, under the auspices o
Clan Gordon, was a trst-class success, ant
was very largely attended. Music for dane
ing was furnished by the Barre Cornet Ban,
and the Caledonia Orchestra. The athleti
j events and contests were sharply conteste
and the winners were as follows: Hop, ste
t and jump-F. Springer, 80 feet; N. N. NJ
1 Donald, 80 feet. Putting the stone-J. MI
s Auley. "a feet 5 inches; j. McChonachi, 8
/ feet 8 inches; 6. w. Lang, 81 feet 10 inche.
| Throwing the light hammer-A. Mcdonald
a 102 feet inches; j. McChonachi, so feet
9 inches; G. w. Lang, 81 feet 10 inches
j Throwing neaVy hammer-N. N. McDOnalt
Q 10 feet 2 inches; j. McChonachi, rs feet
. inches; G. w. Lang, rs feet l inch. Run
a ming high leap-F. Springer. feet II
|. inches; Walter Crawford, feet inche
f Pole vaulting-F. Springer, feet 10f inches
! f. Dunn, second; W. Johnson, third. On
+ hundred yards dash-F. Finnegan, first; ,
1 Monroe, second; #. Springer, third. Boy
race Thomas Mcintosh. Stone drillin
: contest-Angus d. Smith. Girls race
!, Nora Adams, first Mary Milne, secont
r Lottie Fraser, third. Apprentices rae
t half mile-Robert Calder first; Verno
Q Vosberg, second; P. e. Frasier, third.
. George c. Souther and family OF Bosto
= are guests of j. P. Nickerson. q. h
y Field and wife and Mr.. and Mrs. j. 4
2 Graham were at Block Island last weel
- Miss Edna Cutting and Miss Ma
: Utton were guests OF Miss Aurora Robinso
o last week. - Thomas III. Gave an
family are in camp at Fairlee pond, and
!, L. Bugbee at Highgate Springs. -
: K. Dean, clerk for Charles A. Smith,
. spending his vacation at Bass Point an
u Nahant beach. - James Smith and Mil
! Belle Houghton are guests of A. s. Fleur
- at Alburgh. - Mr.. and Homer Fit
\ were in the Adirondacks last week. -
), J. X. George has returned from York Beacl
u Me. - Mrs. p. G. Abbey and daughts