The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME OF
CURRENT Events.
Barre.


Barre last year.
Rev. j. Edward Wright preached for the
Universalists last Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Wheeler gave a large
whist party at their home on Washington
street last Saturday evening
Golden Rule chapter, Sons OF Temper
ance, will hold a sociable this evening at the
home of Mrs. G. d. Carpenter.
A meeting was held, last Saturday even
ing, in the armory of Company f., for the
purpose Of organizing cornet band.
Rev. E. w. Cummings was confined to the
house with severe cold last SUNDAY, and
Rev. p. g. Abbey preached for the Presbyte-
rians.
The Arthur Tandy became disabled at
North Barre, during the storm of last
Thursday, and was towed into port by the
Mountain King.
The annual convocation Of Royal Arch
Masons of the third Vermont district, which
includes Washington, Orange and Lamoille
counties, will be held in Barre to-day.
H. X. Bush has returned from Lima, o.,
where he went to investigate the failure of
the Vermont Granite Company of that city.
He is not very enthusiastic over the out
look.
S. s. Ballard combined business with
pleasure, and placed SS1 900 of accident in
surance on the members Of the granite
manufacturers excursion, whom he ac-
COmpdnl6u 10 BOSUOn laSU week,
THE Congregational Christian Endeavor
Literary Club held an interesting meeting
on Tuesday evening. "The Magazine
was the subject for discussion, with Miss l..
Houghton and r. Veale as edi ors.
John p Jones, who accompanied the
granite manufacturers excursion to Boston,
has since been dangerously i'll with pneu-
monia at Quincy, Mass Griffith Jones, his
brother, went to that city last week to care
for him.
Arthur E. Campbell and Miss Lillian
Kelley were married last week at the home
of Mrs A. 7. Smith, grandmother OF the
bride, by Rev. j. Edward Wright Of Mont
peler. They went to Boston for a brief
wedding trip.
The ladies whist club will not meet this
week The attendance was very light last
Thursday evening, owing to the storm. Mrs.
G. w Steele and John McIver took first
prize. Mrs. S. H. Forsyth and Wilfred
jacques made the lowest score.
H. r. Brennan's Star Theater closed a
two weeks engagement at the opera house
last Saturday evening. The members of
| this troupe are prime favorites in Barre,
and have attracted uniformly large houses
during their engagement just closed
The ladies of the Eastern Star held
Washingtonan sociable" with Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore L. Snow last Saturday even
ing. The awarding of prizes for the PIN
driving contest, we'll as the efforts of the
contestants, Occasioned much amusement.
The winter school on Beckley hill, taught
by Miss Alice Perry, closed last Friday.
Not pupil had tardy mark during the
term. Those not absent a half day were
Annie and Lottie Mortimer, johnnie and
Adde Averill, G. Buswell and Frank
Beckley.
At the meeting of the board of civil au-
thority, held last Thursday and Friday in
the town clerks office, taxes of S15 against
4 0.lnr A Il and nfC a1rnuf
H. P. Augustine, were abated. =. N. Bar
ber and o. B. Boyce were appointed ref
erees to settle the tax difficulty between
Fl. o. Camp and Town Clerk W. A. Perry.
c. H. Brown, of the Granite City Cloth
ing Company, assigned last week for the
benefit of his creditors. The assignee is
William A. Knowlton Of Newton, Mass.
The list of creditors is said to number
twenty -one, the largest being wholesale
clothing houses in Boston. F. w. Jackson
is temporarily in charge OF the store, and
r. A. Hoar is looking after Mr. Browns in
terests in the matter,
A. D. and G.. w Burgess, the proprietors
of the Avenue House, went before Justice
A. NJ. Jackmau in Martin & Slack's office.
last Thursday morning, retracted their plea
Of not guilty, pleaded guilty OF keeping in
toxicatipg liquors with intent to sell, and
to 1886. They appealed their cases to
county court, and bail in the sum OF 500
each was furnished by George j. Towne.
The dramatic entertainments given under
the auspices of and for the benefit OF Gran
dali Post, at the opera house this week, are
drawing good houses and are giving exec l.
lent satisfaction Mr.. Madison of Boston,
the manager, is assisted by Miss Frances
Merriette, the pleasing young soprano and
actress of Boston, and welLselected
troupe. Two of the plays will be given at
Williamstown, Monday and Tuesday even
ings of next week.
Evangelist L. A. Whittier has been Sc
cured to conduct series of revival services
in Barre, beginning Thursday evening,
March &. The invitation was extended TO
him by the Congregational, Baptist, Meth
odist, Episcopal, and Presbyterian societies.
Mr.. Whittier has been laboring very snc-
cesstully during the fall and winter in New
bury, Wells River, South Ryegate and
Groton, where he has seen most gratifying
results from his work in these towns and
elsewhere
. Several tickets to be voted on at the COM
ing March meeting are already in the field,
with others looming up in sight over the
horizon The Independent ticket, the Peo-
ple's Party ticket, and the Citizens ticket,
all have hundreds of supporters, who are
confident of their success. W. A. Perry,
the present incumbent, Burt II, Wells and
W, +. Barney are the candidates for town
clerk on three tickets, Mr.. Perry on the
Peoples party, MIR. Barney on the Inde-
penuent, anu MT w els on lne OltZenS.
Messrs Cox and Nickerson are meeting
with splendid success in obtaining material
for the souvenir of Barre, to be issued by
them in the near future. One gratifying
feature of their work has been the willing
ness of several members of many we'll
known families in town to arrange for cuts
of themselves and sketches of their lives in
the forthcoming souvenir, which will make
it the best family history of the town ever
, published The business and professional
men, as a whole, are taking hold of the en-
terprise and doing all in their power TO aid
these gentlemen in their work,
II. II. Wetmore formerly of the Wet
more x Morse Granite Company, now To-
Gated in St. Paul, Mimi, where he is in the
employ of the j. NJ. Sullivan Monument
Company, has recently sold to the admins
traitor of the estate of the late Erastus s,
Edgerton, "a former banker in thar city, an
elaborate monument that will cost when
completed, about $4,000 1t was designed
by Mr.. Wetmore, and st. Paul papers speak
of it as one of the finest designs ever seen
there. The total height of the monument
will be over Fifty feet, aud its weight nearly
one hundred tons. H. is VERY DrOha ble hat