The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-20
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE,
INTERESTING RESUME or
CURRENT Events.
Barre.


A son was born last Thursday to Mr. and
Mrs. e. J.. Tracy.
Peter Rogers has gone to Seattle, Wash,
| on business trip
Will Campbell and daughter Lillian are
visiting in Hyde Park.
Fraser 81 Marshall granite dealers, have
dissolved partnership
Mr.. and Mrs. G. d. Persons were in camp
last week at Greensboro Pond.
w. II. Willis, post-ofiice inspector, visited
the Barre post-office last Wednesday.
The carpenters began work on the new
Methodist church last Monday morning.
The Congregational Sunday-school will
have picnic at Benjamin Falls to-day.
Mrs. c. n. Field has returned from an
extended visit to her home in Brockville,
p. @.
Edward York has entered the employ of
the Vermont Electric Company at Bur-
lington.
B. j. Morse and wife have returned from
Hardwick, where they have been since last
November
A large delegation of Masons from Barre
attended the exercises of Masonic week in
Burlington
w. II. Gladding and wife were in La
coma, n. H., last week visiting relatives of
the former.
Rev. A. NJ Wheeler Of New Salem, n
H., former Methodist pastor, visited in
town last week.
A. G. Fisher of Chicago, former Barre
boy, now wealthy citizen of the Lake City,
is the guest of A. G. Lapoint.
One hundred forty tickets for the Odd
Fellows excursion to Fort Ticonderoga, n.
Y, were sold last Thursday morning
f. w. Sherburne started for Boston on
his bicycle last Friday night, and while en-
route will attempt to lower the one-hundred-
mile road record
George II. Townshend and Miss Merry
c., daughter of Mr.. and Mrs j. w. Averill,
were married las, week by Rev G. w. Lon
gren at the parsonage.
j. W. Cornell, station agent for the Cen
trail Vermont railroad, has returned from
his western trip, which included a visit to
several cities in the state of Washington.
Rev. W. r. Davenport has entirely re-
covered from his recent Illness and last
Sunday morning resumed the series Of SER
mons he is delivering on " The Beatitudes."
The single men defeated the married
men at baseball on Currier Park last
! thursday afternoon by a score of Is to IA.
Some wonderful exhibitions of science were
witnessed,
j. f. Nickerson returned from the Mary
Fletcher Hospital at Burlington last Fri
day. The injury to his knee was not so
great as was feared, and he has almost en-
tirely recovered.
Mrs. j. X. Barney of Providence r. L.,
addressed great audience at the union
temperance meeting held at the opera house
last Sunday evening. Her theme was
Fact and Fancy"
Privates l.. H. McCorrison and Charles
Longren and Bugler William Ross were Sc
lected from the Spencer Rifles at the inspec-
ton last week to represent the organization
this week at Fort Ethan Allen.
lied by the election Of G. w. Steele presi-
dent; 7. w. Russell, vice'presdent; and NJ.
Jackson, secretary. The band meets for
practice every Monday evening.
Samuel Gillette, Luke Clark and John
King, all of Graniteville, have, after pre-
liminary hearing been bound over to county
court in the sum of 5000 each, charged with
highway robbery on Jules Frank, a Jew
peddler.
G. G. Varney was elected chairman of the
executive committee of the Thirteenth Yer
mont regiment at the reunion of that organ
ization, recently held at Enosburg Falls.
The next reunion will be held in Barre in
June, 1895.
A special village meeting was held last
evening to see if the village would vote to
raise a tax to defray the current expenses
and Indebtedness of the village. The result
could not be obtained before the hour of
going to press.
SdpJ IL, Es 1ulHeTlyS =. D. Az luSptCleu
Company f last week, and credited that
organization with passing the best exam
nation of any company in the regiment-a
compliment of which the boys have good
reason to be proud.
Mrs. Sarah Lazelle died last Wednesday
at the home of Mrs. 9. e. Wood. The fu-
neral was held on Friday. She leaves one
son, H. ]. Lazelle of Williamstown, and
two daughters, Mrs. G. e. Wood and Mrs.
George Wood of Barre.
Miss Mary Nichols, Mrs. G. w. Steele,
Mrs, W. f. Shepard, Mrs. f. w. Sherburne,
Mrs. ii. G. Kotton, Mrs. G.. ID. Wheeler,
Mrs. II. A. Skinner and Mrs S. III. Forsyth
rode to Mortified and return on their
wheels last Wednesday, distance of thirty
two miles.
George w. Smith, the New York manager
of the John Hancock Life Insurance Com
pany who died last Saturday at Newark,
n. j., at the age of seventy-three, was ma
tive of Barre, and always took lively in
terest in the growth and prosperity of the
Granite City.
Fish Commissioner Titcomb has brought
action against w w Calder and Fred
Bruce of Barre for catching trout less than
six inches in length. A bill has been re-
turned against them in Orange county
court, which they were summoned to Chel-
sea to answer last week.
AT the semi-annual meeting of the local
Epworth League, held last Thursday even
ing Mrs. A. l. Skinner was elected presi-
dent; Hugh Vail, Frank Northrop, Miss
Myrtle Parker and Miss Carrie White, vice
presidents; Miss Beatrice Robbins, secre-
tary Byron b. jackson, treasurer
Barre will celebrate the Fourth of July
this year. Over 500 has already been sub
scribed and the affair has been placed in
the hands of citizens committee COM
posed Of. f. B. Mudgett, Frank McWhorter,
c. S. Currier, G. e. Ryle, Alexander Bruce,
f. G. French, c. w. Steele, j. w. Gordon
and Clinton Thwing.
While in Barre last week to assist in the
inspection of Company f, General w. II.
Gilmore was presented with a costly and
Interchangeable made by Mrs, c. P. Fisher,
the donor, who is eighty-three years old.
While attending Barre Academy as a stu
dent many years ago, General Gilmore
boarded with Mrs. Fisher.
II. A. Rugg has leased for five years of
L. j. Bolster, the Granite City Trotting
Park and will be the manager of the same.
The first meet of the season will be next
Saturday, June %, when there will be races
in the 2: 40 and three minute classes, also a
stoneman's race. Preparations are in pro-
gress for big meet July A.