The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTTNG RESUME or
CURRENT Events.
Barre.

Barre boasts a night lunch.cart, sure
forerunner of metropolitan life.
There ore over fifty taxpayers in Barre
by the euphonious name of Smith.
The rite of baptism will be administered
at the Methodist church next Sunday morn
ing
Peter OConnell and wife of Bethel were
guests OF Rev. Father Brelivet over last
Sunday.
Lyle e. Cooney's dramatic company holds
the boards at the opera house every even
ing this week
Rev. p. G. Abbey discoursed on Jesus
and Zaccheus," at the Baptist church, last
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. II. A. Duffy returned from Syracuse,
n. Y, last Saturday, where she has been
for several months.
Father Brelivet is intending to give the
young folks of his parish trip to Mont
pelier on Arbor Day.
Rev. Eflie X. NJ. Jones will occupy the
| pulpit at the Unitarian church next Sun
! day, morning and evening.
S. S. Ballard is a delegate to the National
Association of Life Underwriters that is to
be held in Chicago in June.
A guardian is to be appointed for j. X.
Harroun, May Il. He Is in the insane
asylum at Waterbury and very feeble.
W. w, Lapoint was at Richmond two
days last week, preparing to organize
! camp of Sons of Veterans in that town.
Eleven members of Vncita lodge,
! knights OF Pythias, went 10 Cam bridge last
Thursday evening to assist in insttuting
new lodge there.
Robert Knox and George Paxton were in
! New York last week to meet their fam
lilies on the arrival of the White Star
steamer Teutonic.
e. G. French was elected grand warden,
and A, E. Glidden grand guard, of the
| grand lodge of the New England Order of
! Protection, held last week in Rutland
Bishop Hall preached and administered
| the rite Of confirmation at the Mission of
the Good Shepherd last Sunday afternoon,
and preached in the evening at Miles hall.
The union temperance meetings at the
opera house were resumed last Sunday
evening, when the venerable Rev. j. A.
Sherbufne delivered the principal address.
More than 400 persons of all denomina-
tions listened TO Bishop Halls sermon at
Miles hall last Sunday evening. His theme
was " Liberty and Law" and his discourse
was of marked eioquence and power.
Rev. Dr. Almon Gunnison of Worcester,
Mass, is to deliver an illustrated lecture on
the Worlds Fair at the Universalist church
on Thursday evening for the benefit Of the
Goddard Seminary Athletic Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Stafford entertained
the 400 whist club last Thursday evening
Mrs. George Richardson and DIR. b. w.
Braley made the best scores, and Mrs. j.
Nj. Taft and George Richardson the poorest.
The authorities of the town of Barre re.
fuse to pay the board bill that II. A. Rugg
is running up at the county Jail, where he
has been confined since the first of March,
and the question arises, Who will liquidate
the Indebtedness to the county?
Charles Farnsworth, foreman at the Yer
verely injured, last Friday morning, by be-
ing hit on the back Of the head with a
broken derrick chain. He was knocked in
sensible, but it is thought his skull was not
fractured
The travelling derrick at the stone sheds
OF Littlejohn q Milne, weighing fifteen tons,
| fell with loud crash last Thursday after
noon. 1t was not in use at the time, and,
like the deacon's one-hoss shay" went to
pieces all at once. William Rayside and
Henry Budrow, who were working near,
were quite seriously injured, and their es-
cape from death was miraculous
Severino Casalini, who has been in county
Jail at Montpelier for several weeks, settled
the balance of his Indebtedness, and board
bill at the county hotel, amounting to about
5000, last Friday, and was released from
custody. The money was paid through X.
A. Hoar, Esq, his attorney. Casalini de-
clares that making love to another mans
| wife III UHlS country 10 uOO cApcuSlNb DuSl-
ness to follow regularly, and that he is done
with it.
Several syncronized clocks have recently
been put in different business places in
town. These clocks are self-wnders, and
are set correctly at noon each day by wires
connected with the Western Union Tele-
| graph Company. III other granite sheds in
town would follow the example Of Barclay
Brothers and e. NJ. Tayntor in putting in
| these clocks, the din of noon whistles
would not be kept up for from three to five
minutes OF the stroke OF noon, as is now the
case.
A tramp, or sneak thief, gained entrance
to the sleeping-room of a young girl who
lives with Mrs. Emeline S. Benjamin, on
Silver street, last Thursday evening. He
placed ladder against the side of the house
and succeeded in getting into the bedroom
before the girl was awakened He implored
her not to scream as he was simply hiding
from the police, but the maid yelled lus-
tily for help and the scoundrel fled the
same way he got in. A coat OF tar and
feathers is ready for him if his identity is
fully established, as it is thought it will be.
The seventy-ffth anniversary of the es.
adjustment of Odd Fellowship in this coun-
try was celebrated by the members of Hia-
watha lodge, last Thursday evening, in
their hall in Gordon's block. Music was
furnished by Miss Minnie Miers and III. A.
Gould, and congratulatory addresses We're
delivered by John w. Gordon and U. Is.
BOyce. Miss Lillian Kenerson recited The
Good Samaritan" written by Rev. A. j.
Hough of Brattleboro the poet laureate Of
the order in Vermont, in manner that ex-
cited long-continued applause. About two
hundred members of the order and invited
guests were present
One OF the twin babes of Thomas Nc
Kenzie died last week. - Mrs. George
Phelps of Seaford, Del, and Miss Hattie
Griswold of Cambridge have been the guests
of Mrs, S. s. Ballard for several days. -
DIR. M. ID. Lamb now has charge of the
patients at the Ensor establishment, DR.. Q.
f. Camp having resigned. - Henry
Holt of Fargo, n. D., visited in town last
week. - Frank Robinson, of the post
office force, was i'll last week with threat
ened typhoid fever. - Henry Premier is
recovering from what was feared would be
fatal case of typhoid fever. - George
German, clerk in the Central Vermont
freight office, visited at his home in Bellows
Falls last week. - III. u. Mills 6is in
| Boston on business. Alexander Spicer
returned to his home in Lynn, Mass, last
| week.
Berlin.
Eagle Grange enjoyed an excellent pro.
gramme at the last meeting, consisting OF