The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-12-26
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.

Barre
Burnham & Mills have dissolved partner.
ship.
E. j. Gale is a home fro N Wesleyan Uni
versity.
DIR. G. F. Camp has resigned the position
of health officer.
The ne " Catholic church at Granite Vile
Is well under way.
A lodge of Good Templars will soon be
instituted at South Barre.
Nearly all the granite sheds are shut
down for the holiday vacation.
A new lot of valuable books has recently
been received at the French library.
A New Years ball will be held in
Armory Hall next Monday evening.
One thousand copies of the village charter
have been distributed by the bailtffs
The Presbyteri an fair that closed Monday
evening was very successful and EN- )y-
able aft air
A crowded house enjoyed fine Christ.
mas concert at the Methodist church las5
Sunday evening.
Professor s. +. Emerson of the Univer-
sity Of Vermont preached at the Congrega-
tional church last Sunday
George Barton and Miss Rebecca Suitor
were IN arried Monday morning by Rev. e,
W. Cummings at his residence.
| Rev. p. @. Abbey gave an illustrated lee
ture at the Baptist church, Sunday evening,
on The Two Houses in the Gospel"
Dominica Judic pleaded guilty to intoxi'
cation before Judge A. M. Jack man last
Monday morning and was amerced S10.51.
E. j. Gale of the Wesleyan University
and Herbert Hanson of the University of
Vermont are spending the holiday vacation
at home.
Officer Rowland arres ed an Italian
named Falice Rizzi, Sunday evening, for
intoxication. He paid the usual fine Mon
| day morning
The comic opera, "The Miller's Daugh
ter will be brought out by local talent uu-
der the auspices of the Spencer Rifles some
time in February.
" The Tdumphs of Christianity " was the
theme of An excellent discourse from Rev
w. X. Davenport at the Methodist church
last Sunday morning.
Gould e. Nichols are TO move to the Quin-
Ian block, March l. f. A. Eaton will at
| that time move his dry goods store to the
quarters now occupied by the music firm.
Senator Villas of Wisconsin was in Barre
last week for ths purpose of co tracing for
a monument of Barre granite to be placed
on his private lot in a cemetery at Madison,
Wis.
Christmas was generally observed at the
churches in Barre by appropriate musical
! programmes and sermons on Sunday, and
evenings
b. W. Abbey, the crack baseball pitcher,
is at the home OF Rev. p. G. Abbey, his fa-
ther, for thu holiday vacation. He has re-
Gently been in training school at Spring
field, Mass.
Miss Edna Clark and Miss Nadine Mich
| OILS are at home from Boston for the Christ
mas vacation. Both these young ladies are
making marked progress at the Emerson
School of Oratory in hat city.
At the Christmas concert held Sunday
evening at the Methodist church. Miss
Dewey of the Methodist Seminary at Mont
peier was the soloist. Professor Gilbert
son accompanied the chorus wi h cornet.
A novel and entertaining book title party
was held by the Universast Mite Society
in their vestry last Wednes lay event lg.
Miss Florence Kendrck won the prize by
guessing correctly the names of ten books.
The engine house below Granite street,
vned by the Central Vermont railroad,
has been torn down to make additional
track Ioom, rendered necess AIRY by the con-
stantly increasing freight business done by
this road in Barre.
The officers-elect Of the Universalist so
cety for the coming year are Dr. G.. b.
Nichols, moderator; Dr. I'll. E. Packer, sec
rotary; G. l.. Bates, treasurer; W A.
Drew, s. d. Allen, j. w Gordon and V.
w. Curtis, executive committee.
A large tenement house at Graniteville
caught fire last Friday afternoon, and for a
time a contiagration was imminent. The
only fire protection was the pail brigade, but
the flames were confined to the upper story.
Insured for 50 200 with the Union Mutual.
The Epworth League of the Methodist
church will hold an " Experience Social +"
at the vestry of the church next Friday
evening. The entertainment will consist in
| the relation of the experiences of the men,
bers in earning money for the new pipe
! organ.
The village bailiffs met last Monday to
revise the check list, preparatory to the an
nual village election, which occurs in jan
uary. 1t will be an empty honor for the
officers elected at that time, as they will
hold Office only forty days before the new
city charter goes into effect.
G. w. Drown died last Friday night. His
funeral was held Monday afternoon, Rev.
DR. l. p. Booth of Morrisvile officia log.
where the Grand Army posts of Wolcott
and Morrisville conducted the burial part.
Deceased was a member of Crandall Post,
and a worthy citizen.
An annual meeting of the Methodist
membership aad attendants will be held at
the church, January l. In the afternoon
there will be roll call and letters from
absent members, and in the evening there
will be reports from all the departments of
church work. The past year has been an
unusually prosperous one
A picture agent named j. S. Shapen, rep.
resenting the Boston Ideal Portrait Com
pany, was arrested last Friday by Officer
Camp for refusing to give up photograph
belonging to Mrs. A. G.. Lapoint. On being
taken to the Office of John w. Gordon he
thought better of the matter, surrendered
the picture and paid the costs.
The trouble between Mari & Gordon and
the electrical firm of Almon & Sargent Of
Boston has been settled. The Barre firm
brought action against Almon & Sargent by
a trustee process upon the corporation of
the village of Morrisville, where they We're
putting in an electrical plant, but the differ
ences have been settled and the service re-
I moved.
Partisan politics will in all probability be
| ignored in the contest foc the first mayor of
the new city. DIR. j. Henry Jackson would
undoubtedly be the aim )st unanimol is
choice, but the federal office he holds pre-
vents the use of his name. The most promi-
nently mentioned gentlemen at present for
the position are II. g. Currier and John w.
Gordon.
Peter Frasier, a granite manufacturer of
Jockey Hollow" was terribly burned last
Monday morning while attempting to light
! a fire with karOaana The can a nlo1a6