The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME or
CURRENT Events.
Barre.

Aaron Drew was married last week in
Burlington to Miss Emily g. Alapa of that
city.
The seniors at Goddard Seminary took
their annual ride to Berlin Pond last Mon
day.
The Central Vermont railroad has laid a
sidetrack to Miles new coal sheds on Smith
meadow.
Rev. W. r. Davenport is to preach the
memorial sermon at the opera house next
Sunday
Kate Tierney has purchased OF Il. w.
Chapman the doube-tenement house at the
end Of Webster Avenue.
The Methodists are to observe the ami
versary of the formation of the Epworth
League next Sunday evening.
Mrs W. II. Eastman went to Boston last
Monday to complete course in piano.
tuning at the New England Conservatory
of Music.
The body of Mrs. Sarah Waterman of
Morrisville was brought to Barre for burial
last Friday. She was a former resident of
the town.
Rev. A. N. Lewis of Montpelier conducted
the funeral services of Allen May at the
home of James McPhee, his step-father, last
Wednesday afternoon.
The Harvard piano donated by the Ever
EFT Piano Company of Boston for the Catho-
lie fair soon to be held in Barre is on exhi-
bition in w. H. Eastman's window.
Past Colonel e. T. Griswold inspected
Page and Woodbury. camps, Sons Of Vet
Grams, last Saturday evening. He was the
guest of w. w. Lapoint over Sunday.
The Montpelier orchestra furnished music
for the Devils Auction - at the opera
house last Saturday evening. A large dele
! CATION from the capital witnessed the play
The Daughters of Liberty gave a recep-
ton in Arcanum Hall last Friday evening.
A musical and literary programme was rem
dered, and light refreshments were served.
The Central Vermont railroad has con-
tracted with K. l.. Smith & Co. to furnish
$50 carloads of gravel to be used in filling
trestle culverts on the Williamstown
branch.
Angelo Gepsie was run in last Thursday
night by Officer Nichols, and contributed
S11.51 TO Judge A. M. Jackman the follow
ing morning. He disclosed on a new ar
rival from the sunny land.
Rev. B. Wallace Jones, the Universalist
pastor, is to preach the occasional SER
mon " at the meeting of the Central YER
mont Association of Universalsts, to be
held in Montpelier, June and T.
Judge Seneca Haselton OF Burlington,
the newly-appointed minister to Venezuela,
is a graduate Of Barre Academy, class of
1867. In the years 1868 and 1869, he was
assistant to Principal Spaulding in that in
stitution.
Dennison Mower, one of Barrels lifelong
citizens, died of dropsy last week at his
home on the west hill, aged seventy years.
The homestead where he died has been in
possession of the Mower family for more
| than a century.
A handsome monument for parties in
| New Jersey has Just been completed at G.. III
More & Coz sheds. 1t represents an angel
placing wreath of flowers upon a cross,
and reflects great credit upon Louis Boldini
the sculptor. 1t took him about four
months to do the job.
William Quinlan and Otis II. Peck have
purchased of d. r. Sortwell lot of land on
homestead, on which they are to erect a
block this summer. The price paid was
$4,375, or $125 a front foot-a pretty good
price for land, even in one of the. most desir.
able locations in Barre.
A petition has been circulated and nu-
merously signed praying that the supreme
court release II. A. Rugg from Jail, where
he has been confined since March on a
close-jail execution brought by Nellie
Kelly, who secured judgment against Rugg
at the last September term of court in the
sum of $50 for damages
William Wright and Robert Patterson
were arrested by Officer Rowland last Sun.
day evening for intoxication. Both resisted
the officer, but he held his ground and
dubbed his drunken prisoners into submis.
sion. Judge A. NJ. Jackman fined them
S105l each, Monday morning, and gave
them a sharp lecture on their ruffianly con.
duct.
1t is to be regretted that at the recent
meeting of the Retail Merchants Associa-
ton the motion was lost that a petition be
circulated asking that the name of North
Barre be changed back to Thwingvlle.
But this does not prevent the thing being
done. Although the place is now nominally
tod Rar m ~
the residents of that locality it is still
Thwingville and will be to the end Of the
chapter. Interesting associations cluster
around the name of Thwing, for whom the
place was named, and no good reason has
ever been shown for ever calling it North
Barre.
Burglars again made an attempt to &c
through the safe of Smith, Whtcomb &
Cook last Friday night, but did not secure
enough money to pay them for their labor
Sometime between midnight and two
O'Clock, a hole was drilled in the top Of the
safe and the door was blown off. SO heavily
was the safe charged with powder that the
door was badly wrecked, windows were
blown out, and the walls of the building
where the door struck were sprung out Of
shape. About $40 in silver was secured
Either the noise of the explosion or the fac
that an inner safe was encountered fright
ened the robbers and they fled. The firm
had deposited 5000 just before the bank
closed that afternoon, which it is probable
the burglars thought was in the safe. NJ
clue as yet to the perpetrators of the deco
has been secured, but it is not thought t.
be the work of out-of town parties. This i,
the third time this firm has been the victim
OF burglars, and the proprietors decar,
they will leave their safe unlocked in future
with big placard on it to that effect
, They are tired of buying safes for burglars
to ruin
Intelligence of the death Of Rev. DR.. j. o
Peck which occurred in Brooklyn, n. Y.
last Thursday, was received in Barre, es
pecially among the Methodists, with feeling
OF profound sorrow. He leaves an ageG
stepmother and one sister, Mrs. Will Burn
ham, in Barre. Ever since DR.. Peck ha
:. become one of the foremost preachers in thu
Methodist denomination in this country
Barre has taken an especial pride in his ca
I reer and has cordially welcomed him when
ever he visited his aged mother and sister
3 He attended the last session of the Vernon
Conference at Bradford, and prefaced
brilliant and powerful address on the sub
: ject Of missions with happy alluson to hi
love for Vermont, her hills and her people
still claiming the state as his home. Tn
Boston Journal of last Friday says of him
"Rev. Jonas Oramel Peck, ID. D., the dis
2 tinguished reyivalist, pastor and lecturer