The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-09
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.
III. p. Kendrick is very i'll with dropsy.
Mayor Smith was in Boston last week.

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A son was born last Thursday to Mr. and
| Mrs b. W. Abbey.
The mayor has appointed w. f. How.
land chief of police
The Office OF the Empire Granite Com.
pany has been moved to Bolsters block.
Charles s. Currier civil engineer, now
| has his Office in the old town hall building.
j. f. Walsh won the five-mile handicap
bicycle race at Keene, N H., last week
N. b. Ballard has been confined to the
house during the past week with sprained
ankle
The passenger train for the quarries that
left Barre at 1: 80 P. M has been dscon.
tnued.
Mrs. George Richardson entertained the
"Over the Teacups Club last Thursday
afternoon Emersons essays were dis
cussed.
Miss Nellie Cooley OF Chelsea is clerk in
the post-office during the absence Of Miss
Corlss.
The ladies OF Hedding Methodist Church
will serve a supper in their dining.room
this evening
Rev. Oscar Davis OF Plymouth Mass,
preached for the Congregationalists last
Sunday evening.
The Catholic fair still continues to draw
good houses 1t will close on Saturday
evening OF this week.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union last
Wednesday afternoon.
Owing to the absence of Rev. Z. w. Cum
ings, there was no preaching at the Pres
byterian church last Sunday.
Miss Beatrice Robbins has been teaching
in the school at North Barre during the
illness of Miss Myrtle Parker.
Rev. W. r. Davenport spoke, last Sunday
evening, on A young man with a back
bone" The audience was large
barn on Farwell street, owned by Lewis
Brassau was burned last Thursday FORE
noon. insured with Bisbee & Graham.
DR.. j. e McSweeney has purchased Of
DR.. II. Packer his house on Merchant
street, possession to be given October a.
A. ID. Morse has been at Old Orchard
Beach during the past week. superintend-
ing the erection OF a cottage there for his
use next season.
The track of the Barre rail road at the
Ayers Burnham crossing has been raised
about two feet which obviates an almost
perpetual mudhole.
Officers Smith and Nichols lately arrested
four drunken Italians on Burnham meadow
They were convicted and fined in city court
Wednesday morning.
John Scampini, who lives on North Main
street, was roughly handled last Sunday
evening by a crowd Of drunken roughs
whom he had refused supply OF beer.
Fidus Achates ~ will be the subject of
the lecture at Hedding (Methodist Church
next Sunday evening. The attendance at
the last lecture was phenomenally large.
SAY, why don't you try De Wits Little
Ear y Risers ? These little pills cure head
ache, indigestion and constipation. They're
small, but do the work. w. E. Terril &
Co., agents, Montpelier.
Rev. George e. Hooker will lecture in
the opera house, next week Tuesday even
| inc N 90 The Human 2i1e Of tha Granita
Industry" The lecture will be illustrated
with stereopticon views.
The Grand Lodge Of Knights of Pythias
meets at Barre to-day and will continue
through Thursday This evening a compli-
mentary banquet will be rendered the
Vincitia Lodge.
The funeral of Mrs. Charles Webster was
held last Wednesday afternoon from her
late home on Webster Avenue, Rev. w. R.
Davenport officiating Her death was very
sudden. She leaves husband and five
children-one an infant.
E. l.. Smith has sold his entire interest in
the granite firm of E L. Smith & Co., in
Guiding the quarries and plant, TO Donald
Smith and John Smith, his partners. Mayor
Smith will in future have charge Of the
branch Office at Buffalo, N. Y.
IT'S just easy to try One Minute Cough
Cure as anything else. It's easier to cure a
severe cough or cold with it, Let your next
purchase for a cough be One Minute Cough
Cure. Better medicines better results; bet.
ter try it, w. E. Terril & Co., agents.
The removal to Rutland of Mrs. G. G.
Mackerracher creates vacancy in the
Universalist choir that will be hard to fill.
For more than two years her rich contralto
voice has been enjoyed and appreciated in
that church. Her departure is sincely re-
GREETED
The Spaulding High School lyceum held
its first public meeting last Friday evening.
An interesting miscellaneous programme
was rendered, and the question whether
protective tariff or a tariff for revenue only
is more beneficial to the United Stateswa
discussed.
There are nearly 300 members of the
Granite State Provident ssociation in
Barre, who have about $50, 900 invested,
and they are naturally interested in the
question whether the concern is solvent.
The matter is now undergoing thorough
investigation by the inspectors Of finance
and bank examiners OF the several New
England states.
Madamoisele Rhea, who appeared at the
opera house in "Nell Gwynne last Satur-
day evening, visited Goddard Seminary,
and gave a brief talk on Napoleon " to the
pupils in the afternoon 1t is needless to
add that nearly every student OF that in
stitution was in the opera house in the
evening, 80 charmed were they by the in.
formal talk she gave them.
A petition has been filed by j. Dunlop
Smith, secretary of the Empire Granite
Company, for dissolution of the Producers
Granite Company, which is combination
of the Empire and Harrison granite COM
panies. The works have been run jointly
for the past two years. 1t is understood
that the Harrison people do not favor such
a move, and that they may purchase the en-
tire plant.
The list Of entertainments to be given this
season under the auspices OF the Barre
Lecture Course Association is as follows:
Georgs Riddle and the Philharmonic Sex
tette Club, November IA; R. L. Comstock,
December 8; Rev. Thomas Dixon, Decem-
Der II; Temple Quartette, January I; Rev
r. II. Conwell, January 49, j. Dewitt
Miller, January 81; George r. vending
February 10; j. j. Ingalls,, February 70.
1t is currently reported that the grand
Jury devoted part OF its time last week in
Investigating the action OF the board of civil
authority at the time OF the first city cleo
ton last March. The investigation, 1t is
said arose from reports made to that body