The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-09
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.

Is dissolved.
The annual village meeting will be held
next Tuesday.
The interior of the law Office of h. A. Hoar
is being repaired.
In 1884, 1O5 marriage licenses were issued
by the town clerk.
The new Goddard lyceum officers were
elected Saturday night.
The public lyceum club will have hash
debate Thursday evening.
The Week of Prayer is being observed by
the Congregational society.
The new officers Of Page Camp, Sons OF
Veterans, are to be installed tonight.
The annual meeting of the Barre Publish
ing Company is to be held on Saturday.
The Granite City Whist Club has pre-
sented 1924 to the Barre Public Library.
Business in the local police court is sus-
pended during the illness of Judge Barney.
The commissioned officers of the Spencer
Rifles are attending the officers school at
Burlington
w. r. Dickey and John Milton have
formed a partnership for conducting the
granite business.
Professor George Elmore's dancing-school
opened on Tuesday evening with very
! good attendance.
There is to be grand masquerade ball
| and supper at this place on Wednesday
| evening, January 10.
| The theme of Rev. B. w. Jones sermon
| last Sunday morning was What About the
| Resurrection OF the Body"
The popular drama The Ticket of Leave
| Man " is { } be presented at the opera house
| by local talent in the near future.
Postm ster McWhorter does not contem-
plate making any change in the working
force at the post-office at present
| III. A. Skinner has sold his interest in the
| Pitlin & Skinner market to his partner,
and has retired from the business.
A pleasant reception in honor of Charles
b. Wells was given last Wednesday even
ing by Mrs b w. Jones at her home.
Mrs. Sarah Lord Bailey of Boston is to
read to the pupils of the Spaulding High
School in the chapel next Friday afternoon
The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany has appointed DR.. NJ l.. Chandler its
medical examiner, vice DR.. @. f. Camp, re-
signed.
The debating society connected with the
| Spaulding High School held mock session
OF the senate in the chapel last Friday
evening.
Miss Louise Houghton has given up her
position as bookkeeper for Wales q Taft,
and has gone to Northfield to care for her
sick mother.
Work was resumed in nearly all the
stone sheds, Monday morning, aud the
prospects are good for prosperous and
| busy season.
The case of Darling & Son against Nellie
j. Kelley, heard at the offic9 of Boyce &
Boyce, Monday, was won by the plaintiffs
and appealed.
A semi annual dividend of four per cent,
payable on and after January /, has been
declared by the Granite Savings Bank and
Trust Company.
DR.. H. L. Gale expects to locate in Sa-
vannah, Ga, in the spring. de is to take a
postgraduate course in medicine i'll New
York this winter.
The family of the late A. G. Fisher of
Chicago have issued memorial announcing
his death, and that the business will be
conducted by the estate.
Because of the illness of Judge Barney,
the cases OF State v. John Alcorn, and State
v Duncan, to have been tried before him
last week, were continued.
Rev L. Tenney Of Waterbury preached
at the egational church on Sunday,
and the evening meeting was in charge of
Christian Endeavor Society.
Rev. Thomas CALL the secretary of the
BAPTIST State Domestic Missionary Society,
preached last Sunday at the Baptist
church, IN rning and evening
The trustees have appointed DR.. NJ L.
Chandler health officer for the village and
town of Barre. This appointment will not
be affected by the city election in March.
Sneak thieves have of late been commit
ting depredations in church lobbies and the
Railways of private residences. A startling
exa nple will be made of the first one
caught.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer will lecture in
Barre some evening during the first week
in March under the auspices of the Sons of
Veterans. Further particulars will be
given later.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wiley of Boston
are in town experimenting the rehearsal OF
" The Miller's Daughter" to be presented
February l and 2, for the benefit of the
Spencer Rifles.
W. M Badger has sued L. NJ Noyes of
Orange for $500 damages claimed to have
been sustained by him several months ago,
when he was knocked down by a runaway
horse owned by Mr.. Noyes.
w. ID. and II. j. Smith have purchased,
for so, 800, of e. l.. Smith the large vacant
lot on North Main street. This has not
been in the market for some time and is a
very desirable piece of property.
Mrs. w. A Smith, Mrs. G. n. Field, Mrs.
G. G. Macherracker, and Mrs. b. w. Braley
will sing at the entertainment to be given
next week Saturday evening in the library
lecture course by Charles Williams.
The health officer is not having an alto
gether easy time in compelling the work
men at the quarries to be vaccinated. Some
of the men have made very determined
resistance, causing DR.. Chandler much
trouble.
Rev. Joseph Hamilton, presiding elder of
the st. Johnsbury district, held quarterly
meeting and preached at the Methodist
church last Sunday. He also conducted
the third quarterly conference, held last
Friday evening
A lodge of Good Templars was organ
lied at South Barre last week by DR.. s. N.
Gould of West Randolph. The officers
elected are A. G. Whitcher, G. T.; Mrs. A.
G.. Whitcher, " t.; Miss Amy Hill, mar
shall; Miss Bates, seer etary.
Bert W. Abbey was married recently in
Burlington to Miss Annie Lucy Isham OF
that city. Mr.. Abbey has signed for his
second season as pitcher for the Chicago
league baseball team. He is at present in
Springfield, Mass with his bride.
The new Methodist church will be chris
tened :" The Hedding Methodist Episcopal
Church in honor OF Bishop Elijah He'd
ding. one OF the early bishops of that de
nomination. During the early days Of
, Bishop Holdings ministry, he was pastor