The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.
Barre,
Mrs. M. ID. Lamb is in Boston.


The public schools will open next Mon
day.
w. #. Richardson and wife are in camp
at North Hero.
Mrs William Morse OF Chicago is visiting
Mrs. II. II. Edwards.
There is talk of organizing municipal
reform club In this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. G. Gay were visiting in
Marshfeld last Sunday.
Mrs w. G. Quinlan was at Highgate
Springs all of last week.
Mrs. William Parker and child OF Lowell,
Mass, are visiting W. G. Parker.
Mrs. l.. f. Peck of Fitchburgh, Mass, is
visiting Mrs. X. l.. Smith, her mother.
Mrs. John Kelley has been dangerously
Ill with pneumonia during the past week.
Rev. W. r. Davenport preached last
Thursday at the camp. meeting at Lyndon
Vile.
The Office OF Chief engineer Phelps OF the
fire department has been equipped with a
gong.
o. A. Slade of Norwich, Conn, a former
resident of Barre, visited in the city last
week
Two owners OF dogs In the city have paid
the special city tax. What will the 9th.
ers do?
Miss Gertrude Jackson Of Brookfield
Beckford.
Wells M. Badger was called to Manches.
ter, N. H., last week, to attend the funeral
Of a sister.
Rev. P. G. Abbey has returned from his
vacation. He occupied the Baptist pulpit
last Sunday
Judge and Mrs. W. E. Barney are at Beth
lehem, n. H., where they will remain until
| September l.
j. e. Walsh and Lewis Robbins OF Barre
are entered in the bicycle races at Norris
vile this week.
The advertisement OF G. NJ Stone & Co.
on page one will have a special interest
for Barre people.
W. c. French and Clayton Meaker started
last week for Denver, Col, where they will
spend the winter.
The rum case Of State against L. A.
Streeter has been again postponed to the
first OF September.
Miss Jennie Lowell, OF the cashiers de-
partment in r. FL. White & Co.'s 8 .ore, Bos-
ton, is visiting in town.
The reading in the Universalist church,
last Thursday evening, by Joel A. Bass,
did not attract large audience
The creditors of the insolvent granite firm
OF Simms & Murdoch have asked the pro-
bate court to appoint an assignee.
Eaton & Smith, OF the Granite City Cloth.
ing Company, have dissolved partnership.
Mr.. Eaton is to continue the business.
DR.. j. Henry Jackson, DR.. II. o.
Worthen, and the others of the party, will
sail from Liverpool for New York on Thurs
day.
Thomas Il. Cave, Jr., is to open a job
| printing Office in Barre at an early day.
Thomas ii. Cave, his father will work for
| him.
The Mission Band connected with the
Congregational church will hold a lawn
party on the church lawn next Saturday
night.
The celebration of Labor Day" next
week Saturday, September 7, promises to
eclipse anything OF the kind ever seen in
Barre.
The repairs on the polishing. mill Of the
Vermont Granite Company have been COM
pleted.
Main street in front Of Gordon's block
was disturbed late last Saturday night by a
| free.for-all fight which attracted motley
| crowd
David Aldrich, who is still in critical
condition, has brought civil suit against
Hugh McNaulty for assault, damages being
fixed at 81, 200.
Chauncey Wiley has returned from
Buffalo, N. Y, where he went to reside,
and has again entered the Barre Office Of e.
l.. Smith & Co.
The wings Of the dam for the Cold Spring
Water Company are in process Of construc-
ton. Walter Phelps has the contract for
doing the work.
c.. M. Winch shipped his chestnut PAGER
Dandy " to Hills Grove, R. l., last Thurs
day, where he is to trot this week in the
2:22 and 2:26 races.
Rev B. w. Jones and Professor O. X.
HOLSTER are among the speakers at the
Universalist State Convention now in ses-
sion at Morrisville.
Mrs. o. B. Boyce has received from the
Knights Of Honor a check for 1900 in pay
ment OF the policy held in that organization
by her late husband
The charter of q. A. Woodbury. camp,
Sons Of Veterans, has been revoked by Di.
vision Commander e. T. Monahan, because
OF non pay ment of dues.
The Owl Debating Club discussed the
question whether United States senators
| should be elected by the people, at the
meeting held last evening.
j. w. Gordon was in Boston, last week,
to t. AXE a deposition in the case Of MCGOWAN
v. MCGOWAN, to be tried at the September
term OF Washington county court.
There are 1,200 sunk letters to be cut in
the soldiers monument for a Pennsylvania
regiment. 1t is now in process Of construc-
ton by the Vermont Granite Company
George Robinson, Henry Premier and
| DcuuobJ Wolo utltRdJos lIOu DdrTt
to assist in the institution of a grand court
OF the Catholic order of Foresters of Bur.
lington last Monday.
1t is said that none of the milk dealers
either in or out of the city have paid any
attention to the special tax imposed on them
by the city council, and that the majority OF
them declare they never will pay it.
An accident spoiled the bell that was
cast by the Blake Bell Company OF Boston
for the fire-alarm system, and another will
have to be made. 1t is TO be placed in the
tower of the Spaulding Graded School
building.
Harriet, wife of Deacon Charles Wheaton,
died last Sunday, aged sixty.six years
Her funeral was held from her late home
Tuesday afternoon, Rev. 8. n. Jackson
officiating, and the burial was in Barre
Cemetery
George Lamson and II X. Bush were in
Worthwhile, last week, on business con.
nected with the granite business OF John
Brechin, formerly of Barre. 1t is said that
Brechin has made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors.
The brick school. house on Church street
has been condemned by the CITY council and