The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-04
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.
Fl. o. Camp was in Boston last week.
r 8 Cnrrier WAS In Boston last week.


The new fire alarm bell has been placed
in position.
c. e. Tayntor was in town from New
York last week.
The new Aver street bridge was COM
peted last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w, F. Scott visited last
week in Georgia.
Hoffer & Gotta, granite dealers, have dis
solved partnership.
Miss Blanche Skinner, stenographer for
j. W. Dillon, is ill.
William wylie OF Chicago is visiting at
the home OF K. ID. Richards.
A daughter was born last Thursday to
Rev. and Mrs. B. W. Jones.
j. o. Cook of Chicago visited last week at
the home Of Charles Barber.
George W. Smith has been appointed
second constable by Mayor Smith.
A fire-alarm gong is to be placed on the
granite sheds Of O. e. Tayntor & Co.
The resignation OF w. f. Shepard as chief
of police has been received by Mayor Smith.
The Montpelier & Wells River railroad
has a new set OF railroad scales in the
yard.
8. r. Davis has gone to Winchendon,
Mass, where he has position in hos
pital.
W. R. Durham has gone to Boston, where
he has position on the staff OF the Boston
Globe.
J.D. Smith Of the Empire Granite Com.
pany returned from his western trip last
week.
Several members of the Barre Bicycle
Club attended the races at Brattleboro last
week.
The nomination OF G. W. Smith as second
constable and chief of police has been con-
6rmed.
G. W. Halls petition to the city council
to place a hydrant near his residence has
been refused
Judge Barney returned from Bethlehem,
N. H., last Monday and is again presiding
at city court.
Ernest Sabin of Fitzwilliam, N. H., for
mer resident Of Barre, visited in the city
last week.
III. E. Cutler of Norwich, Conn, has pur-
chased the photograph gallery Of F. W.
Sherburne.
The non-commissioned officers of Com
pany E opened their school of instruction
last evening.
Division Commander Monahan OF Under
hill visited the camp Of Sons OF Veterans in
Barre last week.
DR.. G. M. Scribner has been awarded the
contract for caring for the city poor to JAN
uary l, 1896, for $40.
Six members OF the Barre Bicycle Club
rode to Bristol and return last Sunday-a
distance Of 112 miles.
Principal A. W. PIERCE Of Goddard Sem
mary is expected home from Europe about
the middle of September.
Mayor Smith and wife will attend the
National Grand Army Encampment at
Louisville, KY, this month
Msckie & Son have put in an eighty-fve
horsepower engine and 1875 horsepower
boiler at their granite works
DR.. j. Henry Jackson, DR.. H. o. Worthen,
and party, were expected in Barre from
Europe on Tuesday evening.
DR.. II. e. Packer has purchased house
in Gardiner, Mass, and is soon to move
there to practice his profession.
United States senators should hereafter
be elected by the people; at least, 80 the
Owl Debating Club has decided.
Burt Martin of Chattanooga, Tenn, has
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. II. s.. Martin,
his parents, during the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Stanyan returned
last Monday from Block Island, where they
have been during the past four weeks.
Rev. P. G. Abbey was in Bolton last week
to attend the funeral Of Charles Tomlinson,
who died there, aged eighty-four years.
William Dunbar, long. time granite
dealer in Barre, has gone to Chicago, where
he is to continue in the granite business.
The annual Baptist State Convention is
to be held in Barre on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday, September "a, % and 26.
Because of the illness of Professor Math-
ewson, the Spaulding Graded School will
not open until next Monday, September 9,
]. E. Walsh did some crack bicycle riding
in the races at LOWELL Mass, last Saturday,
winning the one.third mile and two.mile
races
At the next meeting of the Owl Debating
Club, the question whether legislative en-
actment lessons intemperance will be dis
cussed.
dard Seminary already entered in the COM
mercial department gives evidence of its
popularity.
Mrs. Mary A. Blodgett died last Sunday,
aged ffty-two years. The funeral was held
Tuesday afternoon from her late home on
Aver street.
The Barre Rangers and Thistles played
football on the trotting park last Saturday
afternoon. Score, eleven to blank in favor of
the Rangers.
EN-. Prescott and A. e. Glidden go to
Philadelphia next week to attend the Ma
tional Council of the Order of United Amer
lean Mechanics.
Rev. W. R. Davenport preached last Sun
day morning to Ethan Allen Council, Order
United American Mechanics, at Hedding
(Methodis) Church
Bishop Michaud visited St. Monica
Church last Sunday and confirmed large
class. He also consecrated the new Catholic
cemetery in the afternoon.
An entertainment was given at the Con-
gregational church, Tuesday evening, by
Frank G. Reynolds and Dudley III. Prescott,
for the benefit Of the organ fund
Il. G. Kotton has gone to Philadelphia to
submit design for a monument to be
erected on the battlefield of Antietam in
memory of Pennsylvania regiment.
Miss Emma Hopkins and O. G. Stickney
were delegates from the Congregational
Christian Endeavor Society to the county
convention, at Plainfeld, last Friday.
Mrs. e. G. Prescott, Mrs. George Anns
and Miss Westcott, with Miss Ella Bragg OF
Somerville, Mass, visited the Wood Art
Gallery at Montpelier last Wednesday.
The Granite City Poultry, Pigeon and Pet
Stock Association will have an extensive
exhibition at the fair to be held on the trot
ting park, September 26, q and %, by the
Barre Breeders Association.
Because Of rain, the lawn party that wa,
to have been held last Thursday evening a.