The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre,

Miss Blanche Skinner is at Meredith, N.
H., on vacation
Miss Sadie Averill is with her brother
Arthur in Boston.
Rev. j. A. Sherburne will preach for the
Baptists next Sunday.
Rev G. E. Hooker preached for the
Methodsts last Sunday.
Bert w. Abbey is soon to join the Brook
Ign, N Y, baseball team.
The Baptist Sunday school picnioked at
the quarries last Saturday.
About $500 people from Barre were at
Montpelier last Wednesday,
DIR. John A Smith of St. Johnsbury Is
visiting W. A. Smith, his son.
G. Goodwin of Cuba, Kan, Is visiting
Mrs. o. X. Hollister, his sister.
The erection OF the new Catholic parson-
age is in charge of Martin Riley
Smith Brothers are adding a brick front
to their block on North Main street.
And now a city tax of fifty cents per COW
is proposed for the unhappy milkman.
The local Epworth League will go on ex-
cursion to Fairlee Pond next Saturday.
The city council has appropriated $500 for
the use Of the cemetery commissioners
Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Gilley are at Bucks
port, Me-, for stay Of two weeks or more.
James witherell OF Montreal, P. O., Wis.,
tied last week at the home of Y. n. Wilson
Mayor Smith returned on Tuesday from
Buffalo, N. Y, accompanied by Mrs. Smith
The grand lodge of the knights OF Pyth-
las will convene in Barre, Wednesday, Octo-
Der 2.
The infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Edwards died last Saturday Of cholera in
fantum.
D. r. Bisbee, Harry Tilden and Bert An
Choir rode TO Grand Isle ON their wheels
last week.
A. M. Jackman has been refused permits
sion to erect wooden addition to his Main
street block.
w. W. Lapoint and II. w. Scott are to
sion to the bar.
The contract for erecting the granite
plant of Mackie & Son has been awarded to
G. l.. Churchill.
The G. II. Hunton Granite Company has
been petitioned into insolvency by G. j.
Reynolds g. Son.
Miss Matte Price, stenographer in the Of
fee of j. w. Gordon, is on vacation at her
home in Middlesex.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Averill went last
week to the beach near Portland, Maine,
to remain three weeks.
Francisco Costa, an Italian barber, was
fined So in city court last week for riding a
bicycle on the sidewalk.
Professor o. d. Mathewson is busy these
days holding teachers examinations in va
rious parts of the county.
Miss Emily Cooper returned last week
from Brooklyn, N Y, where she has been
for the past three weeks.
Miss Annie McCabe of Denver, Colo, has
been the guest OF John T1mmons, her I'M
Gle, during the past week.
A.
Works of Philadelphia, visited Allen Wer-
ner, his brother, last week.
Mrs G. w. Fisher and daughters Of
Worcester, Mass, are the guests of ID. G..
Bickfo father of Mrs. Fisher.
The finance committee of the board of
aldermen has been instructed to collect a
note of $500 against Clark Holden.
Major j. d Smith, manager OF the EN-
pire Granite Compa ny, is on business trip
to Albany N. Y, and Philadelphia.
A gang of fifty men are engaged in max
ing extensive repairs and improvements In
the yard of the Central Vermont railroad.
Freight Conductor Felix Mccarthy got
caught last Saturday between building
and locomotive and was severely bruised.
N. d. Phelps is newly-elected member
OF the executive committee OF the State
Firemen's Association. The purse was 5000.
An excursion will be run to Ticonderoga,
N. Y, on Tuesday, August 6, under the
auspices of Hiawatha Lodge OF Odd Eel
lows.
The physicians of Barre have been asked
to submit to the city council sealed bids for
furnishing medical treatment to the city
paupers.
n. d. Phelps was former owner Of
yankee Luck !" the feet footed horse that
won the q 81 race in q: II at Mystic Park last
Wednesday.
Rev. j. B. McKinnon Of Toronto, Ont,
who is supplying at Graniteville this sum
mer, exchanged last Sunday with Rev. e.
W. Cummings.
At the Congregational church, last Sun
day evening, the delegates to the Christian
Endeavor convention at Boston rendered an
interesting report.
The city council has voted to purchase a
fre-alarm bell, of different tone from any
now in the city, and not TO exceed 2,oOO
pounds in weight.
urday, James Cashen changed his plea of
not guilty Of intoxication to guilty, and was
fined the usual amount
A. E. Batchelder received lively shak-
ing up last Thursday by being thrown from
his sulky at Nashua, N. H., while driving
Parker John" in race.
A fair will be held on the trottng park on
TUESDAY, wednesday, anu luuieudy, Otp-
TENDER "a, % and 26, under the auspices Of
the Barre Breeders Association.
Clan Gordon will hold it's annual picnic,
on the trotting park, on Saturday, August
8. An interesting programme OF sports and
athletic events has been prepared.
At the mock trial to be held in the near
future by the Owl Debating Club, the case
of the city of Barre against j. t. Callahan,
for non. payment of dog tax, will be tried.
William Bishop, driver of the American
Express Company's team in Barre for sew
eral years, goes to Boston, August l, where
he has a position as conductor on an cleo
| trio car.
The trover suit of Annie MCGOWAN
against NJ. j. MCGOWAN, for the conversion
OF furniture, was heard in city court last
Wednesday, and was decided in favor of
| the defendant.
! 1t is thought the insolvency proceedings
| against the G. Ell. Hunton Granite Company
will be discontinued, as the company
claims to be able 80 pay all It's bills at one
| hundred cents on the dollar.
Secretary Of State Brownell and Hon. l..
e. Chittenden of New York were in Barre