The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.


Mr.. and Mrs f. w. stanyan were in Bos.
ton last week.
Charles A. Smith is erecting a residence
on Elm street.
The horse case of Burnham against Shurt-
left has been settled.
Edward Whitehead is clerk in the store
Of NJ. L. Towne & Co.
Fred King visited last week at his former
home In Mooers, N. Y.
w. II. Gladding was in Boston last week
to attend the Pharmacy fair.
Max Severance, law student with Judge
Barney, is teaching at Marshfeld.
The new telephone line between Barre
and Washington is nearly completed.
w Hooker and W. g. Reynolds were in
Greensboro last week on fishing trip
Seventeen cutters were discharged last
week by the Empire Granite Company
The Owl Debating Club will discuss the
income tax at its meeting This evening.
Merton Bradford has gone to Mortified
to work in the electric light works there.
The William Farwell farm on Beckley
Hill has been pui chased by W. P. Mortimer.
e. M. Tayntor has purchased OF g. N.
Field, for $500. building lot on East street.
Five hundred feet OF new hose have been
purchased for the use Of the fire depart
ment
1t is expected that the corner stone OF the
new Episcopal church will be laid early in
| June.
f. W. Sherburne was in Hartford, Conn,
last week looking for new wrinkles in BIZ
cycles.
Jesse Frasier has sold to E. W. Chap.
man, for $4,000, his house and lot off South
Main street.
The board of aldermen have confirmed
the appointment Of l.. n. Gauthier as spe-
| cial policeman.
Thomp-on Memorial Cottage will be dedi-
Gated at the June commencement at God.
dard Seminary.
| of the Sons Of Veterans in which to hold
| their meetings.
The WATCHMAN next week will contain a
| full report of the dedication of Hedding
(Methodist) Church.
Mrs. L. l.. Beeman OF Montpelier will
speak on temp france in the opera house
next Sunday evening.
The mayor and board Of aldermen have
purchased the farm Of q. N. Benedict for
a city cemetery. Price 1000.
The body Of Mrs. Kate M. Chase q former
resident, has been brought to Barre from
Winchendon, Mass, for burial.
G. Mackie & Sons are to erect granite
sheds near " Pitchpole Falls " on land pur.
chased by them Of A. d. Batchelder.
W. P. Durkee had one finger badly
| crushed last Wednesday while working in
the sheds Of the Puritan Granite Company.
DR.. j. Henry Jackson, having completed
his course OF lectures at the medical college,
Burlington, returned to Barre last Friday.
The attempt to hold a flower show this
summer by the Granite City Poultry and
Pet Stock Association has been abandoned.
The memorial service at the opera house
| next Sunday morning will take the place Of
the usual services at the different churches.
o. A. Grouse, clerk in the granite Office OF
Alex. Frasier g. Co., leaves this week for
Mansfield o., expecting to remain in that
city.
Mrs Peter Alexander and Mrs James
Imlah sailed last week from New York for
Scotland, where they will spend the sum-
mer.
The Groton Bridge and Manufacturing
Company Of Groton, N. Y, has the contract
for the construction Of the Aver street
bridge.
Misses Edna Clark and Nadine Nichols
have returned from Boston, where they
have been studying at the Emerson School
of Oratory.
The inspecting officer has changed the
date for the annual drill and inspection of
the Spencer Rifles from Thursday, June 10,
to Saturday, June 10.
Miss Edith Averill has been elected pres
dent George Gates vice-president, g. H
Pape secretary, and G. M. Howe treasurer,
OF the Congregational Christian Eudeavor
Society.
A district meeting of Young Peoples
Unions will be held to-day at the Univer-
salist church. Henry Garfield Of Ohio ma
tional secretary, is to be the principal
speaker.
Hon. Seneca Haselton, late minister to
Venezuela, was graduate OF Barre Acad-
| -, fhan Ill of nd fnr al
years after member of the faculty of that
| institution.
Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Jacks son were at
Brigham, P. G., last week, to witness the
installation of Rev. W. P. Jackson, their
son, as pastor of the Congregational church
in that city.
Homer Fits and wife have returned
went three months ago for Mrs. Fits
health. The improvement in her condition
is very marked.
Barre Odd Fellows were recognized in
the election of officers of the grand lodge at
st. Johnsbury last week, Edward f. Smith
being elected grand junior warden of the
grand encampment.
Seattle, Wash, where Mr. Hill has been for
the past three years. Mrs E. L. Smith left
with Mrs. Hill en- route to Portland, Ore,
where she has relatives.
G. A. Smith was in Manchester, N. H.,
last week to attend meeting Of the direc-
tors and stockholders of the Granite State
Provident Association, of which he is rep
resentative for Vermont.
Clarence Worthen and Miss Thayer, who
works in f. w. Sherburne's photograph
gallery, were in collision on bicycles last
Monday evening, resulting in broken leg
just above the ankle for Miss Thayer.
One of the city grand jurors received a
"caulker " last week in the form of an
anonymous letter from a woman requesting
him to publish in the newspapers OF Barre
his position as regards the prohibtory law
A farewell service was held in the old
Methodist church last Sunday, at which adj
dresses were made by Rev. W. r. Daven-
port, the pastor, on Leading Pastors 7" and
Rev. j. A. sherburne on Prominent Mem
bers Of Former Days"
DR.. j. Henry Jackson, Wallace Parker
DR.. II. o. Worthen, G. l.. Currier and Alex.
ander Gordon have been appointed a com.
mittee from the Congregational society to
secure parsonage, and are to report at o
meeting to be held on Thursday evening.