The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.
W. #. Colby was in Boston last week
DR.. G. B. Nichols is at Queen CITY Park.

DR.. G. B. Nichols is at Queen City Park
A. 9. Rich returned from Florida last
week.
f. G, Blake of Milton is working in the
office.
James Howe is messenger at the central
telephone station.
Pay your taxes before September 3, and
save the discount.
Mr. and Mrs. e. j. Badger visited last
week in Tunbridge.
M. e. George and wife of Lebanon. Nh
are visiting H. L. Averill.
Mrs John Jones went to Boston on Tues.
day for visit with relatives.
The Baptist state convention will meet in
Barre on Tuesday, September "a.
Miss Nellie Monty of Montpelier is stenog-
rapher in the Office Of r. A. Hoar.
A. II. Pratt Of Philadelphia, Pa, was the
guest of DR.. @. f. Camp last week.
Leon Wiley has gone 10 his old home in
Lebanon, N. H., because Of ill health
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G.. Kotton rode 10 Bur-
lington on their bicycles last Saturday.
Charles A. Smith has been appointed
clerk of the city court by Judge Barney.
Mrs. Laura Mooney of Chicago was the
guest Of Mrs. L. M. Emerson, her aunt, last
week.
Miss Ida Sheplee of Salem, Mass, has
been visiting Mrs. Frank Sartelle, her
sister.
Mrs. James r. Wilson OF Lthonis, Ga,
is visiting Mrs. James Cruickshank, her
sister
1t is expected that " Bill " Nye will lee
ture in Barre some time during the coming
winter.
Rev. W. r. Davenport returned last week
from his vacation spent on the shore of Fair
lee Pond
The mortuary records show four deaths
and eighteen births In the city OF Barre
during July.
Rev. s. N. Jackson spoke at the Congre-
gational celebration at William stown on
Tuesday night
Captain l.. A. Abbott, U. 8. A. is spend.
ing his leave of absence with relatives and
friends in Barre.
G. w. Scott and wife were in Springfield,
Mass, last week, to attend the funeral OF q
sister of Mrs. Scott.
H. c. Quacken boss OF Boston is working
in the freight Office OF the Montpelier &
Wells River railroad.
A thorough overhauling Of the fire-alarm
system is in progress under the direction Of
an expert electrician.
DR.. j. Holmes Jackson was in Montreal
last week, called there by the illness OF Rev.
W. P. Jackson, his brother.
A large delegation from Barre attended
the Spiritualist camp.meeting at Queen
City Park and heard Ingersoll.
William Spear contributed Sl1.01 to the
city finances, last week, for case Of intox-
ication to which he pleaded guilty
The Hooker 81 family had picnic at Benia.
photographed by F. W. Sherburne.
Douglas Barclay. a lad twelve years old,
was severely injured last week by getting
caught in a derrick at the Barclay quarry
Miss Alice Smith, book-keeper in the
Office OF E. L. Smith & Co.. is away on va
cation. Chauncey Wiley takes her place.
William Rounds was arrested last Wednes-
day night for intoxication, and paid the
regulation fine in city court the next morn
ing.
occupied by Page & Drew has been pur-
chased by Mrs. 7. G. Whitehill of Plainfeld
for $1,000
Hon. Charles Templeton of Yankton, S.
D., visited in the city last week. Judge
Templeton was graduate OF Barre Acad-
envy in 1874.
With a free medicine show and two
merry-go.rounds every evening last week,
Barre did not lack for cheap outdoor
amusement.
The services of the choir at the Congre-
gational church will be dispensed with for
the present and congregational singing will
be in vogue.
A. G. Fay of Lancaster, N H., is soon to
open law Office in Barre. He was form
erly associated with the late G. H. Heath at
Montpelier
The commissioners to settle the differ
ences between the city and the town OF
Barre will meet on Tuesday, August 90 and
render decision.
A son was born last week to Mr.. and
Mrs. William Rogers, and daughters TO Mr..
and Mrs. John Lind and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Moorcroft.
The famous trotter Yankee Luck"
formerly owned in Barre, trotted mile in
! 2:15 at Buffalo, N. Y, last Thursday, win
ming purse OF $4,000.
A free fight between two Italians &C.
CURED last Friday afternoon at granite
shed in North Barre, in which one of the
parties was badly disfgured.
Remember the violin recital this evening
by Master Charles B. Marsh, the boy violin
list, assisted by Charles I. Marsh, viohnist
and Miss Sylvia n. Bliss, pianist.
Miss Ethel Webb of Montpelier is stenog-
rapher for j. w. Gordon during the alb
sence of Miss Matte Price, who was called
, to Middlesex by the illness of sister.
Robert Bowan was before Justice E. w.
Bisbee, last Thursday morning, charged
with intoxication the night previous. He
pleaded guilty and paid the usual fee.
The diamonds that will be awarded as
prizes by the Barre Bicycle Club at the
races on Saturday, August "a, can be seen
at the clothing store OF McWhorter & Hyde.
Villa E., daughter of John P. Lsdd, died
last Wednesday aged twenty-five years.
Her funeral was held last Saturday after
noon from her late home on the West Hill.
The annual camp-meeting of the Free
Methodists opens to-day in Keith's grove.
Among the prominent speakers who have
been engaged is Rev FL. S, Fisk of Saratoga
Springs.
The Spauldng Juniors and Waterbury
Juniors played ball in Barre last Saturday.
The game was too one sided to be interest
ing, resulting in a score of So to in favor
Of the Barre team,
d. J. Pierce of Manchester, n. H., a
representative OF the Granite State Provi-
dent Association, was in Barre last week
looking over property on which that com.
pany has placed loans.
The Barre Breeders Association will hold
fair on the trotting park on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, September 26, q and rs.
The demand for space by exhibitors is al
raady wary ancnurapinp