The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-10
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.

MIS- II, w. braley was unJe III ldsJ Weeh
with the grip.
DIR j. Henry Jackson was in Washing
ton, ID. c., last week
Mrs. Fred d. Beckle, is dangerously i'll
with stomach trouble.
Miss Isabelle Stafford has gone to Derry,
N. III to work in millinery store.
Over 175 owners OF dogs in Barre have
paid the required license on their pets.
Charles II. Haynes of Pepperell, Mass, is
workiu in the insurance Office of S s. Bal
lard.
The annual Fast Day dance held by Clan
Gordon will occur at Miles hall on Thurs
day evening.
The Presbyteriaus are to hold their sixth
annual meeting this evening at their nall in
Worthen block.
William Barclay has equipped his resi-
dence at the foot of Mount street with the
automatic light.
Lyman Mead has purchased of f. L.
Hayden his ore in Gordon block, also his
trucking business.
j NJ. aollister went last week to Chicago
where he has good position with the West
ern Electric Company.
II. o. Camp, w. II. Buchanan aud e.
Drew have been appointed truant officers
by the board of aldermen.
Fred Rogers clerk in the clothing store
of McWhorter & Hyde, is soon to open a
general store in Hardwick.
CD. Wheeler and f. w. Sherburne at
tended the pilgrimage of the Mystic Shrine
| to Lancaster, n. H., last Friday.
Charles G. Humphrey and Mary NJ. Hun
ton were married last Wednesday at the
Methodist parsonage by Rev. w. r. Daven-
| port.
G. l. Jackson returned from Tallapoosa,
Fla last Saturday where he has been for
the past four months, much improved in
health.
Mayor Smiths appoi ntment of NJ B.
Nichols and Warren Rowland as regular
policemen has been confirmed by the city
council.
e. G. Stephens, an elocutionst Of st.
! Johnsbury, will giv9 a reading of sacred se-
lections in the Universalist church next
Sunday morning.
Station Agent j. w. Cornell left last
Saturday for Hoods River, Oregon. 1t is
said that he intends to remain permanently
on the Pacific coast.
were burned in the recent fire at Burling-
ton, which will delay somewhat the com
pletion of that edifce.
Rev. George K. Hooker preached to a
very large congregation at the Methodist
church last Sunday morning on The New
Social Spirit in England"
William Hurry was before Judge Barney
| last thursday CndrBeu WIFI luuOXlCdUlOD,
He pleaded guilty, disclosed on dealer in
Boston, and was fined $1201, which he
paid.
Constable Buchanan returned from
Groton, Conn, last Frid ny, bringing with
him Antonio Rossi, who broke Jail March
IA, while confined on a charge OF stealing an
opera glass.
A petition has been presented to the board
of aldermen for a new street down the river
from the sheds of Emslie & Kelman The
committee on streets has the matter uud er
advisement.
The general assumpsit case of the Green
Mountain Granite Company against John
Boyce was heard in city court last Monday
afternoon. Judge Barney gave plaintiff a
verdict of 50 50 w. w. Lapoint for plain.
tiff; HI. w. Scott for defendant.
Easter was celeb .ated at the Methodist
church last Sunday because of the fact that
Rev. w. X. Davenport will be al Waterbury
next Sunday attending the annual sessi IN
of the Vermont Conference, and the Meth
odist church in this city will be closed.
While the census of 1890 gave the whole
town of Barre only $3.50 people, the census
Just taken shows 5000 Inhabitants inside
the city limits and 2, 700 in the town, show
ing either an error in the census of 1890 or a
phenomenal gain in the last four years.
A mass meeting of Universalist and Uni
tartan Young Peoples societies from Wash.
I
Barre on May %, afternoon and evening.
Rev. Harold l.. Garfield of Ohio, the ma
tional secretary, will be present and de-
liver an address.
q George Columbo has found the way of
transgressors of the prohbitory law not al.
together easy. His premises W are searched
recently, and thirteen barrels of beer were
confiscated. Before Judge Barney, he was
convicted of keeping with intent to sell, and
fined $50 and costs. His case was appealed
to county court.
William Morton Small, who was found
dead ia his bed last week at Tufts College,
was a graduate of Goddard Seminary. He
died from an overdose of laudanum, taken
evidently with suicidal intent. He had
been despond mt OF late and had talked
frequently of iakiDg his own life. His home
was in Baldwinsville, Mass.
Inspector Willis, of the post-office depart
ment, was in Barre last week for the pu,-
pose OF renewing the rental Of the quar- tiers
now occupied by the post-office. Inasmuch
as the ownership of the opera house block
is not definitely settled just at present, the
visit Of the inspector was somewhat prema-
tire. There is little doubt, however, that
the office will remain in its present quarters.
At the meeting of the Owl Debating Club,
next Thursday evening, the question
whether the lack of titled aristocracy is
detrimental to the best interests of Vermont
will be discussed, in the affirmative by j
L. Callah AN and j. L.. CLARK, and in the
negative by G. M. Gates and #. G. Rowland
These meetings are proving not only in.
teresting but very instructive. Turn out
Thursday evening and listen to local elo
quence.
A series of meetings under the auspices
of the Universalsts is now in progress in
Barre. The sermon this evening will be by
Rev. III. n. Hoyt, on Thursday evening by
Rev. G. II. East of Mortified, and on Fri
day evening by Rev. j. Edward Wright Of
Montpelier. Rev. B. w. Jones is to preach
at Washington this evening and at North
field on Thursday evening Rev. Etfie X
Jones also breaches At st. Johnsbury Cen
ter this evening These interc langes Of
pastors for weekday services are productive
of much good, and have been arranged fol-
by the Universalist parishes of st. Johns
bury Center, Washington, Mortified, Barre
and Woodsville, n. FL.
1t has been very evident, from the col
umns of the Granite city Leader during the
past few months, that a good many OF those
arrested for lntoxication have been impos
ing upon the good nature OF Editor Kinsley
and have induced him TO keep the facts o.
their arrest out of the columns of his paper
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