The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.


B. w. Hooker and w. A. Smith were in
Boston last week.
Louis Goneo was buried from st. Monics's
Church last wednesday morning.
A. g. Lapoint has recently received An in
crease OF pension, with 5000 arresrages.
Ex-Governor Levi X. Fuller of Brattle-
boro Is to be the Memorial Day orator in
Barre.
DR.. o. G. Stickney has purch ased Of John
Beckley, for 1900, his house and lot on
Church street.
Mrs. w. A. Stevens and daughter of St.
Johnsbury visited Rev. and Mrs. b. w.
Jones last week.
An exhibition given by the middle class
OF the Spaulding Graded School will take
place this evening in the chapel.
A sugar party for Odd Fellows and their
families was given in Odd Fellows hall last
wednesday evening by w. G. Nye.
George FL. Blake, editor OF the Barton
Monitor, and Mrs Blake were guests last
week of Mr.. and Mrs. George Houston.
The Norwich University baseball team
defeated the Goddards at Barre last Satur.
day afternoon by score Of nine to two
Major J. ID. Smith, m anager OF the Empire
Granite Company, has registered as a law
student in the Office OF Richard A. Hoar.
Rev. George w. Hooker spoke at the
Congregational church last Sunday even
ing on The Social ieas OF To-day and To-
MORO ""
DR.. j. Henry Jackson is delivering a
| course OF lectures before the stu Tents of the
medical department of the University Of
Vermont.
der the auspices OF the order of the Eastern
Star, will occur in Grand Army hall next
Saturday evening.
The baseball season was opened in Barre
last Friday, when the Barre Rushers de-
feated the Godd ards 10y score Of ii to 9 in
'even'inning game.
The Methodists had sugar party in their
vestry last Monday evening that was very
generously patronized.
Rev. w. Il. Davenport attended the
funeral OF Mrs. f. D. Beckley last Sunday
afternoon at two o'clock.
The case of vagrancy against Charles
Gallagher will be tried next Monday. G.
w. Bassett will appear for the state and j.
w. Gordon for defendant.
Richard A. Hoar, Esq, is to be one of the
speakers at the Odd Fellows celebration to
be held in Blanchard opera house, Mont.
peler, next Friday evening.
w. r. Durham returned to Tufts College
last Thursday, we'll pleased with the out
come of the suit in Washington county
court to which he was party.
Before Judge Barney, last week, the suit
of w. F. Colby against f. B. Hutchins, to
recover the face value OF a note, was
awarded to the plaintiff by default.
Allen Martin, who has been ill at his
home in Williamstown for the past six
weeks, returned last Monday to his law
studies in the office Of j. w. Gordon.
The funeral of Mrs. Wilson was held last
Saturday afternoon from her late home on
II )oker Hill, Rev. w. r. Davenport offici-
ating. Deceased was sixty.eight years old.
DR.. Mary Christiancy, for several years a
missionary in India, will speak at the Meth
odist church on Thursday evening Every
one Is cordially invited to come out and
hear her.
The Presbyterians have voted to lease for
one year the old Methodist church as soon
as 1t is vacated John Wilson has been
elected an elder for three years in place of
Robert Kynock, resigned.
The listers Of the town OF Barre, the city
assessors, and the city engineer, have been
engaged during the past week in trying to
decide what portion of the farms that divide
the city and town were in each.
The Goddard base ball team has arranged
games with the following clubs: St. Johns.
bury Academy, Middlebury College, the
Dartmouth Reserves, and the Young Mems
Christian Association teams of Burlington.
The Easter services of the Presbyterian
Sunday-school postponed because of the
odlst church last Sunday evening. The
collection was devoted to foreign mi ,sions.
Professor j. e. Goodrich of the Univer-
sity of Vermont, Burlington, preached for
the Congregationalsts last Sunday Rev.
8 n. Jackson, the pastor, was in Kingston,
Ont, where he went TO bring his family to
Barre.
The contract for manufacturing the huge
monument to be erected at Madison, Wis,
on the family lot of Hon. w. F. Villas has
been awarded to the Vermont Granite Com.
pany When completed it will weigh ten
tons. 1t will stand forty-one feet high and
consist Of three bases and spire.
The senior class at the Spaulding High
School has made the following class-day
appointments: First honor, Lucy Cummings;
second honor, Maggie Clark; historian,
Maud Carleton; prophet, Maggie Clark;
class ODE G. III. Pape; class will, j. Fl.
George; address to middle class, Paul L.
Stafford.
The knights of Honor gave sugar and
whist party in their hall last Monday
evening. During the evening brief pro-
gramme was rendered. consisting of banjo
duet by Messrs. Ellis and Morrill, songs by
Miss Cora Mann, George ingalls, and F. Fl.
Dyer; recitation, Miss Lillian Kenerson;
mandolin solo, Arthur Mckenzie; recita.
ton, w. w. Lapoint.
The programme at the meeting of the Owl
Debating Club on Thursday evening will be
as follows: Topics, s. S. Ballard; cornet
solo, G. N. Field; recitation j. T. Cal.
laghan; question, " Resolved that warfare
has done and is doing more for civilization
than Christianity Affirmative, Daniel
Smith, w. W. Lapoint; negative, Dean
Perry, G.. w. Bassett.
A e. Burgess has sold the Avenue House
and furniture to e. j. Gale, who takes pos
session May /. In the mean time Mr.. Gale
will thoroughly renovate the interior of the
house and enlarge the dining-room. The
people of Barre seem confident that Mr..
Gale will run hotel in Barre of which they
will not need to be ashamed and will rem
der him every assistance to do so.
A suit brought by Lena Whitney Hay
ward against Walter Comstock, for wages,
was brought to a sudden termination In
Judge Barney's court last week. 1t appears
that since applying for divorce Mrs. Hay
ward has adopted her maiden name, and in
that name brought the suit against Com
stock. The point advanced by defendants
lawyer that there was no such person as
Lena Within sy was sustained, and the case
was dismissed.
The Easter sale held in the Grand Army
hall last Wednesday and Thursday even