The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-02-27
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre


Miss X wimmell is visiting at her
home in Flushing, l.. I.
o. B. Boyce was confined to the house
last week with rheumatism.
Judge A. M. Jackman has been seriously
i'll With pneumonia for the past week.
Miss Mabel Gale entertained the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union last Friday
| afternoon.
John Trow and N. d. Phelps attended the
carnival at Concord, N. H., last Thursday
and Friday.
M. M. Hatch is soon to move his family to
Hardwick, where he Is to open a black
smiths shop.
The severe weather of last Saturday pre-
vented large attendance at the races at the
trotting park.
A special town meeting Is to be held Sat.
| urday, March 2, to act upon the reports of
the village officers.
Willis jackson, telegraph operator at the
| Central Vermont station, visited last week
at his home in Morrisville.
Professor Fl. A. futile of Goddard Sem
| mary is id up with spraued ankle. re.
| ceived while playing basket ball.
DANDY Allen" owned by joseph II.
Ward, won the race at the Green Mountain
trotting park, last Saturday afternoon.
The second division OF the senior class at
| Goddard Seminary gave an exhibition last
Monday evening that was very enjoyable.
Mrs. G. N. Hatton has returned from
Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington. The
| Improvement in her condition is very
marked.
The ven ,rable Rev, J. A. Sherburne,
whose life hung in the balance for several
days, Is rapidly improving and Is considered
out Of danger.
H. X. Bush and William Dunbar have
been elected members Of the executive
COMMITTEES Of the New England Granite
Dealers Association.
An invitation will be extended to the Yer.
mont Conference, which meets in annual
conference Of 1896 in Barre.
The woman's Guild of the Mission of the
Good Shepherd gave social and entertain
ment in their hall last Monday evening.
1t was very literally pstronized.
The funeral OF Mrs. David Rice was
held last week Tuesday from the home of
Mrs. George Bishop, her granddaughter.
Deceased was eighty-six years old
The grocery firm Of Wheeler & Taft has
be IN dissolved by mutual consent. Mr..
Whe Aler has purchased the int rest of Mr..
| Taft and will continue the business.
| j, F Smith and Miss Belle Houghton
were married last Wednesday by Rev. B.
F. Jones at his home. They left that noon
for Portland, Maine, for brief Wedding
trip.
More than 125 children will take part in
"The Brownies in Fairy Land" to be given
by the pupils Of the public schools in the
opera house Friday and Saturday evenings
OF this week.
The hearing in the road case of Waterman
and several others against Barre village has
been continued to Monday March g. Judges
commissioners.
Clark Shepard says we got his farm 81, 900
too high last week. He paid 5000 for it,
and it is the first farm in Berlin. not inside
the city limits Of Barre. He will take pos.
session April 2.
The case of Jackman & Conley against
the =. 81. Hunton Granite Company, tried
| last week in the Office Of j. W. Gordon, re-
suited in a verdict OF 1864 for the plain.
tiff. An appeal was taken to county court
The celebration of Washington's birthday
| at Royal Arcanum hall last Friday evening
was q notable occasion. The affair was un-
der the order OF American Mechanics, and
| the principal speaker was Hon. Frank
Plumley of Northfield.
held evangelical services in Graniteville
| last week with marked success. He
| preached again for the Presbyterians last
Sunday morning, and at Graniteville in the
afternoon and evening.
William Duff has been engaged as iu-
btruCJOr III urAWluR III Uu0 opAululuR trAu6u
| School. Mr.. Duff studied the art in Aber-
deem, Scotland, and London, Eng and holds
| q diploma from the Kensington School of
Art of the last named city.
The agony is over, and South Barre will
be the place in future where the annual and
other town meetings will be held. Granite
Vile and East Barre have gracefully sur
rendered to the powers that be. The an.
nual meeting, March 5, will be held in
Unity Temple.
The Athletic Association of Goddard Sem.
mary cleared over 800 by the presentation
Of " The Trustee" at the opera house last
Saturday evening. Those who took part had
good reason to be proud of the manner in
which the work was done. 1t was more
like professionals than amateurs.
George Burgess was taken to Jail at Mont
| pelier last week He was arrested on q
warrant charging him with intaining
common nuisance in Barre and with keep
| Judge Jones fixed his bail at $500, which he
| was able to furnish, and he was released
from custody.
The lecture on "The Duties of Citizen
ship" by Hon. Frank Plumley OF North
field, in the opera house last Sunday even
ing was attended by great audience. 1t
was an inspiring occasion and the speaker
was at his best. Music was furnished by
male quartette composed of Messrs. Morse,
Wheeler, Dyer and Inglis.
The citizens caucus to nominate city Off
GERS, held last evening in the opera house,
was largely attended. John W. Gordon
was nominated for mayor, Burt FL. Wells
for clerk and treasurer, W. II. Buchanan for
first constsb BILE, M. B. Nichols second. The
library directors nominated were o. B.
Boyce, r. 8. Currier and DR., H. e. Packer.
Mr.. Gordon received 299 votes for mayor
against $50 for e. l.. Smith
The postponed case of Leon Donahue
against Miss Ursula Bates, in which the de-
PENDANT was sued for $40 for abstracting
handful of hair from plaintiffs head, was
tried last Friday and Saturday In the office
of r. A. Hoar before Justice @. n Barber
and jury. W. A. Boyce appeared for the
defendant and j. w. Gordon and r. A.
Hoar for plaintiff. Saturday evening the
jury could not agree, and were discharged.
The case will be heard again next week.
Alexander Pratt died last week of quick
consumption at his home on Forsyth Place.
He was member of the Spencer Rifles,
and the flag on the armory foated at half
mast Thursday, the day of the funeral.
Mr.. Pratt was worthy young man, and his
| early death is universally deplored Rev.