The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-07
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Barre.

Barre.
II. P. Kendrick is seriously i'll with
dropsy
Homer Fits and wife visited last week in
Burlington.
W. R. Durham has been in Barre during
the past week.
DR.. ]. E. Insolvency. was in Burlington
over last Sunday.
Chauncey Wiley of Buffalo, N. Y, was
in the city last week.
r. W. Stanyan and wife are at Block
Island for two weeks.
City Engineer Currier is in Meredith, N.
H., on brief vacation.
| H. X. Bush and family were in camp at
Fairlee Pond last week.
| Mrs. e. L. Smith returned from the Pa
cific coast last Thursday.
A new road from Graniteville to Will.
Jamestown has been surveyed.
e. j. Gale, son Of L. A. Gale, preached
| for the Methodists last Sunday.
A riding gallery has been opened on
North Main street by two Italians.
Archie Mcmillan was fined S11.51 in city
court. last Saturday, for intoxicaton.
II. l. Houston has bought of II. M. Hous-
ton his house and lot on Long street.
Miss Margaret Conlan has resigned her
position as teacher in the Graded School.
Parties from New Hampshire are talking
OF building summer hotel at the quarries
II. Skeels is excavating for the founda-
ton for new residence on Maple Avenue
The Central Vermont railroad has put on
| late train for Montpelier, leaving Barre at
eleven P. N.
Charles Wheelock is visiting at his old
home. He has been at Colorado for the
! past two years.
A party Of bicyclists from Barre rode to
| Bristol and return last Sunday, distance
Of over 100 miles.
Joe Off, in "The Star Gazer," will open
the season at the opera house on Wednesday
evening, September a.
q. W. Britton Of Hartland is driver Of
the American Express team, in place Of
Will Bishop, resigned.
Miss Lizzie Rooney and Miss Lillian
Brown have gone to Plattsburgh, N. Y, for
| three weeks vacation.
From March to August l there were
| eighty-one criminal and Seventy-one court
cases heard in city court.
The union Sunday evening temperance
meetings at the opera house have been dis
continued until September.
Mrs. John W. Gordon returned last
Thursday from Greensboro, where she has
been for the past four weeks.
The headquarters Of the Barre news
agency are now in the rooms under the
drug store Of w. FL. Gladding.
Rosamond Gallagher has received judy
ment in city court of S325.66 against Rev.
d. j. O'Sullivan of st. Adams.
Charles G. Kimball and Miss Jennie NJ.
| Berry, both of Barre, were married last
week by Rev. j. A. Sherburne.
FIG. Jewett of Albany, N. Y, travelling
car agent for the New York Central rail-
road, was in the city last Friday.
Judge Barney and N. Chamberlain have
been appointed commissioners on the es-
tate of the late Edmund Copeland.
David 7. Montague Of Boston, graduate
of Goddard Seminary in 1885, has been WIS.,
iting in the city during the past week.
DIR. G. W. Steele has gone to Asbury
Park, n. j., to attend the annual conven-
ton of the American Dental Association.
Rev G. e. Hooker has associated himself
with the Hull Mission in Chicago, and
leaves for that city the last Of the month.
Richard Calder, E. j. Walsh, James Mil
Ter and Ernest Jones were entered for the
bicycle races at Essex Junction last Satur-
day.
The granite sheds were closed last Satur-
day because OF the two excursions from
Barre and the Scotch picnic at the trotting
park.
The city council has authorized the COM
ditional feet of hose for the use of the fire
department.
The commission TO decide on the value of
certain property owned by the city and
town OF Barre has been in session during
the past week.
The Williamstown Cornet Band fur
nished music for the excursion to Fort tt
( conderoga on Tuesday, under the auspices
OF Canton Vinton.
| Princinal n n Matbawaon hon conn nj a J. cd
his list OF teachers examinations in the
various towns Of the county, and has gone
to Boston for brief rest.
Fred Lombard had his hands badly in
jured last Thursday, at the granite works
OF Jones Brothers, by getting them caught
between two blocks OF granite.
Several cases Of typhoid fever are re.
cludes the possibility of charging their
origin to Barrels water supply
Seward Jones, OF the firm OF Jones Broth
ers, was in the city last week looking over
the firms new plant on North Main street.
now in process OF construction.
Company e will go to muster next week
with full ranks, and with deter mination
among the men to make the record Of the
company the best in its history.
The drama Saved from the Wreck " is
In rehearsal by the members OF Page Camp,
Sons OF Veterans. 1t will be presented at
the opera house in the near future.
Archie Milne of Graniteville was before
Judge Barney in city court last Monday,
charged with plain drunk Saturday. He
pleaded guilty and paid the usual fine.
1t is expected that q company OF troops
from Fort Ethan Allen will camp In Barre
next Friday night, while on their way to
the annual muster Of the militia at Fairlee.
Olin and King Hutchinson Of Boston
visited J. M. Hutchinson, their father. last