The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTER
And GENERAL.
Barre.

Miss Nadine Nichols is seriously i'll in
Boston.
S.. r. Davis went to Lynn, Mass last
Wednesday.
Will Pitkin spent last Sunday at his home
in Fair Haven.
A son was born last Sunday to Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Boodry.
The annual inspection of the Spenoer
Rifles will occur Friday, June IL.
r. j. Haight, editor of the Monumental
Netos OF Chicago, was in the city last week.
Rev. j. A. Sherburne officiated at the fu-
neral OF Mrs. Burt at Stowe last Saturday.
Miss Nellie Perrin, who has been i'll for
the past few weeks, Is reported much better.
USE less soap by using Z" Harmless" Two
pounds washes as much as three pounds Of
cheaper soap.
Fourteen persons united with the Epworth
League of Hedding (Methodis0 Church last
Sunday night.
Miss Lillian Staples was severely injured
last Thursday. evening by being thrown
from her wheel.
The southerly portion Of Eastman Block
| is to be occupied as jewelry store by G.. O,
Lang Of Morrisville,
Rev. J. NJ. Pullman will deliver the bsc-
calaureate sermon before the graduating
class at Goddard Seminary.
| Mrs. B. W. Jones is at Stamford. Conn,
| dOOouuluR u COnVbnUlOn Oh Jn0 WOma0n
National Missionary Society.
Miss May Tabor, a former clerk in the
Parlor drug store, was the guest last week
Of Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Gladding.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
| OF Hedding Church attended an enjoyable
tea" at Mrs. j. r. Georges last week.
W. @. Nye is fayorably mentioned as as
sistant Judge OF Washington County Court,
to succeed Judge I. 81. Lance of Cabot
| Tho aitu T..
clerks office next Wednesday to listen to
any one who feels aggrieved at their action
The Goddard Seminary base. ball team
beat the Barres, last Thursday afternoon
by well-contested game. Score twelve to
eleven
Judge Barney and Mayor Gordon were at
| Randolph last week taking depOsitions in a
case to be tried at the June term of Orange
County Court.
The Ladies' and Pastors Union OF He'd
ding (Methodist) society will meet at the
church parlor at half past two o'clock
Thursday afternoon.
The Randolph High School base ball
team defeated the Barre nine at the Trot-
ting Park, last Saturday afternoon, by a
score OF seventeen to FIVE
Harvey Jersey, A. e. Batchelder, R. A.
Hoar, Donald Smith, John Smith and ".
G. Odds have leased for the present year the
fishing on the L. d. Gale farm.
1t is thought that the name of Mayor
John W. Gordon will be presented to the
democratic state convention for chairman of
the Vermont delegation to the national con-
vention at Chicago.
Rev. Thomas lyric iwho speaks on
men for the Times" at Hedding Church,
next Sunday night, is noted Odd Fellow
orator, and has spoken for the fraternity at
the Opera House here.
The newly. elected officers of the Congre-
gational Christian Endeavor Society are:
President, @. FL. Page; vice president, Miss
Mabel Hopkins secretary, Charles Spear;
treasurer, Miss Gertrude Robinson.
F. e. Clement OF Rutland has purchased
the plant Of the Producers Granite Com
pany, on Smith meadow, for $3.50. The
sale was at auction, and Mr.. Clement paid
$4,000 extra for the pneu matte and other
tools.
At the adjourned city meeting, held last
Saturday evening, the PROPOSE ton that the
city build school-house similar to the one
on Summer street was laid on the table in
definitely. No other business was trans
acted.
At the special city meeting held last
week it was voted to bond the city to the
extent OF $40, 900 and also to issue notes for
S24, 900, the rate Of interest not to exceed
four per cent,,to refund the floating debt of
the city.
The combined average attendance at the
various Sunday and weekday services of
Hedding Church for the first four weeks of
the conference year has been 276 over the
corresponding period last year-a most en-
couraging showing.
There were twenty-nine births and nine
deaths in the City of Barre during the
month Of April OF the births sixteen
were male and thirteen female. Eighteen
OF the fathers of these children were Of for
eign parentage and eleven were Americans.
Rev. Thomas lyric of St. Johnsb bury who
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gregation in the state, speaks at Hedding
Church next Sunday morning and evening
taking for his evening theme MEN for the
Times" Mr.. lyric is a speaker of unusual
ability and interest
The grand officers of the Grand Lodge of
Vermont will install the officers elect of
Granite Lodge, F. and A NJ, on Thursday
evening, and will also dedicate the new
hall OF this lodge. The members cordially
invite all Master Masons, with their wives
or lady friends, to attend.
The first game of ball between teams
from Goddard Seminary and the Montpelier
Seminary, to be played on the Goddard
campus next Monday afternoon, is awaited
with no little interest, and it is sincerely
hoped that the friendly relations that have
once more been established between these
rival clubs will not again be ruptured.
The following appeared in the Free Press
on Tuesday: lowing to the exorbitant
charged by the managers of the Granite
City Trotting Association Of Barre the off,
GERS of the Vermont State Fremens Asso.
citation have been obliged to cancel the
tournament which was to have been held
there July 49,"
The following schedule of games has been
arranged by the Barre baseball team: At
st. Adams, Saturday, May 16; at Fort
Ethan Allen, Saturday. May %; at Essex
Junction, Saturday, May 80; Saturday,
June g. at Fort Ethan Allen; Saturday,
June -, at Barre, with the Fort Ethan
Allen team; Saturday, June 20, at Barre,
with Norwich University.
One OF the attractions at the farm of
George Cassie these days is several colts
from Shetland ponies that have been born
within the past ten days. Mr.. Cassie
shipped last week to Anthony Shepard OF
Boston his imported Shetland pony stallion
Brown Tom" which he exhibited with
others, at the horse show in Boston re-
Gently. The little fellow was shipped by