The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTEREsT--PERS
IND GENERAL.
Barre.

Mayor Smith will investigate the sus-
pension OF Special Officer Gauthier next
Friday.
W. P. Scott, Jr, Of Montreal, P. O.,
visited last week at the home Of Mrs. Alex.
Ross, his aunt
Mrs. @. Hutton returned last week to the
Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, for
further treatment.
Rev. Joel II. Metcalf OF Burlington is to
lecture in the UDiversalst church Thursday
evening. January o.
The Scotch gentlemen's Club will hold
their annual ball in Miles Hall on Friday
evening, January 10.
Rev. j. A. Sherburne being i'll, his pulpit
at South Barre was filed last Sunday by
Rev. K. j. Gale of Boston University.
e. A. Loomis was arrested last week by
Officer Smith for intoxicatiOn. He pleaded
not guilty in City Court, and his case was
continued.
James Walker, leader of the Presbyterian
choir, was the recipient last week Of a fine
fur rug from members of the choir and
congregation.
The sunday.school of Hedding Church
has received new consi ynment Of singing.
books, which will be used for the first time
next Sunday.
Rev. Joseph Hamilton OF St. Johnsbury,
presiding elder of st. Johnsbury district,
will preach at Hedding (Methodist) Church
no4t Ouuudy hlSnI
The number present at the Epworth
League at the Methodist church last Sun
day night was the largest during the pres
ent conference year.
Rev. Edward j. Gale OF the Boston Uni
versity School of Theology is among the
speakers at the annual public gathering at
Hedding Church to night.
| Warrants have been issued for the arrest
| Of seven Of the participants in the free.for.
ln1l Qfvht No trol
station last Wednesday evening
Building Inspector Walker has made
written objections to the City Council to the
foundation of the house which d. A. Kirk.
land proposes to build on Aver street.
1t was reported on the street last Saturday
that Burt Wood, former Barre boy, is un.
der arrest in New Hampshire, charged with
arson, and has been placed under bonds Of
SO. 900.
DR.. j. Holmes Jackson has associated
himself with DR.. j. e. Taggart of Burling-
ton, and will leave next week. H expects
to be in Barre every Saturday until Feb.
ruary 1.
Rev. Charles Wells. brother of City
Clerk and Treasurer Wells and graduate
of Goddard Seminary in 1889, has recently
accepted call to the Universalist church at
Belfast, Maine.
Stephen Forsythe and j. Frank HUI nton,
two well.known granite men, were arrested
| last Friday night for fighting on the street.
They were fined $40 each in City Court Sat-
urday morning.
Mrs. b. w. Jones has succeeded in collect
ing over 800 books for a negro college in
| Texas, and is now endeavOring to obtain
from the railway companies free transporta.
ton for the same.
The new Congregational parsonage was
dedicated with a reception on Tuesday
evening. The recent high water did con
siderable damage to the cellar Of this cosy
residence Of Pastor Jackson.
The committee on police from the Board
OF Aldermen have reported to that body
that they have nothing to say or recommend
regarding investigating the conduct OF two
of the regular policemen, aud the affair will
probably be dropped
Adjutant and Inspector General T. 8.
Peck of Burlington has written Captain d.
r. Bisbee complimentary letter on the
high standard shown by Adjutant Bishop
and Lieutenants Badger aud Marsh OF the
Spencer Rifles at the recent examination OF
commissioned officers held in Burlington.
Indications point to an unusually large
attendance upon the annual gathering Of
the Methodists this afternoon and tonight
Both dinner and supper are to be served al
the church, and the afternoon will be ocCu
pied with reports from the various branches
of church work and a social time, while
there will be roll.call Of members in the
evening, interpreted with addresses by
visiting clergymen.
The legislature OF 1892 passed bill grant
!; ing charter to the Barre Electric Light
Power, Manufacturing and Street Railway
Company, and since that time until recently
the matter has been almost entirely forgot
tan Last week some of the stockholders O
the electric railroad between Essex juno
/ ton and Burlington, among them ). Y
Pierson, A. o. Humphrey and F. q. Ken
nedy, were in Barre for the purpose o
seeing what can be done towards building
an electric railway in Barre, running from
Jockey Hollow to the stone-sheds of Welli
& Lamson, with branch line running
, from the post. Office to Barre Cemetery
These gentlemen named are to build SINH
lar road in St. Johnsbury: Several OF thu
citizens of Barre named in the bill as the
iucorporators met last Friday evening II
the Office of j. W. Gordon, to see II j
would be voted TO turn over the franchise
to These Burlington gent lemen who promise
il this is done, to have the road III operation
, by June next j. W. Gordon, f. g. How
land and FL. X. Bush were appointed {
committee to communicate further will
Messrs. Pierson, Humphrey and Kennedy
and report next Friday evening, when al
adjourned meeting will be held. INT
gentlemen who propose to build this roaC
will allow the citizens of Barre to take al
much stock as they choose, but they reserve
TO themselves the electric light portion Of
the franchise. Everything at present looks
favorable, and it will not be at all surprs
ing if the whirr OF the trolley shall be heard
in Barre within six months.
East Barre.
The let up of work at the stone. sheds for
the holidays promises to be short.
Epidemic colds seem abating. So audi
ences and schools are gaining their num-
bers.
We all rejoice with the Taplin family
now beginning life in their new home
Their tenement is ,lso occupied by Mr.
King from Williamstown, whose family has
recently come.
Much damage was feared and some was
done by the ice breaking up down the
stream December %. II threatened for a
time to sweep away the iron bridges, II not
the stone sheds below. These escaped, but
the watei-p pipe in the bed OF the stream was
torn away. So far 1t proves very difficult
to relay it and supply people across the
stream with water from the reservoir
The Christmss-night gathering was very
enjoyable affair to all concerned. The