The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST--PERS
and GENERAL.
Barre.

Rain prevented the band concert labJ sat
urday evening.
Miss Maud Haskins was in New York and
Boston last week.
Rev. b. w. Jones was confined to the
house by illness last week.
An infant child of Homer Fits was dan
gerously ill last week.
Four cases of measles were reported last
week to Health Officer Chandler.
William Kendrick went this week to Til.
ton, n H., to work in a drug store.
W. Arthur Watson of Somerville, Mass,
was the guest of Rev. W. r. Davenport last
week
Miss Nellie Pond goes to Morrisvlle
this fall trimmer in millinery estab-
lishment.
II. M. Ellis, of Mclean & Ellis was in
Burlington last week setting a monument
cut by his firm.
G. l.. Bugbee has returned from Spring.
field, where he took contract last spring
to build house.
Mrs. p. g. Camp returned last week from
Glens Falls, N. Y, where she went to have
her eyes treated.
An all-day union meeting will be held to.
day in the Baptist church. Speakers from
abroad are expected.
The annual ball given by the members of
the Spencer Rifles will be held ON Monday
evening, October 10.
Mrs. b. w. Jones spoke at the Universal
ist church last Sunday evening on "The
Regulation of Prices"
Harry e. Townsend and Miss Lillian L.
Wilson were married last Wednesday by
Rev. DR.. s. N jackson.
The topic for the prayer-meeting at He'd
ding church on Thursday evening is
Grounded and Settled in Faith"
A missionary meeting was held at the
Baptist church last Sunday evening.
"Cuba" was the subject discussed.
W. G. Nye has resigned as vice-grand OF
Hiawatha Lodgeiof Odd Fellows, and W. A.
Boyce has been elected in his place.
Patchey and " Greenhorn," owned by
Fred Slayton, won large money for their
owner at the Northfield fair last week.
Charles Scott of Williamstown enter
tanned the Barre Social Club with a corn
husking at his home last Friday evening.
Perley Major has recently been advised
that, by the death of an aunt in Canada he
has fallen heir to $12,0 900 in cash and bonds.
There will be union temperance meet
ing in the Methodist church at Barre Sun
day evening, addressed by Mrs. BW. Jones.
The passenger train for the quarries now
leaves Barre on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday at :35 P. NJ, instead of daily as
heretofore.
Miss Florence Boutwell, and Miss Minnie
Hollister are to enter the training school for
nurses at Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burling-
ton, next week.
A Sunday-school rally will be held at the
Universalist church next Sunday at which
all former members of the school are re-
quested to be present.
The lager seized at the Cascade House by
Officer Camp was brought into city court
last Friday morning, but the case against
the proprietor of the hotel was continued.
Mrs. Laura Bowles OF Washington has
made a present of the law library of her
late husband, Denison Bowles, to w. w.
Lapoint of this city. Mrs. Bowes leaves
for Oregon this week.
Ward & Douglass expect to complete
their contract for building the foundation
for new railroad shops at Concord, N. H.,
in about five weeks. The wall is 70 feet
wide and $50 feet in length.
Among those from Barre who are attend
ing the Baptist convention at Bristol, this
week, are Rev. P. G. Abbey, Mrs. H. A.
Mosher, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Corliss, Mrs.
W. A. Perry and f. A. Hutchinson
c. j. Campbell of Montpelier was ar
rested last Thursday on a warrant issued
by Grand Juror Lapoint, charged with
keeping liquor. He was brought before
Judge Barney and fined $50 and costs.
The next meeting of the newly organized
Barre Choral Union will be held on Tues
day evening, September 49, Many new
members have joined, and the prospects for
effective work during the coming winter are
hattering.
On the recommendation of two physi-
clans, John Gallagher was released, last
Thursday evening, from confinement in the
lookup, where he had been since the pre-
vious Monday evening on charge of in
toxication
The body of Mrs. Fannie B. Currier, who
died recently at st. Joseph, Mich, reached
Barre last Wednesday for burial. Deceased
was eighty-one years old, and was the step
mother of City Engineer Currier Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilbert Hutchinson accompanied the
body to Barre
Rev. W. R. Davenport preached last Sun
day evening, at Hedding church, an in
tensely interesting sermon on "Young
discourse, Mr.. Davenport gathered the
opinions of more than fifty prominent bust
ness men of Barre.
The suit of Mrs. W. L. George against DR..
d. G. Kemp, as agent of the Consolidated
Lighting Company, for the care of Albert
Sias, who was badly injured about a year
ago by falling from an electric light pole.
has been settled. 1t was to have been tried
last week in County Court.
Judge Barney, superintendent of the
Tho Alan, ,fo 0n+;on OoI;n,