The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-07
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST--PERSONAL
IND GENERAL.
Barre.
l.. ]. Bolster was ill last week.

l.. j. Bolster was i'll last week.
Mrs. B. w. Jones spoke at St. Johnsbury
last Sunday.
w, II. and b. A. Eastman are visiting in
West Fairlee.
Mrs. Charles ID. Carpenter is visiting rela-
tives in Northampton, Mass.
Miss Violet Ross and Mrs. w. #. Scott
visited last week in Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Phelps and A. ID.
Morse were in Boston last week.
b. p. White has moved to the Mrs
Daniel Bckford house on Prospect street.
Mrs. L. A. Perkins of Bangor, Me-, is
visiting Mrs. &c. 9. Leonard, her daughter
George johnson has sold his PAGER, " Mel
son j." to parties in Connecticut for $500
Rev. e. w. Cummings supplied the Con
gregational church at Waterbury last Sun
day.
Rev. w. R. Davenport will speak on " A
Sublime Object Lesson" at Hedding church
next Sunday evening.
Mrs. j. Henry Jackson was at Wood
stock last week as delegate to the annual
meeting of the State Domestic Missionary
Society.
The question whether prohibition or high
license is better for Barre was discussed at
the Goddard Seminary lyceum last Satur-
day evening.
The mother of the late Stanilaus Krzyzan
has received check for $1,000 from the
Catholic Order of Foresters, of which her
son was member.
1t is rumored that A. G. Fay and FL. H.
Scott will be candidates for city judge when
the term of Office of Hon. Walter K. Bar
ney expires, December next.
Alexander Anderson returned last week
from Montreal, z. O., where he had cat
aract removed from his left eye. The opera
ton was in every way successful.
Among those from Barre who are en-
rolled as students at the University OF Yer
mont are Albert o. Smith, Frederick Jack
son, s. Hollister Jackson and Miss Eunice
Smith
F.W. Sherburne has closed his bicycle
business in Nichols block, preparatory to
leaving Barre for a permanent residence in
Fruithurst, Ala r. w. Nichols will con-
tinue the business.
B. W. Abbey, who has been pitching dur
ing the season for the Brooklyn league
baseball club visited Rev. P. G. Abbey,
his father, last week. He is now in the
Adirondacks on a hunting expedition.
Next Sunday morning will be devoted to
an "Old Peoples Service" at Hedding
(Methodist) church. Teams will be provided
for aged people who wish to attend if they
will send word to the pastor in advance.
The champion PAGER John R. Gentry
with record of 200 J, will be the great
aUtractlOn al Inc OcIoper neo1lhs, W pe
held at the trotting park under the
auspices of the Granite City Trottinf
Club.
DR.. j. Henry Jackson will deliver an ad
dress on "Some Observations on Proven
tive Medicine " at the eighty-third annua
meeting of the State Medical Society, to b'
held next Thursday and Friday at St. Johns
bury.
j. s. Viles will be ready next week t.
furniah a1actric LIGHT and mower for Barre
The line of poles and wires he has run t.
Barre is Independent of the Montpelier sys
tenn, as is all the apparatus for the Barr
circuit.
On warrant issued by Grand Juror La
point, W. G. Knight was arrested last Sat
urday at Walden for stealing granite-cuttinI
tools from the sheds of Trow & Holden. II
city court, Judge Barney fined him, will
costs, $40.
Rev. G. B. Curtis, president of the Indus
trial Missionary Association, spoke at tn
Universalist church last Sunday evening
Mr.. Curtis is attempting to instruct the pee
pie of the North in missionary work anon
the negroes.
REV. w. r.. DAVENPORT gave at Heddin
church, last Sunday evening, report OF tn
great convention at Providence, X. l., las
week, to which he was delegate; also
very entertaining description of side e1
cursion to Newport.
The meat market of II. Skeels on Mai
street was Quilted by fire about midnigt
last Wednesday. The fire was confined t
the two-story building occupied by M
Skeels. His loss is about $500, fully il
sured with Bisbee & Graham.
1t is expected that the Mackay maus'
leum, to be erected in Greenwood Gene
terry, Brooklyn, over the grave of the son
John w. Mackay, will be cut in Barr