The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE,
ITEMS OF INTEREST--PERSO
IND GENERAL.
Barre.

Mr.. and Mrs. William Miers are in Bos-
ton this week.
Mrs. II. X. Bush and daughters were at
Morey Lake last week.
Miss Lenora Rivers OF Bristol is to teach
In Gospel Village this fall.
A. D. Morse and r. L. Smith are at home
from Old Orchard, Maine.
The band will give a concert in Depot
Square next Saturday evening.
Miss Cora Mann is taking course in
vocal instructions at Randolph.
Mrs, e. f. Jones and children OF Wapella,
ILL.,, are guests of Mrs. S. j. Jones.
Rev. E. w Cummings preached for the
Baptists in Montpelier last Sunday.
@. w. Melcher has gone to Brunswick,
Maine, for vacation OF two weeks.
f. E. Dodge OF Flushing, L. l., is spend
ing his vacation in Barre and vicinity.
Mayor Gordon was one of the speakers at
democratic rally at Morrisville last week.
Moses Forrest was fined $40 and costs in
City Court last Saturday for a breach Of the
peace.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. HI. Hale returned last
week from vacation spent at Thompson's
Point.
| @. l.. Currier, city engineer, was in Lis
bon, n. H., last week, making estimates on
a bridge.
Alton Wheeler will return to Fruithurst,
Ala, this week, where he has purchased a
whey ard OF ten acres.
IT takes two fve-cent cakes to wash as
many clothes as an eightcent bar of heavy
bodied Harmless soap,
Miss Nellie Thurston is taking vacation
from her duties as stenographer in the
Office Of Superintendent +. W. Stanyan.
Miss Alice Smith went last week to Old
Orchard, Maine, where her father has a
cottage. She will remain several weeks.
III nj
last week from Phillipsburg, 2. O., with
tfty.four pounds of fish they had caught.
Albert Gilber went last week to Mary
Fletcher Hospital, Burlington. He has
been seriously i'll with fever for long time.
Ira Lawrence returned last week from
Northfeld, where he visited two weeks,
shooting forty-three woodchucks mean
while.
Rev. A. D. Brown preached his farewell
sermon last Sunday morning at the Church
of the Good Shepherd. He has gone to his
former home in Brattleboro.
DR.. j. B. Wheeler of Burlington was in
Barre last week as consulting physician in
the case Of Wilbur Bishop, the victim of a
serious coasting accident last winter
During the absence OF Rev. B. w. Jones
at Weirs, n. H., the interior of the Uni
versalist church is being thoroughly over
hauled and renovated Electric lights will
also be put in.
Among the noted horses entered for the
races in Barre the third week in August
are " Barney" the PAGER that went mile
in 2:11b at Concord last month, and
Raven" " fraternity" and " Jones Ord
way" well known hiers that made this
Concord race.
The annual picnic of Clan Gordon will be
held next Saturday on the trotting park.
The Barre Cornet Band will be in at
tendance and there will be the usual games
and sports, followed by football game
between the Barre Rangers and team from
Tuftville, Conn.
The ejectment suit of Fannie Mcdonald
against j. II. Cook was tried last Friday in
; City Court and attracted large crowd. f.
j. Martin appeared for the plaintiff and w.
w. Lapont and j. W. Gordon for defend
ant. The jury disagreed, after which
plaintiff confessed judgment and appealed
a her case.
| Among those from Barre who attended
: the races last week at Whitefeld, n. H.,
t were G. II. Campbell, Thomas Suitor, f. A.
i. Slayton and W. G. Reynolds. Governor
8 Hendee and Rolling Notion owned by
: Mr.. Slayton, took third money in two races,
5 and "Crappie," owned by George j.
Towne, took fourth.
? In City Court last week the barrel OF ale
r seized on the premises Of John Manson was
=, condemned Manson refused to pay the
: costs of the seizure, with which he was
charged and appealed his case to County
Court: He was also found guilty OF keep
o ing with intent to sell, and was fined $50
= and costs. This case also he appealed
~, Under the auspices OF st. Johns Court,
Catholic Order of Foresters, of Barre, an
: excursion to Montreal will be run Friday
and Saturday, August Z and 8. Barre,
q Montpelier and points as far north as Rich
. mond will be included in the very low rate
. . of S2.75 for the round trip. Tickets will be
. good, going, on all regular trains, and good,
q returning, until Monday, August 10. No
. finer trip for little money could be made.
i Among the prominent guests of the
a sixty-third annual Universalist convention,
a to be held in Barre August 20, 49, p and 2S,
4 who have accepted invitations to be pres
a emit. are Rev. George II. Emerson, DID,
Q editor OF the Christian Leader, Rev. l. j,
Mead editor of the Gospel Banner, G. L,
: Demorset, ID, secretary of the general
. convention and Rev. H, w. Rugg, ID,
I financial secretary of the general conven-
J. ton.
: The popular daily excursion train to the
l. quarries was put on last Saturday and will
|. be continued until further notice. The
d people of Barre do not need to be told Of
It the grand panorama of mountain scenery
:. which this trip affords. This trip brings
= constantly new delights to strangers and
u the enterprise and accommodating spirit
n shown by Superintendent Stanyan of the
Q Barre railroad in putting on this handy
Q train is appreciated
y The following were delegates to the demo-
II cratic county convention held last Saturday
J, at Montpelier; G. w, Bassett, G, W: Mel
y cher, Charles A. Smith, Eugene Sullivan,
u j, W. Gordon, @. II. Sawyer, Henry
!, Premier o. H. Daniels, e. B. Lebouryeau,
II Samuel Kingston, j. W Mcdonald, Dom
,, aid Smith, George Cassie, j. P. Mari, John
y Tierney, Thomas Williams, G. II. Camp.
IS bell, g. L. Bates, E. L. Smith and G. b
. Townshend, These delegates were en-
% powered to choose their own alternates.
u Preparations are rapidly going forward
~ for the Washington and Orange counties
~ ~ fair, TO be held at the Granite City Trottine
4 Park Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Il Friday, August IS, 10, 20 and 81 In con-
Il junction with this fair will come the great
y circuit races, with splendid list OF entries,
4 and at which $4,000 in purses will be dis.
n tributed. The two spacious upper floors OF
d the new City Hotel stables, owned by H.
+. Cutler, have been secured for horticul-
tural hall and ladies' bazaar during the week
of the fair.
Among those from Barre who left last