The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-30
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTEREST--PERS
IND GENERAL.


bury last Sunday
superintendent f. W. Stanyan was in
Boston last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Everett Campbell are visit
ing in Hyde Park.
Three deaths from typhoid fever oocurrad
in Barre last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. George are visiting in
northern New York
A son was born last Saturday To Mr.. and
Mrs Even Mckenzie.
Mrs. Laura A. Ballard of Georgia il visit.
ing Nelson Ballard her son.
The Odd Fellows gave whist party in
their hall last Friday evening.
Charles Scott attended the Anderson
Dorman wedding at Swanton last week
Mrs. d. G. Bickford is soon to move to
Elmira, n. Y, to reside with her son Hiram
e. II. Hood of Lowell Mass, was the
guest, last week, OF Mrs L. b. Royce, his
cousin.
Mr.. and Mrs j. NJ. Perry went last week
ON the excursion to New York from Bur-
lington.
Mr.. and Mrs j. Rankin Cole took car
rage drive, last week, through parts Of Or.
leans county.
Rev. b. W. Jones preached strong SER
mon last Sunday morning on 1.-THE Per-
sonal Touch"
Mrs; E, s, Cutting of Wentworth, N. H.,
visited Station Agent +. II. Cutting, her
son, last week.
The topic for the mdweek meeting at
hedding church will be Christ in you the
hope of glory"
Mr.. and Mrs. Phineas Kimball Of Nauvoo,
ILL.,, were guests last week OF Mr.. and Mrs.
B. A. Eastman.
George j. Towne has entered his chestnut
PAGER Crappie" in the races at Concord,
N. H., this week
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The first meeting of Over the Tea Cups"
Club will be held on Thursday afternoon
with Mrs. B. W. Jones.
The Ladies' and PASTORS Union connected
with Hedding church will hold Harvest
bazaar" next Wednesday.
Captain d. r. Bisbee of the Spencer
Rifles is giving instructions in drill to the
Spauding High School battalion.
DIR. j. E. Insolvency. is to be married on
Tuesday, October 6, at Hartford, Conn, to
Miss Lillian M. Bray of that city.
At the Universalist church, Thursday
evening, the first of the series of mono.
logues, by Professor Underhill, will be
given.
Last Sunday was observed as rallying
day" by the Universalist Sunday-school
Many former members of the school were
present.
William McNally, section hand on the
Barre railroad, had one leg broken, last
W ~ 6ObUihS ~ caught DolWccu u
car and truck.
Scott Allen, brakeman for the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad, had his right
hand badly crushed last Friday while coup
ling cars in the yard.
James Kane was before Judge Barney in
city court, last Saturday charged with
breach of the peace. He pleaded guilty and
was fined So and costs.
A union temperance meeting at Hedding
church, last Sunday evening, called out
very large congregation. Mrs. B. w. Jones
was the principal speaker.
Superintendent Fl. r. Stoughton was in
RoyaltOn last Wednesday evening to attend
the wedding OF Miss Alice E. Stoughton, his
niece, to Leslie Rumrill of Royalton.
The students of the Goddard Seminary
lyceum wrestled last Saturday evening with
the question whether the United States
ought to maintain its present gold standard.
The Barre Rangers football team went to
Quincy, Mass, last Friday night, where
they played the crack Quincy team on Sat-
urday.
Jessie Huse has been elected secretary.
and Mamie Mckenzie treasurer of the
Methodist Junior Epworth League. For
the present Mrs. w. r. Davenport will act
as superin
" w. Curtis & Co., retail shoe-dealers,
have filed a petition in insolvency. On
Thursday, October 8, the first meeting OF
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Office in Montpelier.
Rev. w. r. Davenport has been elected
delegate from the Epworth League to the
first general conference district convention,
to be held at Providence, R. l., September
29 and 80 and October l.
The funeral of Joseph Mayo of Granite
vile was held last Wednesday morning
from st. Monica's church. Granteville
Court, Catholic Order OF Foresters, of which
deceased was member, attended in body
The chestnut PAGER Graphic" owned by
G.. j. Towne, took second money in the
free-for-all race at the Washington fair last
Thursday. Rolling Notion" owned by
w. G. Reynolds, took third money in the
same race.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Sherburne leave
about the first of November for Fruithurst,
Alabama, to remain through the winter.
Mr., Sherburne purchased fruit farm there
last spring, and it is probable that he will
locate permanently in Fruithurst.
officer Smith arrested Andrew McNichols
for intoxication last Thursday afternoon.
In city court, next morning, Judge Barney
fined him the usual amount. He pleaded
guilty, but was remanded to the lock. up be-
cause OF an unsatisfactory disclosure.
Mayor Gordon had little trouble in secur.
ing the required one hundred signers in
Barre to the application for the filing of a
ticket for sound-money democratic electors
No republican was asked to sign II, for the
reason that more than enough democrats of
that faith were easily found.
The steel derrick, owned by @. e. Tayn-
tor 4 Co., is being taken down and
wooden derrick will be substituted. The
steel structure will be erected on the hill,
where greater strength is required. The
rumor that the steel derrick was not a sue
cess is wholly without foundation.
A horse owned by William Nye, veget-
able-pedlar, made things lively around the
Park last Friday morning. 1t ran around
and through the Park wrecking buggy in
which Mrs. Herbert Spencer was sitting.
The animal had one of its hind legs badly
cut and it completely demolished the wagon
to which it was hitched.
Next Sunday evening, at seven O'Clock,
Rev. W. r. Davenport will give, at He'd
ding Methodist church, a report OF the great
vouns peoples convention which is held at
Providence this week, and to which he is
delegate, and at which the mayor OF the city
gives the address OF welcome, and large
number OF distinguished speakers partici-
pate Rev. NJ. Davenports subject at He'd
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