The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREsT--PERSONAL
And GENERAL.
Barre

ward 9.
Bert Staples, clerk at the store OF Gilley
& Abbott Is seriously i'll.
q. III. More q Co. have rented the rooms
In Bolster block recently vacated by DIR.
Daziel.
Forty degrees below zero is the lowest
record heard of in Barre on Tuesday
morning.
Joseph Suitor, q former well.known
granite.dealer in Barre, died last week at
Hardwick.
Rev. e. w. Cummings has gone to Quincy,
Mass where he is supplying for Presby-
terrain church.
The Ladies' Guild of the Episcopal church
will meet on Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Burt Royce on Pearl street.
An entertainment for the benefit OF the
band will be held in the Opera House on
Thursday evening, March B.
John McWilliams returned last week
from Rutland, where he has been serving
sentence in the House Of Correction.
Bishop Hall will visit Barre on Sunday,
February %, and administer the rite Of con-
frmation in the new Episcopal church.
Judge Barney has withheld his decision
| in the case against r. A. Slayton, charged
with running hack without a license.
A city caucus is called at the Opera House
this evening to put in nomination officers to
be voted for at the annual city meeting
Rockwells Dramatic Company will open
weeks engagement at the Opera House,
next Monday evening, at popular prices.
The Universalist Mite Society held
musicale with Margie Wells, last Saturday
evening, at her home on Merchant street.
A detachment of the Salvation Army held
meetings every evening last week in the
hall over the drug store OF W. FL. Gladding
W. II Eastman moved his grocery store
| to the new Eastman block last week. He
now has one of the finest stores in the city.
George T. Conner, e. L. Smith, George
Il. Clark and Eli Holden attended the
Grand Army Encampment at Rutland last
week.
The case against James Cordiner for ma
! licious damage to trees in the High School
yard has been mol pressed by the city at
torney.
Rev. G. s. Dewing preached at the Pres
byterian church again last Sunday. The
revival services held by him last week were
we'll attended.
Harry, the youngest son Of DR.. j. Henry
Jackson, Is slowly recovering from the Sc.
we're illness with which he has been pros
trated for several weeks.
Union revival meetings are now in prog
ress at the Baptist church. The first meet
ing OF the series was held last Sunday even
ing in the Methodist church.
A reorganization OF the Owl Debating
Club is to be effected in the near future,
when it will be more distinctively literary
society than at the present time.
The drama " Our Boys " was we'll played
by local talent in the Opera House last
evening. The entertainment was under the
auspices of the Universalst society.
The case of State against Michael Cook
heard in City Court last week, in which
Cook was charged with the larceny Of two
sleds, resulted in the acquittal OF the re
spondent.
A special train to Montpelier was rur
over the Montpelier & Wells River railroad
last Wednesday evening, to accommodate
those wishing to attend the banquet al
Armory Hall
The Barre Choral Union will bring GU
the cantata "Queen Esther " at the Opert
House Friday and Saturday evenings
March and 7. 1t will be the musical even
OF the season.
The vital statistics of the city for the pas
wear, complied by City Clerk Wells, show
that there have been 165 births, sixty-nin'
deaths and eighty-three marriages in thu
city during the year.
At the close of the lecture in the Oper,
House on Thursday evening by ex-Senato
j. j. Ingalls, of Kansas vote of the loca
ticket-holders will be taken as to which ha
been the best entertainment of the course.
The track at Green Mountain Trottin
lent shape for speeding horses. Some @
the horsemen Of Barre are trying to arrang
for series of winter meetings to be hell
there.
John Stevenson was arrested last Wed
nesday for intoxication and creating dis
turbance in Armory Hall. Before Justic
Scott he pleaded guilty to intoxication, blu
was remanded to jail because OF an unsatis
factory disclosure.
Will Durham, a well-known Barre boy
who figured in County Court last spring TO
. an assault upon one Hernon, has recentl
been appointed sporting editor OF the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette. He has beel
on the staff of the Boston Globe for the pas
year.
The show window in the boot and sho
store of W. Fl. Gale in Depot Square ha
been very attractive place during the pas
! week. In this window is donkey mad
entirely of felt goods, and on this Harmless
, animal is a placard that reads: "If thi
, donkey kicks you it will be felt"
Union revival meetings are being held a
the Baptist church this week, the Baptists
: Methodists and Presbyterians uniting
Services next Sunday morning in the seps
rate churches as usual, with union ser
, vice at Hedding (M -thodist) Church Sunda
: evening, and also the first five evenings O
, the week following. All are invited.
A petition has been in circulation durin
, the past week, gotten out by the Barr
. Water Company, asking the judges o
: Washington County Court to condemn Gel
tain springs and land on West Hill. Thi
company is endeavoring to secure suppl
of pure water for drinking and culinar
purposes and will build reservoir on tn
Luther p. Ward farm
, For some time past Gould & Nichols hav
had suspicious that III. III. Foster, one G
their travelling men, well known in Barre
was not dealing honestly with them, and a
: investigation last week led to his arrest 10
l embezzlement at Hartford. His father wa
\ telegraphed for, and last Friday he came
Hartford, met Mr. Nichols, and paid the IL
debtedness of his son to the firm, some S50'
: The young man left for Massachusetts tn
9 next day. While at school in Barre Nj
{ Foster made an excellent record, and hi
r downfall is a surprise and grief to hi
: friends in the Granite City. The method
3 employed by him in defrauding his emplo,
a ers were we'll laid and not like the acts OF
t novice in dishonest transactions.
T East Barre.
Rev. G. II. Merrill of st. Johnsbury ws
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