The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-29
TOWN CORRESPONDENTS.
ITEMS or TNTEREST--PERSO
AND GENERAL.
Barre.

this week.
Arthur George Of Lebanon, N. H., visited
in town last week
The new Masonic hall will be dedicated
Thursday, February 4.
The David French estate has been adver-
tised for sale to pay the taxes.
A party of young ladies' held leap.year
ball in the Armory last evening
Mrs. George Black of Barton visited Mrs
O. b. Whiting, her sister, last week.
There were 105 births and thirty-tvo
deaths in the town OF Barre during 1895
Mrs. Mason Page entertained the " Over
the Teacups" Club last Friday afternoon.
Quite large party from Barre attended
the charity ball at Montpe Ter last evening.
DR.. H. L. Hanson has returned from New
York. where he has been for several
weeks
MARI g. Gordon have recently put one
hundred horse-power boiler into their gram
lite sheds.
G. III. Sawyer has recently been appointed
state agent Of the Phoenix Life Insurance
Company.
II. B. Kendrick returned last night from
Mansfield, o., where he has been employed
In the granite office of Wolfe & Co.
James Joss returned from Rutland last
week, where he has been serving sentence
for violation of the prohibitory law.
James Devine died last Saturday night OF
typhoid fever at the residence of Eli Dens-
more, his employer, on Brook street.
Because of continued ill-health John Co.
nant has been obliged to sell his granite
works. He will retire from the business.
Miss Kate West, the efficient money order
clerk in the post office, is caring for her
father VINO is ill at his home in North Barr9.
Charles Jackman, former resident Of
Barre, who died last week in Willamstown,
was buried in Barre Cemetery last Sunday.
Negotiations are in progress toward a
joint debate between the Owl Debating
Club and English Classical Institute at
Rutlaad.
W. n. Eastman was in jston, last week,
buying goods with which to stock his new
store, which he expects to occupy early in
February
delegation from Vincitia Lodge,
Knights OF Pythias, attended the whist
party given by Montpelier Lodge last Thurs
day evening.
The special service in honor of Eug ene
Field, held last Sunday evening in the
Universalist church, attracted very large
congregation.
Barre was well represented at the
| Woman's Home Missionary convention
held in Montpelier last Wednesday evening
and Thursday.
Herbert Sias who was seriously injured
last fall by falling from an electric light
pole, has brought suit against the Consoli.
dated Lighting Company for $4,000 dam
ages.
o. e. Richardson and family narrowly es-
capped being asphy xiated, last Saturday
night, by escaping coal gas. Mr.. Richard
son was seriously i'll all day Sunday in con-
sequence
Rev. w. r. D.venport's topic last Sunday
evening, was " Foreigners or Citizens"
Hedding Church was filled to nearly its
seating capacity. w. G. Kaine, leader Of
the choir, rendered a cornet solo.
d. D. Stoughton of Charlestown, N. H.,
has been visiting Superintendent FL. r.
Stoughton, his brother. Mr.. S.oughton was
for twenty-one years the agent of the
| Central Vermont railroad at Charlestown
A poverty social will be held in the Con.
gregational vestry this evening. Every
person who attends wearing diamonds,
patentleather shoes, neckties or white
shirts will be fined. The affair will be I'M
der the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society
connected with that church.
Gould & Nichols have recently sold three
valuable Blasus pianos that went to Mont
pelier-one in st. Michaers school building,
one to Mrs. l.. c. Wakefield and one to Mrs.
Charles A. Smith, 3D. Their trade in mu-
steal instruments is steadily incre asing, and
the wisdom of their recent venture in Barre
has been long since established Their new
store is credit to the city of Barre, and is
the largest of the kind in Central Vermont.
A mock court trial will be held in the
Opera House on Friday evening, February
7, when prominent citizen of Barre will be
tried for the larceny of Plymouth Rock
rooster. The affair will be under the
auspices of the Spencer Rifles and will be
personally conducted by Colonel A. V.
Newton of Worcester, Mass. an expert in
such entertainments. number OF the
leading business and professional men of
Barre will take part.
Hon. Frank Plumley of Northield, well
known as one Of the finest platform speak
ers in all New England, will deliver Leo
ture on temperance at Hedding (Methodist)
Church next Saturday evening at eight
o'clock. Miss Ethelyn Gould of Randolph,
also we'll known in this section, will give
temp srance rotations in connection with
the lecture. No admission fee will be
charged and the audience ought to be lin
tied only by the capacity of the house.
Barre was visited by serious fire, early
last Sunday morning, which was conquered
after a stubborn fight. The fl 20 origina ed
in building on Burnham meadow owned
by MARI & Thompson, granite tool manu-
facturers, and soon spread to the polishing
mills of G. III. More & Co. and G.. E. Mills.
The losses are as follows: Mari & rhOmp'
son, 81, 800; Q. II. More & Co., $500; G. K.
Mills, $500; W. A. Lane, $500; all partially
insured. The cause OF the fire is mys-
| terry.
Labor troubles are again in sight in Barre,
rious may be avoided. At meeting of the
Granite Manufacturers Association, held
last Wednesday evening, it was voted to
strike out what is called the discriminate
ing clause" that was adopted for three
years from March, 1892, and was renewed
for one year last year. The clause is worded
as follows: 1t is mutually agreed by and
between the Barre branch of the Granite
Cutters National Union and Granite Manu-
factu ters' Association of Barre that no dis
elimination be made between union and
non. union men on the part OF the granite
| cutters and tool sharpeners in Barre, and
the Manufacturers Association agrees on
its part not to discriminate against any en-
ployer who is not member OF their associa-
ton or any member of their association who
may have violated any of their rules" The
majority voting for the eliminating OF this
clause was small, and another meeting was
held last Saturday evening, when an unsuc-
cessfu attempt was made to reconsider the
vote taken Wednesday evening. This &C.
ton makes every yard in Barre union