The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-05
TOWN C0RRESPON DENCE.
ITEMS or INTEREST--PERSO
and GENERAL.
Barre,


The new City Court room Is connected
with the telephone exchange.
Everett Campbell and wife visited last
week at their former home in Hyde Park.
Mrs. G. e. Mcfarland entertained the
Over the Teacups Club last Saturday after
noon.
Rev. w. r. Davenport took Crooks " for
his theme at Hedding Church last Sunday
evening.
There we're eighteen births and eleven
de iths in this city during the month Of
January.
A comfortable room adjoining the new
City Hall has been fitted up for police head
quarters.
The hall in Reynolds block, now used by
the Mssons, has been leased by Page Camp,
Sons of Veterans.
a cottage prayer meeting will be held
this evening at the home OF Clarence
Wheaton on Aver street.
1t is expected that financial settlement
of the insovent firm of Perry & Lloyd will
be made within few days
Valentine social will be given by the
Ladies' and Pastors Union of Hedding
Church next week Friday evening.
Fred Slayton was arrested on Tuesday for
running a hack without a license. He gave
bail and proposes to contest the case.
There is deepening interest in the social
meetings at Hedding Church, the attend
ance being much larger than usual.
II. w. Scott was elected president of the
Vermont Bee-keepers' Association at its
annual meeting, held last week in Burling-
ton.
The junior class at Goddard Seminary en-
joyed sleigh. ride to Plainfeld last Monday
evening. They took supper at the Plain6eld
House.
During the absence in the West of S. w.
Kingston, William Quinlan will have charge
of the stone sheds and business Of Kingston
Brothers.
James S. Mccoy of New York and e. C.
Wilson of Boston, representing the Ameri
can Pneumatic Tool Company, were in
Barre last week.
Another child of Peter Bombard died last
Monday from scarlet fever, making four
children he has lost from that disease
within a few weeks.
An evening with the poet, Longfellow,
was held at the Baptist church last evening.
Previous to the entertainment New Eng
land boiled-dinner was served in the vestry.
A petition has been presented TO the
man agemr MT of the Barre railroad, asking
that a t. ain be run between GTanitevlle
and Barre and return on Saturday evenings.
union Christian Endeavor meeting was
held at the Congregational church last
Sunday afternoon, in which the Congrega-
tional, Baptist and Presbyterian societies
took part.
Courage" will be the theme of Rev. w.
R Davenport at the Sunday evening lecture
at Hedding (Methodist) Church next Sun
day night. Professor Kane will also give a
cornet solo.
The ladies of the Universalist church will
give kettedrum in their vestry next
Saturday evening. A reception will be held
from five to six o'clock, and a musical en-
tertainment will be rendered from eight to
half past nine O'Clock.
A satisfactory arrangement has been
made btween l.. - Bolster and the Barre
Breeders Association regarding the lease
of the trotting'pa which the latter has
surrendered to Mr.. Bolster A new com.
pany will probably be formed for the man.
agement of the park the coming season.
Hon George Vending will lecture al
the Opera House next week Thursday even
ing on /" Unseen Realities" The last lecture
of the course will be by Elk Senator John j
Ingalls, of Kansas. He will appear Thurs
dan, February 20, and his subject will be
" Paternalism i'll Government"
The Epworth League of Hedding Meth
odisD Church will give a reception to the
league of Trinity (MethodisO Church, Mont
pelier, at the new church edice in Barre
this evening at seven o'clock. A short pro
| gramme will be rendered, including selec
|
reception and social time will follow. A
general invitation is extended to the attend
ants upon Hedding Church.
A good-sized audience listened to an un
usually fine and suggestive temperance lee
ture by Hon. Frank Plumley of NorthfelC
at Hedding (MethodisO Church last Satur
day evening. Miss Evely nd Gould Of Ran
dolph delighted the audience with some o
her Rotations, and several names were SO
| cured as candidates for membership in thu
local lodge of Good Templars, of which Mr.
Plumley is an enthusiastic member.
The session OF the City Council, las
week Tuesday evening, when the ques
! ton of granting permit to the Electric
Railway Company to lay tracks on tn,
streets was up for discussion, was very ami
mated. j. S Pierson, superintendent o
the Railway Company, considered the de
mands made by the Board of Aldermen a.
unjust, and no contract was made. 1t il
very probable that the State Railroad Com
mission will be called to Barre to locate tn,
tracks
The leap. year ball, 10 be given on tn,
evening of St. Valentines day, is in euer
getic hands and promises to be brillian
event. The committee of arrangements II
made up of Mrs. Mary Benedict Mrs Carri
f.. TowEe, Mrs. Anna Mudgett, Mrs. Edit
Richardson, Mrs. Lila Mcleod, Mrs. Ma.
b. Odds and Mrs. Eta Bisbee. The foo
will be under the management of Mrs. c
w, Steele, Mrs. Fl. c. Leonard, Mrs. W. A
Smith, Mrs o. X. Ho ulster and Mrs. G. n
Field. Mrs. f. A. Slayton, Mrs. Nathanie
Bond and Mrs. G. S. Currier will be the com
mittee of introduction. A dance list o
twenty numbers is announced.
Especial attention is called to the attrac
tive advertisement of Gilley & Abbott OF
page five. The WATCHMAN welcomes th
firm to its adver Using fold, knowing full
well, both from the actual experience o
Barre merchants who have in the past anC
are now using its advertising columns, ant
on general principles, that the arrangement
will result in mutual profit to the publisher
and 10 this, the leading dry goods house il
the Granite City. Gilley & Abbott hav'
purchased the space they now occupy for
year. Keep watch of their corner, for they
will have something to say each week tina
will be of interest to purchasers of the line
Of goods they handle.
Rev. A. ID. Brown will act as judge at TIN
mock trial to be held at the Opera Hous
next Friday evening when Mayor Smitl
will be tried for the larceny of a Plymouth
Rock rooster from DR.. j. Henry Jackson
h. S Currier will be officer of the court; +
G. Rowland, clerk; g. A. Smith, crier; DR.