The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTER EST--PERSONAL
AND GENERAL.
Barre,

Hyde, is ill at bis home in Mortified.
The first reception of the winter term
occurred at Goddard Seminary last Satur-
day evening.
| Five persons were received into member
ship at Holding Methodist church last Sum-
day morning
| Major j. ID. Smith, secretary of the EN-
pire Granite Co npany, returned from Ph!ls-
delphia last Saturday evening.
1.-THE Golden Age" will be the theme
discussed by Pastor Davenport at Hedding
| Methodist church next Sunday night.
The local telephone office is to be equipped
| with new switch board. After the new
| board is put in calls will be made by num-
| bers.
The Board of Aldermen have been in
vestigating the suspension of Special Officer
Gauthier by Mayor Smith during the past
| week.
| EVERY woman should read the advertise.
ment, Useful Books Given Away" on
| page one. Cut out the coupon and send as
directed.
The annual parish supper OF the Uni.
versalist society will be held Tuesday even
| ing, January ID, instead of Monday even
| ing, as at first announced.
q s Currier, city engineer, and his bride
returned to Barre lasi Monday noon. They
are at present stopping with Mr.. Curriers'
parents on Merchant street.
Several persons rose for prayers at He'd
ding church last Sunday after the COM
munion service, conducted by Rev Joseph
Hamilton of st. Johnsbury.
Options have been secured on fifteen of
the principal quarries on " Milestone Hill "
until January /, 1897, looking toward plac-
ing all the quarries in Barre in the hands of
asyndicate.
The new Masonic hall that is nearly ready
for occupancy will be one of the finest in
the state. w. j. Tyndall of Burlington
was the decorator, and the contract for fur
nishing has been let to Henry j. Nelson of
that city.
The Universalist Sund ay school has
elected A. G Fay, superintendent; George
A. r )ss, assistant superintendent; Miss
Emily Cooper, secretary; Harry Tilden,
treasurer; Charles Page, librarian; Madie
Houghton, assistant librarian; Fannie Gale,
organst.
The rumor that L. P. Thayer of St. Johns
bury and Bellows Falls expects 10 start a
new paper in Barre or rejuvenate one of
those now published cannot be traced to
any reliable source. The fact that Mr..
Thayer happened to be in Barre two weeks
ago probably started such report.
At special meeting of the Board OF AL
dermen held last week the application Of
Angelo Scampini for per init to build an adj
dition to his store was refused although the
inspector of buildings had recon nen4ed that
it be granted. Negotiations entered into by
H A. Moser. superintendent of streets,
with T. L. Martin were ratified by the
board.
The young people of the Epworth League
gave Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Huntington a
very enjoyable reception at Hedding Church
last Friday night. The affair was in charge
of Miss Mabel G ale. Mr.. and Mrs Hun.
tngton were recently married at Oxford,
N. H., and the reception rendered them was
to testify, in some manner, the esteem in
which they are held by members of the
league.
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toned member of the Vermont delega-
ton to the democratic national convention.
Barre also has a citizen who is spoken of as
the probable man for the democratic candi-
date for governor In DR.. D. Henry Jack.
son the democrats would have man Of
whom they would have no need TO be
ashamed. The only question seems to be
whether the genial doctor will accept the
empty honor
The dinner at Hedding (Metbodis)
Church last Wednesday was attended by
over $50 people. 1t was the annual reunion
of the membe of the church and congre-
CATION and was thoroughly enjoyable af-
fair. In the afternoon letters were read
from Rev. Peter Merrill Of Enosburgh
Falls, Rev W. S. Smithers of St. Johns
,, bury and Rev. Harvey Webster Of More
town, former pastors; also from many alb
sent members At the roll'call in the
evening, brief addresses were given by Rev.
Joseph Hamilton of st. Johnsbury, presid-
ing elder, and Revs. j. A. Sherburne, II.
A. Spencer, Ed ward j. Gale, and w. r.
Davenport, the pastor.
A farmers institute will be held at East
Barre on Tuesday and Wednesday, January
IA and 49, under the direc ion of the State
,, Board OF Agriculture. An interesting pro-
gramme has been prepared for the two days,
including addresses by Hon. Victor 1 Spear
of Braintree on Farm Management -;
r. G. Williams of Coventry, on :" Shall
Vermont rmers Breed Horses? Fl. w.
Vail of North Pomfret, on " Breeding and
Care of the Dairy Cow ." G. Nj. Winslow of
Brandon, on Sanitary Care of Cattle in Its
Relation to Tuberculosis y; o. Sanford of
Stamford, on The Production and Appli-
cation of Manure" and by Professor L.. r.
Jones of Burlington, on Diseases of
Plants" All meetings are free and the
ladies are especially invited to be present.
; The capital stock of the Barre electric
railroad WILL it is understood be $500, 600.
A plant will be erected that will be able to
furnish power for granite cutting The new
road Will probably be equipped with storage
batteries instead of the trolley system. The
Burlington gentlemen who are to build the
! road met the Barre committee in this city
=. last Saturday afternoon and clinched the
pending negotiations. Instead of having
the road ready to operate by July l, 1897,
the agreement is that it shall be completed
on or before September !, 1896, City Treas
urer b. II. Wells has opened subscription
/ books for those who wish to take stock in
the road The company as organized last
Saturday is 70 be known as the Barre Elec-
! trio Power, Manufacturing, and Street Rail-
: way Company. The officers are j s. Pier.
! son, president; F. G.. Rowland, vice.
: president; A o. ii 'mphrey, clerk and
a treasurer; r. G. Rowland, ID. NJ. Miles and
? II. X. Bush of Barre, j. s. Pierson, j. j.
! Flynn, f. c. Kennedy and A. o. Humphrey
of Burlington, directors.
East Barre,
The Congregational church at Orange, by
: a mass vote, and here through a committee,
have decided to continue the same yoking
? arrangement another year. Communion
7 service was obser ged in both places last
8 Sunday. The church in Orange voted to
a obs 9rve the Week OF Prayer by meetings
: each evening.
. We all rejoice with the neighbors across
. the stream over the successful laying Of the
. water-pipe through the bed of the stream
before the ice made utterly impossible what
before seemed so difficult work. These