The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-12-09
TOWN CORRESPOND ENCE.
Barre

petitioned into insolvency.
s. s. Ballard was called to Burlington last
week by the illness Of his father.
Mr. and Mrs. T. X. Mills returned last
Thursday from their wedding trip.
Rev. w. NJ. Newton of Waterbury was
guest of Pastor Davenport last evening.
The Burns Club held its annual masuuer-
ade ball in Armory Hall last Friday even
ing.
DR.. J. Stewart Flint was called to Pots
dam, N. Y, last week by illness in his
family.
Albion Eaton of Calais, Me-, has been Wis
iting f. @. Eaton, his brother, during the
past week.
The board of aldermen held its first De-
cember meeting in the council chamber last
Monday evening.
The fireman's masquerade ball last We'd
nesday night was very much of a success,
both socially and financially.
A union meeting of all the young peoples
societies was held at the Congregational
vestry last Sunday evening.
Eugene G. Glysson and Carroll Griswod
have both been critically i'll with the meas
les and pneumonia.
The Epworth League held Neighbour
hood Meeting at Mrs. Mary N. Burnham's,
South Main street, last evening.
Miss Anna Mccarthy went this week to
| Newport, where she Is stenographer and
| III d RrbulI6 ODlCb.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society
will give " Zoetrope" social, with literary
exercises at Hedding church this evening.
The Epworth Leauge Reading Club will
meet with the pastor and wife at the par
sonage on French street next Fridey even
ing
j. A. McKellow, a student at Goddard
} Seminary, was called to Keesville n, Y,
last week by the serious illness of his
| brother.
The Bachelor Maids " of the Universal
list church gave supper in the church yes
try last Saturday evening that was very lib
orally patronzed.
f. X. Jackson, son of DR.. 1. Henry jack
son, has recently been appointed lieuten-
ant Of Company d, in the battalion of the
University Of Vermont.
Rev. B. W. Jones preached at Bethel last
Sunday. Prof. A. w. PIERCE read paper
on Sermons that Help " at the Universe
list church in the morning.
Giovanni Pedazzi and Miss Banbino Co.
Jumbo, presumably Italians were married
by Rev. K. W. Cummings at his residence
last Wednesday afternoon.
The fruit store OF Charles Kirkland in
Gordon block has been closed. The vacant
store will soon be occupied by A. A Smith
for his boot and shoe business.
Orvis Carpenter of Saratoga, N. Y, and
Hiram Carpenter of st. Johnsbury were in
Barre last week, called here by the death Of
Miss Fannie Carpenter, their sister
largely ATTENDED and interesting union
Young Peoples Meeting was held at the
Congregational church last Sunday evening,
Deacon Charles Wallace being the leader.
The Union Veterans Union is to hold
masquerade ball in the opera house at East
Barre Thursday evening OF next week, for
which Cooks Orchestra will furnish music.
The trial of the case Of Fannie Mcdonald
against j. H. Cook was set for last Friday
in city court but judgment was confessed
, by plaintiff and an appeal to county court
was taken.
A new switch board has been placed in
the Central telephone office, and the system
of calling by numbers instead OF names,
now in use in Montpelier and other cities,
will soon be adopted in Barre.
Rev B. W. Jones was at Orange last
Wednesday to preach the funeral sermon OF
: Nathaniel Whitcomb. Deceased was we'll
known in Barre where he had done bust
ness more or less for the past fifty years.
CT Sweeney, better known as "Cuba
. Jack" who was for five years in the ser
vice of the International Gable Company of
Cuba, is to lecture in Hedding church next
a week Friday evening on 1.-THE War in
Cuba"
Twenty-Five births and eight deaths are
reported for the month Of November by
Health officer Chandler. During that
: month thirty-nine cases of measles were
! also reported.
\ Despite the reported hard times in Barre
the officials of the Montpelier and Wells
4 River railroad report the largest shipments
/ of granite from Barre during the month
: just closed, of any November since the road
r was opened to the Granite City.
, Judge w. E. Barney entered this week
= upon his third year as city judge Of Barre.
. The recent session of the legislature voted
: him salary of $3.50, which, with the fees of
: the court, will make his income from that
o office 81 200 or more.
o The ladies of Barre will find in the ex-
! hibition of hand-painted china, to be given
d next Friday and Saturday at the millinery
l. rooms of Mrs. W. f. Shepard by Mrs. A,
o. Cumming of Montpelier, rare chance
$ to purchase beautiful Christmas gifts.
:. William Mehan was before Judge Barney
in city court last Wednesday charged with
= a feonious assault upon Sarah Mcclure.
, He was bound over to county court with
, bail fixed at s., 900. In default of sureties,
; Mehan was taken to Jail at Montpelier for
, safe keeping.
/ The alarm from box 81, last week, was
h for fire in the cellar at the residence of E.
q L. Smith on West street. The blaze was
d extinguished before it had reached the Sec
V ond floor and no great damage was done.
o An over-heated furnace was the cause.
$ The annual exhibition of the Granite City
:, Poultry, Pigeon, and Pet Stock Associs-
8 ton, is to be held at the Opera House Tues
= day and Wednesday, December 20 and 30.
h Competition is open to the United States
Il and large number of entries are already
IS booked.
IL Col. L. F. Copeland of Harrisburg, Pa,
lectured last Thursday evening in the Barre
Entertainment Association course on See
ing the Elephant" The next entertain
ment will be a lecture on THE Almighty
d Dollar by Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., next
Tuesday evening.
@ f. G. French returned last week from
IS Fruithurst, Ala, where he went to investi-
gate the offers made by the Alabama Fruit
n Growing and Winery Association. Mr..
4 French came back very favorably impressed
- with the climate of that country and with
the inducements offered.
n The liquor seized from Bessie Donavan
n and NJ. l.. Keefe was brought into city
@ court last Saturday That taken from
Keefe was ordered returned by the court,
and the stuff seized at the place kept my
Mrs. Donavan was condemned and ordered