The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-15
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or TNTEREST--PERSONAL
IND GENERAL.
Barre.

Mrs. William Lowe.
James Albin was fined S18.01 in city
court last week for intoxication.
Only forty tickets were sold last Thurs.
day for the excursion to Missisquoi Park.
The Congregational Sunday. school held its
annual picnic last Saturday at Paramount .
Park.
Barre will have a male glee club, and a
first class one, too, during the coming CAM
paign.
Mrs. e. l.. Smith went to Old Orchard
Beach, Me-, last Thursday, for a stay OF two
weeks.
The grocery stores will be closed on Tues
day and Thursday evenings until further
notice.
Rev. DR.. William Cochrane of Antrim,
N. H, preached for the Presbyterians last
Sunday.
Mrs. d. T. Drummond Of Quincy, Mass,
was last week the guest OF Mrs. Samuel
Caswell.
DR.. L. P. Holden of Boston has been the
guest of Alderman b. r. Lilley during the
past week.
DIR. II. E.. Packer Of Gardner, Mass, was
in the city last week, accompanied by his
daughter Elsie.
Page Camp, Sons Of Veterans, will soon
have a new flag, purchased with funds
raised by subscription.
Miss Lucy Wells of the post-ofice force
leaves to-day for Old Orchard Beach, Me-,
on her annual vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Wheeler, Mrs. d. W.
Hooker and B. W. Hooker are in camp on
the shore of Greensboro Pond.
The question Of purchasing a stone
crusher will be again discussed at a special
city meeting called for July 16.
The Congregational Christian Endeavor
Society held a portrait social " in the
church parlors on Tuesday evening.
The next races scheduled to be held at
the Granite City Park will be on Friday
and Saturday, July 81 and August /.
New uniforms will be issued to the men,
bers of Torrent Hose Company, No. 8, be-
fore the state tournament takes place.
G. f. w. Gazeley of Albany, N. Y, was
in the city on business last week, as was P.
Reinhalter of Philadelphia, another granite
dealer.
The name of Mayor j. w. Gordon is
mentioned as a candidate for senator from
Washington county on the democratic
ticket.
Gospel meetings led by Evangelists Mat
thews and Hunter were held every evening
last week in a tent on the Batchelder lot on
Summer street.
The book and stationary business in the
store of Gould & Nichols has been pur-
chased by Charles A. Smith, who will take
possession July 10.
No business of public importance was
transacted at the regular meeting of the
board of aldermen held last week. A large
number of bills were ordered paid.
The members of the Spencer Rifles are at
the rifle range nearly every evening per-
fecting themselves in target shooting pre-
paratory to the annual muster next month.
The Universalist Sunday-school will pic
mic on Thursday at Caledonia Park, near
Barre Junction. The Episcopal Sunday
| school will on IN Rpniamin Falls today for
their annual outing.
Wilson Thurston, another Of the old
landmarks of Barre, was buried last Thurs
day. Mr.. Thurston was sixty-four years
Did. He was born in Orange but had lived
nearly his whole life in Barre.
The League of American Wheelmen
has suspended j. e. Walsh, formerly of
this city, for an alleged offence committed
in class A. Al investigation of the charges
against Mr.. Walsh will soon be held.
The Foresters' picnic held last Saturday
afternoon at Caledonia Park, near Benja-
min Falls, was well attended. The Thistles
and the Rangers put up a sharply-contested
game of football, Notwithstanding the in
tense heat.
Editor w. G. Belknap Of the Bellows
Falls Times is taking a vacation, in which
he is assisting F. 81. Nichols in doing his
haying. In Mr.. Belknap's absence the
editorial columns OF the Times lose their ac-
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The midsummer race meeting of the
Barre Bicycle Club will be held Saturday,
July IS, at the track OF the Granite City
Trotting Club. Four races-one mile no.
vice, half mile open, mile open, and five
mii,cc open, are scheduled.
postmastsr McWhorter has made ar
rangements to display, from the flagstaff on
Granite block, the daily %eatner reports
received each morning from IT, mt asgs
States signal station at Mortified. The Iase
will be hoisted daily at eleven o'clock
The Barre Cornet Band serenaded Mr.
and Mrs. A. w. Eastman last Wednesday
evening. Mr.. Eastman and his bride were
presented with a handsome rocker from
the members Of the band, as a slight token
of the esteem in which their fellow musician
is held.
A spire weighing seventy-two tons, that
is to form a part of a soldiers monument to
be erected on the battlefield of Antietam,
was brought down from the Wetmore &
Morse quarry last Wednesday,. 1t attracted
much attention In transit, and Is one of the
largest ever cut in that quarry of huge sur
prises.
AS pretty an exhibition Of baseball as
has been seen in Barre this season was wit
messed last Saturday afternoon when the
Barres defeated the Richmonds by a score
Of eight to two. TIL pitching of Austin for
the Barre team was too much for the WIS.,
itors, but their playing in the field was
sharp and effective. Only a handful of peo-
pie witnessed the game.
d. L. Rodee died last Friday, from the
effects of a shock of paralysis, aged sixty
eight years. His funeral was held last
Sunday afternoon from his late home ON
Aver street, Rev. j. A. Sherburne oficia-
ting, and the burial was beside the remains
OF his wife in the Farwell cemetery. The
members of Granite Lodge Of Masons, to
which deceased belonged, attended in a
body and conducted the services at the
grave.
No little difficulty is experienced this
year in raising the 500 over and above
what the government will pay for the rental
of the present post-office quarters. This
amount was easily raised last year by popu-
lar subscription rather than let the post
offic be moved, but this year it comes hard.
The owners Of the Opera House demand 500
more rent than the government will pay,
and it is not thought likely that such a state
of affairs will long continue.
Since the organization of the democratic
campaign club in the banquet room at Odd
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