The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-22
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREsT---PERsO
AND IN GENERAL.
Barre

Barre
Miss Lizzie Soule of Fairfield visited in
the city last week
A son was born last week to Mr.. and Mrs.
Alexander Stevens.
DR.. j. Henry Jackson and family returned
last week from Washington, ID. @.
DR.. @. W. Steele has moved to the house
on Park street recently purchased by him.
The Barre Bicycle Club is planning for a
race to Montpelier and return on Decoration
day
Druggist Charles r. DeDning visited last
week at his former home in Mechanic
Falls, Me.
Ellen M. York has purchased of H. o.
Hutchinson for $2,400 house and lot on
| Hill street.
The annual communication of Granite
Lodge, f. and A. M, will be held next Fri
day evening.
MANY housewife is using three pounds
| Of strong soap where two of mild soap
Z" Harmless W would do.
The first meet of the season will be held
at the Granite City Trotting Park on Friday
and Saturday, May % and 49,
Charles Page accompanied Mrs. Myrtle
Hemenway, his sister, to Colorado Springs,
Col. They left for that city last Monday.
The ejectment case of Averill versus Drew
was decided last week in favor of the plant
iff The case was appealed to county court.
A caucus will be held at the Opera House
this evening to elect delegates to the state
and second district republican conventions.
Joseph Barr and William Dickey were
fined 50 and costs In City Court last week
] for stealing some pet pigeons from A. NJ
| Smith.
Rev. W. Fl. Collins of Brattleboro will
preach at the Church of the Good Shepherd
next Sunday in exchange with Rev. Mr..
Brown.
DR.. j. Henry Jackson is delivering a
course Of lectures before the medical stu
dents at the University of Vermont, Bur-
lington.
William Ives is confined in the county
Jail at Montpelier on Judgment in favor Of
Page Brothers for injury to horse by hard
driving.
The last whist party of the season was
held by the members of the Eastern Star
in the Masonic banquet hall last Saturday
evening.
Captain II. e. Tutherly, assistant adju-
tantgeneral and instructor of military SCI
eLce, inspected the Spencer Rifles last
Thursday evening.
Rev. j. Edward Farrow delivered his il
Illustrated lecture, "From Jerusalem to Jeri-
cho," to good sized audience in the Opera
House last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Duncan Mcdonald returned
last Friday evening from Florida, where
they have been during the last five months
for Mrs. McDonald's health.
The Shetland ponies exhibited by George
Cassie at the recent horse show in Boston
brought home five blue ribbons and the
second, third and fourth prizes
The city census, just completed and COM
piled by City Clerk Wells, shows that there
are / 1872 children OF school age in the city of
Barre, an increase OF 351 over 1895.
j. J. Flynn and J. g. Pierson of Burling.
ton were in Barre last Friday. They were
accompanied by two contractors and looked
over the line Of the street railway that is
to be,
The Young Mems Republican Club held
q meeting last evening to elect delegates to
the annual meeting of the State Republican
League, to be held at Montpelier next
Tuesday
The subject Of municipal lighting was the
leading topic OF discussion at the regular
monthly meeting of the Municipal League,
held last Friday evening in the office Of
John w. Gordon.
d. G. Bickford, a prominent citizen of
Barre, died last Friday at his home on Pros
pect street, aged sixty-two years. Hiram
Bickford, his son, arrived from Elmira, N.
" the day before he died.
A hearing was held in City Court last
Friday over the liquor seized last week at
the home of Daniel Devers. The liquor was
condemned and the case was appealed to
the Supreme Court on exceptions.
John p. johnson and wife have sold to
Aaron johnson for $1,100 a house and lot
on Railroad street. The lot on Eastern
Avenue owned by Harvey Hersey has been
sold to Fred s. Bruce and wife for S16S9.
The question as to whether the voters Of
the city will authorize the Board of Alder
men to purchase $45, 900 worth of bonds of
the firm Of e. H. Rollins & Co., Boston, will
be brought up at the special city meeting to
be held Friday, May 1.
Because of the adjustment of class by
the League OF American Wheelmen, j. e.
Walsh has given up his plans Of going into
training at the Waltham track. Mr.. Walsh
will, however, be in evidence in many races
during the coming season.
George w. Brown and Fred Folsom, who
were arrested last week for an assault on
Thomas COmstock, were again arrested last
Friday on a complaint issued by Grand
Juror Lapoint, and fined an additional So
and costs for intOxication.
Mrs. G. @. Barnes left last week for Bos-
ton and Lowell, to visit friends. She will
stay with her son. F. e. Barnes, in Woburn
during the electrical carnival, to be held
April 16 to % under the auspices of the
Woburn Young Mems Christian Association.
Miss Lydia Brigham lectured on "a Year
in Saxony" to a large audience at the Uni
versaist church last Thursday evening.
Miss Brigham was formerly preceptress OF
Goddard Seminary, aud at the close OF the
lecture an informal reception was rendered
her.
The local mourners for the Granite State
Provdent Association will attempt to
secure permanent injunction whereby the
$1,000 now on deposit in one OF the local
banks to the credit of this association can
be kept in this city and not turned into the
general fund
The following ward committees have been
appointed to take the place Of the old repub-
lican town committee: Ward one, Frank
| three, o. l.. Currier; ward four, VI. W.
Whitoomb; ward FIVE, B. w. Bradley; ward
six, Edwin Wheeler.
The premises of Michael Boggi on Sum-
| mer street were raided last Saturday by