The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-05
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST---PERS
Ind IN GENERAL.
Barre.

organized basket-ball-team.
II, w. Gallison OF Syracuse was in town
last week. inspecting steam boilers.
Rev. II. II. Hoyt of St. Johnsbury ex'
changed with Rev. B. W. Jones last Sunday
Preston Paine, a graduate OF Goddard
Seminary in 1894, died recently al Rock
ford, Ill.
Mrs Henry was at Haverhill, N. H., to
attend the funeral Of her cousin, Mrs. Eda
e. Kent.
Rev. W. r. Davenport lectured in the
South Royalton lecture course last Monday
evening.
HI. Gale is soon to move his Office from
the Quinlan building to the new block oil
Eastman Brothers.
The Daughters of Liberty. gave a box
sociable at the hall of the Knights of Pythias
on Thursday night.
l.. j. Griffin & Co. are putting the steam
heating apparatus into the new block OF
William Miller at Montpelier.
Miss Cora Wilson, q graduate of Goddard
Seminary in 1894, was married recently TO
Rev. A W johnson of Cordelia, Mich.
Mrs. Edith Richardson is working in the
post-ofice during the enforced absence OF
Miss Kate West, who is caring for Ezekiel
West. her father.
William Blake, telegraph operator at the
Central Vermont depot, returned from
Swanton last week, where he went on
leave of absence because OF Illness
The report of the State Board of Health.
condemning the present water supply OF
Barre, leads to very grave complications
and it is probable that the City OF Barre
may be obliged to secure water for drinking
and culinary purposes from another source:
The investigation of the State Board
showed that the two brick walls tnrough
which the Hersey Brook supply was formerly
filtered have been removed and that the
drainage from at least three inhabited
houses flows directly into that brook. There
is also barn in which live stock is kept,
only ten feet from the edge Of the brook
In East Barre about one half of the intake
is from the stream that flows through vii.
lage, whose houses and shops are directly
on the stream or the sewerage drains into
1t. Should there be single case of typhoid
fever in East Barre, the whole water supply
of the city would be in danger of pollution.
The situation is very grave, and IT Is yet un'
certain what the city authorities will decide
to do.
A CARD.-We the undersigned, do hereby
agree to refund the money on fifty cent
bottle of Greeee's Syrup of Tar ii 1t fails 70
cure your cough or cold. We also warrant
q TWEEN y five cent bottle to prove satisfac'
tory or no pay. We also refund the money
twenty-five cents) on box OF Neu Rol Pills
if they fail to cure your headache. M. A.
Corbett & Co., Granitevile; w FL Miles &
Co., Graniteville.
"ulld"otO"h
Mr.. James Cheney is getting up from his
late serious Illness
Granite Polisher Melvin K. Church has
q job now in Barre.
Edison Martin is selling milk, cream
and butter daily in our village.
Frank. the only DIVING son Of Henry r.
Erskine, is at school in Bristol.
With the capital sleighing and shedding
things are taking on a new life here just
now.
Miss Margaret Carrigan, a former popular
teacher here, is now in school work in OAK
land, Mass.
After three recent unsuccessful attempts
to get driven we'll at the Warner Poole
four tenement house, the work was aban-
doned.
Alfred Jenkins, in the quarry district,
buried his third and last child last Wed aes
day, Rev. j. o. Sherburne officiating at the
funeral.
Carpenters Thomas Sheridan and w. E
Noyes are putting the finishing touches u
to the new house to be occupied by John
Farnham's family in our village.
A daughter was lately born to Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Bruce, who are rearing an old
fashioned family for size. Blessings b.
upon their heads and those of their lildren
Bert, the oldest son of Joshua f. B liley
and canvasser for years past for Phila
home for the first time since Christmas o.
1894
George Wilder will remain on his
fathers farm the coming year, aud continue
the milk route established and successful
worked in the last year. He will supply
all the milk cream and-butter wants OF hi
larg- constituency.
House. builder John A. Perry, having
converted the old cabinet ware shop of thu
late Nathaniel Jillson into one of the pref
test houses in our village, is busy with fin
ishing off the last old re ON in it with nativ
woods that will make it a beautiful one
Stone.cutttr James Powers was some
what powerless for a day or two, lately, un
der the power of the rheuma ism, tina
"smote him hip and thigh Calling to hi
aid Druggist Fred A. Ainsworth, he pain
"demon seems in way to be least out
One morning last week, the Enoch How
house, owned by Levi Bolster of Barr
and oc ,upied by X. p. anchard, took fir
from the fireplace, in the sitting room
which was closed up. Had it occurred i
the night the result might have been ia
more disastrous
Lyman A. WORK. who Is rich in the low
and devotion of five daughters grown {
worthy woman hood, and all residents
this town at present, had the pleasure {
their company around the family boar
last Thursday-an anniversary OF the brit
OF their late mother, Mary A., the daughtt
Of the late Jacob Jeffords, Jr.
With all that is desirable and charmin
in California climate and scenery, We
mont lady, who has resided there for yeal
past, writes to one here that the monoton
of so much that is lovely is very tiresom
and that Vermont in June surpasses all ii
glory OF California scenery. If we Vernon
ers knew 1t ALL by experience, doubtless v
should thank God and take courage" u
der the variety and extremes even, OF We
mont climate, scenery, etc. provided it we
not " matter of life or death " in stayiI
here.
Town Superintendent Horace A. Far
ham had made an appointment for NEE
ing OF school teachers az the village schoC
house last week Tuesday evening, and W
prompt to meet it; but when he got the
the house was 80 bare OF teachers he beg
to suspect the meeting was TO be at his oV
house, and, with his wife, who had acco
panied him, started homeward. Arrivi
within SIGHT Of his house. Mrs. Farnhe