The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST--PERS
IND GENERAL.
Barre.

Miss Lucy Smith is visiting in Randolph.
Mrs. Mary e. Burnham is i'll with typhoid
fever
W. #. Morse is quite seriously i'll with
pneumonia.
Mrs. E. A. Prindle is visiting relatives in
Springfield, Mass.
Judge w. E. Barney and family are visit
ing in Claremont, n. FL.
A young daughter OF Eugene Marion was
seriously i'll last week with Group.
The Young Woman's Club met on Mon
day afternoon with Mrs. James II. Graham.
The Barre Rangers will play the Fitch
burg, Mass, team in that city on Thanks
giving day.
Mrs. d. NJ. Miles is caring for Miss Marion
Sullivan, her niece at Hardwick, who is
seriouly ill.
Mayor Gordon is in Burlington this week,
where he is trying case in Chittenden
County Court.
Mrs George Squires and daughter Nellie
of South Hero were guests of e. l.. Samp-
son last week.
The infant daughter of Rocco Bottige died
OF pneumonia last Thursday. The burial
was on Saturday.
Thomas Mercer and John and Daniel Nc
Leod went last week to Sherbr P. O.,
on a hunting trip.
Rev. j. A. Sherburne was called to Orange
last Saturday to officiate at the funeral Of
Martin Waterman.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Dodge went last Fri
day to Bristol, where they are to remain
through the winter.
The assignment Of Standard, Merkle &
Standard, granite dealers of Dayton, o.,
effects several Barre firms.
Clan Gordon is making elaborate prepara-
tions for its annual Thanksgiving ball, to
be given next week Thursday evening.
Mrs. John Vaughn was delegate from
Hedding church to the Home Missionary
convention held last week at Waterbury.
Rev. DR.. S. N. Jackson and Rev. w. P.
| Jackson, his son, attended the Nansen lee
ture in Burlington last Wednesday evening.
Miss George Emery gave musicale last
| Friday evening at the residence OF W. W.
| Calder. She was assisted by Miss Kate
Healey.
William Mari, of the firm OF Mari &
| Gordon, went on Monday to New York on
| business trip.
M. +. Burnham, of the firm of Burnham
| & Ayers, leaves next Saturday for New
Mexico, where he expects TO remain through
the winter.
A cottage at Websterville, owned by Ed
| ward Boalris, was burned to the ground last
| Friday night. 1t was unoccupied and was
insured for $500.
Rev. l.. o. Sherburne, presiding elder OF
the st. Adams district OF the Vermont Con-
| ference, visited Rev. j. "A. Sherburne, his
| father, last week.
The case of Salter against Salter came up
for hearing in city court before Judge Bar
ney last Saturday morning and was con-
tinued one week.
DR.. L. NJ. Chandler was confined to the
house last week by illness. DR.. S. l.. Davis
OF Lynn, Mass. looked after his patients
during his Illness
II i'll. n
last week experimenting the erection there
of a monument recently cut by the Empire
Granite Company.
The annual reception by the Spaulding
Alumni Association will be held in the
chapel Of the Spaulding High School build
ing on Tuesday, December 49,
r. S. Currier, T. j. Carswell, George
yer, N. H., last Saturday to witness the
Amherst-D Dartmouth foot ball game.
Bert Royce, formerly clerk for Eastman
brothers, left on Monday for Fruithurst,
Ala, accompanied by Mrs. Royce, where
they are to remain during the winter.
Miss Ada j. Sherburne, who has just
completed successful term OF school in
Chelsea, is at the home of Rev. j. A. Sher-
burne, her father, for brief vacation.
The thirtie tn anniversary of the marriage
of Mr.. and Mrs. Perley Chandler was pleas
antly observed last Thursday evening by a
large gathering of friends at their home.
The Thanksgiving and Christians .vaca-
tions in the public schools will be combined
this year and the city schools will close
next Friday until Monday, December IL.
Napoleon CALI, who went from Barre to
St. Adams a few days ago to work at his
trade as a stone cutter, died there last We'd
nesday of apoplexy. The burial was at st.
Adams.
G. @. Osgood was before Justice III. w.
Scott last Wednesday, charged with intox-
cation. He was unable to pay his fine and
costs Of $40 81 and was sent to county Jail
for ten days.
The game Of football that was to have
been played last Saturday at Mortified be-
tween teams from Company E and Norwich
University was cancelled because Of the un-
favorable weather.
Isabella, wife OF James Booth, Jr., died
on Monday morning at her home on Kynooh
Avenue, aged eighteen years. Her funeral
will DO held this afternoon at two o'clock
from the Presby terian church, Rev. Thomas
Ii. Mitchell officiating.