The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-04
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS. or INTEREST--PERSO
IND GENERAL.
Barre.

Hedding Church will be closed next Sun.
day.
Major j. d. Smith was in New York on
business last week.
A son was born last week to MIR. and |
Mrs. Henry Premier.
A son was born last Sunday to Mr.. and |
Mrs. Harry Holmes
Miss Ruth Whitney of Harvard, Mass, is |
visiting Mrs. j. Dunlop Smith.
Mrs. Julia Bigelow Of Wstertown, Mass,
is the guest OF Mrs. l.. w. Hanson,
G. e. Tayntor &. Co. are erecting an
eighty foot derrick at their quarres.
Mrs. Ellen #. Batchelder of Whittier,
Cal, former resident OF Barre, is visiting
in town.
Mrs. Mary and Minnie Mcintosh OF Bev-
erley, Mass, are visiting Thomas Mcintosh,
their uncle.
The annual picnic OF the Congregational
Sunday-school was held last Saturday at
Paramount Park.
The Barre Rangers football team will
play a team from Quincy Mass, ON Cen
trail Park. Saturday, August IA.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. e. Pelkey OF Chicopee
Mass, were guests last week of Alderman
Thurston. father OF Mrs. Pelkey.
The Barre baseball team did up the st.
Adams nine on the home field last Wednes-
day afternoon, by score OF IL to g.
A daughter was born last Friday to Mr..
and Mrs. William Cook, and a son the same
day to Mr.. and Mrs. Murdoch Patterson.
b. II. Webster went to Windsor last
week where he has been appointed superin-
tendent OF quarry on Ascutney mountain.
Rev. and Mrs. w. r. Davenport left on
Monday for vacation OF two weeks, which
will be spent in Boston and Providence,
II. l.
The celebrated PAGER Parker john"
owned by A. K. Batchelder, died last Sun
day morning. The animal was valued at
| $500.
Miss Nina Carpenter, member Of the
faculty of Eastman's Business College at
| Poughkeepsie, N Y, is the guest of W. K
| Wheatley.
An infant child Of Mrs. John Harms OF
Graniteville died last Saturday. The
| funeral was held Sunday afternoon from St.
! Monica'5 church.
The cutters employed by Mcmillan 6;
Stephens held picnic last Saturday after
noon at Caledonia Park. Music was fur
nished for dancing.
Yonan Hoormuz Shahbaz, a native Of
| Persia spoke at the Baptist church last
Sunday morning on the manners and Gus
toms OF the people OF his native land.
Sneak thieves entered the fruit store Of
B. Thomas last Sunday evening and stole 6
quantity Of tobacco, cigars, pipes, etc. A
pane of glass was cut. No clue to the rob
bers.
The game of baseball between tie Barre
and St. Adams teams at Central Park las
Saturday afternoon, was one OF the sharpes
of the season. st. Adams won by scor,
OF 4 to3.
The Cuban Giants will play the Barre
team at Barre next Saturday, and Angus
IA The game on the latter date will bt
played at the completion of the foot bal
game between the Barre Rangers and the
Quincy eleven.
Two wheelmen from Ohio passed through
Barre last Wednesday on their way to Bos
ton. They crossed Lake Champlain from
Plsttsburgh to Burlington and went dowI
the Connecticut river to White River juno
ton and Springfield.
Box IA was pulled last Thursday forenoon
for slight blaze caused by spontaneous
combustion in barn owned by Thoms.
Carroll on Foss street. The blaze was ex
tinguished with pail OF water and the ser
vices of the department were not required
A fire was discovered late last weei
Tuesday evening in the drug store of f. A
Eaton on Main street. The damage to tn,
goods in the store by fire and water wa
large. The stock was insured for 3d. 0t
placed with agencies represented by j. w
Dillon and Bisbee & Graham.
Miss Myrtle A. Pspe died Of consump
|
father ON North Main street. Deceased
was prominent in the Congregations
church and in Christian Endesvor work
Rev. DR.. 8. n. Jackson oficiated at her fu
neral last Sunday afternoon. The buris
was in Hope Cemetery
The board Of health gave hearing las
Wednesday evening on q complaint mad
by DR.. G. NJ. Scribner that burning thu
sewage at the Spaulding High School was
nuisance. The testimony OF several citizen
was taken to the effect that bad odor wa
noticeable when the furnace WAS in oper
alton. No definite action was taken anC
the hearing was adjourned.
John w. Cornell, a former well-liket
station agent for the Central Vermont Rail
road at Barre, who has been living q
Hoods River, Oregon, during the last tire,
years, has been appointed forwarding agen
for the Sea Board Air Line Of steamers, O
which Edward w. Thompson Ia traffic man
sger. Mr.. Cornell has his headquarters a
Portsmouth, Va.
Alfred II. Morehouse died suddenly las
Saturday OF heart disease, aged forty.on,
years. Deceased was better known al
"Jack the Sailor" For several years hi
has been stone-cutter in Barre. He wa
New England Order of Protection carry
ing 81, 900 in the latter. He leaves a widow
and three children. His funeral was hello
Monday afternoon, Rev. 81 W. r. Stafford
officiating, and the burial was in Hope
Cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Gladding, Mrs. Sarah
A. Mower, Mrs. Dennison Mower, Mrs
Susan Nichols, Mrs. Mary Lawrence, Mrs
Mary Morse, Charles Templeton, Mr.. and
Mrs John w. Smith, Rev. Alvin Smith and
family OF Williamstown, and a party from
Washington and East Montpelier started
on Monday for Wers, N. H., to attend the
sixteenth annual Universalist grove meet
ing. The party was in charge Of Mr.. Glad.
ding.
The hearing in the case OF forty-one pints
Of whiskey seized at the City Hotel last
Sunday week was held last Friday forenoon
before Justice II. W. Scott. States Attor-
ney Rowland appeared for the State and
w. A. Lord for Z. j. Gale the landlord.
The liquor was adjudged forfeited and Mr..
Gale was held for the costs Of the seizure
and for keeping intoxicating liquor with in.
| tent to sell. The hearing was then contin-
ued until next Tuesday.
At regular meeting OF the Board of AL
| dermen held last week petition for an
electric light at the corner OF Blackwell and
John streets was referred to the committee
on lights, and an adverse decision was at
once rendered. @. N Benedict, William
Farwell and William Moore were given per-
mission to connect with the main sewer.
Building permits were given to Clarihew &
Gray, o. G. Stickney. q. N. Kenyon and e.