The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-22
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST--PERSO
AND GENERAL.
Barre.


Mrs. w. j. Reynold is seriously i'll.
Mrs. W. +. Morse visited in Randolph
last week.
Mrs. j. j. Lewis returned to Chicago las
Thursday.
The letter carriers appeared last Thurs
day In regulation uniforms.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. II. Hale are attending
the fair at Woodstock this week.
Miss Kate West, assistant postmaster, IL
at Woodstock for brief vacation.
B. W. Hooker was seriously i'll last week
threatened with fever and pneumonia.
W. @. Belknap, editor Of the Bellows
Falls Times, visited in town last week.
@. ii. Kennison is in Strafford, Norwich
and Royalton this week on business trip.
Charles r. Allen has re-entered Tufts
College, to complete course in engineer
ing.
A few more pupils can be accommodated
at the Kindergarten" 159 North Main
street.
Miss Alice Beckley succeeds Miss Edith
Averill as cashier in the store OF L. M.
Averill.
Miss Addie Richardson went on Monday
to Kansas City, Mo-, where she Is to work
in q jewelry store.
DR.. Freeman Durkee and wife OF Went
WOIbU, N. H., were guests, l6St week OF AL
derman g. B. Durkee.
H. w. Scott purchased at auction, last
Friday for S3,305, the George W. Wheeler
house on Richardson street.
The Congregational Christion Endeavor
Society held q Scriptural Cake Social " in
the church parlors last evening.
THE report OF the Northfield fair pub
lished on page two of this issue shows that
+. A. Slayton won several races
The pupils at Goddard Seminary have or
ganized q chorus class OF thirty members,
which meet every Monday evening.
The infant daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Matherson died last Saturday.
Funeral services were held Sunday after
noon.
Frank E. Corwin and Miss Winona e.
Foule, both Of Milton, were married last
week by Rev. DR.. S. N. jackson, at his resi-
dence.
Patrick McNulty and Miss Geneva f.
Murphy were married at st. Monica's
Church on Tuesday by Rev. Father Nc
Kenna.
Mrs. A. r. Sias, j. e. Sias and Bert Sias,
her sons, are in town from Brooklyn, N. Y.
Their case is now on trial in Washington
county court.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Boyce Of West Burke,
who have been visiting Alfred Boyce their
son during the past week, are soon to move
to Barre to reside.
Mrs. Israel Wood entertained the Inter-
mediate Christian Endeavor Society last
Friday evening at her pleasant home on
Highland Avenue.
The assault and battery case of Burke
against Milton came up in Justice Scott's
court last Saturday morning, but was con-
tinued until Thursday.
The Barre Water Company is building a
house at the new reservoir for the accom-
odation of the workmen engaged in ditching
and in building the dam.
Intelligence was received on Monday that
Miss Emily Cooper, a former clerk in the
drug store of w. Fl. Gladding, has had re-
lapse and is dangerously ill in New York.
Robert Rodgers, ticket agent for the
Montpelier and Wells River railroad, was
called to Dorchester Mass, last week by
the dangerous illness of his brothers. wife.
Lewis G. Robbins has won four first, six
second and three fourth prizes in bicycle
races this season at Burlington, Hard
wick, Littleton and Lancaster, N. H., and
other places.
Charles Paine was taken to the house of
correction at Rutland last Friday by Officer
French to serve sentence of 267 days. He
has been in county Jail since his sentence
was imposed
A son was born at Marshfeld last Friday
to Mr.. and Mrs. FL. d. McCrillis. Mrs. Nc.
Crillis is pleasantly remembered in Barre as
Miss Genevieve Clark, former teacher in
the public schools.
Rev. Father McKenna has been elected
president, Henry Premier, secretary and f.
II. Burke, treasurer OF the committee hav-
ing in charge the Catholic fair to be held in
Armory hail. October to II.
AS W. A. Bigelow was driving down
Trow hill last Sunday afternoon, he collided
with team driven by George Jerry. Mr..
Bigeow's mother, who was riding with
him, was thrown out and badly bruised.
Fred G. Eaton, proprietor of the Granite
City Clothing Company, filed last week, a
voluntary petition in insolvency. The first
meeting OF the creditors will be held at the
probate Office in Montpelier next Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Lavery were both be.
fore Judge Barney in city court last Wed.
nesday, charged with assaulting each other
Lavery was put under bonds to keep the
peace. The evidence disclosed that Mrs
Larvery was acting only on the defensive.
A slight blaze in the engine house OF
the Montpelier and Wells River rail
road called out the fire department al
seven o'clock last Thursday morning. The
fire caught around the chimney and was
quickly squelched after the fremen arrived
Health Officer Chandler is authority for
the statement that there was only one new
case of diphtheria in the city last week
The disease appears to be under control
and the approaching cold weather renders
it extremely unfavorable that it will agar
get foot-hold.
The Barre Rangers easily defeated the
team from Ludlow, Mass, at football OF
Central Park last Saturday afternoon. The
score was two to nothing The Ludlow
team holds the championship of Massachu
sets, and the result Of the game last Satur
day makes the Rangers champions Of New
England
Daniel Sexton was arrested for intoxica
tion last Sunday afternoon by Chief of Pc
lice Rowland. Before Justice II. W. Scot
Monday morning he pleaded guilty to a sec
ond offence, and was fined $40 and costs
To charge OF an assault September 4, upol
Thomas Henderson, he also pleaded guilt,
for which an added fine of $40 and cost
was imposed.
The embezzlement case OF State agains
Gordon was heard before Justice III. w
Scott last Thursday. G.. T. Swasey az
peared for the State and A. G. Fay and VI
W. Lapoint for the respondent, who wa
discharged. Gordon was charged with en-