The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST--PERSONAL
And GENERAL.
Barre.

A daughter was born last week to Mr..
and Mrs, James Walker.
A young child OF o. E. Balch in East
Barre is i'll with diphtheria.
Rev. George 7. Raymond preached again
for the Baptists last Sunday.
Mrs. L. A. Averill and children are visit
ing relatives in Manchester, N. II.
Mark Harran of Hopkinton, N. Y, visited
Mrs. H. l.. Averill, his sister, last week.
The annual picnic of the Methodist Sum
d%ay-school was held last Saturday at Fair
mount Park.
Miss Augusta Lafountain, trimmer for
Mrs. M. A. Miles, is visiting at her home in
Woonsocket, r. 1.
The Presbyterisns will give a supper and
informal concert at the old Methodist
church this evening.
Mrs. L.. L. Greene and Miss Alice Blanch-
ard went last Saturday to Old Orchard to
remain a week or more.
The old scales in front OF the store of G.
j. Raymond's & Co., have been replaced
by new twenty-ton Fairbanks scales.
Rev. B. w. Jones preached at the Uni
| versalist church in Burlington last Sunday.
Mrs. Jones occupied his pulpit in Barre.
B. W. Richards and Miss Annie Stewart
Of New Bedford, Mass, were guests last
week of Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Bassett.
Dr. =. M. steele was III burlington ldSJ
Wednesday to attend a meeting OF the ex-
ecutive committee Of the State Dental So
ciety.
Warren Nye was married last Wednes-
day at Potsdam, N. Y, to Miss Partridge,
who was formerly teacher in East Barre
schools.
Nearly one hundred and fifty pupils are
registered at Goddard Seminary for the fall
term which is very gratifying to the man.
agement.
The Ladies' Union of the Universalist So
ciety gave a social and lawn party last
Thursday evening at the home OF Rev. b.
W. Jones.
Miss Gertrude Parker, who was the guest
of Mrs. s.. s. Ballard, went last Friday to
Newport, N. H., where she is teacher in the
High school.
w. A. Marsh, second lieutenant Of Com
pany e, has resigned. His successor will
be elected at a meeting to be held on Thurs.
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Kendrick re-
turned last Friday from their wedding
trip to the former home OF Mr.. Kendrick at
Rochester, N. Y.
A young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Henry died last Friday morning OF diph-
liberia. The body was buried the same day
in Elmwood cemetery.
q. e. Tayntor returned to New York last
Friday firm in his original intention of re-
fusing to allow the quarry Of @. e. Tayntor
& Co. to enter the combine.
DR., j. Henry Jackson was in Montreal
last week as delegate from the Vermont
Medical Society to the annual meeting Of
the British Medical Association.
AT the special city meeting held last We'd
nesday evening in the opera house, 1t was
voted to indefinitely postpone action on the
purchase OF the Barre Water Works.
The funeral of the infant child of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Lebourveau was held last
Wednesday, Rev. DR.. s. N. Jackson offici-
ating, and the burial was in Hope Cemetery.
One hundred and seventy-five tickets to
Ausable Chasm were sold at Barre last Sat
urday morning. The excursion was run
under the auspices Of Vincitia Lodge,
Knights of Pythias.
Alison Downing Of Nashua, N. H., was in
town last week. Mr.. Downing drove stage
between Montpelier and Barre more than