The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15

der.
During the last days of grace for paying
taxes, ending last Wednesday, City Treas.
urer Wells received over $4,000. More
than $4,000 Of this was paid In on Wednes-
day. The list Of delinquents Is unusually
large.
On and after Saturday, September 10, UNI
I'll further notice, passenger trains will leave
Barre for the quarries on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, instead OF daily as at
present: No change OF time from Barre or
Montpelier.
e. w. Bisbee and William Magee, bonds
men for Charles Paine, who was convicted
OF selling intoxicating liquor, and bailed in
the sum Of 5000, surrendered him last Satur-
day and he was taken to Jail at Montpelier
by Officer French.
William Jack and Miss Edith #. Davis
were married last Wednesday by Rev. W.
M. Newton OF Waterbury at the home OF
Miss Lydia A. Gilman in Waterbury. The
| newly welded couple came at once to their
| new home in Barre.
W. W. Lapoint was at Brandon last FRI
| day where he delivered an address at re.
union OF the survivors Of the Fourteenth
Vermont Regiment. He was accompanied
by Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Lapoint and Miss
Laura Smith OF Medford, Mass.
| Although diptheris is still in the city
i the cases are under control and are
| rigidly quarantined Health Officer Chan
dler is giving his personal attention to the
|
| epidemic OF this dreaded disease.
Jerry Pickett was arrested at Essex
| Junction last Saturday, charged with intox-
ication at Barre the Sunday previous. Be-
fore Justice II. W. Scott he pleaded guilty,
and in default:.of payment OF his fine, was
sent to jail at Montpelier for ten days.
II. NJ. Houston received bad fall last
Saturday afternoon while at work on the
new house of W. G. Jones on Eastern Ave-
nue.. He fell from the third floor to the
cellar, breaking several ribs, and receiving
serious bruises on the head and arms.
A team from the sheds OF Mari & Gordon
defeated nine from Clarihew & Gray's at
base ball last Saturday afternoon by score
OF II to 4. The boys from the works OF
Stevens & Mcmillan defeated the Mackie &
Hussey team the same afternoon by score
of II to 10.
Deputy Sheriff futile OF Montpelier
served an injunction last Friday on H K.
Bush, secretary Of the electric railroad
company, restraining the latter from dis
| turbing or interfering with the wires or
graph Company.
Justice Brewer OF the Supreme Court OF
, the United States was in Barre last week,
accompanied by Mrs. Brewer, to look at the
monument cut by the Vermont Granite
l Company that Is to be set in the Brewer
family lot at Leavenworth, Kan. Both ex-
pressed themselves as very much pleased
with the job.
: Miss Gretta Moore Of Boston has been en-
gagged as instructor in vocal music at
Goddard Seminary. Miss Moore has been
: under the instruction Of Professor George j.
Q Parker in Boston, and during the last year
Of her stay in that city, she was first So
prano of the Laurel Club, a well-known
musical organization.
The cases against E. ]. Gale proprietor
of the City Hotel, were disposed Of by JUS
4; tce H, W. Scott last SaturdaySmorning
i ha pf wi infant In
was nol-prossed. Mr.. Gale pleaded guilty
', | to keeping nuisance and was fined 500
. and costs. R. A. Hoar appeared for the
State and W. A. Lord Of Montpelier for re-
: spondent.
y had rather disquieting effect upon the
originstors Of the combine in Barre. The
+ stand taken by Milne, Clarihue & Gray,
9 who own one of the finest dark quarries in
Barre, that they would not go into the syn
dictate unless they should bs paid $50, 900
weaken the combination. 1t is prophesied
that the syndicate will yet go to pieces, but
: the originators are firm in the belief that 1t
= has been formed for an enduring purpose.
John A. somerville died suddenly last
d Friday night at the home of William j..
9 Somerville, his brother on South Main
street. Deceased retired Friday night in
d apparently good health, and was found
8 dead in his bed Saturday morning. He had
worked as usual on Friday but complained
q was forty-two years old and had resided in
Barre fifteen years. Funeral services were
held Monday morning and the body
!; was taken to Fayston for burial.
= The executive committee Of the State
. Fireman's Association met at Vergennes
last Friday to consider the protest made by
/ the Barre Hose company at the June tour
+ nament against the awarding OF first money
to the Winooski company. The Barre pro.
:, test was withdrawn and the first prize of
| ua q rda 6 D. WinOOaxi aapOn1
l. to the Boxers OF Burlington, third, S25, to
the Fair Haven company. The ground OF
l. the protest from Barre was that the Wi
It nooski team had several crack runners who
q were not members OF the company and did
not live in that town.
:. Major o. D. Clark of Montpelier presided
!. at the meeting held at the armory last
v Thursday evening to elect successor to
Capt. d. R. Bsbee of Company E, resigned.
Captain Bisbee was reelected but refused
u to serve and First Lieutenant E. j. Badger
% was promoted to the vacancy. w. A.
10 Marsh, second lieutenant, was elected first
lieutenant, and First Sergeant Charles j.
y Davis was promoted to be second lieute-
r nant. Captain-elect Badger has been a
d member Of Company E since 1887 and has
risen through the several grades OF non
o commissioned officers. He has been first
d lieutenant since October, 1895.
At a meeting of the Goddard Seminary
l. Athletic Association, held last Thursday
|
y ed: President, W. R. Durham; vice presi-
dent, c. F. Gale secretary, Miss Edith
u Talcott; treasurer, Q, II. Stone manager
:, u football team, f. II. Cole; manager
= baseball nine, G. E. Tenney football COM
u mittee, N. S. Love; tennis committee, M
Small Paul Shinn Charles Pierce; field day
a committee, Richard Hullett, Emerson
h Bushnell, Jack Gay; captain football team,
n Ford Flagg; executive committee, Prof. o.
X. Hollister, Miss Burroughs, Fred Cole,
@ David Gale and W K. Durham.
n The present superintendents of the fifty
l. or more quarries on the hill, who are paid
on an average of four dollars per day, nat
l. urally look with disfavor upon the proposed
: combine, inasmuch as they will be out of a
t job il the syndicate secures control of the
business The sentiment in Barre appears
n to be growing against the proposed CONSOLE
' dalton; what will happen before January 1
q next, the proposed date of the consolida-
ton is problematical. The officials Of the
=, Granite Savings bank deny the street rumor
l that they are working for, and are favorable
. to the proposed consolidation. They are
u either neutral in the matter, or openly OPP
b posed to it on business principles.
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