The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-25
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTEREsT--PERSONAL
And GENERAL.
Barre.

Ing ITlbnub III |
A son was born last Saturday to Mr.. and
Mrs. George Inglis
A daughter was born last week to Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Mcknight
Rev. Charles Wells returned on Monday
to his home in Belfast, Maine.
A. b. Fisher Of Worcester, Mass, was the
guest last week of A. G. Lapoint.
Over two hundred tickets were sold for
Montreal from Barre last Saturday.
9. b. Curtis Of Beloit, Ala. was the guest
last week of Colonel II. r. Stoughton.
Orvis Carpenter of Saratoga, N. Y, visit
ed Charles A. Carpenter, his brother, last
week.
A. ID. Gilley and A. P. Abbott, with their
families, are in camp on the shore Of Berlin
Pond.
Rev. W. M, Newton of Waterbury and |
Rev. w. K. Davenport exchanged on last |
Sunday.
Rev. f. G. Lewis, the Methodist pastor
at Marshfeld, preached for the Baptsts last
Sunday.
Frank Murray left last Friday for Butte,
Montana, where he expects to remain for
| the present.
The Quincy football team will play the
Barre Rangers on Central Park mex tSatur-
| day afternoon.
Rt. Rev, Bishop Michaud Of Burlington
confirmed class of eighty at st. Monicas
| church last sunday
A captain Of the Spencer Rifles to succeed
D. r. Bisbee will be elected the second
Thursday in September.
George G. wheatey of Boston arrived in
town on Monday morning to attend the
funeral Of his father.
The Hooks played base ball with Hose
Company, No. last Saturday afternoon,
winning by score OF "a to %.
Alexander j. Brigden and Sarah L. Park
hurst were married last Thursday by Rev.
j. A. Sherburne at his residence.
Ri. Rev. Bishop Hall OF Burlington will
make an official visit to the church OF the
Good Shepherd Sunday, October 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. d. Carpenter and Mrs
. Phoebe Gale are attending the National
Grand Army encampment at Buffalo.
The members of the Barre base ball team
went to Rutland on Monday, where they
! played with the Rutland team on Tuesday.
Rev. Thomas H. Mitchell returned from
his vacation last Friday and occupied the
! pulpit of the Presbyterian church last Sun
day.
Mrs. Clara Little and son OF Somerville,
Mass, and Miss Louise Davis of Springfield,
Ohio, were guests, last week OF Mrs. Mason
: Page
. An infant daughter OF Murdoch Campbell
. | of Graniteville was buried on last week
: Saturday afternoon, Rev. Mr.. Mitchell Off
q ciating.
a DR.. Mary l.. Neugeon OF New York de
|, livered a free lecture in the Baptist church
k last evening on 1.-THE Present Condition o.
s Human Life"
r. f. A. Duffy, Henry Premier and W. II
z Miles went on Tuesday to St. Adams to at
II tend the state convention Of the Catholic
IS Order Of Foresters.
T. The case Of the Barre Base Ball Associa
o ton against the Cuban Gigantic and thu
. Northern League will be heard in city cour
= on Monday, August 80.
"a Professor o. K. HOLSTER and Rev. an,
A. Mrs. B. w. Jones are among the delegate
\. to the State Universalist Convention nov
"a in session at Northfeld.
q W. W. Lapoint is to deliver an address a
10 Brandon Friday, September 10, before tn
al tenth annual reunion Of the survivors OF tn
O. Fourteenth Vermont Regiment.
n 4 kindergarten " school will open a
r 1876 North Main street. Tuesday, Septembe
20 9Th, at 8 o'clock A. M, by Margaret Nj. Col
- by, successor to Miss Wheelock.
10 Among those from Barre who attende
as the races at St. Adams last week were MI
of and Mrs. G. III. Campbell Bert Humphrey
at "Ad." Batchelder and H. A. Rugg.
ID Frank A. Duffey is at St. Adams thi
y week as delegate from the local court t
"a the state convention Of the Catholic Orde
70 of Foresters now in session in that city.
Of Rev. P. E. Curtis, president of the Ais
% bama Industrial Missionary Association
IN spoke at the mid-week meeting at the Cor
1T gregational church last Wednesday even
TO ing.
D. Mrs. j. A. Harron OF Hopkinton, N. Y
St and Mrs. G. A. Blanchard of West Lebanon
81 were called to Barre last week by the ser
20 GUS illness OF Mrs. Clarence Cutler thei
a. sister.
y, y, Rev. Edward NJ. Fuller of South Gardner
80 Mass, has accepted call to become paste
10 ~ of the Baptist church in Barre and will
- enter upon his duties the first Sunday i
10 October.
" Rev. Charles Wells Of Belfast a brothe
5. OF City Treasurer Wells, led the meetin
to held last Saturday evening by the Youn
10 Peoples Christian Union. His theme wa
a. Meditation"
IT Mackie, Hussey & Co. shipped last Thurs
as day to Newport, KY, monument with
lie base fourteen feet square and thirty-seve
lie foot spire. 1t was the largest but one eve
le shipped from Barre.
az The Presbyterian Young Peoples AssC
citation at a meeting held on last Wednesda
evening discussed the question whether
republican form of government is preferabl
to monarchial form.
IN A young child of Joseph Stone, Jr., die
on last week Saturday morning of spns
e. meningitis. The funeral was at two o'cloc
on Sunday afternoon, and the burial was /
or the Catholic cemetery.
The infant daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
q Willis Simpson died last Thursday mornin
of peritonitis. The funeral was held o
= Friday and the body was taken to Somer'
gu worth, N. H., for burial.
-, Mrs. William Miers went to Boston las
'i Thursday and sailed Saturday on thePavoni
for Guttenburg, Sweden. She expects u
IS, be absent three months or more and will
Id visit the Worlds Fair in Stockholm.
The Barre Water Company purchased
mt last Saturday, Peck's Pond and the LAM
st surrounding it, about fifty-three acres
This new purchase will have a storage ca
X pacity OF one hundred million gallons.
'h The game of ball played on Smith
meadow last Saturday afternoon between
st mines made up Of the employees of Nc
e, MILAN 81 Stevens and Burke Brothers, wa
ut won by the former by score Of 10 to IA
Helen, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Johl
st McIver, died last Sunday of congestion o
St the lungs. Her funeral was held Monda,
afternoon, Rev. DIR. S. n. Jackson officiat
" ing, and the burial was in Hope Cemetery
~ The marriage of Denson Densmore ant
S. Miss Josie L. Wheeler occurred last Wed