The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTEREST--PE PERSONAL
IND GENER1L.
Barre.

Fairfield,
A son was born last Thursday to Mr.. and |
Mrs. ID. M. Miles.
A son was born last week to Mr.. and |
Mrs. Elmer e. Owen.
j. 7. Callaghan and Alderman Durkee are
in Boston this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Harding of Boston are
guests of Mrs. Clyde McCarkle.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Gould have gone to
Marthas Vineyard for brief vacation.
A new arc light was placed last week at
the corner OF Center and Church streets.
Rev. DR.. s. N. Jackson and Rev. DR.. W.
8. Hazen OF Northfield exchanged last Sun
day.
Mrs S. 8. Ballard and son, Richard, are
visiting at her former home in Jefferson
Vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. W. Hooker are at
Greensboro pond for vacation Of two
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Waters and Miss
Esther Fits are at Kennebunk Beach,
Maine
Mr. and Mrs. s. NJ. Flint of Randolph
were guests last week OF Mr.. and Mrs. W.
III. Messer.
Nearly all the stone sheds were shut
down several days last week because OF the
intense heat.
George T. Conner is confined in dark
room at his home because OF malignant
ulcers in his eyes.
Maj. j. d. Smith has moved to the house
on Spaulding street, recently vacated by
Rev. P. G. Abbey
W. A. Drew, who is at the head of bust
ness college in Elgin, ILL.,, is visiting e.
Drew, his brother.
Captain L. A. Abbott, a retired United
States army officer, is spending his summer
vacation in Barre.
George Wheeler and family and Mrs. f.
W. Jackson and son are in camp on the
shore OF Berlin pond.
The annual banquet of the five year men
OF Company K was held at the city hotel
last Saturday evening.
The members of Company E are drilling
two nights week, preparatory to the mus
ter at Chester next month.
Harry +. Cutler went on Monday to
Chautauqua, N. Y, to attend the National
| Photographers Convention.
Rev. Edward NJ. Fuller of South Gard
ner, Mass, preached for the Baptists last
Sunday morning and evening.
DR.. B. w. Braley has been appointed one
| OF the examining surgeons for the pension
bureau, located in Montpelier.
Miss Edith III. Barnes went on Thursday
to Martha's Vineyard to attend the sum-
mer school now in session there.
The new suits for the Barre base ball
team, which arrived last week, gave the
boys decidedly smart appearance.
Mrs. John E. Smith and Mrs. Henry j.
Smith accompanied Mayor Gordon and fam
lily to Old Orchard Beach last week.
John Nugent and Carrie L. Nourse were
married last Saturday afternoon by Justice
III. w. Scott at the home OF John Omero.
The Good Templars will give a lawn
party on Thursday evening at the residence
| Of Clinton Rupbaa WaahipotOp
Miss Katie Casey, teacher in the parochial
school at st. Johnsbury, has been the guest
Of 7. j. Denning, her uncle, during the past
week.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Knight was buried last Thursday afternoon
The cause OF the child's death was cholera
infantum.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Petrie left last
Friday night for visit Of several weeks at
Bar Harbor, Maine, the former home OF
Mrs. Petrie.
Lyman D., and Harry A. siegel were in
Burlington last Sunday where Their fam.
lilies are in camp on the shore of Lake
Champlain.
The Vergennes base ball team will come
to Barre on Thursday and will meet the
Barre team on Central Park Thursday
afternoon.
Peter Bombsrd fell from staging last
CdGuTuhy mOruluB, ulouduC6 Ol tWtuIy
feet. He was badly bruised but no bone
were broken.
Mrs. o. G. Stickney and daughter re.
turned last Thursday evening from Har.
ford Conn.,, where they have been visiting
for several weeks.
1t is understood that REV. P. G. Abbey
has been engaged to return to Barre in
September and assume the pastorate OF q
| church at East Barre.
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grand lodge Of Knights OF Honor will be
held In Barre to-day, commencing at nine
| o'clock this morning
Rev. Thomas Mitchell, pastor OF the Pres
byterian church, left on Monday for Toron-
to, Ont, where he will remain on yaca'
ton for three weeks.
Rev. W. r. Davenport delivered an ad.
dress on patriotism before the True Blue
Lodge OF Loyal Orsngemen at Graniteville
on Monday afternoon.
E.O. Wheeler had a sun stroke while
working in the hay field last Wednesday,
and was carried to his home unconscious.
He has since nearly recovered.
The Ladies' Guild of the Church of the
Good Shepherd will give lawn party on
Thursday evening in the yards of Mrs. w
G. Odds and Mrs. f. B. Mudgett on Park
street.
L. Fl. Goodhue of Springfield, Mass.
president OF the Barre Water Company, has
been in town during the past week super.
intending the erection OF the new reservoir
near the Williamstown line.
Clifford Blair, stone cutter, and o. E
Mcdonald, proprietor OF a meat market or
North Main street, had set to last week
in which Mr.. Mcdonald came out second
best. No arrests have been made in the
matter 80 far as heard from.
Rev. W. r. Davenport began last Sunday
morning at Hedding church series OF
Mountain-top sermons. The two even
ing services at this church will be combined
during July and August, beginning at half
past seven and lasting one hour.
Representatives of the New York Journal,
Herald and World were in Barre last Friday
making arrangements for handling the Sun
day editions OF those papers, which will,
during the months OF July and August,
reach Barre at one o'clock Sunday after
| noon.
Margaret M. Colby of Waterbury, a
graduate OF the Normal Kindergarten
Schools OF st. Louis, will open school in
this city Monday, September g. Commodi-
GUS and pleasant rooms have been secured
in residence next door north of Miss
Wheelock's on North Main street.
Henry Recor claims that he was knocked
| down in DepOt s0uare last Sunday avaninp