Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-02-03
BARRE NEWS NOTES.
Interesting Weekly Budget from the old
HID Town.


The weather for the past few days has
been decidedly disagreeable. Sunday
was exceedingly cold, the temperature
being at zero all day, and in the even
ing reliable thermometers Indicated
fourteen to seventeen degrees below.
Monday morning a snowstorm set in and
continued until Tuesday noon, and with
a high wind prevailing the appearance
was that of blizzard All the roads
We're closed TO travel and in some places
so packed with snow that it tools hours
10 open them. Railroad trains were off
time, and mails that should have ar
rived early in the forenoon did not reach
us until night.
The ninth annual firemen's ball will be
held in Williams Hall next week Thurs
day evening. Brgham's orchestra OF
Marlboro will furnish the music and will
give a concert in the hall previous to
dancing. Landlord Luce will furnish an
elaborate hot turkey supper.
Hon. L. j. Gum of Greenfield has been
in town for few days, and was the
guest of County Commissioner Cook
Bishop & Cooley have completed their
job of saving on the house lot which
they commenced late in the fall, the tim
Der being the property of S. F. Smith,
and have moved their mill to the Cowee
farm in Dana, which was recently pur-
chased by Mr. Smith, and will work UP
the timber there into lumber and ties,
being occupied three or four months.
w F. Tay would have finished his ice
cutting Tuesday had it not been for the
storm Besides cutting for himself for
the retail supply of the village during
the summer, he has cut for a number of
other parties. G. r. Haven will begin
work PI1inS vii 10
in Hardwick next week to fill the large
Ice houses Of the Boston milk companies.
Ice Is now about fourteen inches thick
and Of good quality.
Sixty new books have just been placed
on the shelves of the public library, the
purchase having been made from the
town library fund.
The farmers institute held in the
town hall last Saturday, with j. H.
Hale of South Glastonbury, Conn, as
speaker, was an unusually interesting
one. Mr.. Hale is an exceedingly able and
entertaining speaker. The Agricultural
Society will probably hold it's next
institute at North Brookfield, uniting
with the Spencer Farmers and Mechan-
les Society for that purpose.
The third lecture in the library course
was given in Library Hall Wednesday,
evening, and was very interesting and
able one, the subject being "NIeteorology
the atmospheres, storms and weather
predictions Rev J. F. Gaylord being
the speaker.
WATCH AND MONEY FOUND.
There was some comment in town last
week owing to the failure of the admin
istrator and appraisers of the estate af
the late Rufus B. Holden to find gold
watch which he was known to possess
during his lifetime This reused the ad-
to a more diligent search,
and in a small box in Mr. Holden's
trunk covered over with old papers,
were found the watch and about 1928.
in money, Of which about $S5 was in sill
yer coin; there were also some rare
coins, and among the bank bills was q
United States 500 treasury note Of the
issue of May, 1861. as new and crisp as
when it was first issued, and it had
been in his possession for
nearly thlrty-seven years. The appraisal
Of the estate, real and personal. amounts
TO about $12, 500.