The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
Barre.

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Barre.
Mrs. George Cummings is visiting in
| Claremont, N. III.
Harry Vaughan has been seriously i'll dur
Ing the past week with spinal meningitis.
A: A Cady was in Shoreham last week
setting monument manufactured by Cady
q Co.
A A. Goldsberry went last Saturday to
Denver, Col, where he expects to remain for
the present.
Mrs. e. o. Marion and children are Wis.,
| iting Mrs. A. r. Wood, a sister of Mrs Mar
rion, at Brattleboro.
Charles Rowland, Eugene Prndle and
Virgil Ayers we're at Phillipsburg, P. O.,
last week, on fishing trip.
A son was born last week to Mr.. and Mrs
David kirkland, and daughter the same
day to Mr.. and Mrs. William Scott.
Mrs. A. e. Atwater gave a reception to
the young men in her Sunday school class
at the parsonage, last Friday evening
Rev. Effie X. M. Jones returned from
Baltimore, Md, last Saturday, and offlci-
ated at the Universalist church on Sunday.
Miss Margaret Fowler went last Friday
to Boston to finish a course of instruction
In nursing in hospital in Newburyport,
Mass.
Mrs. ID. r. Bsbee returned last week
| from Heaton hospital where she has been
for several weeks. Her health is very
much improved.
Rev. K. S. Fiske OF Montpelier occupied
the pulpit of the Presbyterian church Sun
day morning in the absence at South Rye
gate OF Rev 7. II. Mitchell
DR.. j. Henry Jackson has been in Bur-
lington for the past ten days where he has
been delivering his annual course of lee.
lures at the medical college.
Fifty members of Barre Council, knights
OF Columbus, went to St. Johnsbury last
Sunday on special train, to assist in insti-
tuting council at that place.
| The new opera house will be opened to
the public on Wednesday evening, August
% Manager W. W. Lapont has not yet
| fully decided what the opening attraction
will be-
The Office OF superintendent OF the Mont
pelier and White River division of the Cen.
trail Vermont railway has been abolished
and Col. III. X. Stoughton has been ap-
pointed station agent at Barre.
James Lamont, John Grant, Mrs James
Straitton Mrs. William Clerk and Mrs. Mary
McTarvish sailed on Thursday from Boston
for Scotland or. the steamship, Canada, "for
an extended visit in their native country.
At the annual meeting OF the Vermont di-
vision of the Foresters of America held
last week at Bellows Falls, the new office
OF State organizer was created, and Henry
Premier OF Barre was elected to that office
for two years.
The contract Of painting and papering all
the buildings OF the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad company in Barre and Mont
pelier, has been let to John G. Dodge. Mr.
Dodge began the work Monday morning
with force OF men.
The body Of the infant daughter of Prof.
and Mrs. FL. A. Tuttle Of Brooklyn, n. Y,
was brought to Barre on Thursday. Funer-
al services were held at the home OF e. p
Odds in South Barre aud the burial was in
Elmwood cemetery
At a meeting OF the Burns club, held last
Thursday evening, it was announced that
arrangements are completed for the concert
to be given June in the Presbyterian
church. 1t was voted that all subscriptions
for the Burns monument fund should be
turned in on or before June 10.
George W. Brown was tried last Friday
before Justice A. G. Fay, for a breach OF
the peace, committed May 8. He was
found guilty, and fined with costs, SIT 35. |
Brown appealed his case to the September
term OF Washington county court and fur |
nished bail for his appearance at that time. |
Alexander Bruce of the Vermont Granite |
Company was given a surprise party last
week at his home on Brooklyn street on the |
occasion of his fortieth birthday anniver-
sary. In behalf Of those present George G.
Mackie presented Mr.. Bruce with hand
some Knights Templar's charm as a
souvenir OF the occasion.
serious injury to the new city hall was
narrowly averted last Friday evening. The
janitor left the building, and during his alb
sence the fires under the boilers became so
not that hot water was forced through
pipe that had been disconnected from the
radiator in the auditorium. Fortunately
the accident was discovered before much
damage had been done.
At the Universalist church last Sunday
morning Rev. Etfie X. NJ. Jones, the pastor,
spoke OF the national convention OF the
Woman's Missionary society which she at.
tended last week in Baltimore, Md. In the
evening the services had reference to the life
and work of Dudley Buck, with a musical
programme from Bucks compositions.
BARRE, May 23.-Ths morning George
Dobbs, a brakeman employed in the Mont
pelier and Wells River railroad yards in
this city, while engaged in shifting cars,
got his left foot caught between the rails :
whether or not it will be necessary TO am
Dutate his foot I
Ann, vile OF Smith Livingstone, died I
asst Thursday at the home OF Mrs. James I
ieddis, her daughter, on Washington street, 8
lged hlty-nine years. Deceased WAS ma
i've OF Glasgow, Scotland She came from q
Peacham to Barre last December to visit :
Ter daughter, and was taken ill., She had q
lever been able to go to her home. Dropsy 4
vas the cause of her death. The body was +
AIKEN Thursday to Peacham where funeral Il
ervices were held. a
The Vermont Baptist Sunday.school AS q
ociation will hold its thirteenth ANIMAL
convention at the Baptist church in Barre u
N Tuesday and Wednesday, June and T. d
Iii delegates who notify Rev. K. M. Fuller a
hree days before the convention, will be Il
iven free entertainment, Among the j
speakers from outside the state a
rho havealready been engaged are, Rev. K. L
}. Bun, pastor OF the Ruggles street church. Al
'oston; Miss Bertha r. Vella, vice presi. II
ent OF the international primary teachers K