Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-22
Ned Sampson is on the sick list

Remember the American Biograpf
at the opera house tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Massucco are rejoicing
over the birth of son born yesterday
j. p. Lampson of Cabot is in tn
city on legal business this afternoon
The city clock is about ten minutes
too fast for Barre and the rest of thu
world today.
Smith, Whitcomb & Cook received
20 tons of forging iron from Pennsyl
vania today.
b. r. Crawford returned to worl
at his fish market this morning aftel
weeks illness.
Mrs. Electa Cush man and grand
daughter Miss Annie Messer are visit
ing friends in Royalton.
Miss Ida Batchelder has recovered
from a long illness and is in the city
from Mon tpelier today.
The new G.. Tomasi block is being
connected with the j. S. Viles light
ing system today.
Jones Brothers now have in theil
employ 1OS cutters, having just put
on another gang.
George A. Morse, who has beer
visiting IN the city for a few days, re
turned to his home in MOrrisville this
morning.
There will be special communica
ton of Granite Lodge F. and A. M.
Friday evening at O'Clock. Work
first degree.
Mrs. w. N. Silloway, who has beer
visiting her daughter, Mrs. II. W.
Scott, returned to her home in Nor
risville this morning.
Glenn Perry is taking L. G. Rob
bins place at the Barre news agency
during the absence of the latter while
he is in Burlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Miller, OF
East Barnard, who have been visiting
friends in the city for few days, re-
turned home this morning.
1t is understood that Joseph EN-
NETT has rented the Fl. r. Sulhan
store, next to Fred Goldsbury's shoe
shop, for dry goods store.
William Aver of Windsor, former
captain of the Goddard base ball team,
arrived in the city last night to re.
main the rest of the week.
Miss Florence Henry returned this
morning from five weeks visit in
Boston. She will enter Goddard semi
nary to take course in vocal music
under Professor Phillips.
Three children of a family whose
house is still posted for diphtheria,
tried to 60 to school yesterday at North
Barre, but they were sent home by
their respective teachers.
The Great Castle Target Shooting
Gallery is open at the old Armory
building. Call and see the finest tar
get in the world.
1s9-19O r. M. Scott, Proprietor.
There was a break in the water pipe
at Arthur MaXham's house on North
Main street last night, buta passer-by
went in through a window and shut
the water off before serious damage
was done.
T. II. Stearns, formerly guard on
the Goddard foot ball team, is TAX
ing a course of study at Brown Uni
ver,ity, and is playing on the class
foot ball team. lie took first in the
hammer throw at the inter-class ath-
letic meet this fall.
The granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Smollet of Brooklyn st. was
chrstened yesterday afternoon at 5
o'clock few of the intimate friends
being present. The ceremony was
conducted by the Rev. DR.. S. N. Jack
son and the friends who were present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Daniels, Mr..
and Mrs. James Duncan and Mr.. and
Mrs. James Fraser.
The manager of the Standard Oil
Co., at Burlington takes exceptions to
a recent item. AS THE TELEGRAM
wishes, in all things, to be perfectly
fair, we make the following statement
from him. The price of oil has been
advanced one-half cent a gallon; the
Standard Oil Co. has not now and new
err had monopoly of the business in
either Barre or Montpelier. 1t has
sold the bulk of the oil because it ran
an oil team and delivered to dealers in
the quantities desired and because it
claims it sells the best oil. Independent