Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-22
CITY NEWS
Caught on the Pencil Points by The
Telegram Reporters.

evening with Mrs. Fred Rogers.
Eleazer Dodge of Montpelier is in
the city on business for few days.
William Fraser has returned from a
two weeks visit with friends in New
port.
is. Viles has had several new
electric light poles set up on Mer-
chant street.
Fred Steele has finished work in the
city water works department, and has
gone to Willlamstown to work.
Clarence Bartlett, Fred Brown, and
Arthur Phelps left this morning on a
hunting excursion in Orange.
Smith, Whitcomb & Cook have a
gang of men at work today putting in
a new line of shafting at the sheds of
E. L. Smith & Co.
Frank Labounty has been laid up
for some time, as the result of having
cut his foot with an axe while chop
ping wood.
The street commissioners are look
ing over the proposed sewer on Walnut
street in company with the petitioners
w. II. Hoisington and e. A. Drown.
S. d. Tllton, of Woodsville, N. H.,
is in the city today measuring the
work which he did here
last summer for the city.
There will be a joint meeting of
the amusement committee of Clan
Gordon and the ladies on Saturday
evening at o. clock sharp. 1903d
The amusement committee of the
Companions of the Forest Circle are
requested to meet in the Foresters'
hall Friday evening, Nov. "a. Sd
The Smith polishing company was
obliged to shut down yesterday on ac-
count Of a hot box on one of the crank
shafts. The men were still at work
this forenoon repairing it.
The sidewalks below Second street
are almost impossible owing to the
last heavy rain, SO it is reported by
Jones Bros. men who have to survey
that part of the city every day.
The members of the R. G. I. P.
A. are requested to bear in mind the
meeting to be held on Thursday
evening. A whist party will be held
after the business of the evening is
transacted.
John Chesser, blacksmith for Nc
MILAN & Stephens, stepped upon a
nail projecting upwards from a board
yesterday. The nail went into his
foot about half an inch and he is laid
up today in consequence.
The advance managers of Stetson's
Uncle Tom Cabin were in the city
yesterday, making arrangements for
the production of that play at the
opera house on the evening of Nov.
2Sth.
Fred G. Eaton has obtained the
position of city agent, covering Barre
and vicinity, for the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Co. The company is
one of the old liners and has many adj
vantages over others, being under the
Maine non-forfeiture law.
Miss Annie Holmes of New York
city is expected in the city today to
visit her brother Alex. Miss Holmes
was one of the Red Cross nurses at
Chickamauga during the Spanish
war. 1t is expected that
her sister, Mrs. Sarah Darling, of
Ryegate will accompany her.
L. G. Weidner, a well known gran
lite dealer who has been in the city for
the past week on business with the
local granite dealers, left today for
his home in Dunkirk, N. Y. While
here he has placed $4,000 worth of
orders. He will return in about three
weeks to place more orders.
The following menu will be served
at the Ladies Union sociable next
Friday night, Nov. oath: plain hash,
hash, rolls, pickles, olives,
cake. fruit, coffee. The following pro-
gram will be given: piano duett, Mrs.
Britain and Miss Glidden; song, Mr..
Joy; cornet solo, Mr.. Leonard reading,
Mrs. Potter: song, Miss Merle Morri-
son; cOrnet solo, Mr.. Leonard: piano
luett, Mrs. Britain and Miss Glidden. |
Supper will be served at 5 o'clock.
Admission 20 cents. 1908
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