Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-13
CITY NEWS
Caught on the Pencil Points by The
Telegram Reporters.

John Patterson of Eastern Avenue
is on the sick list today.
Mrs. G. S. Currier left Saturday fol
Il week S visit with her sister in Mere
dith, n. H..
Mrs. Charles Hutton has gone tt
Burlington, where she will remain fol
several weeks.
George W. Thornton and Henry
! Thomas have gone to johnson to visit
Mr. Thomas parents.
Miss Lena IIowes returned Saturday
night from Randolph, where she at
! tended the musical convention.
W. II. Bellows, who has been visit
ing the Rev. f. NJ. Fuller, has re.
turned to his home in Littleton,
y. II.
Mrs. w. II. MeSSer went to Ran.
dolph Sat urday night, called there by
the illness of Mr.. Messer, who went
there last week to attend the musical
convention and was taken sick.
a poor man dropped a new So bill
in Ladd'S meat market Thursday
night, and will the person who picked
it up please return it to this office, as
the man can i'll afford to lose it,
The Farther Light circle of the
Baptist church are preparing Jap
aneSe wedding to be given by them
sometime the latter part of the month.
The performance is entirely IN pan
tomime.
Friend Whitcomb and Charles
Douglass have returned from Chester,
where they have been for the past
two weeks setting mp a steam hoist
derrick. The parties for whom they
set up the machinery are highly
pleased with it.
+. n. Whitcomb, who has been at
the quarries of the Bow Granite COM
pany in Chester for several days re-
ports that the prospects of boom fol
that place are very good. There is a
large supply of granite there.
Mrs. Mary S. Putnam, who has been
visiting her brother, Charles Stevens,
in the city for few days, returned to
her home in Ferrisburgh Saturday
afternoon. She lives at the home of
Rowland Robinson, Vermont S famous
blind author.
The Over the Teacups Club will
meet with Mrs. f. l.. Smith Novem-
Der l6 Quotations from Emerson,
Current Events, Mrs. Wetmore, Ger
man Philosophers. Mrs. Rick ert:
Sketches. Richter, Mrs. II. j. Smith:
Sketches. Ileine. Mrs. Bradford:
AlllIC, MlS. NOl UOll.
David e. Spicer, who recently visit
ed his friend Henry Prescott in Man.
chester, n. H., relates the following:
They were in one Of the barber shops
in hat city and Mr.. Prescott gave the
proprietor an introduction to Mr..
Spicer, stating that he was from Yer
mont. There was present in the shop
a darkey dressed in the height of fash
ion who ''took in all that was hap
pcning and when he caught the word
Vermont he seemed to receive an in
spiration. "Ncrmont, said the darkey
"why that's the place where they
fence the state to keep the people
from seeing Dewey. "-Groton Times.
In "The American Girl" which is
presented i'm the Barre opera house
next Saturday night, Mr.. Donnelly
has drawn picture of the noblest
type of the Creators handiwOrk He
places her in natural and familiar
scenes at home, and afterward takes
her abroad where in the due course
of time she shines resplendently, sur
rounded by every luxury. The story
abounds with exceptionally strong
comedy scenes. The central figures
are two American girls and an Ameri-
can ''hustler. They each 60 to Europe
alone, but in the course of dramatic
events and comedy situations which
follow each other in rapid succession,
the three are brought together. The
other characters are all strongly
drawn and include two children,
"Prince Roy" and "The Little Lady,
American twins, who figure conspic-
uously in the play. In selecting the
cast the management has exercised
the utmost care to have each individ-
ual particularly adapted by nature for
the character he or she assumes. AS
a result the presenting company is
one of extraordinary strength and no
pains or expense have been spared to
make 1.-The American Girl" one of the
leading tirst-clasS attractions of the
present season.