Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-07-28
Sparks From Granite INV.

Mrs. Moore of Chelsea is in the city
today calling on friends.
Miss Blanche Densmore of Mortified
is visiting her sister Mrs. Leon Dodge
for few days,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cook returned
last night from a two weeks visit in
St Johnsbury.
Miss lnez Nutting of Quincy Mass.
arrived in the city last night to visit
friends for few weeks
Stephen II. Forsyth is connecting his
two houses on Brook street and Forsyth
Place with the city water.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fidela Polanghni of
Maple Avenue are the parents of a
daughter born yesterday.
The transformers for the new opera
house have arrived and are being put
up and wires put into the building
The wires ore all in for the footlig.ls
in the opera house, but it will be some
days yet before the wiring on the sage
i, completed.
Mrs. Lottie Packard who has been
visiting Mrs. David Me Knight for the
past four weeks returned to her home
IN Belfast Maine last night.
Mrs. Aiiltit Peck who has been visit
ing her sister Mrs. Charles 5. Curric1
for the past two weeks left this morning
foI her home in Bristol, Conn.
Everybody talking water eycrywhor
and all the time on the streets in the
stores and in the sheds. Will the Ill
important question ever be settled.
The chairs for the new opera house
are all in pace in the main hall
although not all fastened down yet.
We think that the front row is too near
the orhestra pit.
l.. p. Waite Il Co. are distributing the
new directories today. The increase OF
the number of names over what was in
the directory one year ago is $50, max
ing in all now 4557. ...
Warren Nye and family are to leave
tomorrow for Potsdam, n. Y. where
they will visit relatives for few weeks.
All letters addressed there up to Au. ust
l2th will reach taem.
Mildred Holland, as - Fan Fam" won
fresh laurels last night. Miss Hollands
Interpretation Of the part is most excell
ent, and she deserves the success which
she is credited. Pitts burg Press, Jan.
IS, 1898.
Montpelier is to have two of the guns
from the fleet Dewey destroyed at MAN.
lila. They will be fine things to fire a
salute from, when Dewey comes home
The next thing the city wants is a statue
of the Admiral.
Miss Marion Slickney gave party
yesterday afternoon to about % of her
young friends in honor of her birthday
The affair was a surprise to her and
when she returned from cali she was
greatly pleased as we'll as surprised to
find some s2o young people ready to
welcome her to her own home. 1t was
a very pleasant affair.
Odd Fellows Attention-Green Noun
tain Lodge, |. O. o. F., M. u, will hold
their first picnic on Saturday, August
-, in Highland Grove. All desiring to
60 will please leave their names with
the following committee on or before
August 9TH T. G. Carson, Alex Adams,
John Imlah, Andrew johnson, Oscar
Burgh, Alex Bird, Jr., j. A. Balm
bridge, Cd
The following clipping relating to
Miss Rose Foy the popular young lady
clerk who is ON her annual vacation
from Gilly Il Abbott's, is taken from the
Lidgerwood Broadaxe OF North Dakota
July 20. Miss Rose Foy, of Barre Vt.
and Mr. P, IL. Foy, of Minneapolis, are
spending short time with their brother
William and family, of this place. VIM.
went down to meet them at Minnea-
polls, but missed them there and as his
brother returns Wednesday he does not
yet much of visit with him-a rather
unfortunate turn of events
A very exciting time occurred at the
new water works extension Yesterday
when two of the Italian workmen dis
agreed as to the ownership of a pick.
The argument ended in blows and in an
instant every Italian on the job was
mingling in the row. Clubs shovels
and fists performed an active part in the
ceremony and had not Angelo Scampini
stepped in and .'cleaned out" the whole
mob there would have been probably
nothing left to tell the tale except a
bloody battlefield and few mangled
corpses. Mr.. Scampini got them sep
arated and back to work again without
any injury to himself,