Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-26
Sparks From Granite CITY.

Jack McClannan is Oh the sick list.
David Boyce was in South Ryegate
on business yesterday.
Don't forget the reception at the Pres
byterian church tonight.
The steel ceiling at the opera house Is
receiving a second coat of paint today.
Have you procured your license yet?
Remember that the days of grace expire
this week.
+. l.. Smith returned last night from
IA trip through the West in the interests
of the granite business.
Two of Lewis Brassaw's teams and
Charles Sharkey's team are grading in
Ahern place for &. b. Durkee.
The carpenters at the city hall COM
menced laying floors and putting in
char platforms in the opera house part
today.
The granite men would like to know
where the editor of the Times GOT his
information about the syndicate. They
are getting sick of mere rumors.
DR.. Hanson removed a large polypus
from The nose of Miss Matte Peake. and
a tumor from the eyelid Of Mrs. Kent of
Montpelier. yesterday with no pain in
other case.
Judging from the number of building
permits being presented to the aldermen
for approval we should say that there
would be good opening for carpenters
in Barre this summer
S. A. Moody has plotted out Il large
number of building lots on the Shepard
farm on the Montpelier road and near
the electric road, which he has desig-
mated 1.-The Highland Terrace" and is
to sell them to individuals.
The special train to take the Odd
Fellows to Williamstown Thursday
evening, the 9th, will leave Barre sta
ton on 40 and return when the eXer-
cises arc closed. Fare for round trip,
IS cents. f. +. SMITH, Oh. Com.
The Essex junction Record finds that
40 churches in Vermont are pastorlcss,
and is asking the question as to whether
Gov. Rollins claim that religion in New
Hampshire is on the decline is not
equally true of Vermont.
The Progressive Club will meet with
Willie Whitehead this evening. Pro-
gram as follows: Life of James Russell
Lowell. Bessie Spear; Poems, Roy Bug
bee and Stella Brooks; Current Events,
Allen Reed; Critic, Max Fisher.
The Girls Guild of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, under the supervision
of Miss Jennie Smith, will give "Whit-
tier evening" in the Parish rooms on
Wednesday evening of next week, May
3. Refreshments will be served Please
bear it in mind.
G. II. Motsinger of Chattanooga,
Tenn, has just arrived from Cuba
where he has been in the government
employ for the past seven months, to
visit his father in law. II. G.. Jones. He
brings a fine collection of Cuban relics.
Mrs. Motsinger has been in Barre all
winter.
The Montpelier Record is kicking
about the condition of Barre street, which
was recently macadamized, saying that
corduroy is not circumstance TO the
ups and downs of this street. 1t claims
the street is in II dangerous condition.
and that the electric cars are in constant
danger of being derailcd on account of
the hcaving of the track, which in some
places is covered over with mud
DID any one ever hear of Il so-called
that was 50 anxious to give
the public all the news that its repre-
sentatives logged the footsteps of bust
ness men like hungry, wolves, sneaking
around and listening to scraps of private
for the purpose of serving
up Il chance bit with hardly the SEM
blancc Of truth about it, A paper to-
tally incapable of procuring enough .
clean and aud legitemate news to fill its
columns, and so swooping down to the
cutters for scandal, and then using I'M
truthful insinuations against honest pco-
pie for the remainder of its choice
budget of news. What would the peo-
pie think of such Il disgracefully con-
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