Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-09-27
CITY NEWS

Mlbo IldutIC IJlu0puiy A"o
work for Mrs. Bond.
Principal O. X. Hollistcr returned
last night from Rutland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Waters left this
morning for Montreal on a visit.
The Ease of State VS.. Charles North
is being tried again today for the third
time.
George Mcleod is reported on the
sick list since the fire, where he
caught a severe cold.
Frank e. Langley returned this
morning from a short business trip to
Massachusetts.
Robin Hood Smokeless Powder
gives less pressure on the gun barrel,
and little or no dirt after firing.
Averill Sporting Goods Co. tt
A. e. Batchelder has sold six build-
ing lots on Batchelder's Meadow for
SllOO and the Doctor is to commence
building at once.
City Engineer G. S. Currier con-
demned yesterday the G. V. bridge on
Hooker hill, at the Williamstown cut,
and it will have to be rebuilt.
Carl II. Carlton of Dewey Park
fame, is a member Of the Coon Hoi-
low company which appears at the
Montpelier opera house next week
Friday night.
Harry browne, who was here early
in the summer al a comedian and lee
turer On the Spanish-American war, is
now on the stump for Bryan through
Massachusetts.
Special Adjusting Agent Hildreth
of the Springfield Insurance Co., ar
rived in the city yesterday to adjust
the loss on the Combination Cash
Store.
Ed Smith of Cabot, was in the city
yesterday with a large load of poultry,
eggs, etc, coming u day ahead of his
usual time SO as to attend the S9th
birthday party of his mother today.
A. T.. Batchelder has sold to Chas.
Cook of Natick. Mass, Lot No. 55eon
Circle street, Batchel'er's Meadow
for a consideration Of 5000. Mr..
Cook will build a house theron as 0
as he can let the C )ntract.
Or. j. Henry Jackson yesterday,
decided to his son DR.. j. w. Jackson,
Lot LOG, to his son Dr.. Fed, Lot 107.
and to his son Harry Lot l0S on Lew
is street, B%4tchelder Meadow, and it
is understood that the owners will
erect tenement houses there at once.
John Silver says he will leave in a
week or two for his former home in
Portugal. He has recently received a
letter telling of the death of his
father, and John says he left some
property of which a share is coming
to him, SO he intends to go oyer there
o and stay a few months, but will
nra.,t,n11 pnf,,rrn IN pnrro
Among the attractions of promin-
ICE may be mentioned Dunno & Ry-
ley's elaborate production of Hoyt's
"Milk White Flag" which they
promise to present with every atten-
tion paid to costuming and scenic in
vestiture. The chorus has been en-
larged and a military band and Or
chestra offered as an extra added fea-
ture. This company will be in Barre
opera house tonight.
While of B. G. Durkee's men was
covering the roof of the house at No.
B Lords Alley with hot tar yesterday
afternoon the kettle in which it was
being heated became a mass Of flames
and a dense cloud of black smoke
rolled heavenward. Some of the
blazing tar ran over on the roof and
for a short time the prospects for a
fire were exceptionally good. Two
men ran to the fire alarm box just
across the street, but the man on the
roof yelled to them not to touch it.
He threw the kettle Of blazing tar
from the roof to the ground and GOV
cred the tar on the roof with sand,
and in a very few moments the fire
was out, and the city did not have to
nav for a needless alarm.