The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-06-26
Barre.

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eighth Highlanders' regiment Of Canada
will give concert at Barre on Saturday
July q.
The marriage OF James A. Glynn an(
| Miss Katherine Murphy takes place Tues
day morning, June Is, at st. Monioa''
| church.
The funeral OF the late Miss Alberta East
man was held Saturday afternoon from the
| home OF Merrill Eastman on Currier street
Rev. DIR. 8. N. jackson officiating. Buria
was in Hope cemetery.
| @. w. Ball and son George left last Fri
| day for Buffalo, N, Y, TO visit the Pan
American Exposition.
Mrs. @. II. Kenyon is visiting her mother
In Lyndonville.
Mrs. Teresa Mainini was acquitted by 9
| jury In city court last Friday afternoon oil
the charge of selling Intoxicating liquors.
The case of City OF Barre against W. A
Perry and DR.. G. M. Scribner, Tor an alleg-
ed violation OF city ordinance was called
in city court last Friday but was put over
until George W. Wing of Montpelier, coun-
sci for the defendants, can be present.
Andrew Kennedy was committed to jail
at Montpelier last Thursday 10 serve sen.
! tence Of ten days for intoxication.
The Barre branch OF the tool sharpeners
has appropriated S100 toward the soldiers
monument fund.
Emma, wife of e. E. Williams, died last
Friday after a long illness with tubercu-
losis, aged forty.three years. Funeral ser
vices were held from her late home Sunday
afternoon, and the body was taken on Mon.
day to Stsnstead Junction, p. O., for bur
isl.
Among the Barre people who were at the
| Buffalo Exposition last week are Mr.. and
Mrs. ID, NJ, Miles, Mr., and Mrs. M. Gsrvey,
Mr.. and Mrs. John McPbee, Mr.. and Mrs
II 0s,.tt1 a
| Anna Sullivan.
While three boys were plt wing around
the Mill street bridge in this city last Wed.
nesday afternoon one Of them crawled into
narrow opening under the bridge in the
abutments and there discovered twenty.
three pint bottles filed with whiskey. 1t
Is supposed that this belonged to some ille-
gal dealer who had kept his surplus stock
in this place as precsr ton against raid,
The neighbors living In that vicinity each
took bottle and the supply was soon ex-
hausted.
The executive committee of the Old
Home Week Association has decided to
make the principal day Of the celebration
at Barre Wednesday, August IA. Under
an agreement Of the merchants it will be q
holiday in Barre and places of business
will be closed. Committees on programme,
finance, invitations music and so forth,
have been appointed
A. ID. Morse and family left last wednes-
day morning for Old Orchard Beach where
they will remain until September.
Rev. b. c. Roberts, John Robins, II. @.
Rowland and Frank E. Howe were in Bur-
lington last week as delegates from the
Church Of the Good Shepherd to attend the
annual diocesan convention OF the Episco-
pal church OF Vermont.
The catalogue for Goddard seminary is-
sued last week shows that the attendance
of pupils during the past year has been 1876,
divided as follows; Seniors, %, juniors 16,
sub.juniors 16, unclassified 100 and grad
yates 6.
]. j. Bowen, fsmilierly known as Jack"
Bowen, the celebrated trainer and driver,
has been the guest Of Nelson Downing dur
ing the past week. lar. Bowen is con-
templating tax ng up his residence in Barre
rs he considers the track at the Granite
City Trottng p rk one of the best in New
England for training and driving.
Plainfield.
A son was born on Saturday to Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. l.. Knapp.
L. 9. Baldwin entertained friends fr ON
Groton last week, Mr.. and Mrs. Ebenezer
Baldwin and Mr.. and Mrs. George Hills.
Mr.. Cole passed his seventy-ninth birth
day last Saturday. Not feeling as well as
usual he looked for a gloomy day but it
passed very happily because OF his daugh-
ter's making him surpriselvisit at his home
at Wesley Lamberton's.
s. s. Smith received visit from his
daughter, Mrs. Laura Wilson, last Friday.
Schools in Nos. and unite in holding
an exhibition in the Center school-hou
next Friday evening.
The lightning splintered tall tree by
Henry Forehan's house last Saturday night
Andrew Lawrence came on Monday from
Philadelphia to spend his vacation with his
sister, Mrs. Amanda Batchelder.
The Misses Mabel and Ethel Austin are
visiting at II. G.. More's for q few days
Miss Mabel will be remembered as a former
teacher in town. She has since graduated
at q sanitarium in Burlington and soon goes
to Springfield, Mass, as professional nurse
| Miss Ethel is recent graduate OF Mont
| pelier Seminary.
George LaClare has closed his labors a.
hostler at Raymond's stable.
Homer Fits and daughter Esther were In
town on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard l.. Fortney, WHIT
have been visiting his brother Rev. L. +
Fortney, for two weeks, have commenced
housekeeping on School street and will re
| main here for the summer at least. MIR
Fortney is graduate OF the Harvard Law
school and for three years past has been
| practitioner in the courts of Boston.
The marriage of Ernest M. Bliss and Car
rie G. Webster OF Cabot was solemnizet
June 16 by Rev. L. Fortney at his home.
Mrs. f. G. Hoyett, who has been indis
posed fer some time, has been seriously IL
for the past week.
DIR. d. B. Smith and Richard L. Fortney
recently surveyed tract Of timber land IL
Marshfield which is owned by the former.
DR.. Fred Browd of Lebanon, N, H., Mrs
Carrie Smith and Mrs. Fannie Coulburn @
Montpelier recently visited their mother
Mrs. 7. P. Bartlett, whose health is on thu
decline.
DR.. ID. B. Smith was icalled to Williams
town on Thursday In consultation with Dire
james Of Waterbury and Watson of VIII
Jamestown in the case OF DR.. Smiths brother
M. A. Smith, who Is seriously i'll with bu
slight hopes OF recovery.
DR.. f. P. Gale is daily Improving II
health and is now able to attend some {
his patients.
The village school closed last Friday.
very successful and satisfactory term Is II
ported. The efficient corps OF teachers wa
as follows; Principal, E. W. Wright OF LII
nenburg: intermediate, Miss Helen Mile
OF Randolph; primary, Miss Emma Merri
OF Montpelier.
Mrs. William Bartlett, aged eighty-fou
is reported quite low.