The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-01-14
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

lin side.
George F. Howard, of Craftsbury
w as in town on business Thursday.
Waldo Farrar OF Morrisville is
spending a few days with his family
in this city.
W. p. Smith, city engineer, reports
th at the water SUPPLY is holduing its
wn these days The water is about
nj neteen inches below the top of the
da m.
The clerks basket ball team of
Barre went to Chelsea Thursday even
ing and defeated the team in that
town by score of 40 to IL. They
returned home in the evening.
E. E. Craven, of the stone firm of K.
E. Craven Company, has fine article
on "Rock Face Work. in this months
number of the Monumental News,
monthly granite magazine published
in Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Holmes, Jr.,
who were recently married in Plain
field, returned from their wedding trip
on Wednesday afternoon and will be
at home to their friends at 10 Fast
Liberty street.
The bakers of Vermont have ad-
vanced the price of crackers, owing
to the rise in the price of stock.
@. H. Gross Il Son announce an ad-
vance of twenty cents per barrel and
forty cents per case.
Fred Bickford of Bradford, the
we'll known creamery man, was in
che city on Thursday on the way
home from Burlington. He has been
attending the Dsirymens Association
meeting in that city,
The Montpelier IL Wells River
Railroad was remarkably successful in
keeping on schedule time during the
recent cold weather and snow spell.
and little or no complaint from any
source regarding poor train service is
heard.
Charles f. Dudley was on Wednes
day appointed rural carrier at East
Montpelier, for route No and Henry
Kelton substitute; Clarence G. Carr
at Barre, route No 2, and Albert @.
Freeman substitute. The service will
commence February l.
AT the regular meeting of the st.
Vincent de Paul society on Thursday
the following officers were elected !:
President, Mrs. James Jerome; vice
president, Mrs william Murphy !;
secretary Miss Annie Glynn; treas.
urer, Miss Annie Mcmahon.
Association papers have been filed at
the secretary of States office for the
Billado 81 Blanchard Lumber Com
pany of Rutland with capital stock
of $1,000 divided into 100 shares of
800 each This is the first corpora
tion to file papers this year.
Glen Connors of Concord, N H.,
is visiting friends in this city and
Barre for few days. He was form
erly conductor on the electric road
between Montpelier and Barre and
30 hON Od az pdSoOuB0I
man on the Boston and Maine Rail
road in New Hampshire.
O. @. Lawless of this city won the
third prize in the creamery prints
contest in Burlington on Wednesday,
scoring 50 points In butter there
were 141 entries, the highest score be-
ing 49,, This speaks we'll for the
grade of butter Mr.. Lawless is max
ing, considering the number of en-
tries.
On Wednesday evening the school
board held its last meeting, of the
present fiscal year Three members
were absent. After transacting the
routine business requisition was
drawn on the city council of 81, 700
to defray the school expenses to Feb
ruary ]. These expenses include
teachers salaries, transportation of
childen and bills for supplies.
w. @. Quinlen whose building on
Main street. in Barre was burned sew
eral nights ago, has arrived in Barre
and was present at the city council
meeting Wednesday evening. The
council voted nos to allow him to re-
build on the same piece of land unless
he would place fire walls on each side
of the building and a brick front and
back to the structure.
Mrs. @. H. Carpenter received a
letter ON Thursday announcing the
death of her uncle, l. G. Blake, at
his home in Worcester. Mass. Mr..
Blake was president of the Blake
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