The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-18

OOnRTeRAu1OUHl parsonage ne eau buTU
out some nice looking work. In evil
dence of this is four page program
of the meetings of the congregational
ladies' missionary society, just COM
pleted for the year of 1904
1t is said that Ira Rowell and son
want the house now occupied by Har-
vey l.. Cheney and Henry Wood. the
old DR.. Perry house. if Messrs. Cheney
and Wood vacate it soon.
Conductor James Kanaly, lately pro-
NOTED to work between Barre and
Montpelier. was at his home here on
Sunday. If ever man deserved pro-
motion because of faithfuness to his
employers. Mr.. Kanaly is the man. in
his work for the Central Vermont
Railroad Co., as we have known 1T for
the years past, and we believe the end
of his advancements is not yet, if he
lives.
One of our news boys says, George
Oiardi has lately taken the Daily
Montpelier Journal to sell here each
evening. He has fine sale on Satur-
days, for the Saturday Evening Post
of Philadelphia.
There was one piece of new road
wanted here last year that would seem
to be greatly needed, but our select
men hardly felt like granting it be-
cause OF the probable expense. Out
side the main road extending from
East Brookfield to Barre through our
village there is perhaps no other one
in town more, if as much used, as the
one parallel with it On the east side of
the town and leading to and from the
granite districts of our place and
Barre. The road is largely used for
heavy hauling and the bane of it is
the hills between the Charles M.
Erskine and the old Orrin Walker
farms. By building around the pres
ent road between these places and on
the west side of it the two heavy
grades can be largely if not wholly
avoided. 1t would seem to be only
question of perhaps not much time be-
fore it will be built.
Can there be any question that our
town will not again in March vote for
another year of prohibition? The only
query we hear raised is this, will all
the friends of prohibition throughout
the town feel SO sure that No vote
will be carried, that they can in some
instances safely stay at home from
the March meeting? A greater danger
than that can hardly threaten the
cause of prohibition in this or any
other town. We appeal to the wives,
the mothers, the sisters, the daughters
of the prohibition voters in town yes,
i'll all our towns to make it iced be
the homes of such voters so uncom.
Portable on March meeting day that
they will want t 0 be under the shell.
tering wings of the voting places.
We are glad to report that the health
of Miss Cynthia Townsend seems to
one of her most intimate acquaint-
ances better, after former serious
threatening.
There are in our town fifty tele-
phones that the Orange Telephone Co..
have put in and the greater part of
them are in private houses and largely
farmhouses.
Carroll Martin of South Barre. who
has just bought out Charles A. Smith g
book store and paper business in Barre
city is the only son of our old towns
man, Fred Martin.
In the effort to repair the Congrega-
tional church here, next season. the
society will send out invitations to
former friends of the place who have
ever been interested in this church, to
hoped that generous repsonse will
be made where it is possible to do so.
The town will be asked at the COM
ing March meeting to move the school
houses in the George w. Lynde aud
the David Gale districts, from their
present locations to others more con-
venient for schoo! purposes.
Jesse Aubin having sold his place
to Windsor Dirty, will have an auction
at the house next week Saturday after
noon and sell off his household goods.
Frank York has hired the honse of
Mr.. Ditty and will move to it next
month. Mr.. Aubin is yet undecided
where he will go, now. whether to
California or on to farm.
Miss Helen Kimball is not yet able
to sit up. only to be raised in her bed,
but she is thought to be gaining
little.
We are told that Chauncey Lougee
who il wintering in Wisconsin,, wants
to hire some place for house in our
village, SO he willslikely return later.
Whenever desirable tenement in our
village is to be had, it seems to have
plenty of applicants for it.
A case was tried before Justice @.
U. Lathrop at our town hall, on
Monday, in which man from the
quarry district was convicted by
jury, of drunkenness. last summer.
The man had had trial on the same
charge, in which the jury stood five
to one for conviction, and could not
come to an agreement to convict.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Vassar have
been visiting family friends in South
Barre in the last few weeks, but now
he has returned to granite cutting
here.
We have Just learned that in the
early history of our place there was a
house on the road to Northfield. not
very many rods after one turns to the
right. after passing the Judge Allen
Smith house, now owned by Marcus
A. Smith. 1t was in this house that
the late Oliver Badger, worthy and
hard. working man, was born. In his
early years he went to live with the
late James Kinsman, who then lived
on the old S. Talcott Perrin farm.
After he was of age he worked one
season for Christopher Smith, half of
the Jime and for his SON Alyan