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J3AKHE, VT., MONDAY, DECCMliEK 5, 1!MM.
TIIICE, ONE CENT.
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VnS N If 4 If
BRITISH STOP
GERMAN BOAT
Was Loading With Steamer
Coal at Cardiff.
JUST FINISHED LOADING
Believed It Was Destined for the Rus
sian Government English
Will Find
Out.
Cardcff, Wales, Dec 3. The British
government has detained another Ger
man steamer here which had just finished
loading a cargo of 5,000 tons of selected
steam coal. It is believed that the fuel
waa destined for, the Russian govern
ment. SEARCHED BODIES OF DEAD.
Two Wounded Russians Existed 45 Days
in This Way.
St, Petersburg, Dee. 4. General Kuro
patkin telegraphs under date of Decem
ber 3, reporting unimportant skirmishes.
He states that Russian scouts found at
one point on the left flank seventeen
Japanese corpses, entirely stripped of
clothing, probably by local inhabitants.
General Kuropatkin also relates the dis
covery of two wounded Russians, who
had been overlooked and left in the
trenches since October 16. One of them,
who had been less severely wounded than
his fellow, procured food by searching
the bodies of the slain, and upon tnis
they had subsisted for forty five days
Russians Violate Neutrality.
London, Doc, 5. The Morning Post's
correspondent at Shanghai telegraphs as
follows:
"Russia is practically converting
Shanghai into a depot for her military
and naval stores, A local German but
cher has received a Russian order for
several million pounds of meat. l-arge
quantities of coal are held here on Rus
nmn account. The infringement of the
neutrality of Shanghai is arousing great
indignation."
UNUSUAL AGREEMENT.
High Priced Men's Wages Cut, and Un
skilled Laborers' Advanced.
'Chicago, 111., Dec. 3. When the plate
mill of tho Illinois Steel company re
opens on Monday, an unusual rearrange
ment of the workers' wages will be put
into effect.
Those of the highly paid men will be
reduced, and the wages of the unskilled
men will be raised. The equalizing pro
cess, it is expected, will be carried later
all through the great plant in South
Chicago.
At the shut down a year ago tho pay
of all classes of workers was cut, but not
in the sajne proportion, the men receiving
large wages losing a heavy percentage,
and those getting small pay were cut
a smaller percentage.
Many of the laborers were, however,
brought down to $1.40 and $1.50 a day.
Now they have bea informed they will
get $1.85 and $3. Practically all the
men whose wages run over $4 a day
expect to suffer in the new arrangement.
MANY ARE IN HOSPITALS.
Sixteen Out of SO Injured la a Railroad
Wreck Near Holden, Mo.
Kansas City, Mo,, Dec. 4. Only 16 of
the 50 or more persons injured in the
Missouri Pacific wreck near Holden, Mo.,
yesterday are still in hospitals in this
city. Of those remaining here the con
dition of Mrs. Mary Gillett of Canton,
N. Y.f is the most serious. She is 74
year of age but her attending physician
believes she will recover. Mrs. Giilett
was in the rear Pullman, which was pre
cipitated into a creek more than 20 feet
bebw the bridge, where the wreck oc
curred and she was rescued from the
wreckage only after the roof of the car
had been chopped away.
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
J. II. Wagner, Special Writer for a
- New York Paper, Shot Himself.
New York, Dec. 4. John Harrison
Wagner, author of "Mr. Mis of Wick
ham" and a special writer for a local
newspaper, was found dead in his room
in a hotel here today with a bullet in his
brain and a revolver lying at his side.
No cause for the suicide is known to his
friends. Wagner was an Australian, 39
years old.
ONE BANK CLOSED.
Ban Started Immediately on a Sec
ond. Buffalo, N. Y Dec. 5.- Superintendent
of Banking Killewan today closed the
German bank of this city. Immediately
a run was started on tho German-American,
which was involved in a smiliar
trouble several days last week. Richard
Kmory is president of both banks, which
were about to bo consolidated.
Noted British Novelist Dead.
London, Dec. 5. Adeline Sergeant, the
novelist, died at Bournemouth today,
after a severe illness.
DEATH WAS SUSPICIOUS.
Body of II. C. Dyer Found on Tracks at
Rochester, N. H.
Rochester, Dee. 4. Because the body
of Herman C. Dyer of Milton, which
was f"'md on the tracks of the Boston
and Maine railroad lat evening showed
little of the mutilations attending a
railroad fatality, the police early today
arrested Richard Farrell of Lowell, Mann.,
by occupation a musician, on suspicion
of being concerned in Dyer's death. An
autopsy was held today, the result of
which the authorities would not disclose.
Farrell is known about Rochester a
Dick Callaghan.
Farrell and Dyer were together for a
considerable time yesterday, and the
hitter was known to have carried a
sum of money. There was only forty
six cents in his pocket when, at 6:15
last night, Harry Hoyt stumbled over
his body lying between the rails, about
300 yards south of the station.
The train for Conway Junction had
passed five niinutcs before, and although
the body was lying on tho back with no
wound in the face, it was presumed that
the man had met the fate of a careless
track walker.
FUGITIVE MORE THAN A YEAR.
William J. Mendum Surrenders Himself
to Portsmouth, N. II., Officers.
Portsmouth, N. II., Dec. 5. Win. J.
Mendum, a resident of Winchester,
Mass., and the trustee of the estate of
his father, the late Charles J. Mendum
of this city, surrendered himself to the
Rockingham county authorities yester
day to answer to an indictment charg
ing him with the embezzlement of funds
amounting to between $21,000 and $25,
000 from his father's estate. Mendum
had been a fugitive for more than a
year. He will le arraigned tomorrow.
Two of Mendum'a sisters were, like
him, beneficiaries under their father's
will. The sisters, last fa', brought ac
tion for an accounting of Mendum 'a
trusteeship and soon afterwards he dis
appeared. On Friday he arrived in New York
from London, after having traveled
around the world. Mendum, who was
formerly a well known business man,
said that he had decided to give himself
up as he had experienced no peace of
mind since leaving home.
HIS BODY RECOVERED.
Albert Holbrook of Providence, R
Had Long Been Missing.
Lincoln, R. I., Dec 4. The body of
Albert Holbrook, the wealthy manufac
turer of Providence, who mysteriously
disappeared from his home on November
7, was found today by Bertram Jeuks,
a boy who, while skating on Stump
Hill pond, saw the body floating in the
water under the ice. A hole was cut
in the iee and tho body removed. There
was nothing to indicate murder.
Mr. Holbrook, who waa the senior
member of the firm of A. & C W.
Holbrook, manufacturers of cotton pick
ers, left his home on the afternoon of
November 7 during tho absence of his
family. Since that time there had been
no trace of him and large sums of money
have been spent in the efforts to find
him. Holbrook bad been a sufferer from
nervous troubles. He was 59 years of
age and leaves a widow, daughter and
one son.
NO MUNICIPAL PLANT.
Nortbeld Decides to Connect With Moo
dy & Almon's Plant.
North field, Dee. 4. -The special village
meet was held in village hall, Friday
night. At a previous meeting the trus
tees were authorized to have a compe
tent electrical engineer estimate the cost
of temporarily equipping the Belknap
plant recently burned. Tins, the trus
tees reported, would cost ?5,034.6S. The
Moody &, Almon Electric Power company
made a proposition to the village where
by they would furnish power for both
street and commercial purpose for $4,
500 flat for a year, the village to keep
in repair their own lines, read ita own
meters and collect its rents. The trus
tees were authorized to make a eon
trao with the Moody & Almon Co. for
one year. Should Moody & Almon get
this contract from the village they will
put in a steam plant here and be ready
to furnish power for a longer time if
desired.
SHE HAD SYMPATHY.
Now She Has Left Burlington tor Parts
at Present Unknown.
Burlington, Dec. 5. Mrs. Clara Lavoie,
who was arrested some time ago on a
charge of living with Moses Bisset as
his wife when she bad a husband in
Canada, and who was convicted but
placed in the hands of Probation Officer
Ferguson, is missing, according to the
reoprt of Mr. Ferguson, made Saturday
to Judge Hawkins.
At the time of the trial considerable
sympathy was aroused for Mrs. Lavoie
and it was duo to that fact that she
waa placed in the hands of the proba
tion officer. Mr. Ferguson does not know
where Mrs. Lavoie is but is certain sho
is not in Burlington. She received $20
from Mr. Lavoie some time ago and it
is thought she may have joined him in
Canada.
DARLING MAY RESIGN.
May Succeed Federal Judge Wheeler, So
It Is Reported.
Washington,- D. C, Dec, 4.- There is
some interesting speculation here over tt
possibility that" Judge Darling may soon
vacate his place as" assistant secretary
of the navy. A wealthy resident of De
troit, Mr. Newbury, is grooming for the
place contingent upon Judge Darling's
resigning. President Roosevelt would
be loth to lose him from tho department
but thto Vermont delegation is consider
ing .he judge's name for endorsement in
connection with two other places. One
of thera a place on the federaal bench.
Should Judge Wheeler decide to retire
Mr. Darling might succeed him.
SIX DAY
CONTEST.
Riders Begin in the Big
Bicycle Race.
'rwrr rram rinnnc ruiT
Patsy Keegan of Lowell Gets Bad Fall ,
and Has Face Cut Only 118
Miles Made at 10
O'Clock.
New York, Dec. 5. During the first
four hours of the six day bicycle race
which started at midnight in Madison
Square garden, the Hobo-Italian team
j found the pace too hot and dropped out
of the contest. The other seventeen
before daylight were well bunched. Dur
ing the early morning hours there were
many spills, at times half a dozen riders
being piled on top of each other, None
'were seriously injured. Shirtly after 7
o'clock the first accident of a serious
nature occurred, when Patsy Keegan of
Lowell had bis face badly cut and
bruised. Dr. Crerner took several stitches
in a gash above his right eye. The
accident was caused by the bursting of
Ki cgmi's rear tire. The pace up to 10
o'clock waa pretty still, but the riders
are behind the records made in 1902.
At 10 o'clock Breton, Vanderstuyft and
Walthonr were close together and led
the lield lightly. All the contestants
then had made was 213 miles. The
record is 226.
j Twenty thousand spectators saw the
' contestants start.
SAW HIS FAMILY BURN.
Pittsburg Man Forced to Witness a Ter
rible Sight Last Night.
Pittsburg, Dec. 5. In a fire which waa
remarkable for its rapidity and awful
havoc, Mrs. Rock Perry and two of her
children were burned to death last
night. Rock Perry, the husband, and
a son and daughter were forced to stand
in the street and see tho tragedy. The
police kept them from rushing into the
Lames for their loved ones.
The fire is thought to have been caus
ed by a spark from a coal stove setting
tire to the carpet, which Mrs. Perry was
cleaning with gasoline. Tho flames were
j first seen issning from the front door
of the house. Neighbors,-who watched
t've lire from its start, said that not a
sound issued from the death chamber on
the first floor.
Mrs. Perry, from her position on the
floor when found, seemed to have been
rendered unconscious instantly. One
of the children had almost reached the
door.,
SUNDAY THEATRE PANIC.
No One Was Hurt In Spite of the Great
Crush m Gotham Theatre.
New York, Dec. 4. Pania seized an
audience composed largely of women and
children in the Gotham Theatre during
a performance yesterday afternoon when
smoke from a Ixmfire outside blow into
a window and ft woman run toward an
exit shouting fire.
Immediately there was a rush for the
street and the attaches of the theatre
were unable to quiet the excitement
Although the adults struggled down
the aisles with children held high in their
arms, and almost the entiro audience
left the theatre, no one was ia any way
injured.
MURDERER ARRESTED.
Taken As He Was Leaving Train
In
Boston.
New York, Dee. 5. The police re
ceived w-ord from Boston today that
Marcello Sando, an Italian, was arrested
there early this morning as he was leav
ing the train just arrived from this city.
Sando ia wanted here for tho murder of
Pasqualo Corrado and the wonnding of
Carrado's mother-in law, Mrs. Josephine
Mesarello. Kando shot bis victims at
an Italian christening last night in a
West 26th street tenement.
AN INDEPENDENT LINE.
Central Vermont to Have Steamers Be
tween Fall River and New York.
Fall River, Mass., Dec. 4. A new inde
pendent steamship line between this city
and New York is soon to be established
with daily sailings each way and New
London as a probable touching point. It
is nnderstodd about town that the Cen
tral Vermont Railway Co., ia behind the
syndicate now forming. An option has
been secured and negotiations practically
completed for tho transfer of the wharf
property at the north end of the city
owned by a syndicate represented by R.
F. Haffcnereftcr. Mr. Uaffenercffer de
clined to give any information today,
preferring that the first announcement
come from the steamship people them
selves, but from other sources it was
learned that the Central Vermont is
back of the scheme.
Killed by Passenger Train.
Concord, N. II., Dec. 4. Frank S. Kid
der, residing at 83 South Main street,
was struck by a passenger train in tho
local Boston and Maine yard this morn
ing, receiving injuries from which ho
died a few minutes later, after reaching
the Margaret Pillsbury hospital.
CONGRESS
IN SESSION
Opened Today With Usual
Preliminary Exercises
THE MESSAGE TOMORROW
Reports from Department Officials With
Recommendations Heard
at Today's Ses
sion. Washington, Dec. 5. Little was ac
complished at the opening of Congress
today beyond the calling of the roll and
the swearing in of new niemliers who
have been elected to fill vacancies.
A committee was appointed to in
form the President the House was in
session and a resolution notifying the
.Senate that a qnorum of tho House is
ready for business wilt Ik: passed.
Tuesday the President's message will
be read but it is not expected that any
other business will be transacted. There ing December 3 was as follows, the Oil
are a number of minor matters of leg- umets of this city being far in the
tuition wliieh mav he considered on lead:
Wednesday and on Thursday. It is!
nossible that the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill may be
reported Wednesday or Thursday.
Friday is pension day and there will
be more than a thousand private pen
sion bills ready for the House to con
sider. The Senate was in session only 12
minutes, adjournment
bein" taken out
of respect to the memory of the Sena
tors Quay and Hoar.
ATTY.-GEN. MOODY'S REPORT
Makes Important Recommendation Re
lating to Arrests.
Washington, Dec. 5. The most im
portant feature in the annual report of
Attorney General Moody, which was sent
to Congress today is the discussion of
a federal law relating to arrests in one
district of persons indicted in another.
Ho finds that the statutes about this
matter give undue advantage to the de
fendant and frequently to delay the
I..- - t l 1 u ,. li.
recommends the enactment of a statute
which wil provide in substance that
where an indictment is returned in the
United States court, a bench warrant
may issue for the arrest of the defend
ant in any part of the country, and for
his prompt removal in the event of his
failure to furnisn bail, to tna scne ot
the indictment. '
ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATION.
Needs of Gevernment Submitted to Con
gress Today.
Washington, Dec. 5. Tho estimates
of appropriations for the fiscal year of
1906 submitted to Congress today enow
a grand total of $019,669,000, as com
pared with 624,514,543 actually appro
priated for this year.
MAY RUN INTO NEXT WEEK.
Outlook Now That Legislature Will Not
Adjourn Friday.
Montpelier, Dec. 5. The legislature
was slow in assembling this afternoon,
and the talk of the leading members
here now is that the work of the ses
sion will not be completed by Friday,
but will run over into next week.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
The bill authorising the sale of the
state camp grounds to the government
has passed both Houses and now only
awaits the governor's signature. The
governor, auditor of accounts and the
agents for the state in the matter of
disposing of the land and in making the
proper conveyance in the name of the
state. The proceeds from the sale are
to be turned over to the state treasurer,
to be held by him for five years with a
view to purchasing a new site. If no
gronnd is obtained in that time the
money will be placed in the general
treasury of the state. The plans, rec
ommendations, etc., for the purchase of
the land by the United States govern
ment for the purpose of enlarging the
drill ground at Fort Ethan Allen have
been submitted to the war department
and the secretary of war has asked for
f 19.C00 with which to buy land.
VERMONT'S NEXT GOVERNOR.
Will be Vermont's Largest Farmer Said
On? of the Speakers.
We notice at tho City Farmers' club
banquet held in this city last week,
where the governor, lieutenant governor
and other prominent men were present
from out of town, together with a large
part of tho business men of Barre, when
one of the speakers referred to the next
governor of Vermont as being the largest
farmer in Vermont it was greeted with
a good deal of applause. This scores
one for Dr. Webb.
JAS. M. TYNER DEAD.
Former Assistant Attorney General
Passes Away.
Washington, Dec. 5. -General James
M. Tyner, former assistant attorney
general of the post-office department,
and who was recently tried and acquit
ted on the charges of conspiracy in con
nection with the issuance of fraud or
ders in tho post-oiTieo" department, died
this morning. He had been ill for more
than a year.
ENDED EVEN,
Manchaster Unity and I. 0. 0. F. Teams
Divide Games.
In the crib-bag contest Friday even
ing between the I. O. O. F. and M. V.
teams the games resulted even, each
team winning at four tables. The re
sult by tables was as follows: Maiden
and Avery, I. O. O. F., defeated Olliver
and Hector, M. U.; Mclver and Bligh,
I. O. O. F., defeated Mearns and McLeod,
M. U.j Geddes and Webster. I. O. O. K.,
defeated Rowe and Bessct, M. U.$ Belle
ville and Nichols, I. O. O. F., defeated
Graham and Williams, M. U.
Reid and Parker, M. U., defeated Saw
yer and Calder, I. O. O. F.j Anderson
and Murray, M. U., defeated Smith and
lungers, I. O. O. F.; Joll and Johnson,
M. IT., defeated Stowc and Stone, I. O.
O. F.; Olliver and Allen, M. U., de
feated Robbing and Willey, I. O. O.
F.
The F. of A. and M. U. teams play
this evening.
The cribbage league standing:
P. W. L. Pet.
32 1 11 .609
32 IS 14 .503
32 17 15 .531
32 10 IS .500
32 13 1'J .406
32 11 21 .344
F. of A..
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C. O. F...
1. O. O. F.
M. U. ...
BOWLING REMARKABLY WELL.
Calumets of This City Have Set a
Re-
markably Fast Pace.
The standing of the teams in tho Ver
mont Bowling League for the week end-
Team. Won. Lost.
Won.
, 10
. 4
. 4
. 6
Pet.
.833
.067
.571
.550
.333
.200
Calumets
Capitals
F.than Allen
Pastimes
3
4
10
12
Queen City 5
Champlain 3
The next games scheduled are on tho
8th inst. at Montpelier, between the
Capitals and Pastimes, and on the Oth
ittur rt,f ivfnn th I himn I .if v win Anil
the Ethan Allen team at Fort Ethan
Allen and between the Capitals and
Calumets at Bane on the same date.
The Calumets of this city are bowling
x remarkable, game. One man who
knows the records of Boston bowlers
said Saturday night that there isn't a
team in Boston as now constituted, that
could defeat them.
DONATED $25.00.
Bricklayers' and Masons' Union Give Aid
to Textile Workers.
At the last meeting of tho Barre
branch of the Bricklayers' and Masons'
International Union, $25 was donated to
th striking textile workers of Fall Riv
er. FIGHTING FOR $240,000.
Norwich University and Public Schools
After Vermont's War Clitm,
Montpelier, Dec. 8. The bill intro
duced in the House last week to create
a permanent school fund is innocent
enough apparently. But its introduc
tion means war between Norwich uni
versity and those working in the inter
ests of the public schools of Vermont.
Both want the $240,000 recently re
ceived by Vermont from the national
government in settlement of war claims.
Norwich university put in tho first bid
for the same, a bill introduced that the
whole amount should be sequestered for
ten years for the benefit of the "military
college of Vermont," tho contention be
ing made that since tho amount was
paid over as a war claim it would be
appropriate that it should go to the
"military" nrm of tho state. Norwich
also holds up tho example of the $60,000
appropriation to the State Agricultural
college.
The other petitioner, those working
for the public schools, wishes to hold the
entire amount intact to form the nu
cleus of o, permanent school fund, to be
invested and tho income distributed
among towns, under direction of the
governor, superintendent of educat ion
and treasurer, in a way "to equalize
school advantages."
There promises to be a pretty fight
over who gets the amount.
The W. W. of. A. Foresters, Ball.
The first annual concert and ball to
be given by the Foresters of Camp 8686,
M. W. of A., on Friday evening, Dee. 9,
at Hale's pavilion, is "being looked for
ward to with interest by a largo num
ber of people. Nothing has been left
undone to make this one of tho most
successful times, if not the liest, of the
year. Tho concert will be furnished by
the Montpelier Military band of 31
pieces, and will undoubtedly be the finest
heard in Barre for some time.
The most accomplished musicians in
this vicinity have been secured for the
dancing, managed by William Gilbert
son, ilefreahments will be served free
throughout a programme of 20 dances.
The grand march will be led by the drill
team who will also act as an introduc
tion committee.
The concert begins promptly at 8
o'clock. The admission to tho concert
will 1ms 25 c, concert and ball $1 per
couple. Concert programme is as fol
lows: March, Black Rock, Loscy over
ture, William Tell, Rossini; descriptive,
A Hunting Scene, Buealoni; waltz, Wei
mer Bleet, Strauss j Airs of all Nations,
Rollinson; Finale, The Banner, Von
Blon.
AT BARGAIN PRICES.
Large Section of World's Fair Buildings
Reported to Be Sold.
St. Louis, Dec. 4, It w3 stated to
day that a contract for the sala of the
11 big exhibit palaces, stock barns, fes
tival hall, the colonnade of states, pa
vilions, aerodrome, bank, intramural
railway, hospital, press building, police
and fire stations with other world's fair
structures that cost $15,000,000, will be
signed his week with a Chicago wreck
ing company for $386,000.
FATAL DRINK
OF POISON
G. Giudici of Williamstown
Died Last Night.
CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE.
Friends Say That in tbe Darkness He
Mistook It for Wine Leaves
a Widow and an Infant
Child.
Williamstown, Ix-c. 5.- Oastono Giu
dici died last night at 10:30 o'clock
from the effects of poison taken ten
days ago, whether from suiciday intent
or accidentally it U not certain. Tho
poison was corrosive sublimate. The
etory an told by friends of the deceased
is that on the night following Thanks
giving Giudici retired early, n a table
in the bedroom was a bottle of corrosive
sublimate. During the night he reach
ed out to this table to Bet a drink of
j wine and got hold of the bottle of poi
son instead. He drank quite a quanti
fy of the corrosive sublimate,
la a short time he was taken very ill
and Dr. E. B. Watson was called to at
, tend h im. All the usual methods were
applied and the patient lingered along
for days. Yesterday Dr. Wa'son de
cided to call Dr. ,?. Henry Jackson of
Barre in consultation and arrangements
j for a counsel were made for today. The
call was cancel led, however, as the pa-
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The deceased was a young man and
leaves a widow and an infant child. 11
was a skilled granite poliher, having
Ix'on employed in the sheds of Grearson
Boekett company. He recently came to
this place from Jiarre, where he was cra
i ployed for soma time in various stone
sheds.
MANY MOURNING FRIENDS.
Funeral of Maud Roben Was Held From
Universalist Church Yesterday.
The funeral se.rvices of Miss Maud
Roben who died after an operation for
appendicitis were held from the Univer
salist church at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon. The Rev. Asa M. Bradley
officiated, assisted by Rev. T. IL Mitch
ell. The church was filled with the rel
atives and friends of the young lady.
The students of Goddard seminary at
tended in a body. The regular Univer
salist choir sang several appropriate se
lections, and both Mr. Mitchell and Mr.
Bradley spoke words of comfort to the
bereaved friends, and praise for the de-'
ceased. Tho lioril offerings were many
ami beautiful. The relatives present
from out of town were George Roben of
South Ryegate, Nellie Kelley of Clin
ton, 111., Mabel Roben, twin sister of th
deceased, of South Ryegate, Matthew
Roben of Chicago, and Mrs. Swan of
Newbury. The pall bearers were George,
Matthew, and Douglass Roben, and
Thomas Sheriffs. The interment was
in Hope cemetery.
OPENED SEVEN YEARS AGO.
Presbyterian Church Edifice Was Com
pleted Then.. .Anniversary Yesterday.
Yesterday was the seventh anniver
sary of the opening of the Presbyterian
church. The Rev. Dr. Todd of Quincy,
Mass., preached the sermon at both the
morning and evening services. At the
morning service he opened his discourse
by congratulating the congregation on
having reached the begining of the
eighth year of their occupancy of their
present house of worship.. 'But," ho
added, "the address for that occasion i
not to be given until Tuesday evening."
After tho preaching service the sacra
ment of tho Lord's supper was observed.
A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Schoolmates of Miss Blanche Houston
Give Her a Surprise.
The Sunday school class of which Miss
Blanche Houston is a member gave the
young lady a delightful surprise at her
home on Miplu avenue lust Saturday
evening in honor, of her 15th birthday.
Tho surprise was genuine and the young
ladies passed a delightful evening in
games, interspersed with music. Dur
ing the evening refreshments were serv
ed, after which the guests dispersed, ono
and all wishing many returns of so
happy an occasion.
GAS TURNED ON.
Gas Company Nearly Ready for Bus
iness. .
Tho Barre Heating, Lighting and Pow
er Co. lighted its first lamp at tho com
pany's otlice in Depot Square Saturday
evening. The company has been making
gas for several days, but it will require
nearly all this week to clear tho air out
of the pipes ready for business. Tho
lamps lighted at the oflice of the com
pary Saturday gave out ft bandwme
white liffht. strone and brilliant and
soon as tho pipes are cleared of air the
company will
be ready for business
B. W. HOOKER & CO. MOVE.
Now Doing Business in New Store in
Blanchard Block.
B. W. Hooker & Co., who have leen.
moving for several days, opened up for
business in their new store in the
Blanchard block this morning, where
they will be pleased to see customers
and all others.