The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Waterbury.

M. o. EVANS will be prepared to pay the |
highest price for poultry at his store In Water
bury, November 21st and I'D.
PRESIDING ELDER SPENCER Of Montpelier
preached at the Methodist church Sunday. |
Services commemorative OF the four hnndredth |
anniversary OF Luther's birth were held In the |
churches
THE severest wind ever known in this COM
munity prevailed here Monday night. No |
special damage was done The trustees put |
out watchmen as q precautionary measure in |
the case of fire.
THE remains Of Mr. Renwick, who created |
sensation here year ago last June by diving |
from Winooski street bridge and was subse- |
quenty taken to Brattleboro, were brought here |
for burial last week. Funeral services were held |
at the Methodist church on Sunday.
SOME sixty friends Of Mr. and Mrs Fred |
Simmons, who live in the Kneeand district,
gathered at their residence Wednesday even
ing of last week and gave them good neigh |
borly greeting, leaving many presents and
other tokens of good will Mr.. and Mrs. Sim
mons are about to move to Burlington.
Mr. SHoREHAM Of St. Adams, employed in
making repairs on the railway station here,
was thrown from the roof to the ground by the
giving away of the ladders Wednesday of last
week. He suffered the fracture of both bones
of one wrist, his hip was badly bruised, and he
received some other lesser injuries. The lad
ders came down around him, but he FORUM
ately escaped what might have proved fatal in
juries had they CHANGED to strike him
SEVERE gale prevailed here Friday night.
The lumber shed of Billings Brothers, at their
new mills on the Moretown side, was severely
handled. The building Is frame structure,
about one hundred feet long by forty feet
wide. 1t Is built without stills, the posts rest
lug on fat stones. The wind moved this struc-
ture bodily about two feet from the founda-
/ lions, leaving 1t standing, but in a badly de-
| moralized condition and considerably " out of
pumh ~ Soma pf the tim hara We hrokpn off
others were splintered 80 that the structure
| will need to be taken down. A lot OF machin-
cry awaiting the completion of the mill, was
stored under the building, which was removed
| without injury.
COLONEL +. v. RANDALL will deliver his IA
nous address on the Battle of Gettysburg at
camp fire OF the Grand Army post In hotel
hail. Friday evening of this week. The gall
| liant colonel was an actor In the stirring scenes
he describes, and his ricy style gives his ad-
dress special interest. He WAS colonel OF the
| Thirteenth Vermont. He graphically tells of
the galantry OF the Vermont tro rps in charg-
ing the rebel line and capturing General Han
| cocks lost artillery on the second day OF the
| battle, the flank movement OF the Thirteenth,
| led by himself on the third, with its splendid
results, and other thrilling incidents in the
great battle that was the turning point OF the
rebellion. History from the lips OF one who
helped to make is a thousand fold more inter-
esting than when read from the printed page.
| Inc W0OJ6 community S0OulQ COIn6 OUT 10 near
Colonel Randall.
MRS GALE, Mrs. Parish and Ezra Gregg
have visited their mother, widow Joanna Gregg,
during the past week One other son has been
absent in the West for several years and these
four are the only surviving ones of family of
ten. The old lady 10 now in her eighty-fourth
year and has been a widow since 1854 She
has always lived on the farm left her at the
death of her husband, John Gregg, and here
her children were reared also, eight of them
gro wing to manhood and womanhood. She
has always superintended the work of carry
ing on the farm and really done much Of the
work herself For several years she has lived
alone, except for short intervals when she has
had boy or a girl to board and to &c
to school. She now keeps two cows, milk
ing them herself most Of the time and
during the past summer has tended her
garden and raised considerable poultry to sell
and has made and sold nearly three hundred
, pounds of butter during the past season. She
, lights her own fires harvests her apples, gets
her cows and does much other work which the
average girl would not attempt. She is not as
smart of course as she was once, but is yet a
strong and healthy woman.
3 THE need of a lookup in this village has
been the subject of occasional comment and
exhortation in these items. The necessity wal
newly enforced Saturday night. There were
four bad cases of beasty drunkenness. NJ
man would allow the filthy beings In An out
house on his premises. Yet the sheriff anG
, the police are called upon to arrest these crea
lures and hold them in custody till they can bt
a legally disposed of. The village fathers have
! promised to provide suitable place of deten
: ton, but they do not fulfill. George Cook ant
= John Rushford went to Montpelier Saturday
and returned full Of bad liquor They started
. for home in their team but in passing Franz
@ Josyn's in Colbyville, Cook fell out and becam
entangled in the gearing of the vehicle too uni
!. to extricate himself. Rushton got out to he
!, his fellow inebrate but was himself unable 3
[ stand up. Mr.. Joslyn slowed the men under
y shed, took care Of the team, and came to tn
= village in quest OF Sheriff Atherton. Out O
i. nine bottles Of whiskey and alcohol which tn
a boys had brought from Montpelier, six wer
). found about them. The besotted youth wer
!, taken into custody and Monday morning i
> Judge Leases court contributed the usua
amount to the revenue Of the state. Their
were two other cases of excessive nebriatio
!. which did not get into court. Fault is som'
&c times found because the officers do not max
d more arrests. II the fault finders would TAX
the place of the officers long enough to ente
J. tain one Of these cases over Sunday or ovt
night, the reason why more arrests are n,
g. made might very forcibly appear. There al
"a more cases Of drunkenness Saturday night tina
at any other time. An arrest then, under pre-
:. emit circumstances, involves the necessity
~ ~ keeping very dsagreeable prisoner with yer
~ nauseating consequences over Sunday, an
=, this we submit, is too much OF a tax upon til
10 Christian virtues Of the most exemplary offici
u or private citizen. 1t is high time that I'll
x trustees of the village do something in the il
~ terest of good order and for the general welfa