The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-25
Waterbury,.

ST1LJMAN RUGGLEs OF Boston, former res
ident of Waterbury, was visitor here last
week.
THERE was an occasion on Saturday when
the need Of lock up was again experienced
For the want OF place of security, officers are
compelled to make guests OF prisoners IN Gus
tody, which may be agreeable to the latter but
it is not right thus to impose upon policeman
or sheriff. The village should fit up at once
the quarters it is reported to have engaged for
its involuntary guests.
b. F. ARMIrAGE OF Mortified, has been hir
ed as principal of the Village school for the
year ensuing. Mr.. Armitage taught here two
OF three years ago and gave good satisfaction.
Since then he has had valuable experience as
a teacher and should make an acceptable prin-
cipal. He is a thorough scholar, conscientious
and thorough going. Now let the parents take
hold with him and his assistants when the time
comes, and all do their best to have school
the Village will be proud Of.
AT the annual school meeting for the village
district the committee was instructed to exam
| inc into the needs OF the school with reference
| to the sufiiciency and effectiveness OF the
school facilities and to report at some future
day. The committee has been investigating
| the matter referred to it, has arrived at some
| conclusions and has called the adjourned meet
| ing for Friday evening OF this week at eight
| o'clock. This matter Is of general interest, di-
| rectly affecting the highest welfare OF the viii
| lage and the legal voters in school-meeting
should be present to attend to it,
THE young ladies of the Congregational So
| ciety gave a very satisfactory entertainment at
| the church Wednesday evening, and it was
well attended. The programme was made up
| of music, Rotations, tableaux, etc. The hui
morous was literally mingled with the serious
and the sentimental, all the parts were well
| performed and some of them with felicity
that is not excelled by professionals. Particu-
| larly happy was Orator Puts rendering OF
| "Tne Seminole's Defiance" and the song
given for an encore. The operatta was cap
| italy performed and the listeners had many a
hearty laugh over its moving incidents. For
an impromptu affair the performance was
credtable to all engaged in it. 1t showed ma
terial among the young ladies and gentlemen
that is worth cultvating and utilizing for en-
tertainment on future occasions.
H. j. MAY of Bolton came to the village Sat-
urday morning apparently loaded for an out
ing" He had his family with him and they
domiciled themselves at Brother-in-law Eaton's
near the tub factory. In the course of the
forenoon sound of revelry came from that
dwelling and the outside indications were that
the rites of hospitality were being somewhat
strained. Officer Pickett happened to be in
the tub mill and he was directed by his chief to
make a reconnaissance. When he arrived on
the scene the occupants of the house we're pre-
pairing to hold the fort The doors were
slammed in his face and locked, the windows
dropped and secured, and a grin of defiance
was on the face of the females of the garrison.
l
the signal corps at the railway station signed
that the enemy was beating retreat via the
main line of the Consolidated Railway of Yer
, mont. officer Pickett has good wind and being
, given the right of way over all trains, opened
the throttle and bore down upon the fleeing
J peace breaker. Before reaching Slip hill y
he overhauled the culprit who innocently
! wanted to know what all the row was about?'
Something that resembled the claws of crab
; operated by forty horse power engine, at the
| coat collar of the pOOuirpr and taking hDf-
: tom mortgage on the hide beneath, was the in.
| formation " Ben" vouchsafed as he reversed
and put on the air brakes Mister May was
marched back to town. an attempt to jump out
of his coat ending in an involuntary and not
over gentle seat ON the soft side of steel rail
Ed Farrar here reinforced Picketts division,
and the prisoner was duly hailed before Justice
Lease and amerced So AZ in fines and costs, fol
drunkenness. Mr.. Pickett certainly showed
the qualities OF plucky and persistent officer
in undertaking such an excursion with the
, mercury at summer heat. Mays face bore
the marks of couple of kuock-down blows
9 Hospitality administered by his entertainer, in
9 return for similar courtesies; but no charges
a | were made for breach of the peace.
! ONE of the oldest and most prominent mer
! camille firms in Washington county, or in this
: section of the state, is that of Arms g. Haines
of this village. The senior member of the firm
c. N. Arms, is a veteran merchant, to the
manor born. He began his mercantile life in
r
\ he engaged as clerk with j. G. Stimson anc
q four years afterwards became his employer
= partner, under the firm name of Stimson 6
e Arms. In 1858 he succeeded Henry Woodward
: | buying one-haf the store now occupied by
| l.. Wyman, to whom he sold out after thirteen
q | years of trading "on his own hook" I'm
!, | easy as a fish out OF water when not in trade
two years later Mr. Arms bought out the flou
r business of j. g. Stimson, and in 1869 l.. II
, Haines was taken in as partner, and the pres
a ent firm of Arms & Haines formed, which die
\ a flour, feed and grocery business in the stor
j. on 1.-THE hill " now occupied by w. Ii. Ashley
a In 1871 this firm succeeded S. Brown & Co.
= near the depot. Mr.. Haines, native of Cabot
came here in 1861, young man from Greens
~ boro, where he had been a short time in trade
~ and bought of J. e. Stimson his stock of good
. and block of stores. He carried on dry good
and clothing business alone till 1865, when
L, Richardson, under the firm name of Haine
a. " Richardson, became partner. Subsequent
re- he sold out and, as stated above, formed hi
m present partnership with Mr.. Arms. For fiji
e. teen years, withouL much friction, the firm ha
d. done a large and steadily increasing trade, a
in wholesale and retail, in flour, feed grocere.
AT and the innumerabe articles of comfort, NJ
in cessity or luxury for consumption or service
no in the household or in the vocations to whic
a. the people of Vermont are devoted. Mr.. Arm
h. loses nothing Of the skill and shrewdness whic
,r marked the younger years of his mercantil
Ia life. He is probably better and more fami
in iarly known to large number of people wit
of whom he has personally traded than most
Mt even the old merchants OF the state at the en-
ne of their careers. He has the native tact an
~ address of the born merchant, and though nj
n so young as he once was, is always found at h
,r post with keen eye to business as in earle
,st days, believing that it is better to wear oil
d than to rust out. Mr. Haines is the solicit'
nd general" of the firm and spends his time f
a the most part on the road. He is SUGGEST
,is salesman, thoroughly honest and console
of tious gentleman. and the firms growing trat
vn and prosperity is in no small degree due to
nat representation among its distant customers
mt its junior member. The firm is we'll made u
A. its place of business is at the center of lar
mi tributary country and it is bound to extend
sales much beyond their present limits.
ed
nut Sharon.-George Boardman is not as W
ea for a few days past, and Mrs Arnold Kemp
OF on the sick list.
~ MRS Ira MAXHAM is visiting at Chest