The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
Current Mention.

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reduced to $3.50 per year. 1t is rumored
that the paper is for sale.
HORACE CIRCUIT of Morrisville paid his
fortieth consecutive annual subscription to
this paper yesterday. This is a good record.
OUR premium books are pleasing every
one, and we are receiving orders for nearly
one hundred each day Read the offer on
this page
THE students of Lyndon Institute publish
very handsome Journal The Chimes, No. 6
of which, just published, is one of the most
creditable.
SUBSCRIBERS to the Green Mountain Nelcs,
who had already paid in advance, can Sc
cure the scales offered in another column by
remitting $3.50 to this Office.
THE annual reunion of the Connecticut
River Valley Masonic Union will be held at
Bellows Falls on Friday evening, January
8, with a banquet at Towns Hotel.
THERE will be a sociable at the residence
of Medad Wright, Wrightsville, Tuesday
evening, January g. to which all are invited.
The proceeds will be devoted to church
purposes.
QUITE demand for excursion tickets to
New Orleans is already made by Vermont
ers, and indications are that goodly num-
Der of people from this state will go to the
exposition.
DOG River Valley Fair Association will
hold its annual meeting, for election of Off
GERS and the transaction of other necessary
business, at Village hall, Northfield, on
Tuesday, January 6, 1885, at ten o'clock A.
NJ. large attendance is desired.
THE Vermont Grand Lodge of Good Tenn
plars will hold three days meeting at st.
Adams, beginning on the third Wednesday
of January The sessions will be held at
the vestry of the Methodist church, with a
public meeting in the audience-room on
Friday evening.
The Central Vermont road, in connection
with the Delaware & Hudson Canal Com
pany, have issued very striking carnival
poster, finely engraved, and containing a
representation of the ice palace and the va
rious sports and attractions which will pre-
vail during that merry season cover the
line next month.
THE forty-second consecutive celebration
in Middlebury of the anniversary of the
landing of the Pilgrims was held in the
Congregational church on Monday evening
of last week, under the auspices of the Mid
dlebury Historical Society. Hon. John w.
Stewart presided Rev. DIR. Cyrus Hamlin,
president of Middlebury College, made the
address.
| A CIRCULAR has been issued by the pas
senger department of the Central Vermont
Railroad Company announcing excursion
tickets to New Orleans as on sale by station
agents along the line, and giving detailed
information as to routes, rates of fare, hotel
and clearinghouse accommodations at New
Orleans, and other things which the traveller
to the exposition desires to know.
"GEMs for Little Singers " is the title of a
collection of songs for kindergartens and
primary schools just published by Messrs
Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston. The book is
compiled by Elizabeth U. Emerson and
Gertrude Swayne, assisted by l.. o. Emer-
son. 1t contains sixty-two songs and twen-
ty-six pictures add to its attractiveness,
and the book is nicely printed and bound.
For tale by G. w. Wilder
The committee appointed by Governor
Pingree to locate the shire town of Orleans
county has made a report in which it says
that it has selected the village of New
port, in the town Of Newport in said
county of Orleans, as the best location for
said courthouse and other county buildings
for said county" There is much feeling
over the decision among the towns in the
southern part of the county.
OUR Hardwick correspondent writes
The poultry thieves recently operating in
this vicinity have been discovered, and five
young men, belonging to three families OF
otherwise good repute, residing in the same
neighborhood, about two or three miles
from this place on the Wolcott road, have
acknowledged their completely in the re,
cent depredations upon their neighbors
poultry-yards, and, report says, are trying to
negotiate settlement of the whole bust.
ness. Edgar Hill, who was arrested and
escaped from the custody of the officers, is
claimed to be the leading or master spirit in
the enterprise"
THE following is the programme of the
closing week of the Randolph State Normal
Schools Sunday evening, January 4, sermon
before the graduating class by Rev. l. p
Booth Of Northfeld. Monday, Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday, examinations
oral and written. Thursday evening, al
half-past seven o'clock, competitive speak
ing in town hall. Friday afternoon, a
half-past one o'clock, closing exercises o
the graduating class in town hall, Friday
evening, at seven o'clock, lecture by Pres
ident NJ III. Buckham of the University o
Vermont; at half-past eight o'clock, reunion
Of the students and friends.
THE sessions of the State Teachers Asso
citation will begin in Capital Hall Thursday
morning The programme was published las
week, and it has been distributed over the
state. A new and practical feature of tn,
present meeting will be the illustration O
methods of instruction by the introduction
of classes Of school children and the hear
ing of recitations. In the afternoon o
Thursday there will be a class exercise by
pupils from the Burlington schools Mrs