The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-25
Vermont State News.

THE first Blaine and Logan club in the state
was formed at ST. Absns.
WINDSOR county democrats will hold their
convention at Woodstock, August /.
G. p. NASH Of Brattleboro gets patent for
combined cot bed, litter and chair.
BRATTLBBoRo has again voted not to bond
in favor of the Brattleboro & Bennington road.
WILLIAM BALLoU of East Putuey was
drowned while bathing in the Connecticut river.
SEVERAL hundred names are enrolled upon
the rolls of the Rutland Blaine and Logan club.
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE closes the collegiate
| year free from debt for the first time in many
| years.
THE Sunday-school convention Of the Wood
stock association met at North Springfield ON
Wednesday, June 18.
| AT Searsburg, Mrs. William Tudor sustained
a fracture of her arm by her horse backing over
| a steep embankm6ht.
The annual meeting of the Chittenden County
| Sunday-school association was held at Col
chester, June II and 18.
FIVE persons between the ages of eighteen
| and thirty-fve years have died in the village
| of Castleton since June l.
A LIVE Texan cowboy is creating a sensa-
ton in Brattleboro, dressed in frontier cos
| tune, with Mexican mustang and trappngs.
In Windsor county court, at Woodstock,
Stephen C. Wyman, convicted OF murder in
the second degree, was sentenced to be con-
THE three days racing of the Bennington
trotting association was had last week. Forty
horses, some of which are well known, were
entered for the SO, 600 premiums.
Two men we're badly hurt by the explosion
of a blast at Mallet's bay last week Tuesday.
One Of them, Andrew Liberty will lose the
| sight of one eye and possibly of both eyes.
THE new rink built by the Rutland bicycle
club will cost, when completed, between $12,-
900 and $4,000 1t is expected to be finished
, and opened with bicycle tournament July 4.
! HARLEY j. HUNTooN, a Bellows Falls gum
smith, lost his right eye while target shooting
with a telescope rifle. The gun recoied,
striking his spectacles and grinding the glass
, into the eye.
,, THE Vermont Bible Society has completed
its canvass of St. Johnsbury. One hundred
and thirty-fve families were found without
: Bible. The cost of the thorough canvass from
! house to house was about $500.
= EDWIN ANDREWS of Essex Junction was
thrown from his wagon the other day, while
7 driving home from the milk factory, his horses
4 taking fright at parasol. His shoulders, one
= leg and three ribs were broken.
a THE estate of the late o. c. Bowen of Pitts
Q ford is valued at 100000. He gave S15, 600
o for the establishment of an academy in Pitts
d ford, provided an equal sum is raised for the
s same purpose within the next three years.
8 THE body of Winnie Ballou, drowned at
@ East Putney a week ago, was discovered Friday
% night by A. G. Carleton, conductor on the
a West River road Just below Dummerston.
o His body was sent to Wilmington for burial.
Z: Mr.. Carleton will receive the S25 reward.
= CHARLES EASTMAN of Newport, a brakeman
u on the Southeastern railroad, undertook to
:, = turn somersault on the top of car while the
II II train was coming from Mansonville to North
Y Troy, and fell to the ground, striking on his
II head, injuring him so severely that 1t Is feared
7. he will not recover.
% Hon. L. HOWARD KELLOGG of Benson died
" June 18th of consumption, aged ffty-one years.
@ He has held during his life nearly every office
n within the gift of the town, and had been state
II senator for one term. He had been elected
k town clerk twenty-eght times and held that
" office at the time of his death.
re FIRE destroyed the farm house and all out
st buildings of Eugene HaXley at West Brattle-
n boro, Tuesday night of last week, with eleven
rs cows and several horses and a large quantity
is of hay and meal. Loss on stock, 81 600; on
N house, barn and outbuildings, $4,000. Insured
ly for 81, 800 in the Vermont Mutual
u THE stewards of the Burlington district OF
., the Troy Methodist conference have decided
u that each society in the district shall hold
Jubilee services over the return OF the district
from the Vermont to the Troy conference The
IN proceeds of the jubilee will be applied toward
as the debt on the district parsonages.
10 THE house of Michael Collins in Rutland was
,g struck by lightning the 18TH 1t entered by
y. the chimney, and leaving that in the upper
$ stOry OF tue mousse. passed. luTOuSu tuc HOOI
70 into the kitchen. Mrs. Collins WAS struck by
70 the liquid fire and very badly burned about
III the feet and legs, her shoes being nearly torn
y from her feet
" THE Vermont choir festival will be held a,
ne Woodstock, in St. James church, on Thursday
10 September 18. Mr.. S. B. Whitney will con-
:. duct, as usual. ST. James parish will enter
w w tain all clergy and members of choirs, and the
lo railroads will give the courtesy of fare one
" way. The first rehearsal will doubtless occur
S uSe Wednesday evening, the 18th.
,st THE Union temperance camp-meeting asso
al citation hold their sixth annual meeting al
az Morrisyille, August 1921, with these speakers
ar Mrs. Livermore, Neal Dow, Rev. H. w. Bolton
10 of Boston, Secretary Dudley of the Massachu
10 sets Law and Order League, Rev DR.. d. Hills
ed of Boston, Frank Plumley of Northfield and
Il. Rev. Ii. F. Austin of Vergennes.
lis GEORGE w RICHARDSON of Landgrove com
ne mitted suicide Tuesday night of last week by
e. hanging. He left the house after the family
nd had gone to bed, took the clothes line down
s. went to a shed, fastened the line around gir
y about six feet from the floor and hung him
rd self He had been cripple for many years
from fever sore one limb being entirely useless
re A BLAINE AND LOGAN club was formed a
IL Brattleboro Saturday night, with these officers
X President, j. Estey; treasurer, +. Z. Crosby
secretary, II, B. Chamberlain; executive com
a mittee, H. ID. Hoton, j. NJ Tyler, E. M. Stod
We dard, George w. Hooker. The attendance wa
r. large and the meeting enthusiastic Edwart
% | Putnam, macnlnlst SlAty-nNe years Olu
Z. dropped dead during the exercises
Nv The Addison county democratic convention
re nominated the following: For senators, G.
aO sU o. Kimbal of Vergennes, NJ. f. Sprague O.
r ~ Weybridge; side judges j. NJ. Tyler of Starks
~ boro, E. d. Griswold of Orwell states at
nc torney John G. Stspleton of Middlebury
NO sheriff j. j. Ridley OF Bristol; high bailiff,
ns ns L. Parker of Whiting; judges of probate, w
u'as W. Ward of Waltham, II. L. Sheldon OF Mid
S5. dlebury
lss AT Bratteboro, Mert Curran, fireman ON tn
nib narrow gauge road, and Sadie Mann had
~ narrow escape from death by being struck b!
tic an engine The girl ran on the track near th
an engine house, just in front of a moving engine
.rt | which she did not see Curran called out h
nd her and she stopped and looked around, bu
i'd evidently did not realize her danger. He thei
ng ran and caught her from the track just as tn
ty- train passed by, striking him in the side AM
ir- throwing them both down. They were unhurt
MIR. john BACON, an old resident Of st
Johnsbury, whose death occurred recently, wa
ne born in Bath, n. H.. in November, 1902, ant
ne from 1929 to 1889 was trader and hote
- keeper in Passumpsic Village. He then re
ig- moved TO ST. Johnsbury, where he was il
=. business nearly forty years, having wide &C
mt quaintance with business men in Boston III
en was postmaster of that village some twenty
ld- five wears, was member of the legislature II
ae 1884, and was director in the Passumpsi