The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30

A GENTLEMAN of St. Albans, whose name
is not made public. has made the handsome
donation of $500 to Goddard Seminary,
Barre.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to conduct
the service in the Westinghouse at Wrights-
Vile next Sunday afternoon, beginning at
two o'clock.
THE band has ordered an elegant Besson
euphonium to take the place of the worm
out stove-pipe baritone horn which has so
| long graced the front section.
In match game of base ball on Seminary
hill, Saturday afternoon the Goddard Sem
mary nine were beaten by the Vermont
Methodist Seminary boys by a score of
twelve to one.
IT is decidedly complimentary to the
Montpelier military band that it should
! be selected with the Sherman military
band of Burlington, to furnish music for the
| legislative reunion next week.
THE Professional Artists and Lumber
Manipulators " of the Montpelier Carriage
Company will play match game of ball
on the Nicholas meadow, next Saturday
afternoon, the defeated club to give the vic
tors an oyster supper.
The WATCHMAN and Argus employees will
meet in more or less mortal combat on the
Seminary base ball grounds Friday after
noon at half-past one o'clock. The surviv-
ors of the defeated party will give the con-
querors an oyster supper.
A MESSAGE by telephone, received at
twenty-five minutes past nine, Saturday
morning, from s. H. Foster at North Calais,
announced that at that time the people at
his place were eating sugar on snow which
fell on the Wednesday previous.
T. Il. MERRILL, Jr., has returned from the
White Mountains and reassumed the position
of leader of the military band. The band
gave him serenade at a late hour Saturday
evening, and the concert was greatly en-
joyed by neighbors " in their little beds
HENRY OvIATT, ESQ., is writing some able
articles for the Boston Sundoy Heroid on
the general subject of removals and appoint
ments to Office in the federal service Sew
eral of the Boston papers make compliment
airy alluson to the articles already published.
c. w. SELINAs' shop, which formerly
stood at the corner of Elm and Court
streets, has been moved on to Court street,
where it will be fitted up for a tenement
house. Mr.. Selinas will build on its former
site brick building forty by sixty feet, to
be made into three tenements and three
stores.
GEORGE w. LESLIE, ID for some time past
foreman in the blacksmith shop of the Lane
Manufacturing Company, has gone to At
lanta, Georgia, to work in a shop with
c. Howard Carter former employe of the
Lane Company who went to Atlanta last
June. Lewis Wood takes his place in the
shops here.
ABOUT one hundred fifty voters attended
the village meeting Saturday evening. The
feeling seemed to be decidedly adverse to
any action favoring the articles of the warn
ing. 1t was voted to indefinitely postpone
the sale of Capital Hall and to indefinitely
postpone the purchase of any site for Ii.
brary building, hose-house, water-oflice, etc
The meeting adjourned without transacting
any other business of importance.
GEORGE ALMoN has finished his labors
with the Montpelier telephone exchange
and accepted a position with Fuller x Hol
lister, Boston, dealers in all kinds of elec
trical apparatus. During four years of ser.
vice in Mr.. Browns office, the young man
has become very efficient and has showr
an aptitude for the work which gives his
friends abundant assurance that he will be
equally successful in his new and wider
field of labor
WILL CARLETON s lecture, to be given al
Blanchards Opera House October 29th
should not be forgotten. The New York
critic, which is high authority on sucl
matters, in speaking of the readings by cele
brated authors at Madison Square Theater
in April last, says: " But the hit of the day
was made by Will Carleton, whose recita
ton of his First Settlers Story was a rev
elation to the audience, even to those whC
were already familiar with it,"
INFORMATION has been received by Frank
III. BascOm of the death of William Henry
Allen at Eagle City, Idaho, December "a
1888; and from papers found on his person
it is learned that he was born in Montpelier
VT, June Q, 1885. a diploma showing hin
to be a 800 Mason led to this discovery
Certain valuables and keepsal1es were fount
; in his cabin, and relatives desiring to pro
Nuio thc ouhit Will, ny Gazing upon MT
Bascom be put in the proper channel to oh
tain the same
A wELL-KNowN Montpelier Commercial
traveller, arriving at Essex Junction on
recent morning. discovered that his watcl
had stopped, as a natural result of his hav
ing forgotten to wind it at the usual time
He applied to one of the brotherhood fo
the time, in order that he might set tn,
watch, and was told that it was twent,
minutes past eight. This answer was un
satisfactory, since he desired to be very ac
-, curate. Twenty minutes past eight A. NJ. p
he inquired, with the utmost seriousness
and he is still unable to account for the roa
of laughter which greeted his inquiry.
THE following is a list of the letters un
= called for at the Montpelier (Vt.) postoftc,
September 26, 1885:
: Mrs. Jason Butler, Edwin T.. Currier
Mrs. Mary Black, Mortimer Capsey
Mrs, Geo B COuper, Homer Fuller,
Rose Ann Scott or Nal Geo II. FHrrar
s Vina Champaign, G.. H. Gould,