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

couples tne past year, unree OF WHICH hhNe
parted.
THE Bennington & Rutland railroad folks
are building an addition to their shop in
Rutland.
FRANK MCDERMoT of Casteton had q
thumb cut off by saw at the pencil mill
last week
FAIR HAVEN estimates the damage done
to crops in that vicinity by recent rain at
$1,000 or more.
THE lighthouse of billions wooden mill at
Springfield was burned last Friday; loss,
$500; fully insured.
GEORGE WARDNER, brother of Senator
Evarts wife, died at Windsor, last Saturday,
at the age of seventy.
A FIvE-YEARs-oLD child of f. A. Field fell
off the fence at Rutland last week Tuesday
and broke its right arm.
e. A WILLARD, Jr., has been chosen treas
urer of the Wilmington Savings Bank, in
place of Hosea Mann, Jr., resigned.
" |. SPEAR of Braintree and Loren
Richards of New Haven will soon go to
Montana with carload of Merino sheep.
CHARLES LAPIER, manager of lumber
mill at West jay, was killed last Satur-
day by a board flying from splitting saw.
HENRY w. ECKLEY, recent gradute of
Vermont University, has been appointed
principal of the schools at Harrington, Del.
OCTAVE SHAMBo of Vergennes had three
of the fingers of his right hand cut off by a
circular saw in Smith & Ketchum's furni-
ture shop.
HENRY WARD BEECHER's earliest remem-
bered address was given in Bratteboro on
temperance. He was then junior in AM
herst College.
MANAGER BEALs of the Rutland exchange
has taken out twenty-five telephones on
account of the raise in rates. Most of them
were from residences.
IT is expected that the new county build
ings at Newport will be completed so that
the next February term of court will be
held at the new shire.
The tail end of the ten million feet log
drive has passed down the Connecticut
river by Brattleboro. A big raft went by
last week Thursday with eight horses upon it.
j. E. CLEMENT of Barnet has been ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Fred W. Farnham on the
mail route between Springfield, Mass, and
Newport.
FRED BLACKBURN of McIndoe' Falls, who
has been at work with circular saw for
twenty years, got his first scratch Saturday,
August 30. He split his thumb open to the
second joint.
THE vacancy caused by the burning OF
the Universalist church in Shoreham, last
winter, will soon be filled by new and at
tractive church, built by Messrs. Smith &
Allen of Middlebury.
The rink at Rutland has become tinan-
clally involved, anu, owing to mistake OF
the clerk in recording legal paper, the
town will probably be held responsible foI
part of the Indebtedness.
A LYNDoNvILLE man recently went tG
Boston Tor steady JoD, 1ell IN WIN crowu
of "good fellows" was knocked black and
blue and robbed of all he had, S25. He pro-
poses TO go BACK 10 the farm.
DANIEL A. SHATTUCK of Weston had his
ioot caught under a roller as ne was moving
stone on DoaU anu one bone OF the leg
was broken ABOVE the ankle, the ankle JONI
injured anu the loot Dadly bruised.
THE interior of the Berean chapel in Bur
Ington is completed The organ will cost
Sl,ZoO, OF which SooO was realized from the
course OF concerts: The chapel Will prob
ably not be ready Tor use before october ISL
MICHAEL KENNEDY of Rutland jumped
from load of lumber and fell so that one O
the wheels passed over his right leg just
above the ankle, breaking both bones and
crushing them and brusing the flesh very
severely.
THE Addison county creamery at the
depot in New Haven. owing to an increas
ing business, required larger engine thar
the one in use, and the proprietors, Messrs
Stowe q Evarts, have new one of ten
horse power.
THE attempt to raise telephone rates a,
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fine users. Over forty ont of seventv-eigh
have pledged themselves to have their in
struments removed if the advanced rate
are insisted upon.
IT il renorted that Province Island tb
largest island i'm Lake Memphremagog. ha
been sold to a rich New York man. Who viii
make il a summer residence. The islam,
contains about one hundred acres of Ian,
living ON both sides of the line
THE docket for the December term n
Caledonia county court contains one hun
dred nineteen law cases of which lively,
ore state and tb;rtv-one cbancerv cases A
the last term there were one hundred twenty
seven law and thirtv-two chancerv cases
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citizen who was one hundred seven tn
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lace two mijas and a half from his bonse
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rested Ior lllegal aistllllng OF cluer prahq
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