The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04
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trip to the New Orleans exposition.
THE STAFFORD cornet band gave a prone
made concert at the town hall last Friday
evening.
THE members of Vulture engine company,
No. 4, are to have an entertainment soon,
the proceeds of which are to go toward
purchasing uniform for the company.
THE donation for Rev. J. e. Knapp, which
was intended to come off last Wednesday,
was postponed on account of the severe
storm until this wednesday, afternoon and
evening. The band will be present, and
social good time Is expected
REAL estate is still booming. Charles X.
Corwin has sold his house to Joseph Lam
don for about $500; Amos s. Hatch his
house, occupied by George Hatch, to Fifeld
Bohonan for $500; and John Blakely his
farm, two and one-half miles from the
village, to Lewis Blakely for $1,000. If the
railroad really should start, where would
the boom stop? Let us have some more talk
LAST week Monday company consisting
of G. p. Dickinson, j. l.. Bacon, e. A. Davis
f. "A. Ordway,l II. j. Corwin and f. f.
Dickinson, with ladies, went to Montpelier
for ride. Charles Il. Peters carried them
in his elegant palace sleigh, drawn by four
white horses, making as fine-looking turnout
as is usually driven into the Capital. The
party stopped at the Pavilion, where they
were received with the usual courtesy and
turned home in the evening and report the
best time of the season.
JOHN SCALES, a Westinghouse, who has
been wanted for the past six months by a
bill of the grand jury for an assault on Mary
Ann Martin, returned home from Canada, a
short time since, and on his appearance
here, last week, was quietly nabbed by
Constable Noyes and lodged in Jail The
same day one Ford of Randolph was given
state lodgings for drunkenness and resisting
Sheriff Parish. There are now five persons
in Jail, among them the renowned 90 Sid ~
fuller, who likes to spend the cold, cold
winter in Officer Dickinson genial quarters
as the fire and feed are reliable so, for some
petty depreciation, he is called to make a
periodical visit every season late in the fall
1--WE must have telephone to South
Royalton,' is what we hear often nova
days If such line is not got in ope ration
by the telephone company this spring, some
of the individual instruments will be ordered
removed, as the parties interested expected
South Royalton would be given them when
they signed for the instruments. A. n King
of Tunbridge is president of this company
and many at South Royalton do business
with it. Being connected with Tunbridge
would give us communication with Straford
also. 1t looks to be one of the most needed
points of connection from Chelsea to South
Royalton via Tunbridge, and we hope the
telephone company will see that a line is
put in operation
| BY means of the town signal service we
| are now getting the weather indications
every morning-the village by telephone, in
Dictated by signal numbers placed in the win
| dow of Hoods drugstore, and the farmer:
on the hills by the signal blasts of the Yves
Randolph whistle, given at seven A. M TIL,
numbers in Hoods window will indicate a.
follows: O fair, or probably fair weather
for the next seventeen hours (2) foul, o.
nl,ah 1xr fnttl uyna fhnr for ha ia1
| 81 fair at first, but changing to foul before
the end of the term; az foul and changing t,
fair; (5) doubtful or irregularly variable; (6
| unreasonable frOsts or cold waves in an,
season. II. l.. Bixby is the inventor of thi
system of town signal service, by which w,
who live in the hills and valleys of Yer
mont can have Just as correct weather indi
cations as the weather bureau of the Unite,
States Signal Service at Washington cal
give them. OF these reports it is said tina
ninety per cent are correct, so we nee,
look for but few errors.
Mrs. BETsEY CROKER trpped on a rug
recently, and fell, injuring her severely
- Some of the friends of III. o. Bixb
gave him "a pleasant surprise in a soca
visit, Friday evening" January Both. -
Adelbert b. Carpenter sprained his ankl
badly while at school, last Friday. -
Il. A. Davis returned to st. Johnsbur
Academy, Monday, where he has one NOR
term to spend before graduating -
Mary A. Wills has been sick again, but
better now. - Burt l.. Taylor, who ha
been going to school here, has returned t
Royalton. - Sylvester Barnes of, Barr
has been visiting friends in town. -
Mrs. j. b. Atwood is at South Natick, Mass
taking care of her brother, DIR. f. &. Mill
in his sickness. We understand the docto
is now considered out of danger. - Mr.
Abel Merrill is again on the sick list