The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-21

to rent. Mr.. Kimball will erect new house
on the site of the old one.
LADIES having articles for the Christ
church Easter sale are requested to bring
them, marked, to the Golden Fleece
Wednesday morning, April 2Sth.
AT the eighth annual session of the
Grand Lodge, knights of Honor, held at
Brattleboro last week Wednesday, Mr.. w.
A. Briggs of this place was chosen grand
reporter.
Mrs. E. d. MASON has gone to New
Haven, Conn, to attend the annual meet
ing of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission
Society. Mrs. Mason is the state secretary
for Vermont.
THERE will be festival rehearsal at the
Golden Fleece at half-past seven o'clock
Thursday evening, under Mr.. Blaisdells
direction. Let there be large attendance
on that occasion.
COLONEL j. II. LUCIA has been engaged
by Brooks Post, G.. A. r., to deliver the Me-
mortal day address this year, and the Me-
mortal sermon will be preached at Christ
church by the rector, Rev. Howard f. Hill
NEGOTIATIONS are making for the transfer
of the Walker Brooks place, near the Union
school-house, to Mr.. A. w. johnson of the
firm of Cotton & Johnson. We understand
that no writings have been made as yet,
however
JUNE 1st II. A. Cleveland will transfer
the stock of his boot and shoe store to e. III.
Aldrich of West Millbury, Mass. Mr..
Cleveland will, we understand, go to New
Haven, Conn, to engage in a similar busi-
ness there.
AN enthusiastic member of the Apollo
Club who stopped over at st. Johnsbury,
and also visited Lyndonvlle, says that par
ties are willing to guarantee an audience OF
twelve hundred at either place if the Apollo
Club will give an entertainment on the Sd
or 4th of July next.
Hon. G. w. Writers has issued a call for
a meeting of the republican committee of
the first congressional district at the Pavilion
Hotel, Montpelier, on Friday evening, April
90, for the purpose of selecting time and
place for holding the next convention for
the nomination of member of congress.
The mechanical castle target at Armory
rink, mentioned in a recent issue of the
WATcHMAN is meeting with large patron
age and, as was predicted, is proving re-
munerative to the owners and managers.
Special inducements, specified in the busi-
ness notices, are offered to visitors this week.
EASTER services at Christ church will be
held at the usual hour of Sunday services,
with childrens carol service at four in the
afternoon Extra preparation has been
made for the musical part of the services
and it will doubtless be unusually attractive
There is also to be chldren's service at
Bethany church Sunday evening.
GEORGE ALMoN is is town, having come
here for the purpose of equipping the resi-
dences of j. c. Houghton and c. w. Porter
with electric call bells and other apparatus
furnished by the firm by which he is EN-
! ployed. He is to do similar job for Z.
c. Warren of Waterbury before his return
to Boston and will be in this vicinity for
about two weeks.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelier
(vt.) post-offce April II, 1885,
Mrs. Mrs. Jane Jane &. Crane Crane, Andrew Murphy,
Mary j. King Levi Robinson,
Miss Ella Sloan. John NJ Smith,
MIS- Hattie d. NllldIS, hllilbdl NdllnB
Parties applying for any of the above must
say advertised" and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused
Monday evening by the announcement that
Clark Corey, a young Montpelier lad, was
missing. 1t turned out that he had gone
fishing with some of his friends Immediately
after school without previously announcing
his intention to do so, and his failure to put
in an appearance until half-past ten O'Clock
in the evening was perhaps sufficient cause
| for alarm
The first number of the new Rutland
weekly. the Saturday Express, has made its
appearance. Mr.. Jewett p. Cain is the
editor, and it promises to be a lively paper.
The editor says that "the Express will be a
fearless and outspoken independent news
paper" and it will ever defend the weak
against the strong" The newspaper starts
off with well-tilled editorial and local de-
partments.
Hon. JUsTUs DARTT, state superintendent
of education, has issued the following cir
cular:
To the School officers, Teachers and Scholars Of
Vermont: The governor having set apart, by proca
nation, Saturday, April oath, Arbor day IN this
as % thee n Su
Many of them have been too long neglected. They
are repulsive rather than attractive. Let us i'm:
fowers. Let us make this school holiday, and
celebrate with appropriate exercises by the schOl
ars, making 1t day of pleasure for the children.
WE hope that the readers of the WATCH
MAN will give due heed to Governor Pin
gree's Arbor day proclamation, published
last week. The day appointed is next Sat
urday-a week earlier than last year. An
effort should be made to plant more trees
about our homes, on the roadsides, in
school and church grounds, and all other
places that trees would make more attract
i've. Arbor day was considerably observed
in some parts of the state last year. and we
hope to receive accounts of its more general
observance this year.
Il. DEWITT TALMAGE lectures at Mont
pelier May 18th. He has proved that he can
gather regular Sabbath congregation of five
thousand hearers and that he can make
himself effectively heard by that number OF
people. He is one of those preachers who
really belong to mankind at large Most
people who try to describe DIR. Talmage be-
gin by saying that he is like somebody OF
unlike somebody else. Now, the fact is,
he Is not like any other person at all
He is just "Talmage" all over, with as
much marked individuality as ever was con
centrated in any one man.
AT the annual meeting Of Aurora Lodge
No %. +. and A M the following officers