The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-10
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

cred in West Rutland.
AT Lexington, this season, 100000 feet
of spruce has been cut.
The January customs receipts at Rich
ford amounted to $4,000.
CARL e. DAY of Underhill, while coast
ing, broke his collar-bone.
GEORGIA, with population of 1900, has
twenty-five octogenarians.
VERMONT ACADEMY at Saxton's River has
one hundred sixty students.
FIVE children in vergennes have died of
whooping-cough this winter.
COOP hay is worth $3.50 ton in Swan
ton and rye straw 81 per ton.
EDWARD SMITH of Richford sold 1000
worth of fish-poles last season.
A YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
is TO be formed in Middlebury.
THE Salvation Army claims to have made
sixteen converts in Burlington.
THE farm buildings of w. l.. White of
Grafton were burned last week.
The spring term of the st. Johnsbury
Academy opens with 256 students.
THE Ketchum mare, in Salisbury, three
years old, has been sold for 81 600.
The number of births in Bellows Falls
during the past year was sixty-fve.
The annual meeting of the State Dental
| Society opens at Bellows Falls March 18th.
JAMES REAY of North Hero was thrown
from his sleigh and broke shoulder-blade.
F1FTy-FoUR persons were received into
the Methodist church at Island Pond last
week Sunday.
THE Second Congregational church of
Bennington will celebrate its fiftieth ami
versary April 21st.
G. G. CHASE of McIndoe's while crossing
the railroad, recently, was struck by train.
He will lose an arm.
EDWARD VAN SIcKLEN of South Burling-
ton had leg broken, last week, by being
thrown from his sleigh.
The time of holding the annual session
of the Vermont Conference has been changed
from April ODD to the 29th
The Passumpsic Railroad Company will
put seven of their locomotives into coal
burners as soon as possible.
COLONEL A. G. HUBBELL of Bennington
had nearly one hundred bushels of oats
stolen frem his barn recently.
The encouragement has informed Sena-
tor Morrill, and General circuit that Silas
M. Waite is not to be pardoned.
The whole number of pupils in the three
Normal Schools is 210; whole number OF
graduates the past term, twenty-six.
CLEMENT & Sons have given 81 900 and
N. p. Kingsley and G. p. Harris 800 each
to the Rutland Free Library Association.
The young son of E. Beck of Westmore BIZ
off the head of an earthen dog, which lodged
in his throat, and came near losing his life.
THE Browns, father and son, who recently
escaped from Orleans county Jail, have been
rearrested in Canada and returned to their
old quarters.
The Central Vermont railroad has issued
an illustrated programme of the Burlington
carnival, which occurs next week from the
10th to the 10Th.
IRA CHURCH, formerly of Swanton, has
presented ruler to Jewett Post of that
place made from a board taken from the
Andersonville dead-line.
THE total cost of the new Orleans county
courthouse was S21 ,725. The Legislature
appropriated $4,000 and the citizens Of
Newport raised S6.602.50.
THE wooden company of North Hartland
manufactured and shipped seventy-five
cases, containing over 10000 yards of full
cloth, during the month of January.
A KNIGHTS OF LABOR ASSEMBLY has beer
organized in Rutland. 1t is said that SINH
lar assemblies are to be organized in Bur
lington, Brattleboro. st. Adams and Mont
pelier.
AN animal has been seen in WoodforG
whose favorite diet is the blood of cats, sew
eral having been killed by it. 1t has also
been seen up tree with rabbit in its
mouth.
THE citizens of Richford have petitionet
the governor to prevent, by some means
the introduction of smallpox from Canada
Several deaths occurred last week just ovel
the line.
THE Caledonian Young Mems Temper
ance Society, that has just held its annua
meeting at st. Johnsbury, was organized il
1896, and will celebrate its semi-centennia
at Lyndonville July 4th.
The Vermont International Telegraph
Company whose line runs from Lunenburl
to Swanton, 100 miles, is said to be the only
telegraph company in the United States tina
pays dividends on its original stock
BRATTLEBoRo's Protective Union of Me
chaniCs, organized three years ago to bu,
their own meat, has declared dividend o
eighteen per cent on purchases and paid be
sides eight per cent on its capital stock
DURING the week ending Saturday las
two hundred eight cars of merchandise TO
export from Canada to Europe were bonde,
at the port of st. Adams. The contents o
the cars were oats, pease, flour, apples, etc.
AT meeting of the trustees of the Sol
diers' Home, held in Burlington Januar
Goth, the president and secretary were di
, rected to solicit proposals from towns, socie
ties, grand army posts and individuals TO
such aid as they may be pleased to max
towards purchasing, erecting, locating o
, maintaining a Soldiers Home in Vermont
, Communications should be addressed Il
William Wells, president, Burlington, VT.
JUST before reaching Bethel, last week
9 Brakeman Lampman of the fast express
: which at the time was running fifty mile
an hour, missed his footing and fell fror
e the platform. He caught hold of the iro
: rod and chung to it till his feet touched tn
ground; then he let go and was thrown int
' the air considerable distance and subst
, quently landed against fence several rod
c from the track. His only injuries wer
5 some slight bruises.
: THE Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows
held at Burlington last week, elected thes
= officers: G. G. p, G. III. Henderson of S
+ Johnsbury G. II, p, w. w. Henry of Blu
: lington; G. S. W., L.. w. Robinson of Derb
# Line; G. j. W., A. III. Sabin of Saxton
J. River; G. scribe, j. X. Egerton of Mortified
G.. treasurer G. Parmenter of Rutland; {
marshal, j. w. Goodell of Burlington; G.
S., G. b. Foster of Derby Line; G.. G. S
Jerome Corbett of st. Johnsbury.
g ACCORDING to the Vermont Register fC
Il 1902 in which year Isaac Tichenor was GO
# ernor, the only post towns in the preseI
n county of Lamoille were in Cambridge an
g Johnson AT Cambridge Isaac Warren Wa
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