The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montp,

say ~ advertised ana give Une uate.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
SARAH M. GooDELL, wife of James V.
Morrow, died suddenly at her home on Sem
mary Hill, Monday forenoon. She had been
suffering for several days from an attack of
lung fever but was recovering, and some
heart trouble is believed to have been the
cause of her death. Mrs Morrow was born
| in Schuyler Falls, n. Y, November 25th,
1910, and was married twenty-one years ago
last March, having been since that time
resident of Montpelier. Five children have
been born to her. and four of these, with
their father, are left to mourn her loss.
ROBERT ALEXANDER, aged eighty-nine
years, and for the past sixty years resident
of Montpelier and Berlin, died of pneu-
monia at the residence of Andrew Bailey in
Berlin, on Wednesday, March 31st. He was
| always in good health until his last illness,
which was brought on by his trip to Mr..
Bailey's week or ten days previous to the
date of his death. Mr.. Alexander was the
father of twelve children, of whom only
four-Clark and George E., and Mrs. II. G.
Holmes of Montpelier and Mrs. Charles
Smith of Berlin-survive him. He buried
his wife in 1875. His birthplace was Hins-
dale, n. III.
THE death of Mrs. Julia A. Field, widow
of the late Charles X. Field, which occurred
on Friday morning last at the residence of
Colonel E. p. Jewett, was not unexpected
by her friends. She had been in failing
health for more than a year, when an attack
of pneumonia made the result only ques-
ton of few weeks, as the event proved.
After brief service on Saturday morning,
Rev. Mr.. Wright officiating, her remains
were taken to Brattleboro, and funeral serv-
ices held at her late residence on Walnut
street. A large attendance OF friends and
neighbors testified to the esteem and atfec-
ton in which she was held in Brattleboro.
THE Apollo Club goes to St. Johnsbury on
Friday of this week and, as has been an
nounced, will be accompanied by the Mont
pelier Military Band. The company will GO
from here by the express train Friday after.
noon and returning, will have a special
train from Wells River. The Montpelier <
Wells River railroad will sell round-triI
tickets from Montpelier for $500 to all who
may desire to go with the company, and the
Passumpsic railroad will sell tickets from
Wells River and Lyndonville and way sta
tions TO St. Johnsbury and return at hal
rates. The performance will be good one
Chose of the Apollo Club always are) anC
everybody should attend.
THERE was quite good attendance at the
rehearsal last week Wednesday evening
and second annual Washington county
musical festival is now an assured fact. L
r will probably be held the second week IL
, June, as the services of the great conductor
, Carl Zerrahn, cannot be secured for an,
week previous to that time. Blaisdell's or
chestra has been engaged for the occasion
and Mr.. Blaisdell who did such eXcellen
work in the same capacity one year ago, vii
: conduct the preliminary rehearsals. 1t i
g proposed to have quartette of Bostol
5 soloists as one great attraction, and an etfor
| A IA al
: Gertrude Edmands and Mr.. j. g. Bartlett o
the Boston Mariana Opera Company as tn,
contralto and tenor. Mrs. Jennie Patrcl
Walker is talked of for the soprano an,
y Mr.. ID. NJ Babcock of Boston, who is tn
}. greatest oratorio basso of America to-day
e will probably be the fourth member of TIN
quartette, If he can be had. 1t is propose
l. to conduct the convention ON even grande
n scale than that of 1885, and we trust tn
people of Washington county will do all i
their power to make 1t equally successful
, The first formal rehearsal will be held a
i the Golden Fleece this evening, under the d
n recton OF Mr.. Blaisdell and everybody VIII
: can sing is urged to be present. The re
+ hearsal is free to all and should be yer
II largely attended. Let all lend encourag,
J. ment to the enterprise from the start.
il AMONG the deaths which we are calle
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