The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Vermont News.

sumpslc river was recently launched near
st. Johnsbury
THE second annual exhibition of the
Valley Fair Association at Brattlebor0 was
successfully held last week.
FRANK EMERY of Middlebury has been
released from states prison, after serving
ten years sent &c for burglary.
NEW money rider offices established in
Vermont, October ! are Chester Depot, Hart
ford, Proctor, Proctorsville and Quechee.
ABEL b. HOWE, well-known Mason of
Springfield, died September %, at the age
of seventy-eight years. He leaves widow.
JOHNSON Posr at Northfield has secured
the celebrated Bohemian Glass Blowers for
a weeks entertainment, from October - to
the 9th.
JOSEPH WELD, an eccentric shoemaker
eighty years of age, who for long time had
lived alone in West Rutland was found
dead in his cottage last week Wednesday
morning.
THE postmaster-general has just issued
proposals for carrying the mails in the
New England states from July /, 1889 TO
June 80, 1893. The number of routes adj
vertised for Vermont is 1914
LoRING G.. DALE of Boston, Mass. died at
his home in Chelsea, Mass, last Saturday
morning. He was over siXty-siX years old
native of Chester. VT, and a prominent
advocate of know nothingism.
THE men engaged in blasting out the
wheel-pit at the dam that is being built on
the Passumpsic at st. Johnsbury uncovered
"A vein of copper ore in the ledge. Some of
the specimens are quite rich in the ore.
A DEMURRER has been entered in the case
of the estate of James a Stone against
the Central Vermont railroad and has been
sustained by the court The deceased was
one of the victims of the Hartford disaster.
THE Ancient and Honorable artillery
Il.
mont, Monday, on its annual field trip to
Saratoga y. Y. 1t was shown the courtesy
of an escort at Rutland by the Kingsley
Guard.
MOSES RowELL of Tunbridge. aged about
sixty-five, was found hanging to a tree in
the woods near his residence last week
Wednesday evening. He is supposed to
have hung himself No cause for suicide is
known.
THE Weldon House in St. Adams will be
closed for repairs October u. The recon-
struction will be thorough, as the purpose
is to equip the honse with all the improve
ments needed to make it a first-Class sum-
mer resort.
THE ninth annual reunion of Company ID,
Sixth Vermont regiment, will be held in the
Barton Grand Army hall October 3, after
noon and evening w. c. Ufford of Spring
field, Mass, son of Comrade c. j. Ufford
will deliver an address
The damage done by the recent storm at
Mt. Tabor was so great that state aid for
rebuilding bridges and repairing roads has
been asked, and a commission appointed by
the county court to estimate damages and
report at the coming session of the legis-
lature.
JEDUTHAN TAYLOR, who died in Thetford
September 49, was in his seventy-second
year, and the last of a family of five. He
was born and always lived in Thetford.
He had been selectman and representative
to the legislature. A widow, son and daugh-
ter survive him.
THE twentieth annual convention of the
State Sabbath-school Association of Ver-
mont is to be held in the Congregational
church, at Woodstock, on October 16, II and
Is. The general conductor will be Rev j.
A. Pierce, president of the association,
West Randolph, and the music will be
under the direction of Professor and Mrs.
ID. b. Towner of Mortified, Mass.
REV. ELIHU SCOTT, retired Methodist
minister who died recently in Hampton,
\. H., was born in Greensboro, on Decem-
Der II, 1905, and joined the New England
conference in June, 1925. Among his many
appointments was Montpelier His first
five years treasurer of the conference trus-
tees. He was an able preacher and also pos
sessed high executive ability.
THE Woman's Board of Missions met
at st. Adams Wednesday Of last week. One
hundred fifty delegates were present. The
following officers were chosen: President,
Mrs. A. w. Wild of CharlOtte; honorary
president, Mrs. Horace Fairbanks of ST.
Johnsbury; one or two vice-presdents from
each county; recording secretary. Mrs. c.
NJ. Stone of st. Johnsbury; home secretary,
Mrs. Henry Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury;
corresponding secretary, Mary c, Torrey of
Burlington; treasurer, Mrs. T. NJ. Howard
of st. Johnsbury.
LARIoUs SMITH, who died last week
Thursday night at the age of ninety-two
years was credited with being the oldest
soldier of the civil war He enlisted in Com
pany of the Twelfth Vermont volunteers,
which went from Bellows Falls in 1868. He
was man of remarkably strong physique,
and would at the time of his death easily
have passed for man of sixty. He leaves
two sons-one. Henry Smith, clerk of the
Rutland court He was a member of
Stoughton Grand Army post and will be
buried with military honors to-day.
OWING to a mishap in the quarry, the con-
tractors for the principal Vermont monu-
ment at Gettysburg were unable to get all
the blocks in season for the completion and
erection of the monument this fall, hence
the dedication that was expected to take
place about this time has been indefinitely
postponed. 1t is hoped that by next spring
all the monuments will be ready to dedi-
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fered similar delay in the work upon it's
monuments, and suggestion has been
made that, if convenience serves, both
states dedicate at the same time.
THE annual state Baptist convention was
opened in Burlington, the evening of Sep
TENDER 25th with the Woman's Missionary
meeting and continued the Goth and 9th.
Those from outside of the state who took
part in the exercises were Rev. w. S. Nc
Kenzie, DID,, of Boston, Mass, OF the
American Baptist Union, who spoke
Wednesday night ON missions; Rev Way
land Hoyt, ID D., of Philadelphia, Pa, who
delivered the annual address; Rev, c. c.
Biting, DID,, Philadelphia, Pa, of the
American Baptist Publication Society, who
spoke Thursday on the work of the society,
and Rev. A. p. Mason, DID,, on home mis-
sions. The board of management elected
Colonel j. j. Estey of Brattleboro, presi-
dent.
AT the annual convention of the state
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, held
in Rutland, September 26 and q, resolu-
ton was adopted, that no local union shall
be bound by any principle espoused or plan
devised by the state union except that all
unions auxiliary must subscribe TO the total
abstinence pledge and to the constitution of
the state union Among other resolutions,