The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-04
Weekly News Summary.

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THERE is talk of forming stock COM
pany of the Blue Mountain Granite Com
pany OF Ryegate.
The Congregational church at Lyndon is
considering the question of calling Rev. G..
b. Hubert, DID.
DIPHTHERIA is having quite run in Rip
ton. At Montgomery all public gatherings
have been prohibited.
III. NJ BRUCE finds the snow four and one
half feet deep in the woods near his mills at
the " Forks " in Stowe.
JUDGE II. II. POWERS has been engaged
by Post johnson to deliver the next Memo
rial day address at Northtield.
CHARLES CLEMENT, president of the Rut-
land railroad, and several of the directors
have rendered their designations.
ST. JoHNsBURY is to have kindling-wood
factory, employing thirty men and using ten
thousand cords of slabs per year.
AFTER publication for about year the
West Rirer NelCs of South Londonderry has
made its graceful bow and retired.
CONGRESSMAN CIRCUIT has lately taken a
trip into Virginia, visiting the old camp
grounds of the Fifteenth Regiment.
SNow-RoLLERs are coming into use in many
Vermont towns, and they are found to
make smooth, hard and even roads.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE was presented with
a gold-headed cane Christmas day by the
inmates of the Vermont reform school.
SUPERINTENDENT DRAPER has issued a
complete history of the Brattleboro insane
asylum, covering period of fifty years
The sale of butter at the Sleeper River
creamery, owned by +. & I. Fairbanks of
st. Johnsbury, amounted to $1,000 last year
THE Presbyterian church of st. Johsbury
is circulating a subscription paper to pay OFF
its debt of 81 ,0S0, and has raised all but 500.
of A ta Iiat IF
Proctor, who accidentally fell into tub of
hot water Thursday, died from her injuries.
THE annual meeting of the Vermont State
Teachers Association at Brandon on jan
uary 26, ~ and 2S, promises to be one of the
most interesting yet held.
AN organization has been perfected at
Bellows Falls for the establishment of
free library and $500 have been appropri-
ated to carry out the work.
CHRISTOPHER RICE of Rutland was Sc
verely injured while coupling cars at Bel
lows Falls Beside body bruises, several of
his teeth were knocked out.
A MAN by the name of Cummings was run
over by an engine and two cars at South
Royalton yesterday and his right leg and
hand were fearfully mangled.
GENERAL W. L. GREENLEAF has ordered
that the companies composing the First
Regiment shall have weekly evening drills,
commencing January LIST, until May 31st.
JUDGE HUGH HENRY will ask the mem
bers of the Sixteenth Vermont Regiment to
contribute toward fund for the purchase
of a monument to be erected at Gettysburg.
Hon. E. h. HARD of Burlington has en-
tered complaint against twenty prominent
citizens for obstructing the street in con-
nection with coasting, and lively time is
expected
BISHOP DEGoEsBRIAND and thirteen as
sstant priests accepted several young
women in the profession at the Mount st.
Joseph Roman Catholic convent at Rutland
last week.
MOSES BUCHANAN, farmer, while driving
across the track near Wells River was
struck by an express train and narrowly es-
capped being killed. He was seriously in
jured but will recover.
JOSEPH h. DAVIS an inmate of the Sol
diers Home at Bennington, dropped dead
the other night His age was siXty-five
He belonged in Hartford and went out in
the Sixteenth Regiment.
THE press and type of the defunct South
Londonderry NeaCS is to be moved to Lud-
low and republican campaign paper
started by r. S. Warner, formerly editor of
the old Black Rirer Gazette.
THE twenty-eighth annual session of the
Orleans County Musical Association is to be
held in Robinsons Hall, Barton, Jan
uary 1913, under the management of DIR.
H. II. rainier Oh New i OTh'
NEWS has been received of the death at
Elgin, Ill.,, of the Rev. William S. Balch,
DID, noted Universalst divine, formerly
of Ludlow and well-known all over YER
mont, at the age of eighty-two.
New postmasters in Vermont: ID. G.
Sawyer at Sharon, NJ. j. Webster at Hub
bardton, A. n. Glnes at Burke, Leroy A.
Kent at Calais, Orrin Marsh at Browning
ton and Robert b. Strople at North Derby.
III. I
citizen of st. Johnsbury, is on trial for arson
in Caledonia county court. 1t is charged
that for motives of revenge he burned build
ings belonging to Harvey Foster of Walden.
MAMIE, the eighteen months-old child of
Fred Carter of st. Adams, died recently
from the effects of drinking quantity of
Leppers Healer. She climbed into chair
and drank saucer of it and died in three
hours.
Posi- commanders, G. A. r., have been
elected as follows Ludlow f. II. Fuller;
Waterbury Center, b. G.. w. Marshall
North Troy, S. D. Underhill; Ripton, S.
G. Gibbs Hinesburgh, NJ. j. Finney; New
port E. G. Potter.
THE Bennington Banner contradicts the
rumor of the suicide of DR.. George b.
Haskns of Arlington, and says: There is
no doubt that his death was purely acct
dental he taking dose of aconite, mistak-
ing it for another medicine"
JUDGE Epson A. DoUD of New Haven
died December 9th of Brghts disease,
aged fifty-four. He had been town treas
urer for the last fifteen years, was in the
legislature in 1880, and in 1884 was chosen
an assistant Judge for Addison county. He
left a widow and one SON
A CARLOAD of Struggled liquor was seized
at Newport last week. What purported to
be a load of straw was hfty-siX cases con-
tanning 700 bottles of gin and brandy 1t
was shipped to Manchester, n. H., from st.
Johns, but was side-tracked and taken in
charge by customs officials.
ID. b. STEDMAN, for twenty years asso-
cate editor and part owner of the Brattle-
boro PhVnir, has sold his interest in the
paper to his former partner, o. l.. French
who will hereafter conduct the sheet, Mr.
Stedman will soon go with his family to
southern California, where he expects to
permanently locate.
j. c. WELLER, his wife and two children
who went from Burlington, VT, to the
Congo country to take part in Bishop Tay,
lor's self-supporting missionary scheme
have returned and are in New York. Mr.
Weller describes the enterprise as com
plete failure and thinks he was lucky to
escape alive. He says there is no chance
for missionary work, as the struggle for eX
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