The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-07
Weekly News Summary.


st. Johusbury feels blue thereat.
BuRLrNGToN's net bond debt is $500 800
1t takes $4,000 to run the city year.
ALDERMAN Cook of Burlington was
thrown from sleigh on Saturday and had
a wrist broken
CONGRESSMAN JOHN W. STEWART will
represent Vermont on the republican con-
gressional committee.
COLONEL WILLIAM G. HoLBRooK of the
Seventh Vermont will deliver the Memorial
day address in Rutland
THE Champlan Valley Agricultural So
ciety has voted to abandon its organization
on account of lack of support.
ROWLAND BROTHERS of Poultney have re-
Gently opened granite deposit of consider
able depth near Castleton village.
THE Agricultural College at Burlington is
arranging for an experimental farm of about
fifty acres within mile of the college,
THE United States senate has been me-
morialiZed for little more cash to help
build the Bennington battle monument
THE dwelling-house of Mrs Rosa Men
berg in East Poultney village was burned
last week. Loss $1,000; insurance $500.
G. NJ. RUSSELL of Wilmington has been
engaged by the Wallace White Post of Hunt
ington to deliver the Memorial day address.
PETER LAPINE, aged sixty-nine, a Windsor
wood-chopper, was killed by falling tree.
He was alone, and when found was frozen
stiff
RECENT patents; To B. f. Gilbert, Sr.,
Fair Haven, for mop-holder; to F. Il.
Moorhouse, Bennington, for bottle
stopper.
GEORGE w. HoLToN has been appointed
postmaster at Jamaica, James A. OHear
at Highgate and Ernest b. Pike at Will
mington.
THE debt of $4,000 on the Presbyterian
church at st. Johnsbury has been wiped
out Every church in that town is free from
membranes.
WORK began at the vershire copper mines
last Friday. Manager Cain has arrived
with twenty-five men, and one hundred
more are expected at once.
THE spring term of Windham county
court begins at Newfane March 49, The
docket shows nnety-one cases, eight of
which are state prosecutions.
CLARENCE p CURLEY of Swanton, aged
nineteen, has been convicted of stealing
from the mails and sentenced to eighteen
months in the house of correction.
Miss EMMA JUcH, the prima donna of the
American Opera Company, and one of the
greatest dramatic sopranos now on the
stage, has been engaged as the leading
soprano of the Rutland musical festival.
THE trustees of the Soldiers Home met
at Bennington last week to take definite &C.
ton on the question of enlarging the Home.
The finance committee was instructed to
proceed at once with the proposed extension.
A MEETING for the organization of maple
sugar exchange was held in Brattleboro Fri
day. Articles of incorporation were pre-
pared and adopted, which provide for
capital stock of $4,000 in shares of $500
each
THE officers of the Fifth Vermont re-
union, to be held in Burlington June 30, re-
port much encouragement. The secretary
has opened rol-book and has already PSI
names of survivors, although but forty posts
have been heard from
SOME people are grateful for very small
favors. When Judge Taft of the supreme
court sentenced the Swanton burglars to
four years apiece in the state prison one of
them arose and, bowling to the Judge, said
"Your honor, we thank you."-MeSSenger.
LAST fall housekeeper on the Western
Reserve" who had undertaken to raise
cucumbers found at the close of the season
that one plant had done simply nothing at
all. She dug it up, potted or boxed it and put
it away on the top shelf in the pantry, with
no particularly definite purpose regarding
it, In fact, she forgot all about it. But that
cucumber vine was an industrious plant and
apparently enjoyed life in the pantry; and
during the winter, when the housekeeper
remembered once to look at it, she found
thereon huge cucumber Messenger.
SECRETARY FORBES of the Vermont re-
publican league submitted report at the
ndJlOHdi league meeting III New \ OK
which showed that Vermont was the ban
ner state in New England in the organiza-
ton of republican clubs under the national
league plan. AT the time of the New York
convention, December 10, there were but
three organized republican clubs in Ver-
mont. A state league was formed Feb
ruary 10, consisting of seventy-five perma-
nent clubs. There are now eighty-one in
the state, with 10000 members. By mid
summer at least 100 clubs will be enrolled
as members of the republican league of
Vermont.
vine of Hardwick will be probated March
s. By its terms one-half of Mr.. Judevine' s
property is given to Mrs Judevine outright.
The other half is given to the executors in
perpetual trust, one-half the income to be
given to the University of Vermont for the
education of INDECENT students, the prefer
ence to be given to young men from Hard
wick and Concord, and one-half to the town
of Concord for educational purposes. In
each case the fund is to forever be known as
the Cornelius Alden Judevine fund, in
memory of Mr.. Judevine's only and we'll
beloved SON. To the testator's brother,
Harvey Judevine, Esq, of West Concord,
he bequeaths his interest in the business
they had together. Estimates of the value
of the estate vary widely, ranging from
100000 to $500, 900. Republicdn.
JOHN HICKS and family returned to st.
Johnsbury from Minneapolis on Monday.
Mr. Hicks is one of the few men who being
satisfied that it was mistake to leave a
comfortable Vermont home for the West.
returns while he can do so credtably and
before he is reduced TO the last possible
extremity. Mr.. Hicks talks very frankly
and sensibly of the western country, and
those who are contemplating removing to
those parts will do well to hunt him up and
talk the matter over. 1t is the old story.
His experience confirms the position we
have always maintained. A man with
ample means can get along West as he
can anywhere. A man dependent on his
own personal efforts finds as much or
greater competition there than here, ex-
penses of living much greater there than
here and the general advantages of schools
and society are not for moment to be com.
pared to those enjoyed by the citizen of st
Johnsbury. When it comes to climate, Mr.
Hicks prefers Vermont every day in the
year to Minnesota Cdiedonidn.
AN adjourned meeting of the State Board
of Trade was held in Burlington, February
49, at which there was a large attendance OF
butter, cheese, maple sugar and honey-pro
ducers from all parts of the state Amend
ments to the constitution were adopted pro
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