The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-09-05
Montpelier and Vicinity.

REV. EDWARD STONE is expected to oc-
cupy the pulpit of Bethany church next
Sunday morning.
The ladies missionary society of Bethany
church meets this week Thursday after
noon with Mrs. j. " Babcock.
THE appearance of the residence of II. Il.
Bunnell is being greatly improved by an
extensive alteration of the roof.
MEssRs. SMILE AND WHITNEY are to To-
cate their medical laboratory in rooms on
| the second floor of the Ellis block.
EVENING services will be resumed in the
| Church of the Messiah next Sunday, at 4 80
o'clock, with service of sacred song.
REPRESENTATIVE PITKIN of Montpelier
and Leland of Berlin were serenaded last
night by the Montpelier Military Band.
| ANOTHER consignment of about one hun
| dred tons of pipe, chiefly the fourteen-inch
size, for the Berlin pipe line arrived Friday
NJ. d. Brock of Barnet, a brother of
| our townsman, j. w. Brock, died on Mon
| day. Mr.. Brock had been an invalid for
many years.
AMONG the flags generously swung out on
| South Main street for Harrison and Morton
| is that of the noted independent, George
NJ. Scribner.
FRED SrANDIsH has bought Collins Blake
ly's cigar Indian and is having it touched
| up at Dan Guptils paint-shop for display
at his cigar-store.
a PETITION was largely signed by voters
at the polls yesterday for the use of granite
instead of marble in completing the federal
building at this place.
THE newspapers and the public are under
! further obligations to A. c. Brown of the
telephone exchange for services cheerfully
and efficiently rendered.
f. NJ. CoRRY bets j. A. Locklin 81 900
that the republican national ticket will be
a1anta1 Tho hat iG falyan and bOtb DnrtipS
have deposited the money in the bank.
THE new elevator at the Pavilion, which
| has been in running order for several days,
is a success in every particular and great
convenience to guests and visitors at the
hotel.
THE seminary seems to be in prosperous
condition. All the departments are full,
but the music department is overfiowing-
all attributable to a good school well
managed.
On Saturday evening Harrison and Nor
ton flags were swung out by A. o. Cummins
opposite his residence on Seminary Hill and
by j. G. Wing and others on Court street.
The band and a good-sized delegation OF
torch-bearers were present.
To the declaration, " Cleveland gave SIC
for the Charleston sufferers and $4,000 foI
the democratic campaign fund.- shown on
one of the transparencies Thursday night
might have been added, " Levi p. Morton
gave $4,000 for starving Ireland.
A TYPICAL democrat, who was listening
to Mr.. Boards speech Thursday evening
and insisted that il was time for the speaker
to extol the republican PLATFORM was told
by the republican addressed 1--WE don't
have to be told what our platform is"
For some time past Mrs. j. l.. Tuttle has
been suffering from lameness in one leg
and so serious had the difficulty grown thai
an operation became necessary. 1t was
performed last week and revealed the pres
ence of decayed bone. Mrs. Tuttle is quite
low and more serious results are feared.
MEMBERS of the local societies of Chris
tian Endeavor organized Sunday at the
Methodist church for the Berlin mission
school work The following officers wert
chosen: Superintendent, L. I. Ranney as
sistant superintendent, III. A. Cobb; sec
retary and treasurer, Miss Mary Macomber
Mr. FRANK II. BAsCoM has arranged
another Masonic pilgrimage and excursion
to Boston, commencing Monday, September
II, which takes in the supreme council o
the thirty-third degree, Boston Com
mandery of knights Templar and thu
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine. Quite a dele
CATION has applied for tickets.
THE law office of S. C. Shurtleff Esq.
took the stump at Planfeld Saturday nigh
for S. G. Shurtlef for governor. One of thu
" limbs, when he feelingly inquired abou
Cleveland and then about Harrison, received
, a loud response that the latter was " al
right" something of a " free wet blanke
on the ardor of the young orator,
: 1T is extremely edifyng to hear loca
democrats who year ago strongly urge,
the construction of the new Berlin pipe line
and consequent taxation of the communit.
for the purpose of Introducing manufacture
in this place, denouncing this year il
venomous terms the policy of protection a
favoring the manufactures and imposing
grieVous tax on the people.
In the course of his speech last Thursda.
evening Mr.. Beard told the following stor.
, to illustrate the free-trade ear-marks of thu
; democratic party: One OF the oft-told own
ers of profane parrots ducked his particua
bird in cold water to break him of the habi
of profanity. One morning some littl
, chickens were brought in out of the rail-
wet, drabbled, cold anu miserable, and wer,
laid down by the hearth TO dry and warm
, Poll looked down from his perch on tn,