The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-23

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church June and 7. The occasion will be
the twentieth anniversary of the consecra-
tion of Bishop Bissell.
THE game between the grammar school
and Seminary mines on Saturday, resulted
in a victory for the former by the score of
twenty-five to fifteen. The grammarians
won by superior batting.
AT the regular business meeting of the
Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor next Friday evening the choice of a
delegate to the national convention at
Chicago will probably be made.
EDWARD MuRRAY has received an ap-
pointment as substitute mail-carrier and
will be in active service during the month
of June, when the regular carriers take
their vacation of fifteen days each.
A SUBSCRIPTION paper is in circulation
among admirers of the national game for
the purpose of raising funds sufficient to Sc
cure by telephone each evening, the
scores of the national league games.
Mrs. PAMELA II. DAVIS died at her home
on North street Friday last, aged sixty-eight
years. Funeral services were held at half-
past nine Sunday morning, and the remains
were taken to Moretown for interment.
THE sale of seats for Adonis " opened
last Thursday morning and was surprisingly
large. Less than one hundred seats were
left on Monday and the sale in the first two
hours is said to have been nearly four hun
dred.
JOHN WHITE, for twenty years resident
of Montpelier was found dead at Louis Nor
mandin's Tuesday afternoon. He served
two years in Company d of the Eleventh
Vermont Regiment and was seventy-three
years of age.
THE encampment of the Vermont Divis-
ion of Sons of Veterans will be held here to-
day, forenoon and afternoon sessions being
appointed, to be held in Grand Army Hall.
The Relief Corps will tender reception to
delegates at the residence of Mrs. A. T.
Newcomb this evening, when music will be
furnished by the Montpelier orchestra.
LETTERS uncaled for at the Montpelier
(Vt) post-office May u, 1888:
Mrs Roda Holmes, W. G. Bugbee,
Miss NJ. 7. Hibbard j. II. Gilbert,
Miss frankie Healey, Allen Hayward
Miss Mary T.. Kelly, Horace II. Jones,
Mrs Josiah Rollins, Obsorne & Webster,
Miss Mable Sewett, L. II. Skinner.
A. l.. Angel,
Parties applying for any of the above must
say advertised " and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
PROFESSOR BRIsToL's equescurrculum is
appearing before good-sized audiences and
the performances of his wonderfully saga
cious animals seem to hold in large meas
ure the interest which was awakened when
they first appeared here. They perform the
various acts with the same evidence of in
telligence and " Denver" the mue-clown
is funnier than ever. Besides this there is
the best orchestra of the size which was
ever heard in the Opera-house
A MEETING of the lodges comprising the
seventh district, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, to be held in the hall of Vermont
Lodge, No. ., at Montpelier, to-day (Wednes-
day. has been called by the district deputy
grand master. 1t is expected that the sew
eral lodges will eXemplify the various de-
grees. The grand master and other officers
of the grand body will be present and an
interesting meeting is assured. The meet
ing will open at three o'clock P. NJ.
AT meeting of the stockholders of the
Lane Manufacturing Company held last
week the number of directors was in
creased from three to five. The vacancy
in this board occasioned by the death of
Mr. Dennis Lane was filed by the election
of his son George L., and the additional
members chosen are Hon. Charles Dewey
and f. |. Pitkin, General p p. Pitkin was
made president of the company, Hon.
Charles Dewey was chosen vice. president
and c. p Ptkin was reelected to the posi-
tion of secretary and treasurer.
THE Montpelier Racket Club " has been
organized with the following officers: Presi-
dent, j. G.. Brown; vce-president, Miss
Mamie Tromblee secretary, Miss Anna
Chandler; treasurer, f. p. Carlton; execu-
tive committee, T.. E. Blakely, II. A. Cobb,
II. G. Marvin. Complete outfits for two
tennis courts have been purchased and
courts will be laid out on the vacant lot on
Summer street in the rear of S. NJ. Walton S
residence. The club is for the benefit of all
who are interested in tennis and to all such
a cordial invitation is extended to Join the
club and help make it a success.
THREE or four weeks ago there arrived at
the Pavilion Hotel one w. II. Durham and
wife, young people, claiming to be newly
married and apparently in excellent cir
! CuliiSldnCtS HudHtldlly' lHty were as
signed one of the best rooms in the hotel
and announced their intention to spend the
summer in town. On Tuesday of last week
a dispatch was received at the hotel nquir-
ing if Durham had been there over Sunday.
Durham learned of this Tuesday afternoon
and shortly after hired saddle-horse at
! the Pavilion stable for an afternoon ride.
Before going out he indorsed and offered in
/ payment of his board bill to date a check
! for $50 upon the Iron National Bank OF
Plattsburgh, n. Y, purporting to be signed
! by G.. III. Durham and payable to w.
II. Dunham. He had on one or two pre-
vious occasions paid his board with
checks on New York banks, which had
been duly paid, and no question arose con-
corning the value of this one. The bill was
some $50 and he was handed the balance in
cash. A bill for some S25 at BiXby's drug
store was paid to Clerk Rolfe by check
similarly signed. About a week previous
an older woman, claiming to be their
mother, joined the Dunhams, and on Tues
day afternoon, after the fellow had left the
hotel, the two women summoned the porter
to take their baggage to the depot. They
! left on the g. 80 train. giving some DlauSible