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

pairs before l.. p. Gleason & Co. move
into it,
Mrs. j. D. CLARK remains in Bradford
and vicinity for few days to visit friends
and relatives.
II. G. GLEASON has rendered his resigna-
ton as basso of Christ church choir His
place will be difficult to fill.
THE Ladies' Society of the Church of the
Messiah give maple sugar sociable in the
church vestry tomorrow evening.
JAMES JORDAN and George Knapp have
gone to Boston, the former to meet friends
from England, who are soon to arrive.
REV. Mr.. HINcKs intends TO vacate the
Reed house. now owned by G., w. Wing,
about the middle of the present month.
JOSEPH FISHER has returned from Boston,
where he and Mrs. Fisher have been spend
ing the winter. Mrs. Fisher remains in
Boston for the present.
HENRY A. COBB has finished work in the
store of II. c. Webster, where he has been
for the past nine years. and will enter the
employ of d. s. Wheatley.
THE receipts at the new maple sugar
party at Trinity vestry were about S26. A
dolls drill and literary exercises furnished
abundant entertainment for all present
THE children of Trinity Sunday-school,
who have been canvassing for funds for the
support of missions, reported on Sunday
evening that they had secured over $50
JOHN L. PIERCE, who has been for some
time past with Ferguson & Adsit in Bur-
lington, will succeed his brother Clarence
as clerk in the store of Johnson & Cotton.
WEDNESDAY, Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday of next week are the dates announced
for the appearance in Montpelier of Sanger's
Comic Opera Company. They sing at Barre
Monday and Tuesday evenings.
JAMES NJ. boutwell, started on a west
ern trip on Wednesday last, inwardly chuck
ling at the fact that the local newspaper men
had not learned of, and announced, his in
tention to do so. He left in company with
his uncle, Mr.. j. II. Mead.
THE ladies of the Woman's Relief Corps
are to serve " butterfly " tea at Grand
Army Hall this evening, and will hold a
reception in the elegant rooms of the
Apollo Club, the use of which have been
generously rendered to them.
A CONSIDERABLE number of Montpelier
people are planning to attend the presenta-
tion of " Erminie " at Howard Opera-house,
Burlington, Monday evening, April %.
Seats will be reserved for all such and will
be duly placed on sale at d. F. Longs.
THE division of the stock of the Howe &
Wheatley dry-goods store is expected to be
made to-day by the removal of Mr.. Wheat
ley to the store of c. A. Best, one-half OF
which he has rented. John Horne and Miss
Emma Grout will remain in the employ OF
| Mr.. Howe.
G. G. PIERCE, for some years past in the
employ of Fisher & Cotton and Johnson &
Cotton, has bought of A. l.. Clark & Son
successors to ID. T. Knapp, the stock OF
their harness-store. If Clarence serves
himself as well as he has his employers il
ought to assure him the success which such
faithfulness always merits.
SUBSTITUTE MAIL-CARRIER MOONEY, whose
three months appointment recently ex
pired has, through the efforts OF Post
master Wing, had that appointment re
newed for similar period. The business
of the Office is more than two carriers ar,
able to care for, although that number il
"all the law allows The law under which
Montpelier became free delivery office.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpele
(Vt.) post-oifce April =, 1855:
Miss Adaline Drown, Mrs. Addie shepherd
Miss Maggie Hunt, John Brown,
Mrs George W. Lane, Frank Cameron
Miss Hattie Miller, /; Kelley,
Miss Lydia Newton Charles McLane.
Mrs l., G. Powers,
Parties applying for any of the above mus
say advertised " and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
AS the mail train was coming west owe
the Wells River road Monday evening, an'
when at a point where the results nigh
have been most frightful, the forward jour
nal of the passenger-car broke and com
plete wreck of the car, with fearful injury t
the passengers, was barely averted by de
vice in connection with the draw-bar, al
ranged by Superintendent Stowell, thoug
for quite another purpose.
THE following is the award of the highes
seats, as the result of the examinations il
the Grammar School and higher grades c
the Union School at the close of tie winte
term: Room No 8, S. r. Davis, Charlie
Birtel, Edna Taft Room No. 7, Harry MOI
tague, Mabel Goodwin, Harry Shurtlet
Room No. 6, Harrie Huse, Ida Putnam
George Bagley; Room No. 3, Anna Halt
Flora Cummins, Stephen Hasbrook.
LEANDER CUMMINs of Santa Rosa, Cal
for thirty years a successful school-teachel
a cousin of A. o. Cummins of this place an
himself a resident of Montpelier during tn
first thirty years of his life, died on Wedne
day, March IA, of heart disease, while o
his way between the school-house and HI
boarding-place. He was sixty years of ag
and unmarried. Lawson Cummins, also
( cousin, who was formerly engaged in til
marble business in Montpelier, happene
to be in Santa Rosa at the time of the o.
currence.
, THE town superintendents of Washingto
county held their annual meeting yesterda,
H. f. Hill of Montpelier was elected chai
man and l. p. Booth of Northfeld seer
tary 1t was decided to hold public e,
aminatons April 2S and November 1
The standard Of qualification was fixed {
seventy-five per cent for the public exam
ination and at eighty per cent for the pr