The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

% with baccalaureate sermon by Rev. 1.
p. Booth; June %, Sheldon prize speaking;
June 26, annual meeting of trustees; junior
exhibition; June q, commencement day,
graduating exercises and military drills.
The class of S9 is the largest for years.
The following have been selected to have
orations Lieutenant f. f. Lamb of Pitts
field, valedctory; Lieutenant II. N. Cross,
salutatory; e. II. Juckett of East Hubbard
ton, Lieutenant A. r. Shaw, Lieutenant
be under Captain w. s. Prior OF Underhill
Iieutenants W. Il. Terrill of Underhill
G. II. Cobleigh, Il. w. Gilman and f. II.
Clark. A large number of the alumni and
past cadets are expected to be present
60 Il. L. Soper has been confined to the
house for the past few days. - N
Huntey is laying stone walk to his door
- st. Mary's parish has purchased the
house occupied by their rector on Central
street for parsonage, for 1850. - The
ladies of St Mary's parish will hold their
seciable Thursday afternoon and evening
- The members of st. Mary's Guild
met Tuesday afternoon with Miss Angie
Badger. 60 The carpenter tools belong
ing to NJ. G. Shepherd were sold on the COM
mon at auction last Saturday by John s.
Green, guardian, K. w. Howe, auctioneer.
80 Rev. Walter Dole, formerly of this
place. has accepted a call to Barre, Vt.
- Will Woodbury., who has charge of
the park, has improved its looks by now
ing and cutting the grass in the walks.
- f. l.. Howe & 90. received large
invoice of Scotch granite last week. 80
NJ. A. Shaw and family of st. Adams WIS.,
tied w. f. Nichols over Sunday. 60 The
trustees have appointed j. II. circuit high
way surveyor. 60 Fred Lockwood has
gone to South Royalton to work in tele-
graph office. 60 John w. Jones of Bur-
lington came home last Friday, and has
been confined to his house by sickness.
- Father Brevilet had slight runaway
on Vine street Sunday evening, caused by
breaking of the harness. John Harrigan,
who was in the wagon at the time, con-
cluded to get out opposite DR.. Davis house,
but Father Brevilet held the horse and
guided him up the steep hill of j. G. Rice's
pasture and stopped him, No damage was
done. - Fred Austin went to Boston
Monday morning to work. - Mrs. Bert.
G. Barnet was severely bitten last week by
John NJ Temples horse. 80 Envelopes
of any size or quality at the WATcHMAN job
office.
CABor.-There will be memorial services
at the Methodist church next Sunday morn
ing at the usual hour. The sermon
will be preached by Raw. j, o. Sher-
burn. 1t will be union service
md Morrill, post, the Relief Corps and
Sons of Veterans are expected to be
present in body Decoration day will he
observed here May 80, in the forenoon, and
Rev. A. b. Truax of Montpelier will de-
liver the address. - The band will give
promenade concert at village hall on the
evening of Decoration day. - l.. Myers
lost a valuable COW last week. He paid
forty dollars for it two days previous. -
Mrs. j. Lance is having piazza put on the
front of her house. - A delegation of
the Good Templars will attend the county
union at East Calais to-day. The lodge is
in very prosperous condition. Ten mem.
bers were initiated Saturday evening.
Nnn1rU pYnpptp1 homo
week from Wolcott, where she has been
caring for her sick mother. - Protector
Engine Company, No. /, was filled with old
and new members last Thursday night and
the company is now full, with i. Myers as
foreman. The regular meeting is the first
Tuesday of each month. - Mrs. Clara
Morse is very sick, and her recovery is con-
sidered very doubtful. - The roads
throughout town are in a wretched condition.
Perhaps some one will explain to us why it
is that the towns all around us can have
their roads worked at the proper season,
while the people of this town must travel
through bitches or over stone-walls until
the middle of the summer before the roads
are touched. - The ball team went to
Danville May II and defeated the local
team. - Clara, daughter of j. b. Knight,
is sick with rheumatic fever. The
Womans Relief Corps of this place has
recently purchased new Estey organ for
| its hall. The item in last week S
WATCHMAN in regard to the burning of two
barns belonging to William Barr was incor-
rect There was no fire. - Mr.. John
Austin has let his farm to Mr. Hackett of
South Cabot, and moves this week to Barre.
In the removal of Mr.. Austin Cabot loses
one of her best citizens and the Congrega-
tional church and Sunday-school an active
member. He has held the Office of SUI
| perintendent of the Sunday-school for six
| years and proved a faithful and efficient
/ ms N
ago the present month the settlement OF
the village began. The coming Fourth of
July would be a suitable time for CEN
! tennial celebration. - Envelopes of any
size or quality at the WATcHMAN job office
HARDwIcK.-E. w. Aiken, Esq, has been
visiting his daughter in Burlington the past
week. Mr.. Aiken was ninety years OF age
in March and is remarkably well preserved
mentallyand physically, for one of his years
| +. T. Brdgman's residence and the
Edwards & Dawson block are being
painted. - The Good Templars had a
public ice-cream festival at their lodge
rooms Friday evening. - ID. Bridgman
Jr., has large force of men at work on his
new residence. The frame work is already
up and the walls boarded He will cover
it with slate. - o. IL. Marsh has the
walls boarded and the roof completed to his
new block. - Wheeler & Shipman are
building an iron suspension bridge across
the river at their saw-mill for foot passage
- II. r. Mack has visited Boston and
the granite industrial centers of Massachu
sets and Rhode Island the past week
- The friends and neighbors of Mr.. anC
Mrs /. =. Titus made them a surprise yisi
at their new home Wednesday evening
over one hundred persons being present
A splendid time was the general verdict o
all. - Petitions are being circulated
here and numerously signed, asking for tn,
removal of Caledonia National Bank from
Danville to this village. - Ira A. Shat
tuck visited in Boston the past week
- Duran Parker suffered partial sun
stroke on Saturday while working a
Brush's granite quarry. - Simeon
Swerdfeger is making brief visit TO hi
friends in the Province of Ontario. -
George W. Bailey, foreman at Brush
quarry, has rented one of the tenement
over Aiken's store, and Mr.. Cole, a granite
cutter for Il. f. Carter, has rented the other
These tenements are new and finely fin
ished and command the highest rental o
any in the village. - DIR. Wells, tn
noted cancer specialist, residing in this vii
lage for the past year, created quite a sensa
ton Thursday evening, through clear ex
posure of immoral practices, and departed
|, on Friday for fairer fields and sunnie
climes," to avoid any further consequence
of his folly. The expose was OF such
character that the doctor could not well re
main and face the music he was sure t