The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-06
Summary of News.

REV. a. E, CARPENTER Oi ST. stephen
church, Middleburl has resigned
T.. ID. HARPEN of Woodstock has been
appointed warden of the state prison
THE Rutland parochial schools have up
ward of five hundred children in attend
ance.
JoHv STOWE, one of the oldest inhabit-
ants of Readsboro, died recently, aged eighty
seven.
A ID. SMITH, well-known citizen Of
Clarendon, is rapidly failing of Brights
disease.
THE library trustees of Brattleboro have
voted the sum Of $500 to the Natural His
tory Society.
REV. WILLIAM SPENCER of Quincy Point,
Mass, has accepted call to the Baptist
church at ReadsbOrO.
LEWIS CoBB. an old resident and a fire.
quent member of the legislature from Tin
mouth, is seriously ill.
CAPTAIN E. A. Horror of Burlington has
been appointed inspector OF customs, vice
Shortseeves, resigned.
THE new building of the Burlington
Young Mems Christian Association is
nearly ready for dedication.
THE forty-frst annual session OF the Yer
mont Sons of Temperance was held at
Greensboro Bend last week.
REV. DIR. WILLIAM S. SMART of Albany,
n. Y, has accepted call to the Congrega-
tiOnal pastorate at Brandon.
REV. JAMES c. FLANDERS has received
call to become pastor of the Congregational
church at Manchester Center.
The Orleans County Educational Associa-
ton will hold its next meeting at Barton
Landing on November 90 and u.
REV. HENRY F. LAMPREY, recently of
Waterford has accepted a call to the Con-
gregational church at Ossipee, n. H.
THE preliminary term of the Burlington
Medical College opened on Thursday of last
week with the largest class on record.
The people of St. Andrews Episcopal
parish at St. Johnsbury are considering the
plan of building rectory. The ladies have
guaranteed $500.
CHARLES ADAMS OF Burke, about seventy
years old, was instantly killed on the Pas
sumpsic road last week Friday. lie was
lying on the track.
Mrs. JOHN FISHER died at West Concord
recently, aged ninety-One. She had five
sons, twenty grandchildren and thirteen
great-grandchildren,
EX POSTMASTER JAMES II. MURDOCH died
at his residence in Woodstock October y,
aged seventy-six years. He was one of the
Oldest and best known citizens.
SOUTH LUNENBURGH has been struck with
a sudden boom. The Boston 4 Maine rail
road has located repair shops at that point,
and an iron foundry is being built.
JAMES AND WILLIAM BLEwITr of St.
Johnsbury, aged fifteen and fourteen re-
spectvely, were sent to the reform school
recently. They had become quite adept in
petty thieving.
NATIVES of Vermont resident in Lowell,
Mass, have taken the preliminary steps for
the formation of Vermont Association. ii.
NJ. Potter is temporary chairman and NJ.
Il. Stiles secretary.
THE burying-ground of the ancient Dyre
of l,,-
men digging on the Maitland estate few
days ago. The dates on the tomb-stones
ranged from 1909 to 1861.
FRANK FRENCH, farmer, was shot in the
Poultney post-office Saturday afternoon of
last week. j. w. Derby, a printer, was ar
rested charged with the crime. He was
drunk and it is thought that the shooting
was accidental
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Addison Railroad Company was held
last week Friday. Percval W. Clement
John A. Mead, Wallace 9. Clement, Frank
S. Wetherbee and Waldo p. Clement were
elected directors
CHARLES MINER of Brattleboro Bailey 4
Miner has broken ground for a four-story
and basement brick block, siXty-fve by
tifty-ive feet, on the site of the Estey Organ
Company's building which was carried off
by the flood of 1887.
RYLAND BARRETT, a prominent farmer i'm
w GSl w lDuSOI, tOlllllIltu Sultlut DN SlOOU-
ing himself on the afternoon of October
3d. in fit of dependency consequent upon
long illness from heart disease Deceased
was siXty-one years of age,
Mrs. WARD of West Derby was accident
ally shot on October 20 by her oldest SON
He was cleaning a revolver and in some
way il was discharged the ball going in at
the left cheek and out at the right seriously
cutting the tongue in its passage.
THE twenty-siXth annual reunion of YER
mont officers will be held at Middlebury on
November 90 A business meeting will be
held at eleven O'Clock in the forenoon, and
in the evening an Grafton will be given by
Rev. d. w. Dayton, followed by a banquet.
RAILROAD tickets to the amount of several
hundred dollars, stolen in September from
the Wells River station by Bert Frye, were
recovered last week They were found in
an old water-closet at the Wells River
Hotel. Frye is now confined in Jail at
Chelsea.
GENERAL G. w. BABCocK, a native of
Franklin county and graduate of Bakers
field Academy died at st. Louis on De-
tober %. He was born in 1880, and in 1850
went to Minnesota, going to Lawrence,
Kansas, in 1884, TO practice law He was
the first postmaster at Lawrence.
CHARLES SHELDON, one of Rutand's best
known business men, died at his home ON
Sunday. He had been i'll several weeks
with pneumonia. Mr. Sheldon is prom
inently known throughout New England as
the senior member of the Sheldon Marble
Company. He was born in Rutland July
"a, 1913.
The Vermont slate trust has resumed
work in all its quarries on full time. The
quarrymen at Hydeville, Fair Haven,
Poultney, Pawlet, Hubbardton and Gran
Vile are now working nine hours u day.
The demand for slate as the season closes is
very large and great quantities are being
daily shipped
THE board of underwriters for Windsor
county, at "A recent meeting at Wells River,
voted TO reduce the rate of insurance for
dwelng-houses in Windsor from one per
cent for five years to three-fourths of one
per cent for the same time, owing to an eX-
cellent water system, giving greater pro
lection against fire.
A NEW hotel is being built at Bradford by
stock company TO cost $4,000. The build
ing will be eighty feet long, forty-ive feet
wide and four stories high The Boston &
Maine railroad is building handsome sta
ton there at cost of $4,000, The new
opera-house, which is in course Of erection
will be finished shortly.