The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

Mary Smith, and the gentleman pair of
gloves, by w. A. Briggs.
OLIN CHASE, photographer from Barre
rode over in team, last Sunday, and was
driving down Main street at a COED pace
when the breeching broke. Olin was badly
scared but managed to stop the horse be-
fore any damage was done.
THE newly-elected officers of Bethany
Sunday-school are: Superintendent, N. w.
Frink; secretary and treasurer, ID. S. Wheat
ley; librarian, G. II. Shipman; assistant
librarians, Alice Drew and Mabel Guern-
sey; register, Mary Macomber.
Two candidates were admitted last Friday
night at the meeting of Gamalel Washburn
Lodge of Perfection, and one at the meeting
of the Mount Calvary Council, Princes of
Jerusalem. The working of the degrees was
followed by an enjoyable banquet.
THERE were thirty-ive couples at the
ball given at the Pavilion last Thursday
evening. Music was furnished by an or
chestra composed of West Randolph and
Montpelier celebrities. w. g. Berry and
G. +. Lowe acted as floor managers.
THE " Black Thorn drew fair audience
to the opera-house Saturday evening. Mr..
Sullivan is a clever comedian and his de-
lineations of the humorous and warm
hearted sides of the Irish character were
well made and appreciatively received.
THERE were over fifty present at the ice
cream and card party given by the members
of the Hobo Club last Thursday even
ing, and the boys say that they had rat
tling good time" The club is to give
dance at its rooms some time in the near
future.
Mrs. FRED LANG, wife of the young
gentleman who fills the position lately oc.
cupied by S. Smith Ballard in the employ
OF the Central Vermont railroad, is a grad
uate of the New England Conservatory of
Music and lady of far more than ordinary
musical ability.
GENERAL STEPHEN THOMAS, w. f. Water
man and G. r. Bagley attended the G.. a. r.
encampment at Brattleboro last week as
delegates from Brooks Post Mrs. Amanda
L. Newcomb, Mrs l.. p. Gleason and Mrs
G. r. Bagley represented the Brooks
Woman's Relief Corps.
THE regular Thursday evening prayer
meeting of Trinity society will be omitted
this week on account of the missionary
meeting at Bethany church on the same
evening. A special service will be held
Friday evening, to which the young peo-
pie are particularly invited.
THE past week has been almost un-
precedented in the annals of the local police
court. Not single boozer has been nabbed
during the whole week. 1t has been, indeed
a season when the wicked ceased from
troubling, and the weary(?) officers have ac-
cordingly taken a much-needed rest.
BROOKS PosT, G.. A. r., met Tuesday
evening, February 12 to organize under
the charter granted by the legislature
Colonel f. e. Smith, Colonel j. II. Lucia,
General =. p. Pitkin and Hiram A. Huse,
Esq, were appointed a committee to draft
new bylaws and present them at a meeting
to be held February 26
S. S. TowNER & Son have finished and
placed in the hall of Vermont Lodge a hand
some cherry case, with the letters l. o. o. f.
in gilt across the front. The cabinet is
used for the custody of the archives and
records of the Grand Lodge of Vermont,
which have been brought here from Rut-
land, the former home of the Grand Lodge.
THERE was quite an incursion of the mill
tary last evening by the trains arriving from
the south-the officers of the New England
Guard of Vermont to attend the drill which
begins here to-day. Among the arrivals are
Colonel l.. X. Fuller and II. f. Taylor of
BrattebOro, eX-lieutenant-governor and
door-keeper of the house of representatives,
CHARLES NJ. THOMPSON, well known in
Montpelier, his boyhood home, has recently
been promoted on the staff of the Boston
AdrertiSer to the position of literary re-
viewer and critic. The young man inherits
a considerable portion of the ability which
especially fits him for this line of work and
Montpelier friends, who will all be glad to
learn of his good fortune, have entire con-
fidence that he will creditably fill this new
position.
The ladies of the Church of the Messiah
propose to celebrate Washington's birthday
by inviting their friends and the public gen
orally to an old-fashioned supper, to be
given in the vestry of the church next Fri
day from half-past five to seven o'clock.
Their efforts in this line in former years are
remembered as very successful, and they
hope to make this gathering equally pleas
ant. Admission, twenty-five cents, in
cluding supper
a RECENT discussion of the prospects of
the Wetmore & Morse Granite Company
between f. NJ. Cory, who was full of hope,
and e. NJ. Irish, who was not, led to an
witnesses, to release his five shares of stock
for $3.50. The offer, to the manifest surprise
and chagrin of " Ed, - was no sooner made
than it was accepted by Frank, who netted
clean $50 on the transaction. The pro-
ceeding makes Mr.. Cory, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Wetmore, the largest stakeholder
in the company.
LORD, the Colchester inebriate, who was
compelled to languish in durance vile un-
tilSuch time as his memory should recover
its equilibrium and prompt him to inform
on the party who furnished him with his
distilled dynamite, soon tired of his seclu-
sion and made disclosure on Clark Rob
erts. Clark was tried before a jury in
Clerk SMILES Office last Friday. He sue
ceeded in convincing the jury that Lord S
memory was still unreliable, and they re-
turned verdict of mot guilty" Lord has
returned to his native wilds.
ONE of the local officers was summoned
last week 10y Berlin parties to go over to
that precinct and lend his assistance in
quelling disturbance in certain notori-
Gus resort. The worthy coop" obeyed,
but on arriving at the scene of action
found the resort in possession of a Barre
gang with whose orgies he did not care to
interfere. Ingloriously he skunk away,
without making known his presence to the
hilarious inmates and reported that
there wasn't any one at home" He
maintains, no doubt, that discretion is the
better part Of valor.
Mrs. O. ID. SCRIBNER and Mrs. A. j. Sb-
ley narrowly escaped serious injuries as the
result of snowslide from the roof Of o. ID.
Scribner's building on State street Monday
afternoon. The ladies were seated in IA
sleigh near the building, when a large guam
tity of snow and ice fell from the roof, strik-
ing all around them and breaking the
shafts of the sleigh, Mrs. Sibley was in
jured, but not seriously. The escape of the
occupants of the sleigh from fatal injuries
was most remarkable, as some of the cakes
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