The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-13

ular communication OF Dewitt Clinton
Lodge i. and A. NJ, this evening. 60
The ladies of St. Mary's church hold a
sociabe at their rooms Thursday afternoon
and evening - Colonel T. G. Fletcher
and wife of Middlebury visited at DR..
Nichols last week. ==- The young ladies
of st. Mary's church have organized So
ciety, to be called St. Mary's Guild. 60
Mrs. E.W and Mrs. +. l.. Howe gave whist
party last Friday evening at the home of
the latter. go Company held a pleas
ant sociable at its arlnory Tuesday even
ing. Drills are now held each Tuesday
evening. Six men were enlisted at the last
meeting.
WATERBURY. There was large attend
ance at the town meeting Monday. The
matter under consideration was one that
affected the pocket-book, and consequently
brought voters to the polls who do not or
dinarily turn out. Daniel Hopkins of the
Center opened the meeting by putting the
following motion, George w. Randall
in the chair: "That the sum of $1,000
be appropriated to aid in the construc-
ton of the Mount Mansfield railroad,
under the charter granted to the Mount
Mansfield Railroad Company by the lepisla-
ture of Vermont at its October session
A. ID. 1888, such road to be constructed from
Waterbury village to Stowe Center village
by way of Waterbury Center village.
That the selectmen are hereby authorized
and directed to draw their orders in favor
of said company, its successors or assigns,
on the treasurer of the town for the said sum
of $1,000, the same to be payable in two in
stallments of $500 each, one in thirty
days after regular passenger trains shall
run to Waterbury Center village and the
other in one year thereafter. And that
said seleCtmen, on the payment Of such aid
and in satisfaction therefor, are directed to
subscribe for, and take, in the name of said
TOWN tlp ppnitnl gftpk of Quin RAILROAD onp
pany to the amount of said $1,000 After
some discussion, in which Mr. Clough took
the ground that the meeting should al iourn
that the Boston 4 Maine road might be cor
responded with, to the end that Waterbury
be made a competing point, the question
was put. A ballot was found necessary.
There were cast for the motion two hun
dred three votes and against it eighty
nine. The result seemed to be highly
gratifying to those from the Center. -
The scholars of district No. II organized a
sleighing party and surprised their teacher,
Miss May, at her home above the Center
last Friday night. An extremely pleasant
home the pupils took occasion to leave
with Miss May a token of their esteem.
g. Quart ermaster-genera Gilmore was
in town Monday. The register of the
Waterbury hotel bore a page of Stowe resi-
dents names under the head of Monday
nc utltSdUlOn were IItStlll 10 see II
Waterbury would do her duty on the rail-
road question They returned home with
smiling countenances. - The Oliver
Wren Comedy Company will appear in
Waterbury hotel hall February 22d, under
the auspices of Temperance Home Lodge,
|. o. G, T., of Waterbury. - Joe Ather
has engaged to furnish G. c. Warren and
Barrett Il Son with two thousand cakes of
ice from the second crop on Buffers pond
80 Hira S, Richardson of st. Adams
has been visiting his brother the past week
- There was a lighter attendance at
George Remnants lecture than at either of
the previous entertainments of the course
The audience was an apprecative one,
nevertheless, and Mr.. Eennan spoke of its
attentiveness and sympathy. Mr.. KEENAN,
came to Waterbury the day before he was
to speak, in avoidance of the reporters who
besieged him in Boston. He is yet busily
at work on his Century articles He re-
marked that he had seen nothing so sug-
gestive of Siberia since returning to America
as the snow bound scenery of this region.
- One of the commissioners on the To-
cation of the insane asylum remarked, after
hearing DIR. James paper on the sanitary
advantages of Waterbury, that it would be a
matter of enormous expense to have the
asylum here. Being pressed for his rea-
sons, he said that it had just been estab-
lished by medical authority that the in
mates WDUlu NEVER ult. II Is likely ne ulu
not consider the saving in general expenses.
WILLIAMsTowN.-A market for some hum
dreds of cords of four-foot wood, at three
dollars per cord at the depot, is offered our
citizens by the Central Vermont Railroad
Company. George Beckett acts as agent for
the company III the purchase of the wood.
- Colonel j. II. Brigham, once lieu
tenant-governor of Ohio. and also con-
gresham from that state, lectured here last
Friday afternoon, under grange auspices.
His lecture was largely attended, and we
Judge, greatly enjoyed. The remedy he pro-
poses for farmers ills is " combination, ="
the same that so many other classes in these
days resort to. The UniVersalst
ladies report an all-round" success for
their antiquarian entertainment at the town
hall last Thursday evening. The financial
result was upwards of forty-fve dollars net.
In the target-shooting George w. Lynde
won the silver tooth-pick holder and
Walter Flint the pocket-book. In other de-
partments Sidney Martin obtained a bed
quilt and Ralph Randall toilet-cushion
- The Methodist society is to give an
entertainment on Tuesday evening at the
town hall consisting of literary exercises
by some students from the Seminary at
Montpelier an oyster-supper, etc -
The Biblical Study Club starts out with good
prospects. Its meetings are to be held fort
nightly, in private families, and much good
may he expected from them. So f. p.
Odds, now of Barre, has the sale for this
place of the Nergennes fertilizer He hopes
that the low price of S15 per ton will
make "A boom for it. If certain house
plants, ON which we have seen it sue
cessfully tried, could settle the question of
its true worth, there would seem to be but
little question about il. 60 The past week
was one of great anxiety to the family of
DIR. j. {. Briggs, whose little daughter SUI
sic has been very sick with diphthera. For
some days past she has been gaining, and
great hopes of her recovery are now enter
tanned. - Albert Bruce still lives,
though for some time it has seemed as if he
must die soon. 1t is said, however, that
there are somewhat more favorable symp-
toms at present. Both his wife, and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Thomas Bland, have been sick of
late 80 Judson Seaver is thought to be
gaining little. =- A number of carloads
of pressed hay were shipped from here last
month 60 DR. G. W. McClearn is now
practicing medicine in Maiden, Mass. 60
Frank Bailey is "A student in the Seminary
at Montpelier - A former young resi-
dent, who keeps up his acquaintance with
the place through the WATCHMAN, writes
that, Judging from the enterprise of the
people of Williamstown, il must take long
step forward in the next few years. | still
call it my home, and am interested in every
thing going on there" That's the loyalty
we like. - With all the entcements for
drawing money from old New England to
other partS Of the pouutrV " tha promiSp