The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-14

BETHANY cl urch was filed, Sunday morn
ing, by the largest audience of the season.
Rev. g. w. Gallagher preached an able
sermon on the "Pigrm Fathers" and the
singing of Messrs.. Phillips and Kinney was
most enjoyable feature OF the service,
A PICNIC party of seven drove to Wood
bury last Monday and spent the day with
mine host Holt. The company included
NJ IS Carrie Cross, Miss Belle Fifield, Miss
Anna Lamb, Miss Agnes Wainwright and
Messrs. Charles Cross, G. II. Lowe and
Harry NJ. Cutler.
NEXT Sunday morning Rev. G. w. Gala
! gher's subject will be " An Ancient Chris
tian." In the evening Mr. Gallagher be-
gins series of sermons on practical topics
to young people, the first of the series being
on Character" The public are cordially
invited.
NORMAN W. FR1NK, manager of the Wet
more Granite Company, has been quite ill
during the past week, but is now able to be
out of doors. His daughter Alice, who dur
ing the time has been suffering from diphthe-
ria at Brookteld, has so far recovered as to
be considered out of danger
A. o. CuMMINs left for La Pierre, Dakota,
Monday evening. The opening of the Sioux
reservation creates a boom in the affairs
of the savings bank of which Mr.. Cummins
is vice president. La Pierre is the gateway
| to this newly-opened region, and the tide of
emigration must flow through it and pay
! tribute to it.
FOLLOWING is the carriers report for the
month of July; Delivered-Mai letters,
l7,00S; registered letters, 107 mail cards,
2,971; local cards, 394; papers, 1876; total,
81 ,23S ollected-Mal letters, II ,7Ol; local
letters, 6l5; mail cards, 1,566 local cards,
! 1,797; papers, 1924; total, 1855. Total
number of pieces handled II, 1873
AT the meeting of the Trinity Christian
Endeavor Society last Sunday evening NJ
f. Burnham, Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Taplin,
| w. NJ. Newton and Rev. A. j. Hough We're
chosen delegates to the county convention
to be held in Watsfeld August 2S. Miss
w. Hicks and S. f. Ramsdell were ap-
pointed on the lookout committee.
THE baud will play this evening at the
School street stand the following pro-
gramme: March, Portland Cadets, by
Reeves overture, Golden Necklace, by
Herman serenade, Mon Reve, by Rathbun ;
mazurka, Autumn Flowers, by Parlow
medley (by requesD, Ten Minutes with the
Minstres, by Bowron waltz, Treasurer, by
Strauss; galop, Hercules, by Schacht.
AT meeting held at the Union House,
| Monday evening, baseball team was or
ganized, to be known as the Montpelier
! Baseball Club" Games will be arranged
at once with the Barres, Northtields, Plain
! fields, Cabots, West Randolphs, and other
teams in the vicinity. practice game
| will be played with picked nine on Sem
mary Hill at three o'clock Thursday after
noon.
WILLIAM O'HEARN and Thomas Smith Of
| Barre came to Montpelier on Monday and
inoculated themselves with mixed pota-
tions. Officer Tuttle took the pair in
| charge and provided them with comfort
able lodgings. Tuesday forenoon before
Justice Lord the twain were duly assessed
for their niquitous indulgence, and, having
paid their dues, wended their weary way
| homeward.
THE Sunday-school of the Church of the
Messiah will hold its annual picnic in the
grove at the Barre quarries on Thursday of
! this week The train leaves the Montpelier
& Wells River station at half-past nine
o'clock in the morning and will return
| about four in the afternoon. The fare for
the round trip is fifty cents for adults and
thirty cents for children. If it should rain
on Thursday, the picnic will be postponed.
SAMUEL MORSE, father of Postmaster
! Morse, aged about eighty years, died last
Thursday at Jonesville. Mr.. Morse had
! lived for many years in the vicinity and was
| formerly proprietor of the Jonesvile House
| Funeral services were held on Saturday
! Among those attending were Mr.. f. w
! Morse, with two brothers from Chicago
Mrs. f. w. Morse, George Morse, Mr.. and
Mrs. f. h. Morse, Mrs. Charles II. Heaton
ALL the walks and driveways on the
| State House grounds are to be covered with
! concrete. ne contract has Dteu given 10
| s. A. Howard of New Hampton, n. H.,
! who will begin work August 10, with
! twenty-five men. The work will be com
| pleted in about two months. The broad
concrete walk in the center will he a great
| Improvement over the present path of flag
ging and cobblestones, and will add much
| TO the appearance of the grounds.
AT the Mortified examination, certiti-
Gates of the first grade were granted to Miss
! Clara Harwood, Northield; Miss Sadie +.
Kenyon, Mortified; Miss Alice Bushnell,
Waitsfeld Miss Julia f. Parker, Water
bury. Miss Mamie Ellis ofRoXbury passed
the required per cent but had not taught
a sufficient number of weeks to meet
! the requirements of the law, hence first
grade certificate could not be given her.
Out of the ninety-seven teachers examined
| in the county, there We're seven failures,
! All others, for the most part, stood fairly
we'll
Mrs. F, p. BIcKFoRD of Washington, ID.
! c., visited Mr.. and Mrs. II. \. Taplin last
week. Mr. Bickford, her husband, was once
leader of the Montpelier military band. Pe
| is son of the late Ebenezer Bickford, for
merly and for many years in the boot and
shoe business ON Main street. During the
war he was chief telegrapher of the Army of
the Potomac. Since then he has been en-
gagged in many gigantic telegraphic enter
prises, notably the projected line up the
Pacific coast, across Behring strait, through
! Siberia, to Japan and China. He is at pres
ent one of the United States commissioners
to the Paris exposition,
LAST Friday morning Philip Preston
caused IA body writ for $40 to be served on
John Devine, just before the latter took the
train for Boston. Preston claims II at De-
vine owes him the above amount. Devine
had all his money in draft on the Bank of
Ireland, and when arrested by Officer Kee-
gan went TO Albert Johonnott for assist
ance. Mr.. Johonnott went bail for him.
and Devine started on his way to Irleand
having first changed his draft and left forty
dollars in his bondsman's hands to settle
the account, Devine has a bill against
Preston of S26, and claims that he actually
owes Preston only Sl+.
THE "Crescents wiped up the Seminary
campus last Friday afternoon with nine
picked from the rest of the town. The
score stood twenty-five to fourteen. The
teams appeared to be very evenly matched
and a close contest was expected The
Crescents," however, outbatted and out
felded their opponents, and won easily,
The game was long and tedious, and was
enlivened by few fine plays, Scribner
pitched strong game for the Crescents," !"
! keepng the hits well scattered after the