The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-24

HENRY COBB Will close his engagement
with ID. S. Wheatley on Saturday and will
enter the employ OF Huntress & Clarkson
of Burlington.
REV. w. A. EVANS will preach at Berlin
pond next Sunday afternoon at half-past
three o'clock, and once in two weeks there
after at the same hour.
Dr. LUTHER NEwCoMB of Lynn, Mass, and
DR.. and Mrs. Charles Newcomb of North
Haverhill, n. H., are visiting Mrs. Amanda
7. Newcomb, their mother
A BOX addressed to a young gentleman
and left on doorstep, one evening last
week, is awaiting the owner. He may have
it by calling on Barre street for it,
FRED BoswoRTH has bought the fixtures
and rented the Holden drugstore at Bel
lows Falls He leaves for Boston this
week to purchase a stock of goods.
FOLLOWING is the Montpelier team that
will play the Barres at Waterbury on Mon
day: Connors, Wheat, Scribner, Hathaway,
Dumas, Alexander, Davis, Celley, Standish.
THE Barre correspondent of the Boston
Globe writes as follows Business eXcur-
sions are soon to be run from all parts of
New England to Barre for the purpose of
arousing interest in the Barre granite
quarries."
c. II. HEATH, ESQ., whose sudden death
is recorded elsewhere, was an active mem
Der of Mt. Zion Commandery, Knights
1elnpldT, ana UndTCneu W1Un Inem on Me-
mortal day and in the observances of
Ascension day.
THE Unitarian grove-meeting at Weirs
begins July % and continues through the
following Sunday. The grove-meeting of
the Universalists at the same place begins
August 5, and their meeting at Queen City
Park opens August 16
ALL Sir knights are requested to meet at
the asylum of the Commandery to-day
Npn ay-la OF bul NJ nl
preparatory to attending the funeral OF
their late brother and Sir Knight, Charles
III. Heath, Esq.
WAITsFIELD will celebrate her town CEN
tennial on August and Z. A commemora-
ton sermon will be preached on the 4th and
the customary exercises will be held on the
9TH. All Waitsield's absent sons and
daughters are invited home on this occasion.
THE subject of Rev. Mr.. Galagher's dis
course for Sunday morning, July 90, will
be " Anticipations and Failures;" for the
evening, :" The Difference between the Bap-
tism of John the Baptist and Christian Bap-
tism." The public is invited to these serv-
ices
JAMES f. MAHoNEY, for several years
Secretary Porters efficient clerk has been
appointed postal route agent between Troy
and St. Albans. James is a bright, wide
awake young man, industrious and faithful
He can not help making good official
We congratulate him on his success.
BETHEL baseball team plays the Cres.
cents of Montpelier in this village next Fri
day afternoon. The Crescents played the
Bethes at the latter place last Friday, and
were beaten by score of twenty-seven to
one. The Plainfeld club played the Cres-
cents at Plainfield, Saturday, and beat them
by score of twenty-five to ten.
GEORGE NEWTON, who was sent as dele
gate to represent Trinity church society
at the national convention of Christian
Endeavor societies, will speak at Trinity
CHI rch next Sunday evening at seven
o'clock, giving an account of the convention.
All, and especially members of the other
Christian Endeavor societies in town, are
invited to be present.
PROFESSOR w. r. PRATT of Pittsburgh,
Penn. is visitor at Mr. and Mrs. j. S.
wilkins on Seminary Hill. Mr.. Pratt was
at Johnstown soon after the great disaster
and gives vivid accounts of the scene of
destruction. Henry p. wilkins and wife
of Knoxville, Tenn, and Mrs. A. G. Mat
thews of Glens Falls, n. Y, are also visitors
at Mr.. and Mrs Wilkins. Mrs. Matthews
is sister of Mrs. wilkins.
AFTER much delay in procuring jury,
Charles Jordan of Barre was brought to
trial yesterday afternoon on charge of
breach of the peace on the night of July Is.
Jordan was said to have been under the in
fiuence of liquor at the time and to have
struck the Barre policeman, Frank Cook,
who brought the charge. F. l.. Laird ap-
peared for the defendant and Grand Juror
John G.. Wing for the plaintiff.
MORE applications have been received for
rooms at the Seminary for the next term
than at any previous year. The addition to
the dining-room is nearly completed. The
old chapel building is being retitted for the
accommodation of students. Those who in
tend to enter the school should make ap-
plication for rooms very soon, otherwise
they may not obtain them. We are pleased
to learn that the Seminary is in prosper
GUS condition.
MRS. o. c. CAMPBELL and her daughter,
Mrs. III. ID. Estabrook, OF Omaha, who
have been guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Fos-
ter, have taken their departure Mrs. Camp
bell returning to the care of her venerable
mother at Waitsfeld and Mrs. Estabrook
leaving Monday evening for Chicago Mrs
Estabrook is Vermont girl, and was for a
year pupil in the Montpelier Union and
Grammar schools. She is pleasantly re-
membered here. where she made and has
retained many friends
The st. Jean Baptste Society has elected
the following officers for the next
six months: President, Francis Seguin /;
vice-president, Paul Theriault; secretary,
A. Galaise; assistant secretary, II. l.. E.
Smith; corresponding secretary, A. Galaise
treasurer, T. Allard; assistant treasurer, S.
Neveux; marshals, Alph. Hamel and G.
LaRiviere; investigation committee, p.
Roy, p. Narcotic, II. Lannier; recep-
ton committee, Charles Seguin, Charles
Limoges. George Leblanc.
COMPLAINTS have been made that men
and boys go bathing in the river between
Montpelier and the Junction. This oc-
CURED Sunday afternoon. That any man
should have so little respect for himself or
sense of decency as to stand nude in place
adjoining a public throughfare seems in
credible; but such is the fact, and those
who indulge in such disgraceful exhibi-
tion should be punished to the fullest ex-
tent OF the law. viii our public officers
see that this does not occur again?
GEORGE WHIToHER of Plainfeld, writ
ing from Bradford, ILL.,, says; "Will you
send the WATCHMAN here until further no.
tice? have taken your paper for the past
twenty years and am lost without il. The
crops look finely here. Farmers are har-
vesting the small grains now. Corn looks
we'll, but the price of all kinds of grain is
very low. Corn is twenty-eight cents, oats
twenty-five cents and rye forty-two cents
You would be glad to buy at these prices in
Vermont, but you can raise grain cheaper
than we can"
PROFESSOR j. A, DEBoER has declined
to reconsider his resignation as principal of