The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-13
Summary of News.


THE Wilmington board of trade will en-
deavor to repopulate the town.
THERE have been one hundred eleven
cases of diphtheria in Fair Haven.
THE late S. S. Thompson left Lyndon Edu-
cational Institute $4,000 in his will.
OLIVER FARMER, highly-esteemed resi-
dent of Rutland, died Saturday morning.
ANDovER citizens have organized Dairy
Association for the manufacture of cheese.
The total amount of duties assessed at
the port of st. Albans in October was S70,-
406.32.
THE Fall Mountain Paper Company at
Bellows Falls is building large addition
to its mills.
The Windsor County Teachers Institute
held three days session at White River
junction last week.
The annual meeting Of the Eastern YER
mont Horse breeders Association was held
at st. Johnsbury yesterday
MICHAEL REYNOLDS, an old resident of
Underhill, died suddenly of heart disease
in his barn last week Friday.
THE prospects in Northern Vermont and
New Hampshire were never better for a
large numbering business than at present.
"AUNT LoTTIE ABBOTT" who died at
Glover a few days ago, would have been one
hundred years old if she had lived until
Monday of this week.
THE memorial hall at Rutland, built in
honor of her soldiers, is completed 1t was
begun in 1883 and, including the marble that
has been given, cost 100000.
CHARLES p. MARSH of Woodstock has
given one hundred books from his private
library to found a library for his native
school district at PeTkinsville.
PUBLIC sentiment in Burlington is strongly
in favor of a union depot of the Central
MI O.
meeting was held Saturday night to fur
ther the project
Two Vermont young ladies', Mrs Bertha
Mead Shields and Miss Stella Whitney, mis-
sionaries at Malange, South Central Africa,
have recently died, They were both valu-
able interpreters.
THE funeral of the late Hon. Bradley Bar
low took place at St. Mary's church, st.
Adams, last week Thursday, and was largely
attended. Bishop DeGoesbrand of Bur-
lington OBLIGATED,
The only persons voting against Frances
E. Willard for president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union We're the Iowa
delegation and some delegates from Yer
mont and Pennsylvania.
II is reported that City Liquor Agent
Pease of Burlington has resigned his posi-
ton and will retire from the active duties
of the office as soon as arrangements can be
male ana MS successor lameu,
THE hrst person whose name appears on
record as having been confirmed in the
Episcopal church in Middlebury is Rev,
Louis Mcdonald, in 1923, He is now living,
and is between eighty and ninety years old.
THE Rectors Aid Society and ST. Mar
garets Guild of St. Johnsbury held the
festival of days" last week. Autograph
letters of the late Judge Poland have been
put into the catalogue list OF money-valued
letters.
FRANK FRENCH, the Poultney farmer
who was shot in the pOSt-oi1ice a few days
ago by gun that had been carelessly laid
down by William Derby, an intoxicated
man, will probably recover. The shooting
is regarded as an accident.
The University of Vermont foot ball team
was defeated at Williamstown, Mass, on
Wednesday of last week by Williams Col
lie o., thirty to nothing The University
played game with Trinity College on Sat-
uruay, i'll which the latter won, eighteen to
six.
THE twenty-four gallons of wine belong
ing to Father Turcott, the Roman Catholic
priest at Highgate that were seized by
Deputy-sherif Place. have been returned
by order of Justice Thompson, Father Tur-
colt having proven that it was for church
purposes
WINDSOR business men are agitating the
the purpose of quarrying the granite found
at the base of Ascutney Mountain, in three
colors-pinS, gray and green. The noun
tain is composed of solid granite of superior
quality for general building purposes.
QUITE futter was occasioned few days
ago at Highgate by party of men in the
employ of the Barney Marble Company of
Swanton bringing load of tools and pro-
posing to open "A stone quarry near the Cum
mngs cut After a day or two the look
was so unpromsing that they packed up
and went home.
THREE prisoners escaped from the st.
Albans jail Sunday night, The prisoners
seized Sheriff Marvin while the door of their
cell was open, and escaped. Assistance
was at once summoned and at Swanton the
men We're overtaken. A number of pistol
shots We're exchanged. One prisoner was
captured, but the others are probably in
Canada.
WORK has been continued on the YER
shire copper mines under the direction of
practical miners. The pumps have been
running for several months and the water
is being rapidly taken out. a good grade
of ore is now Il ming from vein that was
passed by TIE Ely Goddard regime, and
several furnace are going in full blast. The
comnany has cor racted for the cutting of
1000 cords of wood. 1t is also sinking new
shaft.
REGULATION flag with forty-two stars
was raised on a new flagstaff eighty-two
feet high on the High School grounds at
Brattleboro last week Wednesday, with an
appropriate and patriotic ce, emory. The
pupils and teachers formed "A hollow square
around the staff which stands just south of
the building, and after a song, during which
the flag was unlurled, Dr. II. ID. IIolton,
Principal McLachliu and Sub-master Rugg
made speeches. Miss Rawson, pupil OF
the school, recited the S,ar Spangled Ban