The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12

specimens.
MISS ALICE FRNK was elected on Sunday
evening delegate to the Christian En-
| deavor convention, in place of Miss Anna
Chandler, who was unable to serve Among
| those who are in attendance at the conven-
! ton, which is being held at ST. Johnsbury
are Rev. A. j. Hough, Il. Il. Towner and
wife, and Miss 7. Lillian Howe, the latter
| OF the Seminary.
The Washington County Good Templars'
| Union is to be revived on Friday, the 21st
instant, when it is expected that nine lodges
will meet here. The meeting will continue
| through the day, morning being devoted to
business and the afternoon to literary exer-
cses. As one part of the exercises, Mr.. &.
! a. Livingstone is to give a defamation, and
it is hoped that Rev. A. j. Hough will read
a poem.
ELECTION returns were received and read
| to an interested gathering at the Pavilion la,
week Tuesday till after midnight. If the re-
| ports were uninteresting, they were occa-
sonally varied by the humor Of the reader
to eniven the crowd. One inoffensive dis
! patch was thus made to read: Elections
! pass off very quietly in Mississippi; only
! fourteen niggers killed. a much smaller
number than usual"
THE carriage in which Frank f. Felt and
| wife were riding was overturned by a col
lision with Downing's lumber wagon oppo-
site the old Montpelier house last Friday,
and both occupants were thrown out. Mrs.
Felt received some bad bruises but no in
| ternal injuries are anticipated. Had the
horse not stopped at once, the accident
would probably have been more serious. A
spoke and axle OF the carriage were broken.
DISTRICT DEPUTY A. e. WHITE, assisted
by Lodge Deputy G. A. Livingstone. in
stalled on Friday night, as officers of Mont
pelier lodge of Good Tempars for the en-
suing quarter, the following: G. r., w. Ar
thur Jones; " T., Mrs Orrin Daley; record
! ing secretary, Mrs. w. Arthur Jones; assist
! ant secretary, Merton Curtis; financial sec
retary, L. j. Hathaway; treasurer, Mrs. II.
NJ. Fales; chaplain, Rev. w. A. E:ans; =.
| g. T., Mrs. G. l.. Roberts; marshal, w. p.
Parry; deputy marshal, Minnie Young; SEN
tinel, Ii. G. Lull guard Ellen Young
This new lodge is in very prosperous and
growing condition.
THE Northern Express Company, we are
informed, is to open an Office soon in
Montpelier This company has been run
ming six years through New Hampshire
and Massachusetts and we understand is
backed by ample capital. Its freight will
pass over the Wells River line and it will
receive and forward express matter to all
parts OF the country at reasonable rates
" Competition is the life of business"
With competing express line new life
should be infused into the business of
community which is so large a patron of
express companies as is this. Mr.. G.. b.
| Prescott of Boston, representing the "North-
ern," was in Montpelier last Monday.
A VERY pretty home wedding was that of
Mr.. Clinton e. Weeks of Lyndon and Miss
Ida Ballon of Montpelier, at the residence
OF the brides aunt, Miss Upham, last
week Wednesday morning at half-past ten
! o'clock. About twenty guests We're pr sent
on the occasion, including Mrs. Ballou
of Lyndon and Mr.. George Balou of Nor
! wich University, brother of the bride. Rev
| q. w. Gallagher performed the ceremony
a w Iii 1,ra.a III f,..t
| served. The presents were numerous and
| both beautiful and serviceable among them
| being handsome silver table set presented
by the gTocm's father. The young couple
started on their wedding tour at noon in a
shower of rice and slippers, with the good
wishes of their friends in Montpelier. They
are to reside in Lyndon.
The band fair closed Saturday night, with
a very large attendance. The fair was, on
the whole, quite as successful as was eX-
pected, some 1926 season tickets having
been sold. The following presents were
announced To Nora Wakefield, a gold
watch, for selling the largest number of
tickets; TO Nellie Sloan, silver watch, for
selling the second largest number; to Eva
/ Young, an album, for selling the third
| largest number; to Rev. G.. Il. RAYMOND,
picture and easel, for receiving the largest
vote for the most popular clergyman; to
FRANK Perreau, three baskets, for receiving
/ the largest vote for the most popular bar
Der, and to the Granite Cutters Union,
/ center table, for the largest vote for the
most popular society. The amount made
/ by the fair cannot he announced as yet.
COURT ETHAN ALLEN, No 1911, Ancient
Order of Foresters, was formally instituted
| Thursday nj hit. Deputy High Chief Ranger
! George W, Cannon of Concord, y. H., as
sisted by Thomas Allen, past chief ranger,
/ of Conrt a. Lincoln of Springfield, Mass,
| had charge OF the ceremony. The following
officers were elected: Chief ranger, Charles
/ E. Rye; sub chief ranger. Thomas f.
/ Lynch; treasurer, Napoleon Moran; fnau-
ciai secretary, James s. Haley; recording
secretary, Dennis Sweeney; S. W., Thomas
/ Haley; j. w, John Roach; S. b., John
/ Connolly; j, b., Edward McGie The
court will meet on the first and third Thurs
| day evenings of each month in Red Mems
hall There are now about seventy
members and number of applications
await action. The court starts ont in very
! f1ourishing condition.
| Mr.. 7. w. WOODS pursuits are not ex-
clusively artistic, but the artist appears in
/ all his avocatiOns, and particularly in fruit
/ growing. No one but a painter, aud one
who can SO deity handle his brush, could
raise such apples, so rosy red, aud streaked
aud fetked with color, as the trees about
| AthenwOod have borne. Handsome is as
handsome does, and the fruit is not only
fair 10 the eye bur exceedingly agreeable to
the palate. In fact Mr.. Wood is the artist
Wnelner painting pictures, growing fruit,
rehablitating unsighty tenement houses
or making "a rough hillside spot of pic
tureSque attractions. " Berlin side speaks
for Mr.. Wood. All Montpelier swea by
him, is glad in spring.time to welcome him
from his winter retreat in the city, and sor-
rows when his urban haunts lure him back
again, in the season OF frost and snow as
as they DO now. Our genial friend and
townsman returned to New York on Sat
u;day.
SEMINARY HILL.
THE third entertainment of the lecture
course comes this wednesday, evening.
SEVERAL of the students attended the
Washington county Christian Endeavor
convention at Barre last Friday.
WHAT is the matter with the Vermont
Methodist Seminary football team? 1t met
the High School team of Burlington No
vember 2, and defeated them by score of
20 to 10. A large crowd witnessed the
game. The boys from Burlington showed
themselves TO be gentlemen aud did excel
lent work on the field.
PUBLIC rhetoricals were given last Friday
and Saturday evenings by members of the
junior class. Those speaking Friday even
ing were Misses Buxton, White and Henry,
o..