The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-01

dresses, essays and reports, also the execu-
tive printing.
A REGULAR meeting Of Aurora Lodge, +.
and A. NJ, will be held at Masonic Hall,
Monday evening, October 6. Work on
second degree. Visiting brethren cordially
invited.
Mrs. A. G. VAIL was elected vice.presi-
dent of the Vermont branch OF the Woman's
Board of Missions, at the meeting at Bur-
'lington last week. Mrs. G. w. Gallaghe.
and Mrs. A. j. Howe were delegates from
Bethany church.
A FINE specimen Of blue heron was
shown at this Office last Thursday. Master
Arthur Wallace Cook, eleven years old,
was the proud hunter who captured his
game at Jones brook 1t measured six
feet from tip to tip of its wings.
OFFICER DEMERITT discovered what he
supposed to be fire in the jewelry store of
A. G.. Stone last Wednesday evening, and
the door was broken in. 1t was found that
steam was issuing copiously from leak in
the pipe, giving the appearance of smoke.
Miss AMY b. FISK gave an address on
How to Keep Our Children Pure" at the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
state convention at Mddlebury last week,
and Mrs. G.. B. b. Denny was elected an
alternate delegate to the national conven-
ton.
The following cases OF intoxication were
tried before Justice Smile last week Paul
Rivers and w. III. Cochrane, fined $ll5O,
appealed, bail being placed at $50 in each
case; AFRO Levanway and James Martin,
fined SlO.5l each. Joseph Cadette, for sell
ing, was fined S12.46.
THE wall along the bank of the Winooski
river, which the Wells River railroad COM
pany has been building is about finished.
1t is $50 feet long. Additions are being
made to the engine house and another build
ing, the latter to be used as a car and re-
pair shop. A blacksmith shop also is to be
built.
The annual meeting of the Montpelier
Educational and Benevolent association
will occur on Friday evening, October g. at
half-past seven o'clock, at the vestry of
the Church of the Messiah Reports of
the various officers and committees will
be made, and officers will be chosen for the
ensuing year.
The state convention of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union was held in
Middlebury last week. The meetings were
exceedingly interesting and gratifying as
to membership, financial prosperity and
results achieved. Mrs. f. ID. Putnam,
Mrs +. NJ. Denny and Miss Amy Fisk were
in attendance.
AMONG those who are to have parts in the
twenty-second annual meeting of the State
Sunday-schOOl Association at Wells River,
October 2l-3, are Rev. G. Z. Raymond, who
will speak on " Present Demands in Sunday
school Work, and Miss Amy b. Fisk whose
subject will be Temperance Work in the
Sunday-school."
The first lecture in the course of the
Ladies' Library Guild will be by Hon. j.
w. Patterson of Hanover, n. H., on
Wednesday evening, October s. His sub
ject will be " A Run Through England and
Scotland" Mr. Patterson is one of the
most delightful speakers on the lecture
platform. The Montpelier orchestra will
furnish music. Tickets will be on sale at
Longs bookstore Saturday morning at nine
O'Clock. Single tickets, thirty-five and fifty
cents. There has already been large sale
of season tickets.
A RECENT issue of Forest and Stream con-
tains the following: "We find in the King
field, Me-, Reporter note of a venerable trio
Of anglers, whose long cOmpaniOnship in
annual camps is worthy of record. Messrs.
L. G. Barrows and George W. Reed of
Montpelier, VT, and f. S. Merrill of Winch
endon, Mass, aged respectively II, y and
I3 years, have been camping this summer
at Blakesie Pond, on the Spencer waters,
where they have had success with trout
The summer of 1890 made the forty-second
successive year during which these three
have camped and ished together. If
Messrs. Barrows, Reed and Merrill are
blessed with the vivid memories many
anglers possess for incidents of their out
door life. they must indeed have a rare
fund OF incident and anecdote to rehearse
TO one another and live over again together
in their chats about the campfire"
Rev j. Edward Wright's long service as
minister of the Church of the Messiah be-
gan September 26, 1863. He therefore eel
ebrated the twenty-tirst anniversary of his
settlement last Sunday. There was large
] i'm ha .b. t.,
autumn flowers were arranged in profusion
before the pulpit; and the whole service
expressed tender and grateful "reminiscences
Ihe morning sermon-rather a familiar
talk than a formal diScUurse-had for its
motto, Your fellowship in the gospel from
the Irst day until now" philippians 1:v.)
MIR. Wright spoke of his pastorate as occur
ring in period marked by great activity of
thought, and constant agitation of novel
IDEAS, an era OF transition nevertheless the
bond uniting him and the Church of the
Messiah had proved strong enough TO with
stand the tendencies of the time to move
ment and change-so strong, indeed had it
proved, that his own suggestions, four times
repeated, 10 the representatives OF the Soci-
ely, that the relation he dissolved, had been
Intellectual. He referred to great changes
III Montpelier, and to transformation in
the perS0Rnet of the congregation. In few
minutes cursory examination the names of
Wv h"h"i'u StNtntttn UOUWy people, 1Or-
merlN connected with the society who had
gone from town, had been brought to his
mind, and the havoc made by death, espe-
cially during the year just passed, was feel
ingy alluded to. Sixty of the six hundred
funerals attended by him have occurred
during the last twelve months The ma
jority of the fifteen leading contributors
whose names are on the first page of the
subscription book of 1869 have passed away;
five persons have been taken from the Sun
day-school during the year, and five from
the fellowship" roll. And vet, despite
these losses, the society has increased in
numbers and strength. Its pew rental tests
the capacity of the church, more than five
sixths of the pews being rented to repre-
sentatires of two or more families while
the list of eighty-seven contributors in 1869
has swollen to about one hundred fifty in
1890 and the benevolent contributions have
been greatly enlarged. The Ladies' Society,
too, raises 800 or $500 annually, the amount
since October |, 1889, being S4O6. Mr..
Wright also mentioned the organization of
the Young Peoples Religious Fraternity as
the new measure which chiefly marked the
last year. Its meetings have been well at
tended, and have proved valuable to its
members Abiding to his work in the pull
PIT, he reckoned the sermons and lectures
that he had delivered by the thousand, as
they aggregated almost two thousand one
hundred thirty bpsiles tho si bun1raI