The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-25
Summary OF News.

$1,000 in 1890
The railroad station at Bellows Falls is
TO be remodeled.
CITIZENS of South Danville are trying to
establish creamery there.
w. s. HTcHcocK has been appointed
postmaster at West Haven.
The state board of agriculture meets at
Braintree on Thursday and Friday OF this
week.
THE Bennington auditors report shows a
decrease in the net debt during the past
year of S7,3j6.07
II. b. DEWITT, a resident OF South Roy
alton, died recently at Newport, aged
aghty-four years.
THE democrats of Burlington nominated
Seneca Haseton for mayor on last week
Tuesday evening.
AMOS PARLIN, who died recently in Derby
was the oldest resident in the town, being
ninety three years old
Il. G. PIERCE of the United States fish
commission has brought 1900 trout from
Michigan to stock Marlboro pond.
JED j. Rock, aged twenty-four years.
committed suicide at Vergennes on Satur-
day, by putting two bullets into his body.
The Fall Mountain Paper Company at
Bellows Falls is making extensive improve
ments and has expended $500, 900 already.
The seventh annual conference ofsecreta-
ries of Young Mems Christian Associations
will be held at Burlington on March 1928
A MEETING of citizens of Vergennes, on
last week Friday evening" adopted resolu-
tons in favor of the railroad from that
town.
REV. K. j. FULLERTON, recently OF
Worcester, Mass, has accepted a call to the
First Congregational church at Bellows
Falls.
A SAN Francisco shoe firm, employing
100000, is to locate in Burlington this
spring
A WESTON man sat down on a cutting off
saw recently while 1t was running, and
twenty stitches had to be taken in the
wound.
The homeopathic physicians Of the towns
OF New Hampshire and Vermont along the
Connecticut valley ere about to organize a
medical society.
GEORGE A. Pore, young business man
OF Burlington, died on last week Tuesday.
He had been i'll for six months with tuber-
0ulosis' of the bone.
CAPTAIN A. NJ. BEATTIE has sold his lands
in CRANKY, Guildhall and Maidstone, some
$500 acres, to DanfOrth, Pattee Clark OF
North STAFFORD, n. II.
celebrated their golden wedding on last
week Thursday. They have been residents
OF Vergennes for over fifty years
AT recent meeting at Newport for the
purpose of securing $4,000 for stock in the
new savings bank. over S107 900 was sub
scribed as soon as the books were opened.
EDWIN LOCKWOOD fell through hole in
the floor in the sulphide mills at Bellows
Falls recently, and in trying to save himself
he caught hold of knife, which cut off
three fingers.
HENRY WARDNER, brother-in-aw of
Senator Evarts, died at Springfield last
week. He was born in Windsor in 1917,
and he had managed the Ascutney bank
for about thirty years.
GILES HAwRIcAN of North Hero died a
week ago Sunday at Burlington. He rep
resented his town in the legislature in 1884
and was the means of getting the state APP
preparation for the bridge.
REV. DR.. ALBERT II. BAILEY, rector of
Grace church, Sheldon, died "a week ago Sat-
urday in the SEVENTEEN year of his age. He
had been identified with the diocese of Ver-
mont since 1S40 and was its Oldest priest.
THE February term of the Grand Isle
county court was held on last week Tues
day, and after a short session an adjourn
ment was made to the FIRST day of May. The
BTduu Jury TRUE Dlll, DuU tItTe
was no jury trial.
WILMINGTON voted in special town meet
ing Saturday to bond five times the amount
of its grand list, about S32 600, in the Will
mington and Hoosac tunnel narrow gauge
railroad, already completed to Readsboro,
within ten miles of Wilmington.
DEPARTMENT. COMMANDER ID. l.. MORAN
has issued a general order requesting
Grand Army posts in the state to use
mourning badges for the next thirty days
on account of the death of General Sher-
man and Admiral Porter. 1t is also sug-
gested that special or public services be
held by each post.
THE second death at the Soldiers Home
at Bennington last week occurred on Thurs
day morning when Mark Donaldson of
Company E, Seventh Vermont Regiment,
died of apoplexy at the age of seventy-!our
years. He had been at the Home since
April |, 1888. The remains were taken to
Thetford for burial.
G. w. BEECHER, a hardware merchant of
West Pawet, was ascending the roof of the
Welsh church recently to make repairs, and
when he was about half way up the ladder
gave way, precpitating him to the ground,
more than thirty feet below. One ankle
was shattered, and he was otherwise bruised
about the body A bank of snow saved him
from more serious injuries
The big grain elevator at Rchford is COM
pleted and ready for business. The build
ing is $50 feet high, 132 feet long, ninety
feet wide, and has a receiving capacity of
100000 bushels of grain. Power is supplied
by a Corss engine of l75 horsepower. The
building is lighted by electricity. The cost
OF the work is over 100000.
GENERAL WILLIAM w. HENRY and the
other commissioners of the Stannard monu-
ment met Karl Gerhardt at his studio in
Hartford, Conn, on Friday last and in
spected the clay model of General Stannard,
bronze statue of which is to be placed
this summer upon the monument in Lake
View cemetery in Burlington. They We're
perfectly satisfied with the work.
AT the annual meeting of the Vermont
Atwood Merino Sheep Breeders Club in
Middlebury on last week Tuesday these Of
fcers were elected: President, f. ID. Bar
ton; vice-president, r. j. Jones; second
vice president, Henry Thorp; directors, q.
N. Winslow, j. w. Buell. and ID. B. Buell.;
auditors, Henry Thorp and ID. b. Buel. The
executive board reapponted George Ham,
mond of Middlebury secretary and treas
urer.
REPRESENTATIVE of the several insur-
ance companies have adjusted the losses by
the recent fires at Richmond as follows: +.
w. Powers, SLAB; II. r. Norton, $500;
j. B. Norton & Co., $780, j, f. Whit
comb al h0. Mrs Hattie r WhitcOmh.