The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-05
Summary OF News.


OF West Brattleboro.
THE people of Springfield are organizing
companies, and will endeavor to boom the
town.
AT special village school-meeting at
| Brattleboro, $4,000 was appropriated for
new school-house.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has gone to Michigan,
to visit his sister, Mrs. Maynard, who re-
sides in Romeo, Mich.
WILLIAM SMALL, a thief incarcerated at
| the house of correction, escaped July Y,
and has not been recaptured.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS, tinsmith Of Rutland,
was in Boston last week, got drunk and lost
his watch and 800 in money.
A TRAMP stole valuable gold watch from
| Horace Randall of St. Johnsbury, week
ago last Monday, was pursued to Mclndoes
and captured.
JOHN A. FITCH, ESQ.,, junior member OF
| the law firm of Ballard, Burleson q Fitch of
| St. Adams, died last Wednesday of typhoid
fever, after brief Illness
Mrs. Lucy WooD of Barre, 105 years old,
has been appointed aide on the staff of
| President G.. A. H. Thompson of the Yer
mont Woman's Relief Corps.
STOWE is troubled with a gold fever.
Quite quantity of pure gold was gathered
from stream in that town recently, and
digging for larger finds is in progress.
THE assistant judges have appointed II.
w. Lund of Canaan, States attorney for
Essex county, vice f. d. Hale, resigned to
accept the government appointment in
Oklahoma.
v1cE-PREs1DENr MORTON, Miss Sherman,
daughter of the late General Sherman, and
| DIR. McLane have been guests of DIR. w.
Seward Webb, at Shelburne Farms, for the
past few days.
AT temperance meeting in Bennington,
Sunday evening, July 26, Dr. II. j. Potter
said that If two hundred people would stand
by the officers, he would guarantee that the
| liquor traffic would be put down.
REV. j. II. BABBITT, secretary of the State
Sunday-school Association of Vermont,
writes that it is decided to hold the next
meeting of the State Sunday-school Asso-
citation at Newport, September 10 to II.
THE ifty-eghth annual Universalist Con-
vention Of the Churches of Vermont and
Quebec will be held at st. Paul'S Universal
list church in Rutland, Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday, August %, 26 and 81.
THE only person in Vermont engaged in
the manufacture of silk is Mrs. George
Gregory of East Burke, who has about a
thousand silk worms busily engaged in
turning green mulberry leaves into the raw
material from which silk is made.
THE summer meeting of the Rutland Driv-
ing Park Association is to be held at Rut-
land, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
August 4, > and 6. Purses aggregating So, 233
are offered and in the ten races are entered
some OF the best horses on the turf in the
East
GOVERNOR PAGE, on Friday of last week,
appointed Mr.. A. b. Noyes of St. Johnsbury
a director of the state fish hatchery, thus
completing the board, the other members
being DIR, II. II Swift of Pittsford and Mr..
G. G. Warner of Waterbury, who were APP
pointed in February last.
IT is probable that visitors to the Vermont
State Fair at Howard Park, September IA
will find on exhibition one of the latest
things in the way of a motor. The Brayton
Motor Company have notified NJ. A. Hicks
of Weathersfield that, if possible, they shall
send a sample motor for exhibition at the
fair.
The Vermont Association of Life Under
writers will meet at Bennington, August IS,
and has invited its members to attend the
centennial exercises on the following day.
The regular business sessions of the associ.
alton will be held at 10 A. NJ. and P. NJ. on
the 18th, and in the evening a concert will
be given under the auspices of the associa.
ton.
CHARLES w. BAILEY a st. Adams team
ster, charged with smuggling in the China.
men contrary to the exclusion act, was ar.
rested recently. Bailey owned up to having
carried the Cinnamon across the line in his
team and aiding them on the way to Spring
field. He waived examination and fur
October term of the United States Circuit
Court at Rutland.
THE premium lists of the joint exhibition
of the State Agricultural Society and Cham
plain Valley Association at Howard Park
Burlington, September l, ., 3 and 4, have
just been issued. Articles and animals for
exhibition must be entered on the clerk s
books on or before Tuesday, August 20, ex
cept entries in floral and mechanic halls
which must be made on or before the first
day of the exhibition.
IT is announced through the press that
Miss Mary Howe of Brattleboro, the "Amer
can prima DONNA" as she has been termed
is soon to be married, the fortunate mar
being William j. LAWN of Detroit, Mich
Miss Howe is one of the sweetest singers
that this country has ever produced, is &
charming woman socially and in every par
ticular and the man who wins her for
wife is deserving of unstinted congratula
tons.
THE following pensions have been granted
Vermonters: Or7ginal-Silas B. Thompson
Edward Brockway, Lucius p. Warren, Bills,
A. Atchson, Sydney Timberln, David b
Hunter, Ira a. Grant, Charles E. Davis
James Bemis, Isaac German, Alonzo Pigeon
Loranzo Shatfner, Francis p Taylor Ell
dolph Labardie, Lyman G. Cummings, The
ron 7. Lampshiere, Lowell S. Holt Bernard
McCabe, William Whittemore. AddHional-
George w. Currier. Original Widows
Juulln Miles, Mary a. EuRerUOu'
The following is the programme at tn,
Vermont Officers Reunion at Newport
August IA: The usual business meeting a
five o'clock P. NJ; an Grafton in the evening
delivered by Hon. E. B. Sherman of Chi
cago subject, "The Women of the War,
AT half-past nine o'clock will be the annua
banquet Headquarters will be at the Mem
phremagog house. The Newport Corne
Band will furnish music, and railroads will
sell round-trip tickets at reduced rates
Colonel f. E. Smith OF Montpelier is sec
rotary.
THE first annual tournament of the Yer
mont State Tennis Association will be hell
at Rutland, August 11-14 inclusive. Prize
will be offered in the following matches
ladies' singles mixed doubles, men
singles and mems doubles. The las
two matches will be confined to the frs
three days of the tournament, and thos
a., finals will be played on Thursday. Tn,
l preliminaries in ladies' and mixed double
will come Thursday, and they will be fin
t ished on Friday. There will be no entranc
| fees, and entries will close Saturday, Au
gust 8. Entries may be forwarded to w
, | NJ. Ross, Rutland, chairman of the com