The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-07

at eighty-tour cents, the gross value of the
crop being over S21 900, several times the
cost of the land.
G. e. MoULToN of West Randolph is now
connected with the treasurers department
of the National Life Insurance Company.
Mr.. Moulton already has many friends here,
who will be glad to know that he is to be
In town permanently.
SOME changes in the supreme-court room
are being made by Sergeant-at-Arms T. G.
Phinney The bench at which the Judges
sit has been placed at the west end of the
room, thus giving much better light. 1t
has been on the north side up to the present
time.
FOLLOWING is the summary of mail matter
sent from the Montpelier Office during the
month OF September: Number of pieces
paying postage, 77,A1 number of free
pieces, 1,5OS; total, 78S49; weight of the
above, 6,53l pounds; postage on fhe above,
S951 .S4.
MONTPELIER lodge of Good Templars OBJ
served it's first anniversary on Friday even
ing OF last week, when q delegation of
about twenty-five members of the Barre
lodge was present. A pleasant literary
programme was presented, and a social
time was enjoyed.
E. X. JOHNSON of the Hillside boarding
house shows stalk of sweet corn twelve
feet three inches high-the highest record
up to date. Specimens of the ears left at
the WATcHMAN Office show that the variety
does not exhaust its strength or quality in
producing tall stalks.
Mrs. r. NJ. HUTCHINSON, after being con-
hned to the house for nearly year-and six
months of the time to the bed-has so far re-
covered as to be able to ride out short dis
tance. Mrs. Hutchinson expresses high ap-
probation of the skill of the attending phy-
sician, DR.. G. n. Hunt.
A L1FE-sIzE portrait in oil of Rev. ], Ed
ward Wright, executed by The skillful hand
OF our distinguished artist, Mr.. I. w.
Wood, is on exhibition at Longs bookstore.
The likeness is excellent and the express
sions of satisfaction and pleasure heard from
spectators are numerous
E. r. SKINNER received last week larger
quantity of naphtha than was needed at
present at the gas works, and the surplus
was transferred from the tank to kerosene
barrels. In making the transfer, however,
most offensive odor was given out, con.
unuing through Saturday and Sunday.
NJ. G. GoRMAN died yesterday morning of
pneumonia, at his home on Barre street,
after an illness OF about month. Mr.. Cor
man was in the twenty-eighth year of his
age. He was stone-cutter, and was
member of the Capital Granite Company.
The funeral will take place tomorrow.
The town treasurer reports that out of
their taxes before October 6-when the time
expired for payment to him. OF a total of
$4,000 called for on the grand list, all but
about $50 has been paid, and of this sum
$3.50 is one individual list-which, by the
way, is pretty good showing.
THE annual meeting of the Kings Daugh-
ters was held Monday evening at the home
of Mrs. G. B. B. Denny. The following
officers We're elected: President, Mrs. G.
b. Is. Denny; vice-presidents, Mrs. |. G.
Vail and Mrs. j. A. DeBoer; recording
secretary, Mrs. G.. G. Alber: corresponding
secretary and treasurer, Miss Julia Ellis.
THE subject of the meeting of the Young
Peoples Religious Fraternity, Monday even
ing, lngsey was ;as Praise and the service was
assisted in the singing, and Rev. j. Harry
Holden of Amherst, Mass, PARTICIPATED in
the exercises to the evident pleasure of the
members of the society. The meeting was
unusually interesting
GEORGE A. VILEs returned to his home
at weston, Mass, on last week Friday,
after spending nearly his entire summer va
cation with his brother at the Pavilion,
Mr.. Viles has been kept quite busy with
orders for portraits during his visit and
his work has given the highest satisfaction.
lie will attend the school of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts another year
THE delegates from the local branch to
the state convention of the Womans Chris
tian Temperance Union at St, Johnsburv
this week Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, are Mrs. O. II. Richardson and Mrs. e.
ID. Putnam. Mrs. G. b. b. Denny is SUI
perintendent of the department of hygiene
and heredity, and Miss Amy Fisk of the
klndergarten department, and they also
will attend the convention.
IT is great year for crops. n. w. Peck
planted six acres of corn for his slo. Some
a of hn 1,I Il. I'M
remainder he allowed to mature and from
1t hnsked POI bushels of ears-a remarkable
yield. The corn is the twelve-rowed vari-
ETY., trace of which is hung in the store of
Barrows q Peck and attracts much atten-
uon. 10 be exact, this yield was from
seven rods less than an acre The work
was done by machinery and the cost of
production was probably not over ten cents
a bushel.
THE monthly meteorological summary at
the Northfeld station for September is as
follows: Mean barometer, 30.133; highest,
30 4S4, September 30 lowest, 90 SlS, Sep
tember l3; mean temperature, G0.6o; highest
50, September Is, %; lowest, 36o September
lo greatest daily range of temperature, 33o
September 2S; least daily range, 12o, SEN
tenDer q; mean temperature for same
month in 1887, 5l.So; 1888, 542o; 1899, 57.4o;
1890 56'; prevailing direction of wind,
south; total precipitation, .9S inch; total
precipitation same month of 1887, /. rs; 1888,
e p; 1889, Ob 1890, .95 Frost, September9 9.
DEPUTY SHERIFFs Cook CAMP AND HEATH
looked in on the saloon of Bernard A. Me-
Kenna, last week Friday afternoon, and in
the back room were found pitcher of
whiskey about two-thirds full and
six-qnart pail about half full The
vessels were quickly emptied by boy
before the very eyes of the officers, and the
pitcher was broken, but a small quantity
remained in the pail, and that, with the re-
mains of the pitcher, was taken for evidence.
McKenna was arrested on an information
OF the states attorney for selling and for
keeping nuisance, Bail to the amount of
$500 was given.
The lines of the Montpelier liquor dealer
have fallen in unpleasant places. On Thurs.
day OF last week Deputy Sheriff Heath
arrested j. Chimney on an information,
liquor having been seized some time since
at his saloon. j. A. Locklin furnished
bail, which was fixed at $500. Indictments
have been found against j. A. Locklin and
Erastus Locklin, and on these, as well as
wrts of information, they were arrested on
last week Friday. The bail of the former
was placed at $500, that of the latter at
S4OO, and both are out. I. NJ. Lynch also |
Is summoned to tell his story in court. His |