The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-27
Summary Of News.
Vermont.

WINDSOR has voted to pay its fremen fifty
cents an hour for services at fires.
JONAS PUTNAM, a well known citizen of
Brattleboro, died on last week Tuesday.
Miss ELIZABETH U. YATES has given forty
temperance lectures in this state recently.
THE house and barn on Miss Ann Smiths
farm at Orwell were destroyed by fire on
Thursday.
THE date of the Joint agricultural fair at
Burlington has been changed to the first
week in September
THE farm buildings of G.. w. Dermick at
Windham were burned the other day with
| three horses and a cow.
IT is alleged that the steam mill at West
minister will be torn down and removed be-
cause ofunjust taxation.
MRS. CAROLINE NJ. HOWE, aged seventy
seven, and Myron f. Fuller of Tunbrdge,
aged forty-seven, were married recently.
Mrs. BAILEY of South Windham, eighty
five years of age, knit five large mats re-
Gently, sewing, and threading her own
needle besides.
Otis FLINT of Tunbridge was bitten by
savage hog on last week Thursday. 1t is
feared that the wounds in the hand may
prove poisonous.
THE second annual meeting of the YER
mont Association of Life Underwriters will
be held at the Weldon house, st. Adams,
on the afternoon of June |.
FISH COMMISSIONER BRAINERD Of st. AL
bans is distributing bass pike, perch and
other kinds of fish to the ponds through
out the state at his own expense.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made whereby
the freight passing south over the Canadian
Pacific is to be inspected at North Troy in
stead OF at Newport, as heretofore.
SEVERAL citizens of Chittenden county
have received "green goods circulars
from New York swindlers, who offer $50 in
their counterfeit greenbacks for 81.
THE Vermont Monthly and Teachers Jour
nal have been sold by b. II. Albee of the
Bel}O1CS Falls Times to the Model Home of
Rutland, of which Henry Clark is editor.
THE National Horse Nail Company of
Vergennes is probably the first company in
this state to use American tin for roofing
purposes. 1t comes from Pittsburg, Penn.
Two thieves on Thursday of last week
stole $50 from a drunken man at Bellows
Falls. On Saturday they were arrested at
Castleton and taken back to Bellows Falls.
AN association has been formed at Per-
kinsville, to be known as the Hawks Noun
tain Horse Breeders association, with the
object of introducing fine standard of
horses.
FOSTER, JosLYN & Co., of Barton Land
ing, have just put into their mill new ma
chinery for the manufacture of bobbins, at
a cost Of some $500, and will soon have it in
operation.
REV. GIBBS BRAIsLIN was installed as pas
tor of the Baptist church at Rutland on
Wednesday evening of last week Pres-
dent E. b. Andrews of Brown University
preached the sermon.
DWIGHT ROGERS BARKER, son of Don A.
Barker, living in Poultney, was instantly
killed on last week Tuesday by being
thrown from load of hay, his head strik-
ing upon large stone.
The department of agriculture at Wash
ington has given orders that sheep and
swine imported from Canada must remain
in quarantine fifteen days as a protection
from contagious diseases.
BRATTLEBoRo's ancient aqueduct failed
recently for the first time. The failure was
caused by the caving in of the earth. In
designations showed that the pipe, which
was laid in 1921 was in good condition.
ELBRIDGE HoUGHToN, Putney carpenter,
is supposed to have been drowned in the
Connecticut river near Brattleboro last
week. lie was seen in boat few hours
before the boat was found empty, floating
down the river.
The secretary of war has allotted SO ,685
to Vermont as the states share of the
money devoted to arming and equippng
the militia. The allotment is made on the
basis of representation in congress. The
money is available on July.
Hon. G. NJ. LAMB, the Oldest member of
the Windsor county bar and the oldest law
yeI but one in the state, died at his home in
South Royalton on last week Wednesday.
lie was lightweight years of age. In 1872
he was senator from Windsor county.
CHARLES HoUGHToN, a well-known Bos-
ton lawyer, died suddenly of apoplexy at
his home in Brooklne, on last week Mon
day Mr.. Houghton was born in Putney,
this state, sixty-nine years ago, and in 1856
he began the practice OF law in Boston.
THE May number of Self Help and Home
Study was issued from the Free Press Office
and the Office of the paper will hereafter be
at Burlington. Its name indicates its char.
acter. The current number contains a va
riety of very interesting and instructive ar.
ticles.
THE May term of the United States cir
cult and district courts began at Windsor
on last week Tuesday. The court handed
down decision granting the motion for a
preliminary injunction in the case of the
Vermont Farm Machine company as. Hugh
G. Gibson. The grand jury reported true
bills.
THERE was a heavy frost throughout the
Connecticut valley last week Monday night
and the ground was frozen to the depth OF
more than a quarter of an inch Tuesday
morning Much damage was done to early
potatoes, corn and other garden truck, and
it is feared that the fruit crop has been in.
jured.
THE New York Coaching club has ac
Webb to take its annual drive this year
from Rutland to Shelburne Farms. The
party will leave New York on Friday even
ing, June 3, in special sleeping car, and
after breakfast in Rutland will start a,
eight o'clock on Saturday morning.
THE Central Vermont road has just issued
to its passenger train men the most com
plete book of instructions they have ever
had, covering nearly every contingency
that may arise in the handling of passenger
trains, and making several quite important
changes in rules. The men are at work in
their spare time studying the document.
BEDFORD ALMY, living at Buskirks, neal
Bennington, was fatally injured in peculiar
way recently. He was coming out of his
barn on load of hay, which was too high to
pass freely under the beam over the door
His feet were caught and the legs doubled
back on his head, causing a conclusion OF
the spine and internal injuries. He died a
few days after
CIRCULARS are out announcing mid-sum.
mer meeting to be held by the Connecticut
River Valley Association at Billings Park