The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-18

THE Ladies' Library Guild has offered to
present the library association new find
ing list, or what is commonly called "a cata-
logue, and at a meeting OF the trustees of
the association Monday evening it was
voted to accept the offer. Committees have
been appointed by each organization to CO.
operate in the work of preparing the list.
A MEETING of the board Of civil author
ity was held on Monday evening, and j. G.
Brown, T. X. Merrill, jr., j. IL. Senter and
a. j, Sibley were appointed ballot clerks.
They are to have charge of the ballots at
the approaching town meeting. At the
same meeting the check list was revised and
petitions for the abatement of taxes were
acted upon.
A BOY named Dolor Gordon, living on the
Berlin side, slipped into the store of G. b. b.
Denny while no one was about, one day last
week, and stole watch. Subsequently he
exchanged it for another watch and two
pairs of skates with s. T. Noyes. The mat
ter was investigated, and the boy was ar
rested, when he owned up. He is now under
bail of 500.
THE choir of Bethany church, consisting
of Mrs. W. A. Briggs, Mrs. f. II. Puifer,
Messrs. H. ID. Hopkins and G. II. Shipman,
participated in the music festival at Lisbon
n. H., last week Thursday afternoon. Mrs
Briggs and Mr.. Hopkins each sang solo,
and they also sang duet. Their singing
was highly complimented and much en-
jOyed. Z. +. Dudley of Ea5t Montpelier
also attended the festival.
THE Seventh Vermont will hold its re-
union at the Baxter Music hall in Rutland
on March 10, which is the twenty eighth an
niversary of the departure of the regiment
for the seat of war. Every member of the
regiment, whether he has or has not re-
ceived circulars 1 and 2, should notify Will
am II. Ward, ST. Johnsbury, VT, giving
his post-ofce address, in order that a re-
vised roster may be made up.
THE Tribune Almanac for 1891 is mag
nificent number, the largest ever issued by
Tie Tribune. 1t contains 253 closely packed
pages into which are crowded vast guam
tity of valuable facts and figures names,
lists of official historical sketches, and other
matters, concerning which the average citi-
zen of both parties needs to refresh his
memory hundred times every year. The
price is twenty-five cents copy.
A DELEGATION of thirty-one memb lrs of
Vermont lodge of Odd Fellows went to
Hyde Park last week Friday to assist
in the initiation of Governor Page and
four other candidates into the mys-
teries of Odd Fellowship st. Albans
lodge worked the initiatory degree Ver-
mont lodge the first degree, and Green
Mountain lodge of Burlington the second
and third degrees. The occasion was ex-
ceedingly pleasant to all who were present.
The Montpelier Odd Fellows went and re-
turned In SlelgnS,
A WOMAN named St. John, who lives in
the house of r. r. Riker on State street,
created some excitement on the streets yes
and she alleged that her daughter had on
Friday last struck her on the face. She
talked continually about having her daugh-
ter arrested, and her noise attracted large
crowd. The procession moved from Beth
any church through Main to State street,
ha off of
John l.. Tuttle, the woman was placed on a
sled and taken home.
A RED signal light has been arranged on
the electric wires at the intersection of State
and Main streets at point visible the entire
length of both streets. 1t sometimes hap
pens that there is a call for the police at the
telephone Office when that officer is on his
beat, away from headquarters on South
Main street. The signal light in question is
so arranged that the attendant at the ex-
change can connect it with the current and
thus apprise the officer that he is wanted
and bring him to the exchange. The de-
vice is the idea of M. w. Wheelock, who
furnished the materials for giving it a prac-
tical trial.
ABOUT half-past eight Monday evening
fire was discovered in the plating works oi
johnson & Cotton on the Berlin side. Ii
had burned through the clapboards on the
south side in the second story, and attracted
II
that workman had swung gas Jet back
against the window casing. In the casing
was a hole which had been filed with cot
ton waste. BY this means fire was commu.
nicated to the space between the inner and
outer boarding of the building, where it had
smouldered till it had burned hole through
to the outside. A timber above the win
dows closed the space in that direction
preventing a draught and the upward
spread of the fire.
THE Montpelier Stone Shed Company
whose articles of association are published
in our advertising columns this week, is
composed of Montpelier business men who
are desrious of seeing the demand fol
stone sheds here promptly supplied. 1t has
purchased from the Mechanics Building
and Construction Company an acre OF
more of land next westerly of the Wetmort
4 Morse Granite Company on which tC
erect stone sheds. Messrs. Lynch & Nc
Mahon will occupy shed of two hundred
feet in length under five years lease al
an annual rental of ten per cent on the cost
of the shed and land, which they desire tC
fill with stone cutters early in May, al
which time the new company expects tC
have the desired amount of shed room
ready for use. Other parties will be ac.
commodated as soon as the sheds can
be erected. These sheds will be desirable
and in demand on account of their location
near the village and near the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad, and not far from
the Central Vermont branch that runs to
Barre. Besides the main pipe that brings
the Berlin water TO this village runs through
the land, affording motor power for polish
ing machines and derricks Some part of
the land is low, which by raising the sheds
afford place for the stone chips and waste
for some time, without cost of hauling away
from the grounds. Since the establishment
of the Wetmore & Morse Granite Company
here, the Mechanics Building and Construc-
ton Company, Messrs. Sibley and Kemp
and others have been and are erecting
dwellings in the vicinity of the proposed
sheds, so comfortable houses and reason
able rentals can be obtained. The suburban
trains of the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad will stop at the sheds to leave or
take on passengers, 1t looks as il the pre-
diction made by Hon. James X. Langdon
two years ago, that in ten years Barre
would be the largest town in the state and
that Montpelier would double its popula-
ton, will be realized.
THAT prophet is not without honor
save among his own people," that dis
tance lends enchantment to the view," and
like old proverbs, were put entirely in the
wrong, and shown to be so completely out
OF place, on Tuesday week by the enter
tainment given at the Opera house, and
called the - Ruainaaa Mans Carnival - that