The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-28
Summary OF News.


THE village improvement society of Brat
tleboro has thus far this year expended
S540 Go in way that has greatly benefited
the town.
Miss LETTIoE Bowen of Gaysville reached
the age OF 100 years on Monday. She is in
full possession of her faculties, and her
health is good.
A PETITION is being circulated in Pownal,
addressed to the governor of Vermont ask.
ing him to remove Judge Major w. Potter,
aged about eighty, from the office of justice
of the peace.
A SwEDE, who went from Barton Landing
to Boston, last spring, in the hope that he
might get back TO Sweden, has recently re-
turned to the Vermont town, walking all
the way from the Hub.
The will of the late Judge Edwin Flint of
the Iowa circuit court contains, among other
liberal educational requests, one for $50, 600
to the University Of Vermont, of which he
was graduate in the class of 1885,
On November and the Wilmington
~ Hoosac Tunnel railroad Is to be opened
with imposing ceremonies, the towns of
North Adams, Bennington, Brattleboro and
several others joining in the celebration.
TRINITY church, Rutland was filled to
overtiowing last week Thursday evening at
the thirteenth annual festival Of the church
guild of the diocese of the state of Vermont
s. b. Whitney of Boston was conductor
We're reelected as follows: President
William Bogart Walker of Bennington;
secretary and treasurer, Charles f. Parker
of Vergennes; executive committee, w. B.
Walker, 9. e. Parker, j. II. Williams, John
Keen, G. Il. Allen, +. w. Bancroft, e. l..
Temple and e. p. Nutter. After the SER
vice the ladies of Trinity parish gave a re-
ception to the visiting clergy, choirs and
invited guests in Baxter, Hall.
HERE is a biz of romance from the current
news of the day: Twenty-eight years ago
Stephen Liberty left his home in Canada
and went West He first settled in Mon
tana, and afterward in Washington. At
that time the Indians were numerous, and
in visiting their encampments he fell in love
with the daughter of prominent chief.
Notwithstanding the chiefs objections,
Liberty married his daughter and was
chief died, and Liberty was chosen to sue.
coed him. He is still chief, and was re-
Gently called to Washington, ID. c., to set
tie an Indian land claim. He was accom-
panied by thirty Indians. He left them at
New York and came on to Burlington TO
visit for the first time in many years his
mother, brothers and sisters, who live in
that city.
THE following Vermonters have received
pensions recently: Original Jesse Bohan-
nan, Alonzo Bent Frederick Gonya, jack
son Chadwick, Henry F. King, Franklin A.
Crane crane, Marx Ss, TRULY Dwight H: Rudd,
William P Thompson. Increase Henry c.
Williams, Homer Bostwick, Edgar E. Rye,
Harrison Bean, Thomas Reed, John Jarvis
Plummer II. Richardson, Amos H. Lamb,
Nathaniel H. Piper, John Mcdonald
Edwin r. Perry, Henry B. Tuliger, Cyrus
Harris, George w. Abbott. Additional
Charles F. Balm. Reissue-William A.
Perry, William Smith, Almon McClunin,
George Ainsworth, Orlando Leonard
Leverett II. Page. Reissue and Increase
John Tague, John d. Lyston. Original
widows, etc.-Betsey f. Parker (mother),
Louisa Kingsley, Eunice Whitlock Rosa
Dubois, Ellen Ryan, Bradford Grimes
Qatherl, Arathusa Whitney (mother), Mary
Tole, Mary NJ. Flanders.
RUTLAND's two great marble concerns,
the Vermont Marble Company and the Shell
don Marble Company, are to be united. p
w. Clement who is prominent in the man
agement of the last named company, says
"The Vermont Marble Company will take
the management of all the quarries, mills
and property owned and managed by both
companies, that is, unless the plan fails,
which is not likely" The Vermont Mar
BILE Company of which Secretary Proctor is
the head, is the largest marble producing
concern in the world and the Sheldon Com
pany ranks next. A consolidating arrange
ment made couple of years ago gave these
two companies control of all the great West
Itutland quarries, as well as the supply at
Proctor, which used to be known as Suther-
land Falls marble, and the new arrange
ment will put all but some small marble
concerns in the state under one manage
ment. 1t is reported that the uniting will
be in the form Of lease of the Sheldon
property to the Vermont Marble Company.
THE Vermont commandery of the Loyal
Legion is to be instituted at Burlington, on
fhA s.f
O'Clock, after which a banquet is to be
served at the Van Ness house. 1t is hoped
that all officers in the state will take an &C
tive interest in the new organization. Au-
thority for instituting the commandery was
given through the following circular issued
under date of the 10Th inst, by command of
Commander-in-Chief Rutherford b. Hayes:
" l. At the seventh annual meeting of the
ommandery-in-chief, held in the city of
Philadelphia, October IA, 1884, charter for
the commandery-in-ch of the state of Yer
mont, to be located at Burlington, was
issued to companions of the commandery of
the state of New York: Brevet Major
Alonzo Buckingham Valentine, Brevet
gadier-general Stephen Mofiitt; of COM
mandery of the state of Massachusetts,:
Brevet Major Gardner Spring Blodgett,
Captain Theodore Stafford Peck Captain
George Otis Tyler, Captain Urban Adrian
Woodbury., Brevet Brigadier-general Will
liam Writ Henry, First Lieutenant Freder-
ick Elijah SIN tn, Captain Edward Dewey,
Leutenant.colonel Edward Henry Powell,
Lieutenant George Granville Benedict, Cap
tain Ebenezer j. Ormsbee, First Lieutenant
Erastus w. Jewett, Capt. Pearl d. Bodgett,
First Lieutenant Herbert Brainerd, Brevet
Major. general William Wells; of the COM
mandery of the District of Columbia Cap
tain Frederick David Butterield, Brevet
observation-disclosures Cornelius Low King,
Brevet Leutenant-colonel Frank G. Butter
field. ii. The transfers of the companions
named will be dated October 10, 1891 and
forwarded to the headquarters OF the order.
III. In pursuance of the constitution, the
commandment chief directs that the com.
mandery of the state of Vermont be organ
lied in the city of Burlington, at such time
as may be selected by the petitioners. ~
Official communications should be addressed
to Captain Theodore s. Peck, Burlington
VT" The companions living at Burlington
held meeting recently and decided to call
the meeting for the above date, and COM
mittees on toasts, banquet and decorations,
transportation, receptions and invitations
were appointed.
Domestic.
IT is reported that polygamy is dying out
in Utah.
FOUR inches of snow fell in Massachusetts,
on ThursdaV night of Last weak