The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-15
and speedy recovery. Mrs. Porter returns
the last of the week

)He VI Jne prOIeSSOrb OI OJ. JOSepn COl- |
ege, Burlington, and musical entertain
nent under the auspices of the scholars Of |
ST. Michaels school will also be presented. !
SBUBEL WALES, formerly of East Rox-
bury, but now of Villisca, Iowa, was in town
last week Wednesday. 1t is about forty |
years since he was here He visited his |
nephew, G. w. Bolton, and other friends
In town. Mr.. Wales is seventy-three years
old and has retired from active business
life.
THE annual meeting of Canton Mont
pelier was held on last week Friday even.
ing. The officers elected were +. K. Sand
ers, captain; W. A. Taylor, lieutenant
Milton d. Drew, ensign; f. A. Sherburne,
clerk; ID. w. Dudley, accountant. After
the business meeting, social time was en-
joyed, the retiring captain, l.. A. Flint, fur
nishing new maple sugar.
THOMAS f. GRADY, Esq, of New York.
one of the counsel in the stone.cutters case,
home on last week Friday. Be-
fore going he presented each OF the other
counsel in the case-Messrs. Dillingham;,
Huse, Stanton, Senter and Lord-a law
book The recipients returned the cOmpl-
ment by presenting Mr.. Grady shirt stud
made from pearl found in the Winooski
at East Montpelier. The pearl had solid
gold mounting, and the stud itself was ac-
companied by handsome plush case The
local bar is unanimous in its opinion of Mr..
lawyer and a gentleman.
THE following are the dates and subjects
OF the lectures to be given in the Church Of
the Messiah by George Willis Cooke Of
Boston: Monday, April Goth, George
Eliot and the Literary Women of To-day;
Wednesday, April 22d, 60 The Home Life Of
our Forefathers, and its Manly Virtues;
Saturday, May I'd, Ralph Waldo Emer-
SON." Mr.. Cooke is highly recommended
by competent critics, and his lectures will
assuredly prove scholarly, instructive and
elevating. Tickets to the course, fifty
cents; single tickets twenty-five cents; to
be obtained at Longs bookstore. The net
proceeds will go to the Montpelier Public
Library.
Mr.. AND MRS. FRED E. SMITH are now at
Nashville, Tenn, and have taken up their
residence on the property called "Maple-
WOOD" which they will hereafter probably
make their winter home, while continuing
to live at Montpelier in the summer months.
Colonel Smith reports that the National
Lookout Mountain Company, of which he
is president, is now fully organized, and
that the prospects for the Lookout Inn for
TIE coming season are most excellent. The
house has capacity for 600 guests, and an
expenditure of 100000 will be made by the
company on the mountain this year. Colonel
s nith is strongly impressed with the Won
derfu natural beauty of the section. He
ural park he ever saw.
SYLVESTER CUMMINGS of Berlin, by false
pretense, procured a pint of whiskey and
ptpt of alcohol at the Montpelier liquor
agency on Friday. On Saturday afternoon
~ was ugly drunk, and, entering his home
with sled stake and the pitman rod OF a
moving machine, remarked that there was
going to be a funeral there" Ira Harran
Glanced to be present, seized Cummings,
fhrew him to the floor and held him for
se)me three hours till Officers Demeritt and
Annt arrived and took him to Jail. On
Monday he was fined for intoxication put
under bonds to keep the peace and set at
liberty. Getting liquor of town agency
by lying is criminal offense and this pro-
vision of the law is another which, like the
entire code, seems to be outrageously disre-
garded.
If the matter is not directly forbidden by
the village bylaws, power should be found
in the war powers !" of the charter to en-.
able the mayor to put summary end to the
wretched practice of scattering paper of any
kind, particularly "dodgers" or " flyers "
along the sidewalks. A "show " comes
to town and the bill distributors are loaded
up with printed matter which is sown
broadcast along the sidewalks and dumped
in wads in every hallway, thence to be
kicked into the street. 1t makes an un-
slightly litter is whrled along the streets
with every breeze, sometimes frightening
horses, and is an unmitigated nuisance
in every respect If the trustees have the
power to abate this nuisance, all good citi-
zens wish them to exercise that power and
to instruct the police to exercise it in the ar
rest of every offender.
THE saloon of A. w. Spaulding and his
son, Charles A., on Elm street, opposite the
Jail, was raided Friday morning, and case
of beer and quantity of cherry rum, gin
and whiskey were seized. The rading Of
ficers were Sheriff Howe and Deputy Sheriffs
Camp and Cook. Their success, so unusual
to little foresight The Spauldings' trap
or box in which they keep their liquors, is
outside one of the windows and directly
over the branch. When worked, it drops
its contents into the water, and no one is
the wiser. Now the officers bethoughi
themselves that if the trap could be rendered
unworkable, the seizure could be made
Accordingly during the night they made
their way to the trap from the outside and
nailed it so that it would not work. When
they entered the saloon in the morning, one
of the Spauldings sprang the trap expect
ing that its contents would fall into the
water, as usual. To his surprise, it failed tC
do its duty, and he saw that the game was
up. The Spauldings were arrested, and
the next morning they appeared before Jus
tice Smile, charged with selling liquor and
keeping nuisance Both were bound ovei
10 Ine lotn instant IN SOtO edcn, JOnn III
Senter becoming surety.
THE village was considerably excited
yesterday by the report of the disappearance
of Charles Galaise, who is supposed to have
fallen into the branch some time during the
night. His hat was found near the wall o.
the river in the rear of the Church of the
Messiah, few steps above the bridge, and
the residents Of the vicinity heard cries
which might have been those OF drown
ing man, late at night Galaise had been
to the minstrel show, and it is known thai
| he was intoxicated and was with a crowd o.
men who were more or less under the in
huence OF liquor. The most plausible theory
of his disappearance seems to be that he was
on his way to his room in the Adams BLOCK
on Elm street, when, in the darkness, ht
stepped from the walk into the church yard
and, taking few steps forward, pitched into
the water. His hat may have fallen in con
sequence Of stumbling OF by hitting tree
limitations that there was foul play have
been made, but II that is the fact it mus
have been as the result OF drunken quar-
rel, for there could be no reason for pre-
meditation. Galaise is said to have been {
good-natured man. and was not common
drunkard, He was employed by @. III. Gross
4 Son. 1t Is also thought that he may have
left his hat where it was found and taken thu
morning train to Montreal, where he form
l. IL.