The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-12

Saturday morning.
Miss ELIZA M. WILLARD has been elected
president of her class at Smith College.
She received seventy out OF seventy-ive
votes in the ballot
The meeting OF the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, which was to be held
with Mrs. e. ID. Putnam next Thursday, is
postponed two weeks.
HERBERT KENT has on exhibition an owl,
the result OF his hunting expedition of last
Saturday, which he proposes TO have stuffed
for parlor adornment.
A socIABLE will be held in the vestry of
the church of the Messiah on Friday, Octo-
ber IA. Supper will be served from five till
seven. Fee fifteen cents
drawing gravel from the gravel pit in Marsh
field for the new dam at the Cotton Manu-
featuring Company's shops.
ABOUT twenty teachers of the Bethany
Sunday-school met at Hon. Joseph Poland's
Friday evening. Papers were read by Mr..
Gallagher and Miss Amy Fisk.
The next union meeting of Washington
county Good Templars will be held here in
| November, and a committee of the Mont
pelier lodge is making arrangements.
MT. Zion CoMMANDERY is to have grand
conclave here on the 18th instant There
! will be afternoon and evening sessions, and
in the evening there will be a banquet.
THE funeral of DR.. o. p. Forbush was
held at his late residence on Elm street
on Thursday at half-past one, under the di-
rection of Aurora Lodge, f. and A. NJ,
o. JANGRAw has purchased a lot Of
| Theophie Cayhue, to which he will move
his house. He will erect another house on
the site OF his present one on Loomis street.
THE New England Order of Protection
has just sent a check for $1,000 to Mrs.
Janus Crossett of Berlin, whose husband
was killed in the late railroad accident at
Richmond.
EDWARD l.. SMITH, who went to Newport,
r. l., Monday night. is to be the assistant
of DIR. Wolcott Gibbs, professor emeritus of
Harvard University, in the chemical labora-
tory of the latter
L. II. TURK of the firm of B. Turk &
Brothers, the celebrated Burlington tailOrs,
was at the state house Monday evening,
measuring the members of the governor s
staff for their new clothes.
SATURDAY afternoon an eleven from the
senior class at the Seminary met an eleven,
picked from the rest of the school, in a
game of foot ball on the campus, the game
resulting in a victory for the seniors.
THE Montpelier & Wells Riy 4r railway
announces its grand annual excursion to
Boston. Tickets are good, going, October
from Barre and Montpelier, So for the round
trip.
TICKETS for "Uncle Hiram" will &c
on sale this morning at Longs book.
store "Unce Hiram " disports himself
and company Thursday evening next the
18th. See advertisement and press notice in
this issue.
Mrs. CLEAvEs and Mrs. Eaton, mother
and sister of DR.. X. l.. Cleaves, who have
been visiting in town for few days, left Oh
Monday for Boston, where they will re-
main a short time before returning to theil
home in Maine
A CoTILLIoN party at the village hall, East
Montpelier, is announced for next Satur
day evening. The Montpelier orchestra
will play, and dancing will continue from
eight to twelve o'clock. Seventy-tive cents
is the charge for each couple.
AMONG the occupants of the Pavilion is
j. G. Ullery of Brattleboro, who, with the
Transcript Publishing Company of Holyoke
Mass, is getting out history of the repre-
sentative men of Vermont, with the super
vision of State Librarian Hiram A. Huse.
REV. A. j. HoUGH read his poem, The
Changed Word" in connection with his
report of the New England Epwortl
League convention held in Worcester
Mass, last week, to large and apprecia
tive audience in Trinity church Sunday
evening.
II is expected that about $50 members OF
the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire Ode
Fellows will pass through this village or
Thursday arriving from Wells River shortly
before noon and leaving at about two
| o'clock, after dinner at the Montpelier
house. A committee of Vermont lodge
with Montpelier band, will escort the visit
ors to the hotel.
THE will of Hiram Atkins, which has beer
filed in the probate office, is one of the long
+ est ever received in that office. The news
paper and its appurtenances, 1t is said, &C
to George Atkins and his son Morris during
thair liVpg SOmat HING Iilra 60 10 civ
to Christ church. The remainder goes Il
Mr.. Atkins two daughters, Mrs. o. ID
Clark and Miss Atkins.
IT appears from late elections at the Uni
versity of Vermont that, Notwithstanding
the fact that Montpelier has not been sue
t cessful in maintaining base ball team il
the past, it has developed good material TO
the management of such organizations, Ed
ward Deavitt and Dan Lucia having beef
/ chosen managers, respectively, of the bas
ball and foot ball teams there for the ensu
ing year.
THE reception of Mr.. and Mrs. Alber
Johonnott, at their home on LOOMS street
last week, was one of the pleasantest so
cial events that have occurred in Mont
pelier in long time. The house was file,
with friends throughout the evening. Th
1 Montpelier Military Band orchestra, sta
toned in the upper hall, played almos
continuously, and was at its best. Th
rooms of the house were most hospitabl
g in their cheer and brightness, and not al
element that could contribute to the sue
cess of the occasion was lacking.
, The official programme for the celebra
ton on Columbus day will be observed b,
the pupils of Union school. The addres
' "The Meaning of Four Centuries" will b.
spoken by Bingham Marvin. Ten boys il
grades one to five will handle the addres
for primary schools. Maude Shurtlef will
: recite the ode for Columbus day, and ther
will be columbian songs, orations and es
: says in which will participate Misses Flor
5 Cummings, Margaret Dewey, Anna Phin
ney, Kate Smith, Laura Smith, Anna Guern
, sey and three students from the Seminary.
a In recent article regarding the work o
the Keeley Institute the question wa
o asked whether it would not be true Chris
tian philanthropy to pay the expenses a
, this institution of persons addicted to ex
cessive drinking. The fact is that aread.
Q quite a little has been done by tn
Woman's Christian Temperance Union il
this direction The Montpelier union sen
the first patient to the institute, and he i
. now an active Good Templar. This uniol
u has also assisted financially two other in
ebriates in attending, and the Good TEN
u plars have sent one.