The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-01


THE Free Press notes that William Hunt
is repairing his house and stable, lately
damaged by fire." The last we saw of
William Hunts barn there wasn't enough
left of it to repair hencoop with.
FRED G. CAMP, brother of Mrs. II. r..
Bixby, was in town last Saturday. Mr..
| Camp has had charge of the Cafe Moulton,
on Summer street, Boston, and is to open
new hotel in Claremont, N. H., this summer.
DEAN SLAYToN, the bright little news boy
who peddles the st. Albans Messenger, sold
! quite lot Of extra copies, last Saturday, by
his amusing announcement that the Mes
senger was gaining in population every
day"
THERE were less drunks noticed this Me-
mortal day than a year ago, and no arrests
were made. A number of incpient jags
were observed during the afternoon, but
they were apparently kept within the yard
! limits.
AT Christ church Sunday afternoon, June
8, Rev. A. n. Lewis will preach Memorial
sermon. Grand Army men, Sons of Veter-
ans and the Woman's Relief Corps are
invited. Services at four p NJ. All are
welcome.
JUDGING from the tall fish stories which
DIR. Kemp and John V. Brooks were relat-
ing on their way to Loweltown, Me. last
startling to spring on their friends when
they return.
DIR. S. CLARK, veterinary surgeon, pulled
Captain James V. Morrow's noble steed
through recent severe sick spell, and the
grateful captain desires to commend DR..
Clark to the attention of all persons having
sick equines.
ARTHUR STRATToN, Clifton Heaton, AL
fred Temple, Ray Huse, Willie Morse, Ned
Wheatley, Charlie Adams and Waite Sabin
are applicants for admission to Rev G.. w.
Perrys summer school at Eagle Camp,
Lake Champlain.
AT the annual meeting of the Montpelier
& Wells River railroad, last Thursday, D.
X. Sortwell was elected president; A. F.
Sortwell president; f. w. Morse,
treasurer; w. A. Stowell, general manager.
The old board of directors was reelected.
THE Free Press announces that Rev. j..
Edward Wright and family will sail for
the old country" about the 10TH This is
brilliant break, and in line with another
+. p. item to the effect that j. G. Hough-
ton was building barn for horse 30x40.
A HIGHLY exciting game of ball was
booked for last Saturday between the Mont
pelier and Gouldsville mines. The latter
aggregation failed to appear, and a scrub
game was played, resulting in a victory for
the stranger side by score of eleven to four.
A PRETTY hard gang infests the street
corners nights after eleven o'clock, and the
electric lights help matters by going out. A
little figuring seems to prove that Mont
pelier has to pay more for its lamps than
many other places which enjoy the lights all
night
CHARLES J. STANILAND was called to
Dayton, Ohio last Saturday night, by It'd
, ings that his brother had been kicked in the
face by horse and dangerously hurt. f.
Huber Brewer will personate the difficult
role of the statue of Apollo, at Woodsville,
next Friday evening.
COVER $4,000 in fines were yesterday i'm.
nnaad MnDtnpliar VT HpuOr 1ealprs
The rum business in Montpelier must be
a profitable ne."-Boston Record. There
are several local dealers, now in Rutland or
elsewhere, who are ready to testify to the
incorrectness of the Records proposition.
THE knights Templar and members OF
Aurora lodge marched in body to Bethany
church, last Sunday, and listened to Ma
sonic sermon appropriate to Ascension day
: Music was furnished by male quartette
composed of Fred w Bancroft, G. III. Ship.
, man, Hermon d. Hopkins and III. c.
Gleason.
w. H. PIxLEY was before Justice Smile
, last Saturday, charged with burning his
, buildings at Waterbury with intent to de-
fraud the Home Insurance Company OF
New York-arson, in loosely technical
way. He was held for county court in S40C
BAIL which was furnished by j. E. Pixley
his brother.
= THE New York papers report the interest
! ing fact that " the granite quarry owned by
Webster & Morse of Barre, Vt, had with
, drawn from the association and signed the
> yearly scale Of wages, beginning with May
} / of this year" What the metropolitan
: press does not know about Vermont affairs
would fill weeks editions.
, IT never rains but it pours. ester H
a Greene has run up against a remarkable
o streak of luck lately. First he drew a horse
in lottery; then he found fve-dollar bill
e on the street, and the next morning ht
found a cat in his store which had appar
g emily come to stay. A cat is said to be al
omen of good luck, but in this case th'
r omen came last.
K MONTPELIER people who propose attend
b ing the Apollo minstrels' entertainment a
Woodsville, next Friday evening, should
q secure their tickets early If they want any
v kind of a seat, as the house will doubtless
: be crowded. Seats go on sale at the bo,
Office in Woodsville to-day, and application
should be made to K. f. Mann at Woods
. . vile, or the managers here.
r NELSON A. CURTIS died on Monday at tn,
age of seventy-three. Mr.. Curtis lived IL
Montpelier from 1852 to 1873, when h,
II moved to the Berlin side, where he had sine
y lived. Two sons survive-Walter, a den
v tist at White River Junction, and Lucian,
business man at st. Albans. The funera
= occurs to-day, and the burial will be in th
t. Cutler burying-ground.
. THE democratic campaign club organized
last Monday evening, Dy tne elecuOn or a
:, j. Sibley as president; l.. b. Brooks, vice
3, president; G.. f. Heaton, treasurer; w,
s. Phelps, secretary. Executive committee
l. James Haley, Thomas Osborne, w. o. Stan
dish, p. G. Dewey and A. Shambo. The sec
[. retary was instructed to secure the service
|, of large-sized tidal wave, for use in tn
& fall elections.
l. AT the meeting of the Vermont demo
cratic delegation Colonel b. B. Smalle
70 was unanimously chosen the member of tn
e national democratic committee for thi
n state, to succeed Hiram Atkins, resigned
v The delegation organized by the election o
DIR. j. d. Hanrahan of Rutland as chair
= man; j, II. Donnelly of Vergennes, secre
II tary John Robinson of Bennington, treas
:, q urer. The headquarters of the delegation
II will be at the Palmer house.
THE granite strike remains about wher
# it has been for sometime past-no chang
"a or particular sign OF change The New
,s England Manufacturers Association held
"a largely-attended meeting, last week Tues
day. at Boston, but nothing was given T.
the press. Later the association pubishe,
"a a statement of its side of the case, in whcl
Al it claimed that the present situation wa