The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-27


THE stage driver from Plainheld to Hard
wick got left with his mail at Montpelier
yesterday afternoon, and started for Plain
field on foot. searching party will proba-
bly, be sent out this morning
HAS your back and head stopped aching?
Can you see, smell or hear anything? Have
your eyes, nose and mouth stopped run
ming water? Do you care for anybody on
this earth? Are you glad OF it2 Then you
have recovered from the grip.
Mr.. AND MRS. CHARLES H. BALDWIN 20
to Nashua, N. H., to live in about two
weeks. Mr.. Baldwin has accepted of K. E.
Cheney of that city position similar to that
which he has for some time filed with A.
G. Stone. He is an excellent matchmaker
and engraver.
The annual meeting OF the Sunday-school
of the Church OF the Messiah was held last
Monday evening. Wallace Andrews was
elected superintendent; ID. f. Long, assist
| ant, Miss Maud Phillips; treasurer, Fred
Peck; librarian, Harlow NJ Smith; assist
ant, George Archer.
The only thing l know in the way Of
| news" observed prominent young man
when the reporter struck him for an item
| last Saturday, "is that there are not half
! dozen men in Montpelier whose trousers
| don't bag at the knees" His own bagged
half way across the street, yet his estimate
| was conservative one.
Miss JENNIE, daughter Of George L.
| Nichols, died of consumption last Sunday
morning, at the residence of w II. Weston.
| She had gone there on visit few days
| before, and was taken ill. The funeral was
| held at the home of Mr.. Nichols yesterday
afternoon, Rev. g. o. Webster officiating
| Miss Nichols was the first to die of the
charter members of the Baptist Christian
| Endeavor society.
THE officers Of Bethany Sunday school for
the ensuing year are superintendent, q.
H. Moore; assistant, Miss Mary Macomber; (;
| secretary and treasurer, ID. S. Wheatley /;
librarian, G.. Ii Shipman; assistants, Miss
Mabel Gurnsey and Miss Alice Taft; library
committee, Miss Mary Macomber, G. H.
Shipman, G. H. Moore, Mrs. G.. w. Gala
CHER and Mrs. E. G. Osgood; financial com
mittee, A. j. Howe, Harry Cotton, Mrs j
" Babcock, Miss Fannie Knapp, and Miss
Alice Frink
THE Montpelier Military Band held its
annual election last week, and chose as di-
rector, T.. K. Merrill, Jr; secretary and
sergeant, George f. White; financial com
mittee, Charles Robinson, Horace w.
Kempton and Charles Jones. w. E. Dufur,
| Harry Freer, H. w. Kempton and +. II.
| EsterbrOok were added to the bands men,
bership. The concert in Capital hall, sched-
uled for last Saturday night, was postponed
until Saturday night of this week.
AT recent meeting of the railroad COM
missioners of Iowa, w. W. Ainsworth was
reelected secretary of the board a recog-
milton of Mr.. Ainsworths uniform courtesy,
his thorough acquaintance with the business
of the commission and the meritorious man.
ner i'll which he has always discharged the
duties of his office" says the IotCd State Reg
lister. Mr.. Ainsworth was first chosen sec
| retary in 1887. He is Vermonter and a
well-known Washington county boy.
COLONEL j. II. LUCIA last Friday after.
short lectures which Principal Blaupied
has arranged for the benefit of the higher
classes in the Union school. The Colonel's
subject was " A bit of personal experience
1854 In pleasant way he told of how
the movements of an army, etc, appeared
to an individual, and gave his hearers an
inside sketch Of some incidents of the civil
war that are not down in the school his.
tories
AFTER February l conductors on the
branch trains over the Central Vermont
railroad are to discontinue the practice OF
passing people without fares or tickets
Montpelier people who wish to meet or part
with friends at the junction can obtain free
transportation by applying to Station-agent
Thompson. This new rule is designed to dc
away with the practice lot of people have
of riding to and from the Junction for no
apparent reason. and thereby crowding and
oftentimes annoying legitimate passengers.
E. A. MUTT of the argus force went to
Boston last evening to see Colonel H. q
Mutt, his brother whose death seems to be
near. Colonel Mutt is the son of the late
Henry Mutt He was vice president of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa E'e railroad
until about four years ago, when he was
stricken with paralysis. He is now in a
sad condition, unable to move, speak, OF
swallow. The only way in which he can
communicate his thoughts is by the motion
of his eyes. His bright mind is as clear as
it ever was.
MOSES YEArrRR, from Lynn, Mass, has
been visiting his brother, Joseph Yeatter
the past week. Mr.. Yeatter is a fine anna
teur billiardist, but his friends in tais town
have never seen him play his game. He
gave an exhibition last Friday evening in
ID. q. Fields parlor at the Pavilion and as
usual made no showing whatever. LAWYER
w. III. Bliss of Middlebury was his oppo.
nent-that is, held stick. After the rather
tedious game Mr.. Yeatter gave fine exhi-
bition of fancy shots and finger billiards
The audience was large and appreciative.
THR Argus last week observed that "the
entire family of J. o. Livingstone sue
cumbed to the grip last week, and, the
neighbors nearly all being ill or caring for
those who were, assistance was promptly
furnished by Brooks POST Mr.. Living
stone and Ezekiel Kent, father of Mrs. Liv-
ingstone, had the grip, but Mrs, Livingstone
did not succumb," and cannot quite fig.
ure out WnaI Jne argus wishes the public
to infer. The only members of Brooks post
who have been at the house are Colonel
Harvey Brown and Landlord Keton, and
they did not go as angels of mercy, dis
patched by an eleemosynary institution.
Whatever assistance " was hired was paid
for.
To such of our readers whose tastes
are modest and moderately esthetic it will
be gratifying to learn that the red neck
tie is b coming thing OF the past. Per-
haps no article of apparel has ever had
such popular run in this country-from
the Atlantic to the Pacihc-as the red neck.
tie blazes The fad struck Montpelier with
a malignant thud. Everybody affected the
hamboyant scarf, from the shining lights of
| the Apollo club To the section men on the
| Montpelier Il Wells River railroad and a
confiagration was narrowly averted at the
Exchange hotel, last Saturday, when an
lsraelite peddler blew in with a creation in
scarlet that was red-hot The "reds are
slowly passing away.
THE Vermont encampment of the Grand
Army OF the Republic will be held in this
village ON Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week. The comrades in this part of the
tat