The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

Leland L, GOWerS Here is an attractive
array OF talent. 1t should and will com
mand the cordial support of the community.
A CARLOAD of delegates returning from
Burlington was side-tracked at the juno
tion, Wednesday night and left there an
hour before transportation to Montpelier
was provided. Then it was found that spe-
cial that had been arranged over the Wells
River road bad been cancelled by reason of
the long delay at the Junction. 1t was
pretty mad crowd, and individuals who
themselves keep the commandments were
hunting for profane man to give voice to
their pent-up sentiments.
AT meeting of Green Mountain Chapter,
No. 1, Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, at Burlington, last week, applications
for admission were received from Mrs.
James G. Houghton, Mrs Hiram A. Huse
and Miss Harriet Huse. Miss Belle Fifeld
is already member of the chapter, which
now has about forty names on its roll. The
next meeting will be held on August 20, for
the purpose of making arrangements for
visiting Washington during the Grand
Army meeting in September.
A VILLAGE meeting will be held on the
evening of July to see if the village will EN-.
power the trustees to provide a system of
sewerage by which the sewage which is now
allowed to enter the Worcester branch
shall be conducted to the Winooski or
whether there shall be general change in
vides for consideration of the means of
paying the expense of the proposed i'm
provement. This is a subject of great i'm
portance, and there should be a large at
tendance at the meeting.
REV. G. s. SMITH went to Worcester,
Mass. last week Wednesday to attend the
commencement exercises at the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, from which his son,
Edward L., graduated. 1t was expected
that the latter would be able to return
home with his father, but his knee injured
some weeks before, was in such a condition
that it was considered best for him to re-
main in the hospital for few DAYS He is
doing well and is expected home this week.
The injury was received in a hurdle race,
and has been quite troublesome.
Miss NINA BROWN has been renewing old
friendships in Montpelier during the past
week. Miss Brown graduated from Mont
pelier Union School six years ago. After
two years in school at Danvers Mass,
she went to Europe for study and travel.
She studied French at Paris, German at
Berlin, visited places of interest on the Con-
tinent and returned to the United States in
May, after two years residence abroad.
Miss Brown will attend the summer school
of languages at Exeter this summer, oc-
cupying the head of the German table.
THROUGH the Acknowledgement of the
state, Governor Page has issued orders for
the Vermont National Guard to hold its an
nual encampment at Montpelier from Tues
day, August 90 to Saturday, the 9th, in
elusive. Permission is also given for an
additional day, Monday, the 22d, but no
pay is allowed for this one. For all the
other days during which the men are on
duty from revelle till retreat, or are prop
erly excused by the post commander, they
will receive pay. Captain Herbert S. Foster
of the Twentieth United States Infantry
has been detailed by the war department to
inspect the troops during the encampment,
and to report to the department.
GEORGE BLAIR of Montpelier entered last
week upon the discharge of his new duties
in the Messengers printing department at St.
Albans. Mr.. Blair learned the printers
trade in the Freeman Office in this village,
when Hon. @. w. Willard was its pro-
prietor. In 1869 he entered the Argus office,
with which he had been continuously con-
nected for twenty-three years. twenty years
in the capacity of foreman. Mr.. Blair is a
skillful printer He has served the Argus
long and well and in his departure what is
Mr.. Atkins loss is the Messengers great
gain. In Blair and Dewing the Argus es-
tablishment has parted with help, in the
mechanical and editorial departments, it
will not be easy to replace. The boys seem
pleased with their new connections, and the
connections ought also to be happy.
The Landmark of White River Junction
works itself into furor of Indignation
over an incident in the Apollo minstrel en-
tertainment at st. Johnsbury. While the
Governors Body-guard was performing
its evolutions the color-bearer swung out
his banner, and on it the audience read
"Cash paid for calf.skins." Roars of
laughter greeted the inscription, and
thereat the Landmark means. 1t fancies it
sees an insult to honest labor" in this act,
and the " aristocrats of the club and the
st. Johnsbury audience are read a lecture
which would be excellent in its place, but
which is altogether out of its place in the
present connection. Governor Page sees
the humor of the incident and can well af-
ford to send the minstrels hundred-dollar
check for the advertisement of his business
AN enthusiast on the subject of Berlin
| Pond water was recently expatiating on the
wonderful pressure to young lady guest,
and illustrating its force by the use of his
garden hose. To still further impress the
admiring maiden with the propelling power
Of Montpelier's aquednct, he suggested that
she take the hose into her own hands. To
make the transition easy, he turned off the
water, and when the fair debutante had the
nozzle in her grasp he stopped down to again
| let on the "pressure." The mischievous
novitiate saw in the STOPPING and averted
| figure before her good target, and her en-
tertainer instantly received an infant del
uge projected at pressure of about 160
pounds to the. square inch against the re-
gion of his suspender buttons. The illus
tration was good one. 1t is not proposed
to publicly give away the victim, but If any
one is interested in minor details, very
| likely the cashier of Montpelier National
Bank will provide them.
SILAs b. COBB, whose generous gift of
! $4,000 to the new University of Chicago
was announced a week or ten days ago, was
born in Montpelier, and our older residents
remember him well. He learned the sad
dler's trade in the shop of Benjamin Pad
dock, at the corner OF Main and State
streets. Horatio s. Loomis remembers
when he finished his apprenticeship, at the
age of twenty-one years, and started West
in quest of fortune. He landed in Chicago,
without cent in his pocket, when the city
was log-hut settlement of about 100 whites
and half breeds and seventy soldiers. His
success in business was remarkable, and il
is probable that he is now worth toward
S5,0O0000. He first found employment as
overseer of the erection of a new hotel; then
he traded with the Indians, and was soon
able to build the first frame house in Chi.
cago. Returning to his trade of harness
making, he followed it until 1S4S when he
went into the boot and shoe and hide and
leather business The latter line of busi-
ness proved quite profitable, and in 1852
Mr.. Cobb was able to retire from mercantile
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