The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-27
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unates on whom Heenan" Bowers dis
closed, and jumped his bail,
A SPECIAL train was run over the Mont
pelier & Wells River railroad from Marsh.
field, last Monday evening, and brought in |
over one hundred persons who had bought |
tickets to the County Fair"
MANAGER GEORGE L. BLANCHARD has
been invited to unite with other opera |
house managers in Vermont in forming
circuit, the object being to improve the
"show business "-an excellent opportun-
ity.
EDGAR A. PORTER has bought the house
| of Robert H. Whitney on Ridge street, for
1900. Mr.. Whitney has bought lot on
East State street, and intends to put up a res
idence. He is at present living at 81 East
| State street.
A GROUP of club men enjoyed delight
full little musicale in the Apollo Club rooms,
last Sunday evening. The programme con-
sisted of a couple of hours continuous play
ing by George H. Wilder, flute, and w. A.
Briggs, piano.
DIR. OLIN w. DALEY and George F.
Flanders of White River junction were in
town, last Friday night, to take in the Mys-
tic Shrine conclave; ditto Frank e. Allen
of Fair Haven. DR., Daley disappeared
with the gray dawn.
THERE was smile all around the law
yers room in the court house, yesterday. f.
4 l.. Laird tried defending client in a liquor
case for a change, and as soon as he got
through his client was started for Rutland,
Frederick assisted in the smile.
THE Unitarian sociable, last Wednesday
evening, netted S45. About twenty-five
Barre people were present After supper
there was a children's entertainment under
the direction of Mrs. T. S. Brophy, and
piano selections by the Misses Hunt.
COLONEL M. A. HAINEs, revenue agent,
is in Washington, d. c. The colonel is one
| nj hn nnn niol nty;aI tl,at
ever squinted through a polarisoope or
smoked meerschaum, and his laugh echoes
all through the corridors of Uncle Sans
marble building
DAsHEs from the town clerks Office
Grosvenor B. Paine to Jerry l.. Smith, saw
Gray to E. W. Bugbee, the Stephen B.
Bascomb place, up the branch, for $1,000;
K. +. Hutchins to Eugene A. Smith, lot on
Charles street, for $500.
ARTHUR A. STEsBINs, for the past year
connected with Isaac s. Borley's insurance
agency in st. Aibans, has position as
district agent for the Mutual Life of New
York, with headquarters at Montpelier, and
has moved into one of a.. B. Huntington 8
tenements on Cedar street.
A rug DOG belonging to George n. White
jumped out Of a secon6-story window near
the Hillside boarding-house, last Saturday,
and on the suppositiOn that suCh actions be-
tokened insanity the canine was kindly but
firmly dubbed to death. A trifie of ex-
citement about "mad-dog scare " obtained
around towR.
THERE may be trouble among the stone.
sheds in this section of the country after
May 1. The Granite Cutters Union has
presented q revised bill Of prices, which the
| manufacturers say they will not recognize
Talks with prominent cutters here and in
Barre indicate that a conflict is probable
, Ifat comes it is likely to be big one.
THE seventysthird anniversary of Odd
Fellowship in America was celebrated by
t Vermont lodge last evening, with a red
letter social gathering in Odd Fellows hall
The excellent address was by John w. Cor
don of Barre, and remarks were made by
, dtev. K. A. Bishop and others. Music was
furnished by the Montpelier orchestra.
THE freshman class Of the University OF
, Vermont arrived from Burlington, some
I forty strong, yesterday, and held the an.
nual banquet and ghost dance at the Pa
. vilion, On Size way down from Burlington
/ they kidnapped a sophomore and all the
sophs came to rescue him. More or les,
kidnapping characterized the entire affair.
Wsc are pleased to announce a Lecture
Recital of'English Ballads" by F. w. Ban
J croft, at Seminary chapel, Friday evening
April 20, at eight o'clock. The highly com
plimentary notices which Mr.. Bancroft has
received wherever this lecture recital has
been given is ample assurance of great
ploSsure on rrluay evening. ADMISSION
thirty-fve cents.
RETER RwERs, a resident of the capital
for the past half century, died last Saturday
aged seventy-one years. He was moulder
by trade, and was for years employed in the
Lane Manufacturing Company. His mother,
Mrs Martha Rivers, is still living and
nearing century OF age. Mr.. Rivers leaves
wife and FIVE children-George, William,
.Paul, Louis and Lillian.
The Boston Journal, and possibly other
papers, recently made the interesting an
no1ncement that the Cencord & Montreal
Railroad Company had negotiated for con.
trolling interest in tke Montpelier &,
Wells River railroad. The Concord &
MOntreal officials have promptly denied the
yarn, and the Montpelier & Wells River
people indorse the denial.
LAST Friday was "ladies night " at the
Apollo club, and the rooms were gay with
color. Professor Gilmore was holding a
daneing-school in the hall overhead, and at
It's conclusion his services were imme-
diately secured as orchestra +" for dozen
couples of club-men and their ladies'. Those
members who did not attend wandered
around town in an aimless, wretched
! fashion.
THE last "spell of weather " started up
the lazy maple trees, and the slgaring has
probably been hnore extensive since the
latest warm wave than before. The sugar
laboratory has received about 9, 800 samples
representing d producJ OF PROBABLY b4O 600
pounds--about one tenth of the av erage crop
The sugar officials expect to get at least 1000
samples in all. At the outset they cacu-
lated on l5 900.
The enterprising firm of Stafford Nc
Giynn q Co. are shipping to Colorado, this
week, one of the finest draped spire monu-
ments ever produced in this section. The
monument is forty feet high, bottom base
seven feet square and two and a half high,
with draped spire twenty-sx feet long.
Six feet from the base of the spire is an
elaborate coat of arms, and below that an
olive wreath, Stafford, McGlynn & Co.
are Justly proud of the creation.
| If competition is the life of business, the
railway traffic should be very lively be-
tween Montpelier and Barre AS adver.
tlsed in another column on this page, the
Central began a suburban train service be-
tween the two towns on Monday, bringing
the fare down to five cents trip for twenty
trip tickets. With the suburban train SER
vice OF the Wells River line begun year
ago, this makes thirty-seven passenger
trains daily between Montpelier and Barre, !
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