The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-06

rejected claims specially. ADVICE 1ree'
NEW MILLINERY at Mrs. S. L. Gladding's.
Prices made satisfactory to all. Don't buy
until you examine my goods. No. o. Main
street.
BARNARD, SUMNER & PUTNAM Co. have
double-column advertisement on page five
announcing a tempting line of spring and
summer dress goods. Send for samples Of
anything you want.
THE Capital Savings Bank and Trust
Company pays depositors four per cent and
taxes on sums not exceeding $500, and
makes loans on home securities at six per
cent. 1t rents fire and burglar-proof de-
posit boxes for five dollars year.
In addition to his heavy trucking bust
ness, Clark b. Roberts has put on the road
single team. Baggage to and from all
trains. Care, promptness and dispatch at
live-and-let-live prices. Office in rear of
Exchange hotel. Telephone connection.
The Watchman Publishing Company
has rubber dating stamps with " Received
payment" and name from one dollar up.
just the thing for any business or profess
sional man. Also stamps of every descrip-
ton at very low prices, and warranted
first class.
CONSERVATIVE investors who want a Sc
curity paying fair per cent and one con-
vertible into cash when due, without ex-
pense or delay, should examine the securi-
ties offered by the Pierre Savings Bank
through its vice-president A. o. Cummins,
Montpelier, vt.
"a CHILD of Mr.. John Pears had the
scald head, and had been under the treat
ment of physicians without relief 1t was
cured by Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Oint-
ment, and is now well and all right.
r. Miller Dc Son, BriScoe, Io,oa. Twenty
five cents a box. For sale by G. Blakely,
Montpelier, VT.
THE train was three hours late at Essex
Junction. Six passengers strolled to the
drugstore of Ii. E. Perry and, rather Sdr-
caStically, asked: " What have you to sell?"
Perry replied: "The Gold Medal Sarsa
parilla, manufactured at Montpelier, seems
to be our drive at this time" Five of the
crowd took bottle home. Three of them
had used it before.
For SALE.-No. pine lath, No. eight
een-inch spruce shingles, mouldngs-all
kinds and made to order-house finish
spruce, bass, butternut, ash, oak, cherry,
white wood, Alabama hard pine, Michigan
pine, flooring Of all kinds. Bought at the
mills, will be sold cheap for cash. Turning
done to order. All kinds of job work in
the wood working line. Telephone con-
nections. United States Clothes Pin Com
pany, Montpelier, Vt.
ORDERS for Shepp's Photographs of the
World " may be left with the Watchman
Publishing Co., where sample copy of the
book can be seen. 1t is work of art con-
sisting of over 400 full-page pictures, size
six by eight inches, collected from every
part of the world, handsomely bound in
one royal oblong volume, size nine by
eleven inches. This magnificent publica-
ton of photographs, the reault of an enor-
nous amount of money expended by Messrs.
Shepp, covering all tbs interesting sights OF
the world as they exist to-day, is a crown
ing success of the publishing business
! "FoR several years." says John Park OF
Beaver Creek MINI " during the winter,
/ have been troubled with a painful swell
ing of the feet, which physicians claimed
was rheumatic gout. 1 was treated by some
of our best physicians, and obtained but lit.
tie, if any relief, and used many so-called
cures without benefit. During the winter
of 1887, when my feet were so swollen and
inflamed that l could not wear my boots
l commenced using Chamberlains Pair
Balm. The first application reduced the
swelling and inflammation, and the use of
one fifty-cent bottle so completely relieved
me that discontinued my canes and was
able to get around all right and wear my
boots" Fifty.c cent bottles for sale by G
Blakely, Montpelier, VT
FIRE INSURANCE IN VERMONT There
were tifty-one companies doing fire in
surance business in the state of Vermont
in 1891. These companies wrote S45 ,4S6, ,1Sl
in risks, receiving in premiums $6S1, ,904
and paid out in losses S67S,607, leaving 6
balance of $3,297 for expense account
whereas the ratio of expenses to premiums
in stock companies averaged thirty y-thret
per cent, which would show a deficiency
for the last year of over 500, 600 in Vermont
alone. The above showing is one of the
worst that has ever been known in the state
The record of fire losses in the United
States for the week ending Friday, Marcel
A, covering fires of $4,000 or over, was
S3,620,000. Fires under $4,000, $203,000
Grand total for the week, S3, ,823, 900. Losses
since January l, $25 ,374 600. Average los,
per day, S403000. Estimated loss for tn,
year at this ratio, S147, ,955 600. At tn,
meeting of the New England Insurance Elk
change, held in Boston ON Saturday, Feb
ruary 27, it was voted to advance rates no
less than twenty-five per cent in all unpro
tected places Gowns without water works.
throughout New England, and the loca
committees were instructed to make the al
vance. The Spectator notes the fact tha
the latest move as to advancing rates of tn,
New England Insurance Exchange was las
week, when it voted to advance the rates
twenty-five per cent in all unprotected
places throughout New England.
WHILE Minnesota is one of the mos
healthy states in the Union, it is one of thu