The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

THE quarterly meeting of the directors of
the National Life Insurance Company was
held yesterday afternoon, and for the first
time in many years every director was pres
ent.
COLONEL K. HENRY POWELL AND Mrs.
POWELL, Miss Gertrude and Master Reed,
of Burlington, and Frank Goss of Yer
gennes, were in attendance at the funeral of
Margaret Reed yesterday.
THE Good Templars of Montpelier are to
have picnic at Benjamin's Falls, August
II. There will be literary exercises and
sports, and members OF all the lodges in the
county are invited to attend.
JOHN BATCHELDER, brakeman on the Cen
trail Vermont railroad between Barre and
jammed and the second finger broken, while
coupling cars, Sunday morning.
w. G. BELKNAP of Berlin responded for
the graduating class at the alumni dinner
at Dartmouth College, last week. and the
effort was happy hit. He received many
congratulations on his witty references.
FoREPAUGH's advertising car was in town
on Friday of last week, and the usual pic
lures now adorn the bill-boards Of this sec
ton. A large board was put up for the
purpose at the corner of State and Taylor
streets.
THE Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust
Company declares semi-annual dividend
of five per cent the Capital Savings Bank
and Trust Company, three per cent; the
First National, four per cent the Montpelier
National, four per cent.
THE pressure of political matter of great
importance made it necessary to leave out
last week the local news from several towns,
and many other matters OF interest and i'm
portance have been deferred by reason Of
the pressure of current political news.
A PARTY of eighteen young ladies and
men picncked at Lovers Lane on the
Fourth, and on their return they had sup
per at the Pavilion and afterwards enjoyed
a dance. The pleasant outing was in honor
of Miss Alice Greenleaf of Columbus, o.
BERLIN has not been honored with a
county Office for some thirty years, it is
claimed, and we understand she will pre-
sent to the county convention the name Of
w. B. Worthing, Esq, Of West Berlin as
candidate for the Office of assistant Judge.
SOME miscreant pulled up several hun
dred hills of fine potatoes on Morton Mar
wins farm, last week. The criminal is be-
lieved to be a man caught in violation of
the Commandments on the farm, recently
and has done this thing by way of revenge.
Mrs. HowEs of Prescott Wis, widow Of
the late William Howes, an old resident of
Montpelier, is visiting here after an absence
of twenty-six years. Mrs. Howes is the
guest of Mrs. George Howes. She will be
well remembered by the old residents Of
the town.
MANY are with reason inquiring why the
electricity was not turned on to the street
wires till eleven o'clock on Sunday night.
Orderly and church-going people desire light
as well as the patriotic jewellers who MUIR
der sleep by their internal din of horns and
fire-crackers.
MASTER ARTHUR TANDY of Newton,
Mass, is again the guest of the Stowells.
greeted his return with various playful an
tics and sundry exclamations of joy, and
will, we understand, have a vacation in
honor of its godfathers coming.
THE village fathers should insist that the
street sprinkler, though thing of beauty,
should not be kept exclusively as an orna-
ment. Limestone mud turns to intolerable
limestone dust almost the instant the clouds
hold up. On Monday the clouds of fine,
penetrating dust were binding in the strong
wind. Keep the strainer going.
DEPUTY-CoLLECToR s. B. WIGGIN has
closed his work of receiving and forwarding
applications for sugar bounty licenses, and
left town on Saturday of last week. A dis
patch from st. Albans states that some
$3.50 applications have been received from
Vermont producers. This is about 600
more than were received last year.
ROBERT FRASER and Alexander Broad
foot have purchased of Martin w. Wheel
ock, a lot of land on the Central Vermont
railroad near the electric light works, with
the intention of building and renting gran
ite cutting sheds and doing general gran
ite cutting business. Several parties have
already made application for space.
AMONG the names registered at the Pa
vilion yesterday were those of W. III. H.
Bingham of Stowe, T. S. Peck of Burling-
ton, Olin Merrill of Enosburgh Falls, P. X,
Gleed Of Morrisville, w. II. Dubois OF
West Randolph, G. G.. Benedict of Bur-
lington, Wheelock G. Veazey of Rutland,
Levi X. Fuller and j. FL. Goulding of Brat
| tleboro.
HAVE sick, aged and infirm people any
rights Fourth Of July patriots are bound to
respect? To many suffering people the
noises that smote the air on Saturday, Sun
day and Monday nights is lingering death.
If there is any virtue in municipal power il
should be employed to limit and control this
barbaric revelry, if it cannot be entirely
abolished.
The bowling alley at the Pavilion will be
| in readiness for use to-day, it is expected
1t will be material addition to the attrac-
tions of the hotel One of the interesting
wall. ornaments of the parlors is d tapestry
painted by George A. Viles. 1t is a
copy of the tapestry of Mr.. Viles so much
admired when it was on exhibition in Bos-
ton last winter.
OAfIAlN DAfION OLAkhE udS De6D
honored by the war department by being
awarded a medal for distinguished gal.
lantry at the battle of Spottsylvania He
was in this battle in command Of the Sec.
ond Vermont regiment, and the fight was
one of the hardest of the war. Captain
Clark we'll deserves this mark OF recogni.
tion from the war department.
THE photographs of the graduating class
at the Seminary were by Hardy of Boston,
and the negatives were made by A. Bart
Frees. posing artist for the photographer
Mr.. Frees did his work very satisfactorily
and secured snug place in the remem-
brance of more than one member of the
class of '92. They cordially commend him
and the firm that commands his services to
future graduating classes.
AT the special village meeting, last night
resolution offered by j. A. DeBoer, pro.
| viding for an investigation of the sanitary
condition of the village by the trustees, with
expert assistance, and for reports to be
printed and distributed two weeks before a
village meeting to be held not later than
September /, was adopted with but one dis.
senting vote, after an interesting discussion
There was large attendance.
MR.. AND Mrs. C. A. REED of Chicago
their daughters, Miss Mary and Miss Annie