The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-05-25

combatants had patched up truce and put
up the price to a dollar berry.
FRED w. BANCROFT is to sing at the COM
mencement exercises at Waterbury Center,
June 20. The Montpelier orchestra will
also be present.
RICHARD RYAN has bought the saloon
| business of William Miller. The latter has
moved his Office and bottling industry into
the rear of the store.
j. w. BROCK went to Canada, last Friday,
to join several members OF the st. Bernard
fishing club. General Henry of Burlington
was one of the party.
REV. A. B. TRUAx will address the Grand
Army post at Cabot, Sunday, May 30, in the
morning, and the post at Marshfield at one
o'clock in the afternoon.
1. L. LOOMS of Boston, New England pas
senger agent of the Chicago q Rock Island
railroad was in town last Friday to visit
Station Agent Thompson.
REV. A. j. HouGH will preach before the
class of '92, graduating from Brigham
Academy, Bakersfield, next Sunday. His
pulpit here will be supplied.
THE fiery horse attached to the express
wagon of Greg Smith ran away yester-
day morning, and tore down State street.
Commissioner Roberts repaired the street.
Mrs. THEODORE G. DEWEY and baby ar
rived last Sunday from Philadelphia, and
are at Captain Edward Dewey's. Ensign
Dewey is on his way home from Montevideo.
ST. JoHNsBURY wants the Keeley insti-
tute branch. Montpelier has mortgage on
it if some of her alleged enterprising cit-
zens can be induced to get on half wiggle.
LAST Wednesday was the forty-fifth an
niversary of l.. B. Huntington's business in
| the building he now occupies. The occa-
sion was celebrated by serving lunches
| free.
H. M. WHITcoMB, proprietor of the Mont
pelier steam laundry, died last Monday,
aged fifty years. The funeral is to be held
to-day, and the remains will be taken to
East En0sburgh.
Mrs. r. j. KEEP, who has been danger
ously i'll at the house of her father, j. G.
Cady, for the past seven weeks is recover
ing and expects to return to her home in
Northfield next week.
ANOTHER proof that the citizens of Mont
pelier are interested in good works is the
fact that subscriptions to the Vermont
home for friendless women amount to
thirteen hundred dollars.
PAUL TERRIo dropped about fifty pounds
of granulated sugar on the railroad track at
the Central Vermont railroad station, last
Monday. 1t was pretty picture Of linger-
ing sweetness much spread out
Miss MINNIE G. REED was in town from
Boston last week to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Gilman. Rev. Henry l. Cushman and
daughter returned to Providence yesterday,
and Mrs. Cushman returns to-day.
CHARLES MARTIN, charioteer of a dump
cart, tried to cross the tracks of the Central
Vermont railroad at the station, last Thurs.
day, before freight train passed by, and
failed dismally. He has sold his cart for
fre-wood.
watched one of the Montpelier house Chin
neys burn out last Monday evening. The
advisability of sending out an alarm was
freely discussed, and in the middle of the
discussion the fire went out.
THE saloon of j. A. Locklin was raided
whisky seized. This smells like third Of.
fence, and likely to go hard with his Jack
|, lets. The saloon was raided again Monday
night, but nothing seizable was found.
The Montpelier Building and Construc.
ton Company has declared dividend of 81
l share. Following are the newly elected
officers: President, DR.. d. G. Kemp; vice.
urer, E. d. Blackwell; collector, j. H
Lucia.
In its account of the minstrel show, last
week, the Argus failed to credit I. r. Mer.
rll, Jr, with the valuable work he did in
arranging the orchestral Scores and placed
5 the honor where it did not belong. The
great bulk of the scoring was done by Mr..
Merrill, and done well.
For Eagle Camp, notice of which appears
3 in another column, already ten applications
have been sent in from Montpelier with
the prospect of many more to follow. II
will be seen that Mr.. Perry has decided tc
reduce the age at which girls become eligi-
BILE from fifteen to twelve.
: A MEETING of the local unterrfied was
called for last Monday evening, at the head
quarters in Opera-house block, to form 6
permanent unterriied club. On account o.
, the absence of heat in the room and report
Q that Blaine had concluded to be a candidate
| the maatiDO a1iOnrnaU tn Thursday ayan
n ing.
: MRS. A. O. CUMMINs has procured {
Wilke kiln for firing china, and will bt
: pleased to serve her fellow amateurs in thu
, decorative art. Mrs. Cummins is herself
skilled in the use of the brush, and is now
- successfully glazing her own decorations
She will carefully attend to any work en-
. trusted to her care.
;, THE First National bank has inaugurated
! new scheme to induce extravagant peopl,
u to save their spare change Nickel safes
are loaned to any one who deposits, or ha'
= deposited, So in the First Nationals saving
u department. You drop nickel in the slot
and it stays there. The safes can be opened
s only at the bank, where the keys are kept
i REV. G. o. WEBSTER is to deliver tn,
Memorial sermon next Sunday morning, a
g the Baptist church. Monday morning, de
y tails from the Grand Army post ant
Woman's Relief Corps go to the cemeter,
!. and decorate the soldiers graves. In tn
Il afternoon comes the parade and the exer
~ cises. Rev. A. j. Hough will deliver tia
grafton.
" GEORGE w. WING assumed the part of
y fatgued justice, last Monday and Tuesday
listening to the complicated rent and eject
T. ment suit of Robert and Jane Cook agains
:, Levi Alexander. The jaw-bone of conten
ton was 1915 and the possession of
r, chateau on the castled crags of Jone
IS Brook. T. r. Gordon defended, and j. II
Lucia and I. j. Deavitt I" fit" for tn
8 plaintiff.
y THE adjourned annual meeting of tn
Vermont board of fire underwriters wa
|. held last Monday. j. X Egerton of North
}. field was elected president; w. K. Barne
of Barre, vice president; James 7. Sabin
~ secretary and treasurer; rating committee
. j. X Egerton, II, w. Kemp and d. h
l. Bisbee of Barre. A tariff of the increases
rates fixed by the New England Exchange
IS is now being printed at the WAroHMAN Of
t, fee.
'' f. r. SMITH of Sioux City, secretary c
e the Union Loan and Trust Company of tina
nif 80 tl do .till lu