The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-19

b. /. KENDALL has closed his labors as
ticket agent and train dispatcher for the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad. His
place is taken by II. G. Holbrook formerly
night operator at st. Johnsbury
EDWARD MCGILL has been fined S371 80
for maintaining q nuisance and for keeping
liquors with intent to sell at 122 Main
street. This item was unintentionally
omitted from the court report last week.
WE inadvertently omitted to mention the
fact that j. r. Seaver exhibited, about two
weeks ago, specimens Of grass some four
inches high. Mr.. Seaver hasn't quite sew
eral acres in this advanced stage of growth.
UP to Monday noon about $500 samples
OF maple sugar had arrived at the testing
station. A sample from Alpha Messer OF
Rochester tested 955, the highest thus far
The best sample received last year tested
97.8.
The listers wish to ask all Taxpayers to
leave their lists at their headquarters in the
Office of f. l.. Laird without delay, and to
remind them that all lists must be handed
in before May to save the penalties Of the
law.
AT the annual meeting Of the Bethany
Reading Club, the following officers were
elected President Miss Mary Cleaves; vice
president, Mrs. j. V. Babcock secretary,
Mrs w. A. Jones; treasurer, Mrs. H. G.
Gleason.
W VI phOOlI DdtIdllOu DtIBbdHb hdJOT, OI
Waterbury, was present at the inspection
OF Company III last Thursday evening. He
was associated with Captain Tutherly in
service on the frontier several years ago
and had not met him since.
THE press dispatch sent from Barre last
wednesday, that Swede named Charles
Redberg had swindled the Union Gard
Company of Montpelier by getting a forged
check for S36 cashed there, is pronounced
by Mr.. Buswell totally false.
REV. LEONARD DoDD OF Lyndonville lee.
tured in Seminary chapel last Thursday
evening for the benefit of the seminary base
ball association. His subject was A Trip
to England" and the lecture is highly COM
mended by those who heard it.
THERE will be no preaching service at
| Trinity church next Sunday morning, as
Rev. A. j. Hough is at Barton where the
Vermont conference is in session. The
Sunday school at noon and meeting of the
Epworth League at six o'clock will be held
as usual.
| 2. L. LYONS, president of the Kelley
| League, has received letter from DR.. Les
, lie e. Kelley saying that If he is in this
! country at that time he will be present and
address the graduates and members of the
| league at the reunion to be held at Montpe-
| lier in June.
THE school board Of the Montpelier
| Union district has decided that it will be
/
! least, two schools up Worcester branch
! These schools will probably open not far
from May /.
MISS MINNIE WARD, a longtime capable
and efficient table-girl at the Montpelier
| House, left for her home in Burlington last
Saturday. She goes next week to Chicago,
where she has position in the Raymond &
Whitcomb Hotel.
MYRoN f. CHASE, general agent for the
Connecticut General Life Insurance Com
pany, received last Monday check for S / 600
each on the policies of David Dewey of
Brooktield and Fred Templeton of Worces-
ter, both of whom have recently died, in
sured in that company.
| A. p. MASSEY, travelling freight and pas
senger agent of the Illinois Central rail-
road, George r. Angus, travelling freight
agent of the Chicago, Burlington x Quincy,
| and 2. III. Faber, of the Piedmont Air Line,
were in town last week.
THE Epworth League Of Trinity church
will hold circulating library sociable at
| Frank a. Sherburnes next Friday evening.
| About sixty popular works will be there in
new and attractive bindings, and all are
welcome to come and peruse them.
M. w. WHEELoCK has placed a revolving
table in his book bindery, which makes a
great saving of work in gathering books.
1t is run by water, was built by E. j. Hatch
under the direction of Mr.. Wheelock, and
is the only one of the kind in the state
The Bethany Christian Endeavor Society
now meets at half past five Sunday even
ipgs. At the meeting last Sunday evening,
Miss Adelaide l.. Griswold and Harry
Dwight read most interesting papers on
mission work as they had seen it in Con
stantinople.
THE first number of the Montpelier
Railroad Guide" just distributed contains
an error as to the time when trains going
south leave Montpelier. For 9: 05 A. NJ
IL 10 and |: 80 P. NJ read 9: 90, y: so and
l: 80. These errors will be corrected in
next issue of the guide.
A MAN who said he was Michael Welch, a
stone-cutter of Montpelier, was arrested in
Burlington for intoxication last Friday
night. He resisted Chief-of- Police Dumas
who took him in, and broke one of the
officers thumbs before he was landed in a
cell. 1t was necessary to club him into sub
mission.
WHILE in Tacoma, Wash, Rev. G. w
Gallagher received a call from the Atkinson
Memorial church in that city which he still
has under consideration. AT New What
com, in that state, he was the guest OF
Professor j. NJ. Hit, former teacher at the
Vermont Methodist Seminary and for sew
eral years principal OF the Northteld graded
school.
The selectmen are engaged in measuring
the highways within the limits of the town,
and the measurement sworn to as correct
before May /, that the town may receive
its proportion of the five per cent state tax
which reverts to the towns of the state and
which is distributed on the basis of mileage
OF the highways therein.
BY reason of recent decision of the
United States supreme court, granting let
ter-carriers extra pay for any time in ex.
cess of eight hours of labor on any day,
Postmaster General Bissell has ordered
postmasters to curtail the carrier service so
that no carrier shall work more than that
time. This affects the carrier service at
Montpelier as well as elsewhere.
MONTPELIER COUNCIL OF ROYAL AND SE-
LEcT MASTERS held its annual assembly at
Montpelier last Thursday evening r. G.
Phinney was elected L. |. NJ; George w
Wing, ID. NJ; Collins Blakely, p. G. OF w.
w. A. Briggs, treasurer; @. III. Heaton
recorder; L. l.. Wood, g. OF G.; NJ. f.
Smile, c. of c.. S. Il. Colby was appointed
marshali Fred Fisher, steward, j. A. Erwin
sentinel.
AN audience composed principally of men
crowded the opera house last Wednesday
evening to witness the exhibition by the