The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-08
Mr.. Best is selling out his stock and has re-
tired from the business

tired from the business.
r. ID. NEEDHAM, agent Of the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company at De-
land, Fla, adds a postscript to letter
written February q, in which he saws:
Thermometer eighty-eight here to-day -
somewhat tantalizing to people who are
drilling through five feet Of frozen ground
to find breaks in gas mains and water mains.
Mr.. Needham will be remembered az the
veteran who represented the town of Whit
ing In the legislature OF 1880.
RICHARD GOLDEN in cold Jed Prouty,"
at the opera house last Thursday evening,
was q delightful delineation of a quaint
type of purely American character As
landlord of New England village tavern,
this bluff old fellow, with his down-east patois
and artless ways, made an attractive stage
picture. "Old Jed Prouty," as represented
by Mr.. Golden, has an inbred love of the
right and hatred of the wrong, and the play
throughout tells wholesome story.
HAPPILY the spectacle of intoxicated men
on the streets of Montpelier is the excep-
tion rather than the rule, but sight was
witnessed last Friday evening that caused
ladies who saw it to blush for their sex
A well-known woman who lives on Berlin
side was in such an advanced state of intox-
ication that she fell down several times GO
ing from the corner OF State and Main
streets to the arch bridge. Soon after reach
ing Berlin street, she fell in the snow, and
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home by neighbors, and the curtain is gladly
drawn over the meeting with her husband,
who is hard-working mechanic.
THE meteorological report for the month
of February, as made up by Sergeant Line
at the Northheld station is as follows: Mean
barometer 3O1O4; highest, 3O.S04, on the
| 9th; lowest, 80 232, on the Goth; mean tenn
perature, 13 70; highest, 4So, on the 7th; low
est, 200 below, on the 9Th; greatest daily
range, 45o, on the 9th; least daily range, A.,
on the 4th; mean temperature for the
month. 17.1o total deficiency in tempera-
ture, 0jo total deficiency in temperature
since January 1, 1882; prevailing direction
of wind, north; total movement of wind.
| 1907 miles: maximum velocity of wind. 81
miles, north, on the 20th; total precpita-
| ton, 2 ~ inches; number OF davs on which
| .01 or more of precipitation fell, l6; average
precipitation for this month for six years,
242 inches total deficiency of precipitation
| during month, 81: total deficiency OF pre-
| cipita lou since January /, 80: clear days,
6; partly cloudy days, 10; cloudy days -.
TELEGRAM was received on Tuesday
announcing the sudden death Of Jacob
Smith, former prominent citizen of Mont
| pelier. He died at the residence OF Guy
| Smith, his son, near Boston, where he has
made his home for several years. In early
! life Mr. Smith moved to Montpelier from
his farm in East Brookfield, and was for
many years engaged in the furniture bust
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Il Son. He sold out to David Mcdonald
and for several years bought large quanti-
ties of wool in this vicinity. Mr.. Smith
was one of the first directors of the Mont
peler * Wells River railroad and was al
ways sanguine as to the ultimate success Of
the undertaking. He leaves three daugh-
ters-Alice, wife of George G. Chandler of
Berlin, Ruth, widow of the late John V.
Thurston. now living in Chicago, and Au-
gusta, wife of the Rev. S. w. Dixie, ID,
of Auburndale, Mass, the well-known anti
divorce apostle. He was over eighty years
old at the time of his death.
A BREAK in the water main near the cor
ner of Main and Liberty streets was discov-
cred about ten o'clock last Saturday
night The water poured forth in a torrent
in the yard of J. A. Locklin, fully forty
feet from the main on either Of the above
named streets, and the surrounding coun-
| try was quickly converted into a miniature
lake. The cellars of Mr.. Lockin, George
Brainerd and others were flooded before
| the entrance to an ad jacent sewer could be
opened. Superintendent Foster was soon
on the ground and worked during the night
and day Sunday trying to discover where
the break had occurred. The great depth
to which the ground is frozen made the task
slow and laborious. Up to last evening he
had been unable TO locate the spot, although
a force OF men has been kept constantly at
work. BY means of adjoining gates, Mr..
with the exception of two families, supplied
with water, and the force of the water for
power or fire purposes is not affected.
THE testimonial concert to T. r. Merrill
Jr., at the opera house last Wednesday
evening attracted large and appreciative
audience, and the programme rendered did
not contain dull or uninteresting number
The orchestra occupied the stage during the
first part of the programme. The cornet
solo of c. p. Ptkin, clarinet solo by W. E
Dufur, and songs interspersed by F. W
Bancroft were loudly applauded, as was the
finished work of the PLAYERS, under the lead
ership of George K. White. The second
part contained several selections from the
full band, under the guiding baton of Mr.
Merrill The cornet solo by George E
White, Polka Cleopatra" was especially
noticeable for its well nigh matchess exc
by the Apollo Banj 10 Club received, as it de
served, hearty encore. The catchy de
scriptive selection, The Kicker's Tourna
ment," met with great favor, as did tn,
Tone Pictures of the North and South.
with which the programme closed. Jus
before the last selection, Mr.. Merrill cor
daily thanked the audience for the larg'
attendance and expressed his appreciation
of the success which had crowned the un
dertaking. The net receipts were nearly
5000.
A REPRESENTATIVE OF the WATCHMAN Wis
/, lieu Une SuBar-WelgnlnB stdllOn III Vne leu
eral building on Tuesday and was givei
some interesting information by Colone
G. s. Forbes, deputy collector, who hap
pened to be present. The blanks and sup
plies are being sent out to the eighty-on
weighers in Vermont and to the fourteen il
New Hampshire, included in the district
During the season there will be fourteen of
, ficials and clerks employed in the work a
, Montpelier. The officers in charge will b
3 G. K. Fletcher, revenue collector; M, A
> Haines and Raymond Loranz, revenue
Z agents. DIR. John 7. Cushing, chemist;
1 b. Virgins, deputy collector, with fou
clerks and five assistants to the chemist
; In the New Hampshire district, which in
{ cludes that state and Vermont, there ar
$500 producers, of which 300 are in Yer
mont, and there are 200 more such Ii
/ censed producers than there were las
year. The names of the weighers appointe,
for Washington county are s. s. Ballard
1 Barre w. H. Herrick, MiddleseX; w. c
Berry, Montpelier l.. D. Mute, Marshfeld
G. ID. Kidder, Plainfeld ID. l.. Nichols
Roxbury, and M. o. Evans, Waterbury
The necessary blanks have also been maie'
to every licensed producer in the district.
. ANOTHER successful liquor raid is score,
to the credit of Sheriff +. w. Howe and hi
deputies. Last Saturday evening, Mr.
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