The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-13
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Tor many years.
The following, from the Boston Journal
of last week, has a local interest from the
fact that the wife of the absconding letter
carrier was formerly Miss Lillian Slack, for
several years the efficient money order
clerk in the Montpelier post-office: Fred
G.. Jones, the well-known letter carrier of
Maiden, who was the leading candidate for
the position of postmaster Of Maiden when
he eloped several months ago with Miss
Georgianna Brown, one of Maldens public
school teachers, leaving wife there, has
been located in Toronto, Can. His uncle
saw him in church a week ago Sunday and
spoke to him, but Jones refused TO be
recognized as the missing letter carrier
from Maiden. Finally he acknowledged
bis identity and said that he had been there
ever since he left Maiden, with Miss Brown.
Jones was in very poor circumstances and
was working in an insurance Office for $50
per month. He would give no reasons for
his sudden departure from Maiden, which
created such sensation at the time, only
that he loved the pretty teacher better than
his wife. Mrs. Jones will endeavor to Sc
cure divorce from her husband at once
for desertion."
The twenty-second annual gathering of
the grand chapter of the Order of the East
ern Star was held in the Masonic hall,
Montpelier, last week Tuesday evening and
Wednesday. The members of Rob Morris
Chapter exemplified the work on Tuesday
evening in manner that won cordial
praises for them on every hand. AT the
meeting on Wednesday, twenty-four sub
ordinate chapters were represented by
about 100 representatives. The report of
the grand secretary shows that there are
,724 members of the order in the state.
One dormant chapter, Morning Star of
Waitsfeld, has been revived. The follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
year: George w. Wing, Montpelier, grand
patron; Mrs. e. j. Pearsons, Island Pond,
grand matron f. w. Baldwin, Barton, as
socate grand patron; Mrs. Eugenia NJ.
Pettee, Brattleboro associate grand mat
ron; NJ. l.. Stillson, Bennington, grand
secretary Mrs. II. NJ. Whitney, Windsor,
grand treasurer Mrs George w. Wing,
Montpelier, grand conductress; Mrs. Paine,
Lyndonville, associate grand conductress.
A banquet was served to the visiting men,
OF Rob Morris Chapter, after which the of
ficers were installed by Grand Secretary
Stillson.
NEARLY $50 invited guests attended the
wedding of Assistant Postmaster d. f.
Clark and Miss Josephine +. Cochran of
Groton, which occurred last Wednesday
evening at the home of the bride in Groton.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. o.
NJ. Boutwell,, the Methodist pastor at
Groton. Miss Gertrude Cochran, sister of
the bride, was maid of honor, and Albert
K. Niles of Montpelier best man. The par
lors were prettily decorated with FERNS
smilax, roses, carnations and cut flowers
and the ceremony was performed under a
horseshoe of white flowers. Mrs. E. f.
Rand and Miss LILLIAN Stowell of Mont
pelier and Miss Elizabeth Hall of Groton
had charge of the dining room. There was
a beautiful array Of wedding gifts, among
them check for $1,000 from II. F..
Clark father of the groom. The newly
welded couple drove to Wells River end
took the midnight train for New York.
They are to visit Philadelphia and Wash
! ington before their return, and will be at
home to their friends at No. 4 LOOMS
street after August /. Among those from
Montpelier who attended the wedding were
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Eli Goodenough, Mrs. G.
! e. Hunt and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. E. F..
Rand, a. l.. Clark and wife, F. E. Howe,
Miss Lillian Stowell and A. E. Niles.
The croakers who complain that nearly
all the work done by Street Commissioner
Roberts on the village streets is confined to
| State and Main ST. Gets should take a walk
side the village limits and see what has
been done there this spring. On East Lib
erty street, near its junction with College
/ street, a log abutment has been put in the
street has been Strengthened, widened and
gradeu, so that those who pass over it in
frequently are hardly able to recognize it.
A sidewalk has also been graded the entire
| length of this street, and will soon be laid.
Clay Hill, its entire length, Jay, North,
Franklin and Mechanic streets havo been
| thoroughly cleaned out and graded, and on
| North Franklin street a drain connecting
with the North Brench, that takes the sew
erage from all that section, has been laid
For years this foul matter has run n sur.
face drains, and in hot weather the stencil
arising therefrom has been the cause OF
much sickness and innumerabe com
plants. On Cliff street the four-inch tile
drain has been replaced by a six-inch tile
with double CRATES which will save flood
ing the eastern end OF Court street every
time heavy shower comes. These and
| many other improvements OF like charac
ter go to show that the back streets and al
leys are as much under the eye of the street
commissioner as are the main thorough
fares.
FOR the forty-fourth time in its history
the Vermont Homeopathic Medical Society
met in the parlors of the Pavilion last
Wednesday and Thursday for its anuua
session. DR.. j. II. Mayo Of West Randolph
read paper, dnssday morning, or
"Inula Helenium in Pneumonia" which
was followed by discussion of this subject
The following officers were elected for the
year ensuing DR.. w. F. Minard of Water
bury, president; DR.. j. F. Shattuck o.
Wells River, vice PRESIDENT DR.. George l
Forbes of Burlington, secretary DIR. +. d
Worcester of Springfield, treasurer; Drs
w. B. Mayo of Northtield, II. e. Packer o
Barre and K. Is. Whitaker OF Newport
censors; Drs. James Haylett of Moretown
ID. G. Noble of Middlebury and Stoddart
Martin of Bradford, auditors. DIR. l.. A
Phillips of Boston read avery interesting pa
per on CRITICAL Surgery" which was fully
discussed at the session Wednesday evening
Thursday morning, President Minard APP
pointed Drs. H. S. Boardman, W. B. Mayo
f. f. Steele, L. B. Whitaker and II. e
Packer as a legislative committee. The
following papers were then read and dis
cussed: "a Bedside Sketch" DR.. H. E
Packer of Barre; I" a Study of Pulsatilla,
DR.. s. S. Martin of East Hardwick; " Tu
bercular liberation of the Rectum," DIR. G
K. e. Sparhawk of Burlington; New
Things in Silicea," DIR. A. F. Moore of Nortl
Shrewsbury "Typhoid Fever Epidemic il
Windsor" DR.. G. P. Holden Of Windsor
Treatment of Carbuncle by Early Incis
ion and Carbolic Acid" DIR. Edward Kirk
land of Bellows Falls; Sanitary Science,
DIR. 1. II. Fiske Of Montpelier In his an
nual address, DR.. II. S. Boardman, the re
firing president, urged more attention Il
sanitary science. To him it seemed clea
that the great work of the physician OF tn
future must be done along the lines of pre-
ventive medicine. He urged that no effor
should be spared to discourage and pu
down all attempted legislation that discrim
mates in favor of any one school, and advo
| Gated equal rights to all schools of medicine