The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-25

| Isle, /; Orleans, 8; Rutland, II Addison, 9;
| Lamolle, 4; Essex, 3; Caledonia 9; Wind
sor, 10; Orange, 8; Chittenden IL; Washing
| ton, 16.
A SERVICE of temperance and purity, with
! special regard to the seventy second birth.
day of Edward Everett Hale, is to be held
| in the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
evening. Scholars of the Sunday school
will share in the exercises.
LEE KENIsToN an employe at the shops
of the Lane Manufacturing Company, was
arrested last week for riding bicycle on
| the sidewalk, contrary to a village ordi-
nance. His case will be disposed of by j.
II. Senter the village attorney, next Satur-
day.
SUNDAY, May 6, Ascension Day, will be
/ observed by Mt. Zion Commandery OF
Knights Templar by public service in
| Christ Church in the afternoon. special
train will be run from Barre. Sir Knight
Rev. A. N. Lewis will conduct the service
and preach.
BARTHoLoMEw's wonderful horses will be
at Blanchard opera house next Monday and
! Tuesday evenings, with matinee Tuesday
| afternoon These trained animals have
been seen in Montpelier before, and their
performances will be remembered as some-
thing marvellous.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union held its annual meeting last Thurs
| udy anu elecubu MrS. II. NJ. Denny preS1-
| dent, Mrs o. III. Richardson vice. president,
Miss Helen Goodwin secretary, and Miss
Eliza Rublee treasurer. Twelve depart.
ment superintendents were also elected.
j. A. DEBoER, actuary of the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company, spoke
on " The Administrative Side of Life
Insurance at the banquet given last
Wednesday evening at White River juno
tion on the occasion of the semi-annual
meeting Of the Vermont Fire Under
writers.
A REPRESENTATIVE of the o. s. Kelley
Company of Springfield, Ohio, will exhibit
the workings of steam roller to the Jrus-
tees and citizens about the middle of May.
The test will be made on several sections of
the streets of Montpelier and will give
every one an opportunity to judge of the
merits of the machine
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
Woodsville, n. H., next Sunday. Mrs. b.
Wallace Jones, wife of the new Universal
ist pastor at Barre, is to occupy the pulpit
at the Church of the Messiah. Mrs Jones
is regularly ordained minister, and her
preaching has already created a most IA
vorable impression in Barre.
THE Bohemian Glass Blowers began a
siX-nights' engagement in Capital Hall last
Monday evening under the auspices of the
Montpelier Military Band. Prizes for the
best lady and gentleman Walter, and for
the homeliest gentleman present, are to be
given, and music for dancing is furnished
each evening by the band and orchestra.
ALTHOUGH there was an unusually large
number of surprises when the appointments
of the Vermont conference were read at
Bradford last Monday morning, the ex-
pected happened so far as the Montpelier
charge was concerned, and Rev. A. II.
Webb was returned for another year, for
which the worshipers at Trinity church are
to be congratulated.
Wy
WIN of the Central Vermont railroad was in
town last Thursday on a tour of inspection.
He was accompanied by Trainmaster e, d.
Nash, General Roadmaster j. W. Shanks,
and j. o. Olmstead, superintendent of
buildings and bridges. The directors cars,
St. Lawrence and Garfield, carried the
party. They went to Williamstown in the
afternoon
. Mrs LEONARD WELLS of New York spoke
on =" Home Missions at Trinity church
last Sunday morning. In an interesting
and graphic manner, she sketched the work
> that is being done by the Methodist
Womans Home Missionary Society among
the colored girls of the South, the Indians
, in the West the Mormons in Utah. in
+ Alaska, and among the Chinese in San
Francisco.
IT is gratifying that the authorities are
: the use of the bicycle on the public side
walks. This machine is an exceedingly
dangerous thing. If it could be heard, the
pedestrian would be warned in time to gel
) out of its way, but the noiseless, creeping
: thing is right upon person the moment he
discovers it, and then he is so start ed thai
5 he is as likely to leap in front of it as away
t from it.
The U. V. NJ. Varsity baseball team
came to Montpelier last Saturday afternoon
Y | to play the V. Nj. S. nine, but steadily
falling rain made anything like game wei
| nigh impossible. Three innings were played
in the rain, resulting in score of % to II
favor of U. V. M. The Burlington boys
I We're fresh from their victories during theil
r southern trip; and had the weather beer
favorable, an exciting game would no doubt
have been witnessed.
i WE have received copy of the song en-
r titled A Broken Heart" written by Waite
D. Long of New York. 1t is published in
II very artistic form and both words and music
a possess more than ordinary merit A loca
a interest attaches to this production, mas
mach as it is dedicated to Madame Lad,
, Eleanor Fletcher Bishop Nicholas of Nicho
=, las Manor and it bears on the title page
u portrait of Sir Eminent Commander Wash
ington Irving Bishop, her deceased son.
o The Justice eiectment suit of Joseph d
n Clogston against Clinton E. Town was trie(
e last Saturday afternoon in T. r: Gordon
office before Justice p II. Hinkley aud
jury composed of 9. A. Smith, II. f. Slay
!, ton, Paul Terrault g. n. Phillips, j. T
e Donovan and j. A. Kelton. Mr.. Gordon
l. appeared for the plaintiff and j. G. VIM
for Mr., Town. The claim was for $50
d rent, and the jury awarded the plaintiff
d S1305. The case was appealed TO count
q court.
y SERVICES of unusual interest are to b
If held at Christ Church during the comm
T. week. To-day, ST. Marks day, the hol
I. communion will be celebrated at ten O'Clock
l. On Friday evening at half past seven, tn
closing instruction upon baptism and cor
. irmation will be given by Rev. A.
% Lewis the rector. Rt Rev, Bishop Hal
y will preach on Saturday evening at hal
- past seven, and also Sunday morning, afte
. which he will administer the rite of con
tirmation.
IF THE marriage of Moses French, Jr O
N Soon, Me-, and Miss Mary l.. Freeman wa
A. celebrated on Tuesday morning at the hom
of George w. Leslie, on East Liberty street
- Rev. DR.. Norman w, Seaver was the Off
- ciatng clergyman. 1t was quiet affair
20 only the immediate relatives and friends {
20 the bride being present. A wedding break
- fast followed the ceremony, and the newly
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