The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-15

and profitable, both to the people of Mont
pelier and to those who visit us, and should
be encouraged. While Montpelier has no
one notably attractive or historic point or
spot, like Fort Ticonderoga, Lake Cham
plain or Ausable Chasm, there are hundreds
and thousands of people in the state who
have never visited the capital, and a day of
sightseeing among the numerous and va
ried attractions here is, to them, as enjoy
able, profitable and restful as is trip to
mountain, lake or seashore to those whose
lives are spent here.
THE fact that Jesse S. Vies and A. j.
Stephenson, guest of the Pavilion, went to
Groton one day last week and brought back
seVenty-tive pounds of trout they had that
day caught, furnishes a pleasant theme on
which to moralize, and emphasizes the fact
that Vermont is fast becoming the paradise
for sportsmen it used to be many years ago.
| This is due to several causes, prominent
among which is the good work done by the
state fish hatchery at Roxbury in stocking
the depleted streams with trout. 1t is to
be hoped that the coming legislature will
make liberal appropriation for continuing
the good work being carried on there. The
fact that the scattering broadcast of the
pamphlet published by the passenger de-
partment of the Central Vermont railroad,
entitled, "Summer Homes Among the
Green Hills of Vermont and Along the
Shores Of Lake Champlan," F" has increased
the sale of tickets into the state this season
twenty-five per cent over the sales of last
year, and that the amount paid by summer
visitors to the farmers and summer hotels
OF the state is larger this year than ever be-
fore, is the best of evidence that no stronger
attraction can be offered to the dwellers OF
the city than good trout fishing. This can
surely be advertised in Vermont without in
! any way exaggerating or distorting the
truth.
THE Argus is so accustomed to padding
its local columns with yards of gush regard
ing the wonderful things ii is doing from
week to week that this weekly blowing it's
own horn has come to be looked upon as
matter Of course, and attracts little atten-
tion. But when it takes a couple of stick
| fuls of type, as it did last week, to dilate on
the scoop it got the week before in publish
| ing the fact that the president had sent to
the senate the name of A. j. Sibey to be
| postmaster at Montpelier ahead OF all its
| contemporaries in the state, 1t makes of itself
laughing stock, even among its own sub
| scribers, to those who know the circum-
| stances The cold facts are that the argus
knew nothing Of Mr.. Sibley's name being
sent to the senate until it got its mail two
| weeks ago this morning after large part of
the edition had been run. The few copies
OF the Argus that were printed after that
time briefly stated the fact; but, instead of
being SCOOP" nearly every paper pub
lished in the state printed this I" exclusive
| information several days before a large ma
| jority OF the Argus subscribers read it in that
paper. The Argus is enterprising, however,
as is shown by the genuine "scoop" it
scored last week over all its contemporaries,
| local and state, in announcing the birth OF
son the week before to young married
couple in Montpelier, when in fact the ar
rival Of the youngster was known only to
the argus reporter.
JOHN A. KELToN, proprietor of the Ex.
change Hotel, died last Friday afternoon,
after an illness of ten days with rheumatic
fever, complicated with heart trouble. In
the death of Mr.. Kelton Montpelier loses
an enterprisng and valued citizen, and his
1 family is deprived of devoted husband
and indulgent father. He was born in East
Montpelier, October 10, 1889 At the age OF
nineteen he moved with his fathers family
to Worcester, in which town he lived until
he moved to Montpelier, eight years ago
During his residence there he was ever re-
garded as one of the leading citizens, and
has held nearly every Office Of honor and
trust within the gift of the town. He rep
resented Worcester in the general assembly
OF 1884. At the outbreak Of the civil wal
Mr.. Kelton enlisted in Company F, Second
| Vermont Volunteers, the company raised
at Montpelier by Captain F. " Randall
afterwards colonel of the Thirteenth anG
Seventeenth regiments. For about veal
he held the position of trainmaster, anG
received an honorable discharge after dan
gerous illness from rheumatic fever. Aftel
remaining at home short time, he returned
to the front and entered the employ o
James w. Brock in the suffers depart
ment. September 10, 1868, he married
Leonora g. Tswksbury of Worcester, who
with one daughter, Blanche, survives him
His funeral was held from the Exchang'
Hotel parlors last Sunday afternoon, Rev
j. Edward Wright, assisted by Rev. G. S
Savage of Orange, Mass, officiating, ant
was attended by large concourse of peo
Pile. H. G. Webster was in charge. Yer
mont Lodge of Odd Fellows, and Brook
Post, G. A. r., of which deceased was
member, attended in body and afte
the services escorted the funeral trail
to the upper end of Elm street on its wa.
to Worcester, The bearers were member
both of Brooks Post and Vermont Lodge o
Odd Fellows. Profuse and beautiful flora
offerings from the organizations represented
the help at the hotel, and others, filled tn
house with their fragrance and did much t
tighten the gloom of the darkened parlo
where the casket lay. In quiet nook il
the pretty cemetery at Worcester, just be
fore sunset, thirty and more OF his brothe
Odd Fellows circled round his cedar-line
and tlower-starred grave and performed tn
beautiful committal service of that order
leaving his body there in the sure hope of
future reunion.