The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-17


THE stores and places of business in town
were closed last Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons, from two TO four O'Clock, during
the hours of the funerals Of John p. Elan.
ders and Wilder p. Huntington
Mrs. JAMES CULLIN died last Sunday
morning of consumption in an insane hos
pita near Boston, where she has been for
the past two years. Mr.. Cullin was i'll and
could not go to care for the remains.
J.. A. CURTIS and G.. n Williston Of ST,
Adams were in town last Thursday to at
tend the funeral of the late Wilder p, Hunt
ington. The former was associated in busi-
ness with Mr.. Huntington in st. Albans.
THE sudden changes in temperature dur
ing the past few days caused the water to
freeze in the conductors in the tower Of the
federal building. The pipes burst, but a
timely discovery of the trouble prevented
| any damage.
RALPH b. DENNY has been dangerously
i'll during the past week with pneumonia,
superinduced by the grip DIR. A. b. Bisbee
and DIR. w. b. Mayo of Northfeld are At
tending him, and he was reported as i'm
proving on Tuesday.
IT is said that new church was organ
lied in Montpelier last Monday, TO he called
! by the long name of the New Evangelical
| Association Church of Vermont" There is
talk of erecting church edifice if a suit
! able site can be secured.
The Capital Granite Company started up
| last Thursday morning with full force of
men. These works have been shut down
since the holidays, but the company has
orders enough ahead at present to keep
! business booming for several weeks.
The next entertainment in the lecture
course will be given next Monday evening
| by the Lotus Glee Club, assisted by Miss
Minnie Marshall, reader. This company
gave such great satisfaction last year that
it was thought best to engage them again
this season.
NAPOLEON VERoNNEAU, who has for some
time been employed in the barber shop of
Charles Limoges, went to Essex Junction
! last Monday to take charge of the shop at
the johnson House. He is a frst.class
workman, as the people of that place will
| soon discover.
THE charity benefit under the auspices of
the Kings Daughters will be given at
Blanchard opera house Tuesday evening,
January 30. The management respectfully
invites the interest of the public and hopes
for a liberal patronage. Further announce
ment next week.
THE injuries received by the little daugh-
ter of II. A. Hayward last Saturday after
noon, by being run over by careless
driver, has aroused the village trustees to
the necessity of prohibiting fast driving
within the village limits, and an order is to
be issued to the police to enforce the ordi-
nance
DEPUTY SHERIFF JOHN L. FUTILE es.
corted George Smith of Calais to the house
of correction, at Rutland last Thursday
He was unable to raise the amount of his
fines and costs for selling Intoxicating
liquor, as noted last week. The alternative
sentence is Imprisonment in the house OF
correction for 222 days.
FRANK w. FLINT, the gentlemanly and
popular Central Vermont passenger con.
ductor, was in Montpe..e last Saturday on
his way to WILLIAMSBURG, where Calvin
Flint his father, celebrated his eighty sixth
birthday with family gathering last Sun
, day. Mr. Flint is the oldest inhabitant Of
Willamstown, and is remarkably active fol
a man of his years.
, ALEXANDER BIssETTE of Berlin, the in
dividual referred to recently by local pa
per as mildly insane," was arrested il
Montpelier last Monday by Chief of Polio,
, Jerome Dumas of Burlington. He is wanted
: in that city, where he is charged with being
connected with the gang now under arres
for breaking and entering. He was takeI
there that evening.
INTELLIGENCE was received by the towI
authorities last Monday that Frank w
Keyes, formerly of Montpelier had died o
! pneumonia in ChiCopee, Mass, January 10
Mr.. Keyes was formerly carpenter anC
5 joiner in Montpelier, and was burned out il
the fire of 1915. He was siXty-three year
old at the time of his death. He leaves on
daughter, Lizzie, now Mrs. Fred f. Spauld
ing vi hluuttpOllS, hlHus
THE performance given at Blanchard
t opera house last Saturday evening b.,
3 Luciers' Minstrels was attended by goo,
!. audience and was fully up to the standar
of minstrelsy already attained by thi
Y troupe Harry Budworth, the comedian
I was funny as ever, the singing in the frs
y part was excellent, and the clever specialize
with which the last part of the prOgramm
, was filed gave genuine amusement through
a out.
r WHILE in a blissful state of intoxication
Sidney w. Renslow of Berlin staggered int
: police headquarters last Thursday evenin
. and requested Policeman Demeritt to loc
l. him up That officer accommodated hin
n and he spent the night with Jailor Dudley
. Before Justice NJ. e. Smile, Friday afte
u noon, he disclosed on the Province of Gu,
;, bee and was fined $40 OF, with the alterni
4 tive of twenty days in the house of corret
tion at Rutland.
d On information filed with the states a
o torney, the grand jury, at its last session
u found an indictment against Mrs Pete
Salvani of Barre for selling ntoxicatin
}. liquor. Since that time she has been col
n spicuous by her absence from her favori
T. haunts in the Granite City until last weel
when she was arrested there and brougl
4 before Judge Rowell, at Montpelier I'll
a. court placed her under 500 bonds, whiC
a were promptly furnished and she was r.
leased from custody.
10 MRS. SARAH A. FLANDERS, widow OF IL
,ee late Alpheus Flanders, died last Monda
+ morning at the home of Mrs Charles
Hathaway, her daughter, with whom ST
has lived since the death of her HUSBAND
u sixteen years ago. Her age was eight
" one years. Her funeral will be held til
IL afternoon, at half-past one, from the res
dence OF Mr.. Hathaway, Rev, j. Edwal
n, Wright officiating, and the interment w
IN be in the cemetery at Berlin Corner, besiC
ly the remains of her husband She was
ly native of Barrillville, r. L.
THE operetta Golden Hair and the Thr
OF Bears " will be presented by the pupils
j. the public schools at Blanchard opera hou
ly next Friday evening. The chorus of eight
to five voices will be assisted by Mrs. #.
Ptkin, f. w. Bancroft and w. S. Smit
IN with Mrs Lillian NJ. Baker as accompanis
ry Special costumes have been secured fro
re- Boston, and the rehearsals have been pain
Is taking and faithful. The proceeds are
be devoted to the worthy object of purcha
-, ing piano for use in the public schools.
ld A LARGE number of the friends and rel
ne tves of Moses Tehriault, the faithful g
le gineer at the Pavilion Hotel, assisted him
celebrating his twenty-eighth birthday
his home last Monday evening The eI