The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-28

for the corporation, on matters pertaining
to the road.
AFTER his lecture upon "Is Seeing Be-
| lieving?" in the village hall, East Mont
| pelier, tomorrow evening, MIR. Wright
will give some "reminiscences of 81 Trip to
the Wartburg."
THE Methodist Ladies Aid Society will
hold a sociable this evening with Mrs. G.
| III. Fuller on Elm street, to which the fac
| ulty and students of the seminary are es-
| pecally invited.
| A MEETING will be held next Sunday af-
ternoon at three o'clock, in the vestry of
| Trinity church, to see what can be done
about forming a branch of the Young Mems
Christian Association in town.
THE roof of the passenger car on the
mixed train from Wells River caught fire
last Monday morning, when the train was
about mile east of Plainfied. An over.
heated stove-pipe was probably the cause.
A UNION service will be held at the Meth
odist church next Sunday evening, at seven
O'Clock, to be addressed by Rev. Norman
Seaver, DID. Subject: " Defaulters-How
They Are Made" All are cordially in vited.
REV. w. j. O'SULLIvAN gave the pupils
of ST. MichaePs school their annual sleigh
ride, last Thursday, in honor of Washing
toms birthday. They drove to Barre, and
afterwards through the principal streets OF
Montpelier.
FRANK w. TUTTLE, son of Deputy Sheriff
John l.. Tuttle, is candidate for mayor at
the coming election at Vergennes MIR.
Tuttle's many friends in Montpelier expect
to see him " get there" with a good many
votes to spare
Mrs. EMILY KENYON, state superintendent
of Juvenile Temperance Work in the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, gave
most interesting chak-talk to more than
fifty children at the Baptist church last
Sunday afternoon.
GEORGE e. FLETCHER, the treasury in
spector who has been connected with the
sugar-testing station at Montpelier for the
past two years. has been ordered to Mont.
pelier from New Orleans for the coming
season, and is expected here this week.
GEORGE MoG1LKEY of Roxbury was
lodged in the county Jail, last Thursday
charged with stealing jewelry, and was un
able to furnish bail in the sum of $500, for
which he is bound over to county court.
Ed. H. GABREE lost his powers of locomo-
ton, last Wednesday night, and was carted
to the lookup on a handsled by Policeman
Hunt. Justice M. e. Smile fined him $l5
and costs the next day, which he was able
to raise in time to escape trip to Rutland.
WE are authorized to say that the filing
of the name of F. A. Dwinell as candidate
for the Office OF selectman of the town of
Montpelier was done without his knowl-
edge or consent, and that he absolutely de-
clines to be a candidate for the Office
named.
ELMER A. BAIRD made a short stop at
Montpelier, last week, on his way from
Lowell to his home in Waitsfield He has
so far recovered that he was able to take
the bar examination, November %, and was
admitted at Cambridge before Judge Dun.
bar, January 25
The entertainments given last week Tues
day and Wednesday evenings in the church
at East Montpelier Center were the largest
kind OF success. The ancient edifice was
packed both evenings and a snug sum was
added to the library fund for which the en-
tertainments were given.
CAMPFIRE will be held in Grand Army
hall, next Monday evening, under the aus
pices of Brooks Relief Corps. This date will
be the eighth anniversary of the organiza-
ton of the corps, and an attractive pro-
gramme has been prepared. The public is
cordially invited to be present.
BISHOP HALL preached to large congre-
cation, last Thursday evening, on the ex-
ample of Christ as shown us in his work.
Every appearance of the bishop only con-
firms the favorable impressions made by
him at his first visit to Montpelier, and no
one can listen TO his earnest eloquent
practical discussions without being con-
vinced that man of no ordinary talents
and attainments is addressing them.
MUSICAL convention, under the direc-
ton of G. f. Dudley of East Montpelier, is
now in progress at Peacham, and will con-
tinue through Thursday and Friday, closing
with grand concert on Friday evening
Miss Sylvia Bliss of East Calais is the ac-
companist, and the large number Of singers
from surrounding towns who applied last
week for entertainment give evidence that
this convention is to be another of Mr.,
Dudley's first-class successes.
IT required but little investigation to
prove the falsity of the report current on
the street last Monday morning that there
was case OF smallpox in town. A lady
who is under treatment by DR.. q. n. Hunt
for torpid liver had slight eruption of
the skin, which is quite common in such
cases, and which led some excitable per-
sons to imagine she had small. pox. When
interrogated on the subject, her physician
laughed good naturedly at the reporter, and
pronounced the rumor totally false and
groundless.
The old folks supper and entertainment
given in the vestry of the Church of the
Messiah last Thursday evening attracted
large number OF people, and was most
successful affair. The supper tables were
well filled from half-past five to seven
o'clock, when an old-fashioned "square
meal, " consisting of bean porridge, baked
beans, boiled victuals, doughnuts, brown
bread, etc, was served Later, an enter
IdluiHeuJ WAS gwen, consisting In part OF
readings by Rev. j. Edward Wright and
Mrs. o. II. Richardson, and a concert by
the Peak sisters.
THE neglect of many who have heretofore
done so to purchase season tickets for the
course OF lectures and entertainments given
during the fall and winter by the Ladies'
Library Guild and the high price of the
talent secured, has not made the course that
closed last Saturday evening as profitable
as some in former years have been. But
the ladies of the guild deserve commenda-
tion for their good sense and Judgment in
selecting the attractions, and deserve the
thanks of the whole community for bring
ing several people here who are seldom
heard outside of large cities.
NEARLY every one of the WATCHMAN cor.
respondents writes this week of the extreme
severity OF the weather last Saturday and
Sunday. 1t was, without doubt, the cold
est snap " OF the season throughout New
England. In Montpelier stiff northwest
wind blew all day Saturday, with the Their
mometer below zero, and Sunday morning
the temperature was from thirty TO forty
degrees below, according to the location of
thermometers and the elasticity of the con
sciences OF the owners. 1t was almost i'm
possible To heat the churches on Sunday,
and the services in several of them were
necessarily curtailed.
SINCE the caucus last Friday evening the