The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23

III.
johns pitching won the day for the home
team when defeat was surely expected.
A SPECIAL town meeting has been called
at Capital Hall on Tuesday, MAY 20.
at two O'Clock in the afternoon to see IL
the town will vote to exempt from taxation
the following firms for the periods named ;
DILLON * Haley, for five years from last
March; Stafford & McGlynn, five years
from last March; Lynch g. Mcmahon, five
years from March, 1892; G. II. More & Co.,
five years from September, 1894; The United
states Clothes Pin Company, FIVE years
from March, 1892, and the Capitol Creamery
Company, five years from March, 1894.
THE following, clipped from the Brattle-
boro Retormer, contains lots of solid truth
to the square inch, and will apply equally
well to advertising in the WATCHMAN: " x
newspaper has at least 1000 readers to 1 600
subscribers. A merchant who puts out
l,OOO handbills gets possibly 300 or 400 peo-
pie to read them. The handblls cost as
much as a good advertisement in the
and half the men and boys read advertise
ments. The merchant who uses the news
paper has $500 more readers. There is no
estimating the amount of business that ad-
vertising does bring to merchants but that
each dollar invested brings a good return
there can be no doubt
THE sermon-lecture on "Church and
State in Germany" delivered last Sunday
evening at the Church of the Messiah by
Rev. j. Edward Wright, was both enter
tanning and instructive. Any brief abstract
OF the address would do it an Injustice and
will not be attempted. The speaker con-
fined himself closely to his subject. the pa-
ternity of the evangelical church in the
German empire, and did not attempt to
speak of religion as a whole in that coun-
try In closing he compared the Scotch.
who have dissented from the established
church, with the Germans, who. are still
bound by the laws and traditions of their
ancestors, and predicted disestablishment
IN Germany ia the years that are to come.
. THE peoples party in Vermont has been
heard from. A call has been issued for
mass convention " to be held in Capital
Hall, Montpelier, Tuesday, June 26, to op-
pose all schemes of the democratic-republi
can putocracy, to place in nomination two
candidates for congress- one for governor, ct
al, and to formulate platform broad and
strong enough for those who favor free sill
yer, and for the whole world to stand upon.
George e. Holden, Esq, is the lonesome
member from Washington county whose
name is affixed to the call, and he will
doubtless soon start substitution paper to
raise funds to hire the brass cannon at the
state arsenal and get out the Montpelier
Military Band. Keep your eye on the date
A PLEASING entertainment under the
auspices of Rob Morris Chapter, order of
the Eastern Star, was held last evening in
the vestry of the Church of the Messiah.
The object of the performance was to raise
funds TO help defray the expense of enter
tanning the grand chapter which meets at
Montpelier the first week in June, and the
attendance was gratifyingly large. Among
the excellent things on the programme were
a piano duet by Miss Julia Cross and Mrs.
j. f. Waterman; vocal duet, Miss Gertrude
Cochran and Professor G. f. Wheeler; song.
inli ua1A Tl-
X. Longfellow Cleaves; and song, Fl. II.
Hopkins. The entertainment concluded
with the bright comedy, Who is Who2 or,
All in Fog" with Misses Sadie Wing,
Sallie Oviatt, j. Eli Goodenough, l.. j.
Hathaway and Harley Cummins in the
cast.
THROUGH the enterprise of Colonel A. C.
Brown, general manager of the Vermont
Telephone and Telegraph Company, some
important changes and improvements have
recently been made in the service of that
corporation. A line has been run to Kent's
Corner, and the line to Hardwick has been
rebuilt to better accommodate through bus
mess At Cambridge Junction, the two
switching stations at Waterville and Cam
bridgeboro have been consolidated, and a
union switch board has been put in there to
accommodate the lines to Morrisvlle, Essex
junction, Fletcher and Belvidere, which
have been consolidated at Cambridge June.
tion. From that point a line has been built
through Bakersfield, Fairfield and East
Fairfield to st. Albans, to connect with the
exchange there, and which gives direct
communication with Lamoille county and
also the central Office at Montpelier. 1t is
the purpose of the company to eventually
get an Independent wire to Morrisville and
Hardwick. These extended lines are built
under new contracts issued for that express
purpose.
SERVICES incident to Memorial Sunday
will be held at the Church of the Messiah
next Sunday morning, when Rev. j. Ed.
ward Wright will preach the sermon TO the
members of Brooks Post. The Sons of Vet
erans and Relief Corps will also attend in a
body. All old soldiers, whether members
OF the post or not, are invited to meet at the
post headquarters at ten o'clock that morn
ing and march to the church. The exer-
cises next Wednesday, Memorial Day, will
be similar TO those of former years. De-
tachments from Brooks Post will visit the
cemeteries in town in the morning and dec
crate the graves of their dead comrades
At one o'clock a parade will be formed
headed by the Montpelier Military Band
the line OF march to be through the princi-
pal streets of the village. The various civil
and fraternal organizations, Company II,
Captain A G.. Eaton commanding, the Sons
of Veterans, and Brooks Post will take part
in the parade. Later, the Grafton in the
opera house will be delivered by Rev Dr.
W. ounilH, OI vermont Meth
odist Seminary. DR.. Smitn's talents as an
orator are well known, and Brooks Post is
sure OF an Grafton at this time second to
none. The memorial services by the post
will close the exercises for the day.
The opera Countess for Day." pre-.
sented at Blanchard opera house last
Wednesday evening by the Boston Ideal
Opera Company, is one OF special merit and
is designed not only to crafty artistic tastes,
but to furnish healthy thorough amusement
as well. 1t abounds in spectacular effects
with the best of comedy, all in a
setting of bright musical numbers. The
singing and acting were most satisfactory
Miss Idalia Irving, as Lefty, sang her way
AZ once into the hearts of her audience.
Her voice has delightful liquid quality,
and in her Interpolation of a verse of ''Good.
bye, Sweet Day." its perfect culture, ex-
preston and sweetness found expression.
Miss Luella Wagner, as the Countess, Miss
lnez Crabtree, as Bridget and Miss MAY
Bosley, las Lunastro, all did clever work and
we're heartily encored in their solo mum.
Ders Mr.. Robert Hall as the Count, Mr.
Gilbert Couch as Herman, and Mr.. Hubert
Dodd as Albert, were all singers of rare
ability, and thoroughly in the spirit OF their
work. Opinion was divided as to whether
Miss Waltevette Russell in her dancing
'pecialtes added TO or detracted from the |
performance as whole. The audience was
lot large, but was an enthusiastic one, and |
me that was thoroughly pleased from first to |