The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29

years. Rev. A. N. Lewis, rector of Christ
Church, conducted the services at the grave.
GEORGE d. BUTLER narrowly escaped
losing foot in the yard of the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad last Saturday af-
ternoon He was climbing between two
freight cars and one foot got caught in the
coupling. just at that time the cars we're
shunted along little by switching en-
gine, and, had he not been able to pull his
foot from the shoe, it would have been
crushed.
THE Vermont Homeopathic Society will
hold its forty-hfth annual meeting at the
Pavilion on Thursday and Friday, June 8
and T. In the programme for the two days
is found an address on Ventilation in the
Sick Room" by DR.. II. s. Boardman, and
discussions of timely subjects by DR.. L. 81;
Fisk and Dr. j. d. Lance. A banquet will
be served at the Pavilion on Thursday
evening, June 6, to which the ladies will be
invited. The railroads centering in Mont
pelier will gra at the usual courtesies.
II is expected that, commencing June 1,
train "a north over the Central Vermont
railroad, that is now local train from
Windsor, will again be made through ex-
press from Boston, with a sleeping car for
Montreal and the West. 1t will leave
Montpelier at 900 P. NJ, instead OF GAO, as
now, and will meet the south-bound local
at Montpelier Junction. The local express
north in the forenoon will run into Mont
pelier, and other changes will be made in
the time card between Montpelier and
Barre.
UP to Tuesday morning the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company had adj
justed twenty-five losses from the st.
Albans fire, and George Brainerd was there
on Tuesday to adjust several more that had
been waiting for inventories. In all, this
company will lose alb )ut S28,O00 by that
fire. AS fast as thu losses were adjusted,
w. L Dewey, the treasurer, paid them on
Nha not rhnr thn rnA NhafVs
money. From various sources 1t is learned
that there is an excellent feeling in st.
Albans towards the Vermont Mutual. 1t
was the first company represented on the
ground after the fire, the first to adjust, and
the first to pay losses, and its promptness
was appreciated
NJ. S. DAVIS Of Hartford has purchased
of Hyde & Sawyer their interest in the Ex-
change Hotel, and took possession last
Monday noon. For the past fifteen years,
Mr.. Davis has successfully conducted hotels
in Roxbury, Fairee Hartford and Leb-
anon, n. e., and in Florida several winters.
His reputation as landlord is of the very
best, and the marked business ability and
knowledge of hotel need possessed by Mrs.
Davis is widely known. Mr.. Davis has en-
gagged M. V. Chadwick, formerly of the
Red Lion Inn, Randolph, as clerk. Under
the new order of things. it is confidently ex-
pected that the Exchange will regain its
old.time prestige as one of the best hotels in
central Vermont.
The members of st. Peters Court of
Catholic Foresters attended st. Augustine's
Church in body at the first mass last Sun
day morning, and received communion.
Seventy men were in line and wore the in
sigma of the order 1t was their first ap-
pearance in public, and their presence was
very gratifying to the other members of the
congregation. After the mass, Rev. Father
| W. j, O'Sullivan, chaplain of the order, ad-
| lraasaI the mamhars hriHtiV communicating
them on their compliance with the rules of
| their constitution in fulfilling their duty to
the church and to the order of which they
were members. This society, which is OF
business principles. A branch was organ
lied in Montpelier ten months ago, and al
ready numbers eighty members with pres
ent indications of large accessions.
ALL the esavings banks of the state, with the
exception of those in Washington county, pay
no interest on deposits Withdrawn between
dividend or interest-payng days, that is,
between January and July 1, and between
July and January l. The savings banks
in this county have heretofore allowed
interest on money that has laid on deposit
more than one month from the last credit
of interest. The management OF the Mont
pelier Savings Bank and Trust Company
has already voted to adopt the plan that is
| uniform in all other counties of the state,
provided other banks in the county do so,
and at meeting of the directors of the
Capital Savings Bank and Trust Company,
held last Monday, the same action was
voted, provided the two savings banks in
Barre, the only two in the county outside of
Montpelier, adopt similar course.
THE announcement that Hoyt's " A Tem-
| perance Town is to be seen at Blanchard
opera house next Friday evening excttes
the liveliest interest. Mr.. Hoyt has found
| the temperance question fruitful theme.
| He Stu0ie1 the matter carefully for long
time and finally secured an opening for his
story by examining the docket of Vermont
court, which revealed the fact that GER
tain George Kibing was on one occa-
sion found guilty of 7l5 offenses against
the prohibitory law and fined $40 and costs
for each transgression, with the alternative
of some u, ,943 days in Jail. He has used
this as the basis of " A Temperance Town,
building around 1t with such added Incl
dents as his fertile brain suggested, and
choosing as his characters some OF the rep
resentative types of people whom he enc
countered in the rural precincts of the plac-
where Kibling used to live
A LARGE and fashionable audience gath.
cred at Blanchard opera house last Monday
evening to witness the first presentation OF
"Trilby" in this city. SO great was the de-
sire from surrounding to wns to witness the
play that special trains were run to Barre
and as far east as Plainfeld, over the Mont
pelier and Wells River railroad, after the
performance. "Trilby" is the theatrical
sensation of the age. 1t is, to one not IA
miliar with Du Mauriers latest work, full
of surprises, of marked realism and startling
developments. 1t is a wonderfully fasci'
mating play, and its production by A, NJ.
Palmer's company, Monday night, was
most creditable 1t was an absorbing and
delightful entertainment, and the story that
has charmed so many in the reading lost
none of its power az told by Mr.. Potter the
dramatist Miss Eleanor Barry made a
winsome "Trilby," and Mr. Lawrence
Hawley as "Svengali" defied the pencil of
the most captious critic.
THE following data, compiled from the
weather bureau records at Northheld, cover
the month OF June for the past eight years,
and will be of value and interest in antci-
pating the more important meteorological
elements and the range within which such
variations may be expected TO keep for the
coming month Of June Temperature
Mean, or normal, $50; warmest month"; that
OF 1892, average ESQ., coolest month, that of
1890, average 6lo; highest temperature, 92o,
June 13, 1892; lowest tenn perature, 30, June
8, 1891, and June Z, 1884, average date of
first killing frost in autumn, September 2l /;
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