The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
always existed between employers and en-
ployed of this corporation.

| ployed OF this corporation
NEARLY all the young people of whom
Montpelier expects great things in the fu-
ture, and who have given a bright and gay
coloring to holiday life at the capital, have
returned to the various institutions Of
learning with which they are connected.
EDWARD DEWEY slipped, Monday MORN
ing, while descending the stairs in the Ma.
tional Life Insurance Company building,
and received serious injuries to one ankle.
He was taken home In carriage, and will
probably be confined to the house for some
time.
PROFESSOR MAxHAM, the well-known
campaign singer, assisted by Miss Cotton,
whistler, will give an entertainment in
Capital Hall this evening for the benefit of
| the Keeey League. The cause is a worthy
one, and the concert will be OF high order
! of excellence.
ONE of the old FOUNDERS" OF Montpe-
lier writes the WATCHMAN as follows: " A
suggestion for candidate for mayor is a
young man for young city-Professor
A. DeBoer or ex-Postmaster j. Eli Good
enough. thi ak the place for back num-
bers Is on the SHELF
THE case against James Hodgden OF
Cabot was given hearing last Wednesday
before Justice Willard s. Martin OF Plain.
! field in the Office of Colonel j. II. Lucia.
Hodgden was bound over to county court.
Bail was furnished by parties in Danville,
and he was released from custody.
VERMONT lodge of Odd Fellows has
elected the following officers for the ensu-
ing year: Adm G. Templeton, noble grand
W, r. Waterman, vice grand; Edward
Baker, recording and permanent secretary
D. w. Dudley, treasurer. These, with the
appointed officers, are to be installed this
evening.
A GENERAL term of the supreme court
will convene at Montpelier next Tuesday.
There are 113 cases on the docket, distrib-
uted by counties as follows Bennington,
s; Addison, 4; Chittenden, 8; Caledonia,
10; Franklin, 10; Orleans, g. Orange 3;
Lamolle, 8; Rutland, 49, Washington, "a;
Windham, 6; Windsor, IL.
The calendar for 1895 issued by the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company is a very ar.
tistic piece of work, and attracts attention
wherever it is hung. The lithograph is a
realistic picture of tue Battle of Bennington
-one of a series intended to bessued by this
company, representing important events in
the early history OF Vermont
MONTPELIER lodge, Knights OF Pythias,
elected the following officers at its regular
meeting last Friday evening: Rev. G. o.
Webster, G. c.; II. F. Hammond, V. c..
George A. McCobb, P. George M. Felt, NJ
w; William Canning, X. P. s; G. w
Luce M. E.; James Smith, NJ F.; j. W
Caustic, M. A; T. l.. Cassavant, trustee.
AT the last regular meeting of Ivy lodge
Daughters of Rebekah the following OF
ficers were elected: Noble Grand, Mrs
Mary L. Sanders; vice grand, Mrs Ruth
treasurer, Miss Annie Booth. This lodge
has more than doubled its membership in
the past year, and is in very prosperou.
condition
AT regular meeting of General Pitkin
Council, No.. 2, United American Mechan'
les, held last week in Grand Army hall
the following officers were elected: ID. w
Edison, councillor; George W. Kibby, vice
councillor; Homer Hale, inductor; e. M
Guernsey. examiner; j. E. Hancock, in
side prote ,tor. The installation is to occur
next Monday evening.
THE mem bers of Ivy lodge, Daughters o.
Rebekah, held a wel.attended supper, so
cial and card party in Odd Fellows hal
last Monday evening. Supper was served
in the robing room from five to eigh
o'clock, and the tables were several times
filled. A brief literary programme W 4,
rendered, after which drive whist was en-
joyed till the New Year was ushered in.
SPECIAL trains will be run to Barre, Eas
Montpelier and Plainfield, after the per
formance of Prince Pro TEN " at Blanch
ard opera house next Friday evening. Thi
tuneful opera is bright, light, delightful !
entertaining, and will be admirably pre-
sented by company OF forty art artists sup
aud Fred Lennox as Tommy Tompkins.
SOME time during last Sunday night
water pipe burst in vacant tenement ii
Reed block over the store of G. H. Ferrln
causing damage estimated at several hun
dred dollars. Cases of tea, coffee, etc, il
the ore were soaked, and the waite
worked into he oil vats in the cellar, fore
= ing the oil out, where it saturated larg
t lot of onions and potatoes. 1t was a sorry
( looking place that Mr.. Ferrin and his clerk
found Monday morning.
THE directors of the Young Mems Chris
tian Asso ,iation met at the office of DR..
3 s. Boardman last Thursday evening an'
elected the following officers: President, c
H. More; vice.president, w. II. Cowell
secretary, d. f. Clark; treasurer, K. L
!. Towner; directors for three years, 9. II
More, G. K. 1aplin, e. K. Towner, d. 4
Niles, F. A. Sherburne, Harry s. Cotton
for one year, G. w. Parmenter, M. s. Sto le
w. II. Cowell. A. j. Howe.
FRANCIS BATCHELDER x Co. of Boston
owners OF the Capitol Creamery, have issue
: very attractive calendar, which Mr..
=. w. Slocum, superintendent of the creamery
has distributed around town. On this ca
endar are excellent halftone cuts of tn
Q exterior and interior OF their wholesal
Y house on Blackstone street, Boston, ais
y cuts of the outside and inside of the CapitC
d Creamery, and of several of the feeding
stations. Both as work OF art and as
: useful calendar, it is very much of a success
Now IS the time FOR people TO OBTAIN cara
: at the Montpelier Public Library for tn
cards date from January / or July |. Th
expense is tritling one 70; the privileges
y secures, and all our citizens should kno'
Q that they are welcome, without cards, I
Q the use, in the rooms, OF the books in the
, library, and the magazines and newspaper
in the reading room; this is absolutely FIRE
n TO all conlers. and the reading room is ope
every evening. Quite a number OF ney
/. books have recen ly been added to the col
| lection.
THE annual meeting Of the Church of th
i Messiah was held last Monday evening
y when the following officers were elected
. A. c. Brown senior warden; Clark Kinl
y junior warden; j. G. Brown, treasurer
J. Fred Blanchard, f. W. Morse, A. W
Ferrin, auditors; A. d. Farwell, pew agent
u w. G. Andrews, ID. w. Temple, George |
u Blanchard, l.. w Shedd, MIS-. Fred Blancl
): ard, Mrs. Collins Blakley, Ms. Henry I
u Fullerton, executive committee; j. Il
. Goodenough, collector; George II. McA
lister. ID. W. Temple, A G. Blanchard, Id
Q e. Chase, soliciting committee. -
u THE We ected officers OF the Me-