The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

week testlng cattle tor TUBERCULOSIS. Out of
five herds he tested there last week, he
found twenty-five diseased animals.
MISS FANNIE Morrow, daughter of j. V.
Morrow, was married last Wednesday at
| Council Bluffs, Ia, to Mr.. l.. DeMott, of
Niles, Mich, where they are to reside.
CHARLES Fl. HEAToN has been appointed
by the Grand Commandery Knights Tenn
plar, of Iowa. as their representative in
the Grand Commandery of Vermont.
THE ladies of Brooks Relief Corps will
give whist party in Grand Army Hall
next Tuesday evening. The play will be
kept up till the advent of the new year.
FLOYD CARTER, who is attending the
High School at Middlebury, is spending the
holiday vacation with Mr.. and Mrs ID L.
Carter, his parents, at the Exchange Hotel.
The marriage OF Henry Holt and Miss
Mildred E., daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. @. M.
Ladd of Worcester, will occur Tuesday
evening, January Z, at the home of the
bride.
THE directors Of the Capital Savings Bank
and Trust Company met last Monday and
declared the usual semi-annual three per
cent dividend payable on and after Janu-
ary 1, 1896.
Miss MAY SCovILL of the Union School
is visiting in Springfield, Mass, during the
holiday vacation. Miss Savage is at her
home in stowe and Miss Champion at her
home in st. Albans
lhh bluDlOybS VI Jl6 mOUUDbn6r House
surprised Mr.. and Mrs. Albert S. Sparrow
last evening by presenting to them three
handsome pictures to hang in the newly
fitted parlors of that hotel.
REV M. f. MARRIOTT, evangelist OF the
Susquehanna Free Methodist Conference,
will preach to-day in Berlin Hall at half
past ten in the morning, at two in the after
noon, and at seven in the evening.
REV Mr. GILLIEs of White River juno
ton will preach at Trinity Church next
Sunday morning and evening, in exchange
with Rev A. III. Webb, who is to hold quar-
terly meeting at White River Junction.
THE high water and ice caused some
trouble at the electric light plant OF j s.
Viles at Middlesex Narrows last Sunday
and Monday, The river rose to within
few feet of the bridge, and flooded the high
ways.
THE holiday number of the montpelier
School Record" was issued last week 1t
| contains sixteen pages of interesting mat
ter, and reflects great credit on FL. A. Cum
minis, the edtor.in-chef, and his asso-
ciates.
FRoHMAN's comedy, "The New Boy"
that is to be seen at Blanchard Opera
House next Monday evening, has had a
long run in New York and Boston and is
said to rank among the authors best pro-
ductions.
THE Two Old Cronies I" Company drew
a fair.sized audience to Blanchard Opera
House last evening. Those who enjoy
hearty laugh and went there for that pur-
pose were not disappointed in the enter
tainment.
The Mozart Quartette was greeted by
full house at Williamstown last Friday
evening They were assisted by Mrs. Hat
tie P. Willard, contralto, Mrs. 9. N. Field
Of Barre, soprano and Miss Hattie M.
Foster Of Goddard Seminary, pianist.
DIR. o. L. WATSON and A. o. Cummins
| .~sn IL IAat .1-., &l-..
sprigs of lilacs that were fully budded and
needed only few more warm days to make
them burst out into leaves. Has the clerk
of the weather slipped cog somewhere?
AT the annual session of Mount Sinai
Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, held
priated to be expended in purchasing sup
plies for Christmas dinners for the deserv-
ing poor in the towns where members of
the Temple reside.
THE annual meeting of Mount Zion Com
mandery, Knights Templar, will be held in
Masonic Hall, Montpelier, Friday afternoon
and evening OF this week. The orders OF
The Temple and Malta will be conferred,
and officers will be elected. A banquet will
be served at the Exchange Hotel.
BISHOP HALL will visit Christ Church on
Sunday, January 26, to administer the holy
rite of confirmation. Previous to that time
Rev. A. n. Lewis, the rector, will deliver
course Of sermons upon baptism, contirma-
ton and the holy communion. The first OF
this course AS preached last Sunday even
ing
The Capitol Creameries are again pur-
chasing milk by the quart, as is their winter
custom. Last year they did this only at the
main plant in Montpelier. Their cream
trade is such this year that they do it at all
stations. They pay two and three-fourths
cents per quart and return all skim milk to
patrons.
WILLIAM CRAIG of Orange, who was ar
rested two weeks ago on the charge Of sell
ing Intoxicating liquor without federal
license, was arraigned before United States
Commissioner George w. Wing, last week,
and gave bail for $500 for his appearance at
the next session of the United States Dis
trict Court.
CALVIN f. FULLERTON, former boot and
shoe merchant in Montpelier, died last Sun
day at Minneapolis, Mimi, OF quick con-
sumption, aged ffty-four years. The body
will reach Montpelier to-day and funeral
services will be held on Thursday afternoon
at two o'clock from Hotel Fullerton, on
Barre street.
The Universalist and Unitarian ministers
of this vicinity will be entertained in Barre
| by Rev b. W. Jones next Monday. Sew
eral essays will be read and discussed, and,
at public meeting, to be held in the Uni
versalist church in the evening, brief adj
dresses will be given by three or four Of the
visiting clergymen.
The Hardwick Gazette said, editorially,
last week: Ex-Governor Dillingham; is the
proper man to put at the head of the state
delegation to ST. Louis next June. The
young men will find in him the embodiment
of their ambitions. Let him be made chair
man of the state delegation, and then let
the young men support him."
EDWARD SWEENEY was arrested last Sat
urday evening by Deputy Sheriff White for
intoxication. In City Court Monday morn
ing, Sweeney pleaded not guilty and de-
manded jury trial. AS he was in his own
home when arrested, the right Of the officer
to take him from there is questioned. The
case has been continued, and probably will
be mol pressed.
ALEXANDER MAHER of Barre was carted
to Jail last Friday afternoon from the Cap
ital Creamery. He jumped from a moving
train on the Montpelier & Wells River rail-
road at that point and was in too ntox-
icated a condition to rise 80 the police were
summoned by telephone. In City Court,
Saturday afternoon, he disclosed on a