The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-05


last Saturday night for fire in the works
of the Cotton Manufacturing Company. A
heated chimney in the foundry set fire to
the woodwork, and lively blaze was in
progress. The prompt use OF pals and
hose got the fire under control before the
department arrived.
THE petition of L. Bart Cross and others
for new street from Ridge street to Barre
street was dismissed at the special meeting
of the city council held last week. IT. was
voted to complete and straighten First Ave.
nue. The superintendent OF water-works
was instructed to shut off the water from all
places where the rent is in arrears.
SEvENTY-FIvE voices will be heard in the
full chorus at the public school concert in
Blan lhard opera house next Monday even.
ing, the 10th, and fifty in the semi-chorus.
The Knabe piano to be used on this occasion
is furnished by G.. w. Wilder. Tickets will
be sold by the children and reserved seats
can be secured at Longs book store.
WILLIE JANGRAw was acquitted last
Wednesday before Justice j. II. Lucia If
stealing 81 from Mrs +. W. Robinson. He
was also tried the same afternoon for the
larceny OF 81, last March, from Mrs. Eileen
Walket. The court held the case under adj
visement until evening, when the lad was
adjudged guilty. Sentence has not yet
been imposed.
The Montpelier Gun Club was organized
at the store of G. H.. Ferrin last Wednesday
event with thirty members. Lawson G.
Cummins was elected president, w. o.
Lowe vics. president, j. G. Brown secretary,
Q. f, Lowe trea -urer, f. X. Dawley and W.
| w. Brock executive committee, 9. o. Bar
rett captain. The executive committee was
instructed TO secure grounds as soon as pos.
sible, and building for the use of the club
will be rented or built.
A MEETING OF the members of Washing
ton county bar was held last Monday fore
noon to take action on the death OF Hon. o.
B. Boyce of Barre, and to appoint commit
tees to attend the funeral and to draft reso.
lutions. r. A. Hoar, j. w. Gordon and
w. E. Barney, all of Barre, were appointed
to represent the bar at the funeral, and w
P. Dillingham; of Waterbury, T. r. Gordon
of Montpelier, and E. w. Bisbee of Barre,
to draft appropriate resolutions.
A CASE is reported from the upper end of
the city, n5ar the works of the Lane Manu-
featuring Company, that, il true, merits the
attention OF the society with the long name,
and also the full force of the law. 1t is said
that two individuals, whose names are
known, tied fierce dog to a post and then
-et another savage brute on, just for the fun
Of seeing a dog-fght The dstur bance
awakened the neighbors, and some of them
got up and put stop to the brutal affair
! The dog that was chained was so terribly
mangled that it was shot.
LANDLORD M. S. DAVIS arrived from Hart
ford last Saturday, where he was nearly all
of last week closing up his affairs there,
and since that time has been more than
| busy getting things in shape at the Ex
change Hotel. 1t is already apparent around
that hostelry that the reputation of know.
ing how to run hotel which both he and
his estimable wife enjoy is deserved.
Further changes and improvements are
promised, and it is reasonably expected
that both transient guests and boarders
will have no cause for complaint in future.
THE Garnet Seal Circle entertained the
Chautauqua Glass at their last m setting of
the year, last Friday afternoon, at the home
of Mrs. Clark King on Loomis street. Rev.
A. ii. Webb gave an entertaining address
on Different Glasses of People in Eng
land" and Mrs. II. B. Cross real an orig
inal poem on " Woman" Mrs. A. o Cum
Minis also read an original poem, entitled
" Retaliation" in which she paid tender
tribute to Mrs. w. P. Dillingham;, a men,
Der of the Circle, who died recently Re-
freshments were served, and the occasion
throughout was thoroughly enjoyable.
AFTER weary weeks of intense suffering,
Mrs. Nancy Sprague died last Wednesday
evening at her home on Barre street. aged
ninety years She never rallied from the
effects OF the grip that Frustrated her last
March, although not till within few weeks
had she given up contemplated trip to
Chicago with Mrs. Addie Chaff9e, her ouly
surviving child. In 1928, she married
Wooster Sprague, for many years we'll
known merchant in Montpelier, and since
1880 she has resided here Her funeral was
held from her late home on Friday after
noon, Rev. j. Edward Wright officiating,
and the burial was in Green Mount Gem
etery.
THE first annual state convention of
Catholic Foresters is now in session with
st. Peters Court. The sessions began yes
terday morning and will continue through
to-day. A temporary organization was eff
fected Tuesday morning. by the election of
officers, as follows 7. w Eagan of Mont
pelier, chief ranger; Eeszor L'Esperance of
Newport, secretary; #. FL. O'Neil of White
River junction, vice chief ranger; George
Laundry Of Rouse's Point, N. Y, and j. W.
Stewart of Lyndonville, conductors. A
banquet was served last evening at the hall
OF st. Peters Court, at which an excellent
musical programme was rendered, and re-
sponses to toasts were made by visiting
members and others. The election of per-
manent officers occurs to-day.
THE amusement season at Blanchard
| opera house closed last Friday evening,
when Hoyt's "A Temperance Town" was
the attraction. This bright skit is satire
on prohibition, yet so happily has the au-
thor written it that it pleases alike the tenn
perance advocate and the rum crowd"
So ingenious is the plot and so happy the
dialogue, that every one can laugh at the
fun and applaud the sentiment. The au-
thor does not attempt to preach a sermon
but, as the question is presented in merry
and satirical vein, the result is most en-
tertaining comedy. The scene is laid in
Norwich, VT, and around the remarkable
sentence of George Kibling, of that town, to
$4,000 days in the house Of correction the
author has built A Temperance Town"
THE Central Vermont Association of
Universalists will meet at Northfield next
Wednesday and Thursday, June II and 13.
The programme includes services by Revs
j. j. Lewis, j. e. Wright, and A. NJ. Smith,
and addresses by Revs. George e. Hooker,
l. p. Booth, B. W. Jones, j. p. Marvin,
Walter Dole and f. l.. Currier; also by
Mrs. Charles r. East, Mrs. George b.
Nichols, and Messrs. A. W. Peirce, Charles
Dole, 1, N. LeBaron, and Quinton Cook.
Among the chief topics discussed will be
" The Church and the Young" Some Re-
cent Books" A" The New Social Feeling in
England" 90 The Sermons that Do the Most
Good" The customary convention rates
may be expected on the railroads, and the
usual hospitality is offered by the Northfeld
Society.
ANNIvERsARY week at Montpelier Semi
mary opens next Sunday with the annual
sermon by the principal in Trinity Church.