The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-04
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hand. He was at work on the job just three
months.
A LARGE number of the friend, OF Mr..
and Mrs. r. w. Carver, knowing that last
Monday evening was the fifteenth ami.
versary Of their marriage, collected q sub.
| stantial purse Of money, which was pre-
sented to Mr.. Carver at the band. room |
Monday evening. To say that he was sur |
prised but feebly expresses his feelings.
The stock OF goods in the Long book |
store Is being inventoried by George r |
Ehle with view to purchase. Mr.. Ehe Is |
| young, active and enterprising, with dash |
| OF the western hustler. The book store has
always been popular one, a sort of head. !
quarters in its line of wares. Mr.. Ehle will
maintain its prestige and make success OF
the venture, IL there is anything in signs
Of PROMISE"
Mrs. GEORGE s. JOHNSON, VIII died last
week in Boston, had many friends among
the older residents OF Montpelier Her
funeral was held from Hedding Church, in
Barre, last Saturday morning In his ser
mon at Trinity Church, last Sunday even
ing, Rev. DR.. Hamilton, her former pastor
in Boston, who att ,nded her funeral at
Barre, paid tender and deserved tribute
to Mrs. Johnson.
Hon. M w. HOWARD, congressman from
Alabama, will lecture in Blanchard Opera
House next Wednesday evening, December
IL, on II Christ Came to Congress-" AS
an orator Mr. Howard has already won a
brilliant reputation, and as a word painter
Is said to rank with the late Henry W.
Grady. His subject Is surely appropriate
The lecture is new this season and has
made an instantaneous hit wherever 1t has
been delivered
COLONEL A. G. BROWN, manager OF the
Vermont Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, has made arrangements to send to all
| telephone stations under the control of the
central Office at Montpelier the weather
predictions for the coming twenty four
hnu frnt ,,tp tn ha of q
each day. This plan is sure to be appre-
ciated by the people in central Vermont and
wherever the lines of the Vermont Tele.
phone and Telegraph Company penetrate.
NEARLY 100 were present at the first So
cial reception given last Wednesday even
ing, by the members of the Young Mems
Christian ASSOCIATE IN in their rooms. After
an hour or more spent in soc al converse,
the company re- varied to the gymnasium,
where Fred Whittier, with the violin, and
Arthur Dewey, with the banjo, entertained
old and young Gymnasium exercises
were given by co npany OF young men
dressed in fantas ic costume, and Secretary
Spence gave pretty exhibition OF swinging
lighted torches.
REV. DR.. j. w. HAMILTON of Cincinnati
o.. one of the secretaries of the Freedmen's
Aid Society, preached to large congrega-
ton last Sunday evening at Trinity Church.
DR.. Hamilton is well known in New Eng
land as one of the bri ghtest pulpit orators
in that denomination, and is known through
out Methodsm in this country as the man
who organized and built the Peoples
Church in Boston. Those who heard him
last Sunday evening were not surprised
that he is slated for an election as bishop at
the next session of the General Conference
in May, 1896.
The calendar for 1896, issued by the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company. is at least
one niche higher, from an artistic stand.
point, than have been those of former years
The work is done by Forbes & Co., Boston,
aud the upper half Of the calendar is a fine
Autograph of Ethan Allen demanding the
surrender Of. Fort Ticonderoga, I'm the
name of the Continental Congress and the
Great jehovah" This picture represents
another OF the celebrated events in YER
mont's history that have already made the
calendars issued by this COM any famous
and much sought after.
THE recent high water gave those inter-
ested something OF an idea of the almost
unlimited power that j. S. Viles will have
when his electric plant at Middlesex Mar
rows is completed His new dam is one
hundred forty feet wide, and during the
rise in the river last week nine feet OF water
was flowing over the dan, and the gate,
fifteen feet square, was Open Perhaps
George Almons estimate that they will
have $50, 900 horse power is little high, but
there is no question but what the power
will be sufficient to furnish light and power
for the twin cities of Barre and Montpelier,
and half dozen villages beside.
A BRIEF session OF the City Council was
held last Wednesday evening. The only
business of public interest transacted was
: allowing bills in favor of JOEL Foster, for
material, S473 SO, and George L. Blanch.
ard, for drain pipe, S236.40 At an adj
journed meeting, held last Friday evening,
it was decided that the location of the large
telephone pole at the head OF State street
does not conflict with any state law or city
ordinance, and it is allowed TO remain. The
committee to whom was referred the petit
, ton for crossing on Main street, between
School and State streets, reported. adversely
, and the petition was dismissed.
THE contents of the Christina number of
: the Vermonter are of very attractive char
acter, and IL is most artistic production as
a whole. 1t contains seven full page pic.
lures OF Vermont women OF prominence,
) and is throughout distinctively woman s
3 number. An excellent likeness of Mrs j
, Gregory Smith adorns the title page
Nearly all the articles in the December
: number are written by women. A full re-
port OF the recent State Teachers Associa-
ton is found, Of which organization the
, Vermonter has been made the official or
gan. The original poems by Mrs. Dorr
. Mrs Paine and Miss Winslov add to the
attractiveness of this holiday edition.
ARRANGEMENTS are all completed for the
grand concert and military ball to be given
,, under the auspices Of the Capital Guards Al
. ArmOry Hail next FRIDAY evening, GOV
ernor Woodbury. and staff and IN any officers
! of the First Regiment will be present and
: the event promises to eclipse anything Of
the kind held in Montpelier for many years
The grand concert by the Montpelier Mill.
tary Band Orchestra fourteen pieces, led
by Professor George K, White. will take
j., place from eight to nine o'clock, to which
= the twenty-fve cent tickets will admit
The $3.50 tickets admit gentlemen and la
dies to concert, ball and supper, which will
be served in the basement, with Mrs. Alma
Smith as caterer.
=, Hotel KEMrroN will this week lose
the appellation that has made it locally
and all over Yer mont, the synonym Of good
cheer. The Kempton family, early next
week, will vacate the premises they have
occupied for some thirteen years and take
up their abode in the house on State street
which has been until recently the residence
of II. N. Taplin. A number Of poor NOR
: tails will feel as II they had lost their home