The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
indemnity OF S25 per week helps to SOC the

SELLS BROTHERS, CIRCUS has big adj
vertisement on page seven. This is the
first visit TO Vermont of this aggregation,
although 1t has been twenty-three years on
the road Our exchanges speak Of 1t as a
trst-class up to date show, with an extensive
menagerie. Look on page seven and see
what they advertise. At Barre, Friday,
July 8.
THE Central Vermont railroad will sell
special round-trip tickets at greatly re-
duced rates between all stations in Ver-
mont and New York states July 4th. Tick
cts will be good going July 4th, good to re-
turn until July 9th, Inclusive, and will be
good only for continuous passage in both
directions. No stop.over privileges will be
allowed.
THE members of Mount Sinai Temple
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, will go on
pilgrimage to Newport, Tuesday, July 9,
leaving at s A. NJ. over the Montpelier and
Wells River railroad in a special car. The
steamer Lady of the Lake" has been char
tered for the afternoon, and the order will
be conferred upon several candidates in the
evening.
AT the business meeting of the Young
Mems Christian Association, held last Fri
day evening, three active and four associate
members were voted in. The constitution
as to age limit for admission was amended,
lowering the limit from sixteen to fifteen
years. An article was also added provid-
| elected at the July meeting.
AS announced in the WATcHMAN last
week, George L. Blanchard and Miss Minnie
l.. Higgins were married by Rev. j. Ed
ward Wright at the home Of George W.
Reed on State street. Harry Higgins,
brother OF the bride, and Miss Evelyn Lease
stood with them during the ceremony. The
newly.wedded couple left on the mail train
north in the afternoon, for a brief wedding
trip. They are expected to return next
Friday
THOSE who are inclined to speak slight
ingly of the work accomplished by the
Keeley Institute while it was located at
Montpelier may be interested to know that
at the reunion of graduates, last Friday, it
was ascertained that forty-three citizens OF
Montpelier and its immediate vicinity, out
of little more than one hundred local resi-
dents who took the treatment, have re-
NAMED cured-the most of them for a Pc
riod Of nearly three years.
The marriage of A. Maud Hale and W.
| d. Hill occurred on Tuesday afternoon at
the residence Of G. M. Hale, uncle of the
bride. Rev j. Edward Wright was the
officiating clergyman. The parlor in which
| the ceremony was performed was bower
of fragrance. Roses, field daisies, mountain
laurel and potted plants were arranged in
most artistic and pleasing effects. Refresh
ments were served and substantial array
of wedding gifts was seen.
IMPORTANT changes in the main line time.
table of the Montpelier and Wells River
railroad go into effect next Monday. The
mixed train from Wells River will arrive at
8: 90 A. M. instead of 10 10, and the local
passenger at IL: 55 A NJ. instead of II: 10 P.
NJ. The Burlington and Fabyan express
will leave Montpelier for Fabyan's at : 10
P. NJ; returning, will arrive at Montpelier at
81: 48. The mail train that now arrives at
Montpelier at 5: 90 p. NJ will arrive at 8: 50
PM.
DR.. SPRoULE, the eminent specialist, has
purchased page three of this issue. 1t
speaks for itself, and those who need the
services of this physician will find it most
been at the Exchange Hotel he and his as
sistants have been busy day and night,
while often several patients are seen wait
ing their turn for consultation or treatment.
The rush of business that he has had thus
far has induced DR.. Sprou]e to prolong his
stay in this city for another month.
In its report, last week, of the High
School commencement, the BelloWs Falls
Times says: The Alumni was assigned
Mrs. A. III. Webb of Montpelier, for many
years assistant principal in the High School.
She is deservedly popular with all who
came under her instruction, and was
greeted Friday evening with heartfelt ap-
plause. She said the High School was es-
tablshed in 1876, and the graduates now
number 125. They are scattered in all parts
of the Union. Thrty-nine are married
and forty. five are, or have been, engaged in
teaching"
THE Central Vermont railroad, the pop
ular short route between Canada and New
England has issued an attractive folder
| giving rates and routes and time of special
trains for the National Christian Endeavor
Convention at Boston, July 10 to IA. Round.
trip tickets from Montpelier will be S6.25
good going July to IA inclusive, and good
returning until July 81. These tickets will
be good for stop over at any point en- route
within the limit Of the tickets but are good
going and returning the same way only. A
special train will leave Montpelier on Wed.
nesday, July 10, at s: 80 A. NJ, and Barre at
8: 10, arriving in Boston via Lowell at 4: IL
P. M. Further particulars may be obtained
OF X. K. Tow ner, state secretary.
THE opening article in the July Godey's is
on d" Artists and Their Studios" and is de-
voted entirely to our townsman, L. w
Wood. The article is from the pen of w
A. Cooper an authority on art, and con-
tains excellent portraits of Mr.. Wood and
of some of his more noted works. The
opening sentence Of the text is happily
worded, as follows: i" The most prominent
figure in the art world of America to-day,
mamie cd, with his splendidly preserved
physique, showing a useful and well-spent
life, but as president of the National Acad-
emy of Design, and as the strongest figure
| or genre painter OF purely American SUB.
jects, is Thomas Waterman Wood, N. A"
THE male quartette that will sing at the
meeting next Sunday evening at seven
o'clock at Bethany Church, under the au-
spices of the Young Mems Christian As
sociation. is composed of f. W. Bancroft,
G. H. shpmap, H. d. Hopkins and w. S.
Smith. The mixed quartette will be Mr..
Bancroft, Mrs. w. A. Briggs, Mrs. Hattie
Willard and Mr.. Hopkins. The following
programme will be rendered: Organ, choral
prelude, Vplchmar; Te Deum, Bsumbach; /;
Scripture reading; male quartette, "Stili
with Thee" Gerrish; prayer; quartette,
"Oh Helping Hand of Jesus Wiegand
congregational singing, "Onward, Christian
Soldiers - address, General o. o. Howard
of Burlington; quartette, Goods Near
ness" Rutenberg; organ, Marche Religeuse,
Briggs.
THE summer timetable on the Central
Vermont railroad, that goes into effect next
Monday, July l, contains several important
changes. The White Mountain train will
be put on, arriving at Montpelier at II: 10
and leaving at 3: 80 P. NJ. This train will do
local work between Burlington and Mont
peler in the morning, but will stop only
at Watarhurv and Easax function on