The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

block, has undergone several changes, OF
late, that are in the line of improvements.
The fall term at the Montpelier Seminary
will opeu next Tuesday. The prospects for
full attendance are very good This in
stitution has an advertisement on page two.
j. II. SENTER, United States District At.
torney, was in Cambridge, last week, on
the trail of rumsellers who had neglected
the formality Of obtaining a government liz
ceuse,
SOME sixty memuers of Mt. Zion Com.
mandery, Knights Templar, left Saturday,
Sunday and Monday for Boston, many of
them accompanied by their wives and lady
friends
Those desiring the Chautauquan maga-
zine for the coming year can leave their or
ders before September 10, with Mrs. George
=, Pratt, the secretary, or at the store Of
Niles & Pratt.
Miss ADELAIDE DWIGHT of CONSTANT.
nople, Turkey, is guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
II S. Boardman. Miss Dwight is expecting
to enter Smith College, Northampton,
Mass, this fall.
Mr. FARRAR, who for the past three years
has been in the employ of L. NJ. Averill at
Barre, has purchased the grocery store and
stock of the late w. f. Mcclure, and has
taken possession.
s. 1. STAPLES is reported as slowly recov-
ering from the shock of paralysis that pros
still delirious portion of the time, and is
yet very sick man.
CLARENCE EDWIN, the eight-montbs' old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. wesson Thresher, was
buried in Green Mount Cemetery last Sum
day afternoon. Rev. j. Edward Wright
was the officiating clergyman.
REV. CHARLES A. SAVAGE of Orange, N.
j., preached at Bethany church last Sunday
morning and conducted the meeting for
young men at the rooms of the Young Mems
Christian Association Sunday afternoon.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Mrs. G. G. Dudley on
Thursday afternoon at q 30 o'clock. Sub.
ject: Readings and quotations on the i'll.
effects OF tobacco in schools and colleges" I"
COLLINS BLAKELY read paper ON The
Standard Of Pharmacy before the annual
at Burlington last Thursday. Lester H.
Greene and H. A. Slade also attended the
meetings.
Two of the large elms in front OF the
Willard residence on State street, that had
survived their usefulness, were removed on
Tuesday. In falling, one of them struck
the fire alarm wire, breaking it and causing
the bell to strike.
THE Sunday. school connected with Trim
ity Church will have picnic to-day at Mid
dlesex Narrows. In case of unfavorable
weather it will be postponed until Thurs
day. Teams will be provided to transport
all who wish to go.
A HORSE owned by j. V. Morrow dropped
dead last Sunday evening near the livery
stable of j. Q. Adams on Court street. Mr.
Morrow let the animal to go to Moretown
that day and believes it was overdriven
The man who hired it skipped.
MIR. FREDERIC G. BROWN of the Mead
vile Theological School, who is in charge
of the Waitsfield and Warren Unitarian
| ptnft fa al.
Church of the Messiah next Sunday morn.
ing on exchange with Rev. j. Edward
Wright.
LYNN, the fifteen-y year-old son of Alfred
Wilson, fell, last Monday, from the high
beams in his fathers barn to the floor, a
distance of fifteen feet. His left forearm
was fractured and he was badly injured
about the head DR.. G. N. Hunt is attend
ing him
The Would Be and Has Been " base.
ball mines struggled for supremacy on the
| Seminary campus Tuesday afternoon, in the
presence of a good crowd of spectators, in.
cluding many of their lady friends. The
score stood twenty-five to eight in favor of
the latter
The students of Blackstone in this city
! will struggle Thursday evening with the
| question whether from any technical con-
struction OF law seminares can enforce
church attendance upon students. w. q.
White will take the affirmative and NJ. NJ
Gordon the negative.
! The condition of e. Nj. Irish on Tuesday
! evening was such as to occasion consider
able alarm, and Dr. L. NJ. Bingham of Bur-
! lington was summoned by telegraph. Mr.
Irish has been seriously i'll for nearly a
week, but his condition was not considered
dangerous until yesterday.
A LECTURE on the war between China and
Japan will be delivered in the Baptist
church, next Friday evening, by Shinzo
| Kondo of Toxic, Japan. The lecture will
under the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian Association, and will be illus.
trated by 100 stereopticon views.
THE funeral of Mrs. Ernest w. L'Heureux
who died OF quick consu nption at her home
in Worthwhile, was held there last week
Tuesday. Deceased was member OF
Bethany church and Bethany Christian
Endeavor Society, and had many warm
friends in Montpelier to mourn her loss.
THE nominations for officers of Bethany
Christian Endeavor Society for the year en-
suing, to be elected next Sunday evening
are Miss Alice Taft, president; Fred Ward
vice-president: Miss Maud Shurtleff treas.
urer; Miss Eva Clark, secretary; Miss Mary
Carleton, superintendent of junior work
A SPECIAL train of Knights Templar
numbering 2i0, arrived at Montpelier last
Saturday morning. Their intended arriva
had not been announced, and the local ho
| tells and restaurants were taxed to their ut
most to provide breakfast for the party
The special left for Fabyan's at half past
eight.
MISS GRACE HoUGHToN of this city and
Miss Mary Reed of Chicago arrived in New
York from Europe by the steamer A" Paris
on Saturday. Miss Reed went directly tC
Chicago and Miss Houghton reached hel
home in Montpelier on Tuesday evening
accompanied by her father, who met her il
New York.
WILLIAM j. LAMB was arrested by Officer
Burke, Tuesday evening, for intoxication
Lamb got on one of his periodical rampages
at his home in the Argus block, and started
to smash the furniture. His wife was sc
badly injured by blow on the head as t.
require the services OF a physician Laml
will be arraigned in city court this morning
THE second week in October the operett;
Trial by Jury - will be presented a
Blanchard opera house under the auspices
of the Kings Daughters, with Professor ID
S. Banpied as musical director. The com
mittee having the matter in charge ar,
Mrs. G. b b. Denny, Miss Ella Bailey, Mrs
l.. p. Gleason, Mrs. George e Morse anC
Miss Anna Phinney.