The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-16

House, Whlte River junction.
THE members OF Company II are making
preparations for the opening of their new
armory some time during the latter part of
November. 1t will take the form of grand
military bail, of which more will be said in
future.
THE Woman's Christiln Temperance
Union at its last meeting voted TO put racks
in the waiting. rooms of the Central Yer
mont and Montpelier Il Wells River rail
roads, and to keep them supplied with tenn
perance literature.
REV. L. L. BEEMAN, presiding elder of
Montpelier district, will hold a quarterly
meeting and preach at Trinity Church next
Sunday morning. The quarterly confer
ence will be held in the church vestry next
Saturday evening.
THE weekly meeting of Bethany Church
will be held on Thursday at seven o'clock
in the evening, led by the pastor, Rev. Nor
man Seaver. The subject will be The
Glorious Results of Temptation." Scrip
ture, Revelation Ill I.
Miss GERTRUDE V. CUTLER returned last
Monday from Derry Depot, n. Fl, where
she has been for month or more. She has
been seriously i'll during most Of the time
she was away, and was accompanied to her
home by l.. H. Barnet of that place.
REV. A. N. LEWIS, rector of the Episco-
pal Church, will speak on Instability" at
the meeting for men at the Young Mems
afternoon. The church choir will sing. All
young men are cordially invited to attend.
FRANCIS LABoUcHERE was before Judge
Smile in city court last Wednesday morn
log, charged with ntoxication the previous
evening, when he was arrested by Officer
Wood. plea of guilty was entered and
Labouchere was fined S11.51, which he paid.
CHARLES II. MORE was in Boston last
week to attend the annual meeting and BAN
Oupt of the IppOrtara' and Whnlaaala Gran.
ite Dealers Association of America, of
which he is president. The banquet was
held at Young's Hotel on Thursday even
ing.
THE Montpelier Seminary football team
easily defeated the st. Johnsbury Acad-
emy eleven on the home ground last Satur-
day afternoon. Despite the rainy weather
the attendance was over 500 A return
game will be played at St. Johnsbury on
Monday, October %.
INVITATIONS have been issued for social
entertainment to be given next Friday
| evening by the members of Montpelier
lodge, Knights Of Pythias, in their Castle
hall. Brief addresses will be made by sew.
eral prominent gentlemen of Montpelier,
and an enjoyable occasion is assured.
AT the annual meeting Of the Importers
and Wholesale Granite Dealers Associa.
ton, held in Boston last Thursday, the
| following officers were elected President,
Charles III. More, Montpelier; vice-president,
Daniel w. Francis New York city; SO re-
tary and treasurer. John F. Cook Boston.
The membership canvass between two
companies from the Young Mems Christian
Association, under A. e. Niles and T. F.
Cotton as captains, is progressing in lively
| manner. 1t is to continue through the
month of October, and will doubtless result
in large accessions to the membership of
that organization.
OF the class of law students mentioned
last week as taking the examinations all
passed except two-George II. Dale Of
Waterbury and f. e. Miles of Newport.
| The other fourteen were addressed by
Judge Start last Thursday morning in the
supreme court room, and were sworn in by
Clerk NJ e. Smile.
AT the Epworth League social, held last
Friday evening in Trinity vestry, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wesley G. Taplin we're presented with
silver fish set, in recognition OF their
services in the society. The presentation
was most happily made by Rev. A. II. Webb,
the pastor. An enjoya ole literary and mu-
sical programme followed.
The Boston Sunday Journal of this week
has very pleasant notice OF the wedding
last Wednesday at the home OF Ashton r..
Frank II. Heald of Milford N. H., and Miss
Laura Goodell of Boston. The bride is a
granddaughter Of the late Governor Eras tus
Fairbanks Of st. Johnsbury.
THE life-size portrait of the late James R
Langdon, on which T. W. Wood, the artist,
was at work at the time OF Mr.. Langdon' s
| decease, was hung in the front room of the
Montpelier National Bank last Thursday
The artist has caught the lifelike expression
OF his subject in happy manner, and the
portrait is pronounced excellent by all who
have seen it.
REV. B. WALLACE JONES of Barre is to
conduct the services in the Church of the
| Giuh nhau ninr md inn
His subjects will be, " What is Jesus Christ
to Me?" and Will O. the Wisps." He will
also preach for the Unitarian society in
Middlesex at two p M Mr.. Wright is to
be in Washington, d. c., in attendance
upon the National Unitarian Conference.
QUITE large delegation fro N Montpelier
and Barre went over to st. Johnsbury last
Saturday to see O'Neil, the champion
wrestler Of those two Cities done up by
James Mcdonald, a Fairfield boy. 1t is not
literally true, as stated by the st. Albans
Messenger, that Barre and Montpelier
walked home," but it is a fact that they
dropped a large amount OF money on the
contest
AMBROSE ALEXANDER and Mr.. Hobart
were seriously injured last Monday after
noon while at work on the house on East
State street owned by Joseph Poland and
occupied by George III. Whitney. A stag.
ing on which they were at work broke and
both men were preci pit ated to the ground,
a distance OF thirty feet. Hobart was un.
conscious when picked up, and was taken
to his home on a couch.
LUKE KNAPP, farmer living about three
miles below Montpelier, on the Middlesex
road, committed suicide last Wednesday
morning by cutting his throat with razor
The deed was done in the presence of his
wife aud young son. DR.. ID. G. Kemp was
hastily summoned, but lie was extinct
Mr.. Knapp was about sixty years old, and
had been acting strangely of late, causing
his people to fear that his mind was un bal
anced.
The Central Vermont railroad will run
its annual fall excursion to Boston mex
Wednesday, October 20. The excursion
will embrace all stations from Rchford. Al
burgh, st. Albaus, Burlington TO Hartford
inclusive. The fare from Sheldon Junction
and st. Albans will be 81, from Burlington
So, and Montpelier and Barre So. Ticket.
! are good for continuous passage, and gooc
returning, to arrive at Vermont points, un
til Monday, November A.
AMONG those from Montpelier who wen
to New York on the excursion last Wednes
/, dav were NJ e. Rice Mrs Fred K. Smith