The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

| lure Will De with the Vermont Telephone ~
Telegraph Company through A. G. Brown,
| the manager.
j. w. PAINE, who, twenty.sx years ago,
was cigar manufacturer in Montpelier,
visited Arthur Allen last Monday. Mr..
Allen came to Montpelier with Mr.. Paine
from Westfield, Mass. Mr. Paine is now
vice-president and general manager Of the
Meadow Land improvement Company of
Florida
FRoHMAN's great military play, "The
Girl Left Behind Me-" will be presented
at Blanchard opera house next Friday
evening by superb company 1t contains
many highly dramatic scenes, relieved by
amusing situations between the young sol
diers and the girls in camp. The play
ranks among the best this author has pro-
| duced.
HUGH McNuLTY OF Barre was taken be-
! fore United States Commissioner g. j.
| Gleason, last Saturday, charged with SELL
ing Intoxicating liquor without govern
| ment license. Bail was fixed at $780, and
the case was continued to the October
term of United States circuit court. Re-
spondent put up the currency for the
amount of his bail
JAMES BAIRD, the man who drove the
horse owned by j. " Morrow that died
| two weeks ago at the stable of j. @. Adams,
takes exception to the statement in the
| WATCHMAN of August %, that the horse
was overdriven, and that Baird afterwards
skipped Both of these statements were
given to the reporter as facts but Mr.. Baird
says they were not true.
CHARLES H. MORE was at Roxbury, n. Y,
last week, and delivered an address at the
reunion of the descendants of John and
Betty Taylor More. Miss Helen Gould,
daughter of Jay Gould, was one OF the
moving spirits in getting up the reunion.
About 300 descendants were present, among
them G.. H. More of Chicago, who visited
recently at the home of A. o. Cummns.
The lecture on Historical Sketches of
Erin at Home and of Her Sons Abroad" to
be delivered in the opera house, Thursday
evening of this week by the gifted and elo-
quent Rev. Father M. B. Curry, ought to
attract an audience limited only by the ca
pacity of the hall. f. w. Bancroft and
others will assist, and the cause of charity
will be aided by all who purchase tickets.
SOME forty friends and neghbors gave
Mr.. and Mrs. 8. II. o. Bosworth a surprise
Monday evening, September 9, the forty
eighth anniversary of their marriage, and
had very enjoyable time. In note of
appreciation they say: Many thanks for
the expressions of esteem and goodwill
and may heavens richest blessings rest
upon those present and all absent who
would have been glad to be with u.s.
Mrs. G. A. BARNARD, with her son Ash
ley, departed last evening for Chicago to
rejoin her husband in that city Mrs.
wel-wishers in this city. She had designed
to go first to Halifax to visit her mother
but circumstances rendered it advisable to
change her plans at the last. Mr.. Barnard
has good position as travelling salesman
for Dallemand & Co. The friends of both
in this place heartily wish them abundant
prosperity and happiness.
MONTHLY meteorological summary for the
month of August, compiled from weather
bureau records at Northfeld Mean tenn.
perature, 630; highest temperature, $50, on
the 11th; lowest temperature, 36o, on the
22d; greatest daily range of temperature,
400, on the 11th; least daily range Of tempera-
ture 10o, on the 29th; mean temperature
for this month for nine years, 64o. Prevail
ing direction Of wind, southwest. Total pre-
ciptation, AGA inches; number of days
with .01 inch or more of precipitation, 16;
average precipitation for this month for
nine years. 465 inches Number of clear
days, 8; partly cloudy days, Il; cloudy
days, -. Date of frost, 22d.
THREE weeks ago we announced the resig-
nation of Hon. o. l.. Hoyt, assistant judge of
Washington county court, and stated that a
petition, signed by nearly every member
of Washington county bar, would be pre-
sented to Governor Woodbury. asking him
to appoint Hon. T. II. Lance of Cabot in his
place. On the date that this announce
ment appeared in the WArCHMAN our up
street contemporary stated positively that
Judge Hoyt would not resign, but would sit
on the bench at the September term OF Wash
ington county court. His resignation has,
however, been rendered and accepted and
Governor Woodbury. has appointed Judge
Lance to succeed him. The continued i'll
health of Judge Hoyt necessitated this
step.
Two teams, captained by G. o. Barrett
and L. G. Cummins, struggled for suprem-
acy at the Riverside range of the Montpelier
Gun Club last Friday afternoon. The
teams were composed of nine men on each
side, and they were allowed twenty-tiv
shots each. Out of 225 birds on side, Mr.
Barrett's team made 112 and Mr.. Cummins'
men scored 107. Some excellent individ-
ual shots were made. Mr.. Barrett made
twenty.one out of a possible twenty-five,
and w. o. Lowe and l.. q. Cummins
eighteen each. The defeated side furnished
supper at the Exchange Hotel that evening,
where Landlord Davis had prepared for
them an excellent and elaborate spread, OF
which every one who was present spoke in
terms of the highest praise. Some informal
speeches on sporting topics closed very
enjoyable occasion.
SINCE the announcement has been made
that the Kings Daughters are to give an
entertainment for the benefit OF the hospital
fund, good many inquiries have been
raised why the ladies should need TO further
solicit funds for a hospital when Hon. Ho'
mer w. Heaton already has such an insti-
tuition in process of construction. The
fund which the ladies now have, and which
they are endeavorng to increase, is in no
wise independent of Mr.. Heaton's hospital
scheme and at the proper time it will be
turned over to the trustees of the Heaton
Hospital, to be used according to their best
judgment The fund that the ladies are
raising meets with the cordial approval OF
Mr.. Heaton, and they are working with
him for the best interests of the hospital
that is to be in Montpelier The ladies now
have fund of about $500.
THREE gentlemen from Montpelier are
somewhat chagrined over the outcome of a
recent fishing trip at Peacham Pond. II
appears, from all accounts, that the fish
wardens in that locality have been in the
habit of bulldozing people who have been
fishing on the pond, provided they were
willing to be taken in After these gentle
men had finished their fishing trip they
were called on by the fshwarden, who
informed them they had violated the
law in using explosives while fishing,
but, if they would pay $40 each, the
matter would be settled. Rather than
have any trouble they consented to do it,
went before justice of the peace and
pleaded guilty to a technical violation OF