The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-02-20

next Friday evening. She will be assisted
by twenty-six young ladies and gentlemen.
A REPORT of the rally at Burlington last
week Tuesd W, with copious extracts OF the
speech at Howard opera house by Hon
| Chauncey M. Depew, and column of edi
torial matter, may be found on page three.
LUCIERs' MNsTRELs, the old-time favor
ties, at Blanchard opera house uext Satur-
| day evening. new attraction with this
company is Miss Margaret Lucier, in her
marvellous Spanish dances and musical spe-
cialties.
LEWIS PRovosT, a brother of Mrs Still.
man Chase, died last Saturday at Anaconda,
Montana. His body was br iught to
Nashua. N. H., for burial. Mr.. and Mrs.
| Chase went there on Tuesday to attend the
funeral.
SPEAKER STICKNEY of Ludlow, John
Young OF Newport Hon. o. M Barber of
Arlington, and Judge L. NJ Read of Rock
ingham, were at the Pavilion, on Tuesday,
on business connected with the revision OF
the laws.
A HORSE owned by Irving Sparrow,
driven by Mr.. Sweeney, ran up State street
last Monday evening at gait that made
things trembe. The animal was stopped
near the head of the street. Its hind legs
were badly cut.
SEVERAL members OF Aurora lodge of
Masons attended the funeral Of Station
Agent Andrew j. Brown at Wate erbury on
lubsudV dIutTnOOUs l0b StTNlCtB were
conducted by Mt. Zion Commandery,
Knights Tempar.
THE contract for frescoing the rooms in
the federal building to be used as United
States court room, district attorneys and
! Judges room has been awarded TO Tune &
Bugbee. The contract calls for compile
ton of the work April l.
AN alteration occurred one evening last
week n the barber shop of Smith & Ennis,
under the Golden Fleece building between
| K. j. Eunis and George M. Scribner, in
which 1t is said that the latter came out In
a decidedly demoralized condition.
MRS OSCAR N. Cross and daughter Julia
are i'll with the grip. as are Mr.. and Mrs. H.
| 3. Cotton. The list of Montpelier people
i'll with this disease is still long one but
the physicians are unanimous in asserting
that the really dangerous cases are few.
THROUGH the efforts OF B. b. Denny,
Captain L. Percival has been removed from
the loft over his greenhouse to Reed block,
where he is properly cared for Mr.. Perci.
val Is seriously ill with cancer in the throat
and the chances for his recovery are small.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made with the
officials of the Central Vermont railroad so
that special train will be run to Barre.
Tuesday evening, March ~, the night of
Mrs, Custer's lecture in that city, leaving
Montpeli3r 3r at 1915, returning after the lee.
ture.
man well and favoraby known in Mont.
pelier, has been appointed general agent
for the state of New Hampshire Of the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company. His head
quarters will be at Manchester, and he will
enter upon his duties March /.
WoRKMES are employed in the federal
building, making some repairs that Post
master Sibley has had in mind for some
time. About five feet of the walls in the
waiting room at the post-Otfce are to be
shea he'd which will give the place a de-
cidedly more attractive appearance.
TICKETS for the grand carnival to he held
at Concord, N H., February 81 and %, will
be on sale at Montpelier, Barre, and all
points on the Montpelier aud Wells River
railroad. Round trip from Montpelier, SO. .35
from Barre, S3.45 Tickets will be good go.
ing February 20, 81 and %; good returning
these dates and including February %.
JOHN HARDIGAN died at the town farm
last Saturday evening, where he was taken
a few weeks ago suffering with cancer and
bright's disease. His age was fifty-two
years. He came to Montpelier about
twenty years ago, and was for several years
a we'll known truckman and auctioneer.
He leaves one son, Frank. The body was
placed in the tomb at Green Mount Ceme-
terry, Monday afternoon.
G. G. AINswoRTH was rejoiced last Mon
day to receive letter from his son Arthur,
| of Providence, r. l., from whom he had
not heard word for more than twenty
| years The young man is now in the rail-
road service, but has travelled extensively
during most of the time since his fathe- has
heard from him. He is planning 10 visit
Mr.. Ainsworth the coming summer, and it
is needless to add that his welcome will be
most hearty.
If Webster, Hall g. Tapiu vacate the
Golden Fleece building about July /, as ex-
pected it will be moved 10 the land at the
rear and fitted up as an armory for Com
pany II. No finer home for a militia COM
pany can be found in the state than this will
and will be admirably adapted to drill pur-
poses. 1t is the intention to have the build
ing ready for occupancy by the troops not
later than September l, next.
THE entertainment for the benefit of the
Industrial School, held last evening at the
home of DIR, Q. l.. Watson, was quite largely
attended and snug sum was realized.
Among those who took part were Prof. 8.
j. Bau Pied Rev. G. o. Webster and Mrs.
F. A. Hayleu in readings; Misses Clark,
Brooks, Parmenter and Shipman and Ray
Huse, violin; l.. j. Hathaway and Miss Eva
Bancroft, piano. Miss Gertrude Cochran
and the Eureka Quartette gave vocal selec-
tions. and Miss Hayes a recitation.
FAMILIES in this vicinity intending to take
summer boarders, and desiring to have their
names appear in " Summer Homes Among
the Green Hills of Vermont and Along the
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| by the passenger department of the Central
Vermont railroad, should send their names
to s. W. Cummings, the general passenger
agent at St. Albans, before March 20. The
space allotted for new names this year is
limited, and, when the additional space is
filled. applications must necessarily be de-
clined
ID. L SANDERS, grand patriarch, and ID.
| W. Dudley went to Swanton last Friday
evening to assist team from St.. Albans in
instituting an encampment of Odd Fellows
in that village. This week Mr.. Sanders
visits in an official capacity the encamp-
ments at Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, Lud-
low and White River Junction. During
the year now drawing to a close Mr.. Sand
ers has instituted encampmeuts at Water
bury, Springfield, Woodstock and Swantop
"a larger number OF new encampments than
is shown in any one year in the history Of
the order in this state.
The Washington County Good Templars'
Union will be held at Roxbury next Wed
nesday. The morning session will be held
In Good Templars hail. and the prize
spe tking will be In the afternoon at the