The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
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ness had to encounter.
The Unversalist Society of East Montpe-
lier will hold must jal convention at the
village hall, commencing Wednesday, o.
tober ID, at two o'clock, and continuing
through Thursday and Friday, closing with
grand concert Friday evening. @. #.
Dudley is to be the conductor. Miss Clara
Houghton of Barre, soprano, George w.
Dudley of Boston, baritone Sam. 9. Currier
OF Danville, dramatic reader, and Miss Har-
riet M. Foster of Goddard Seminary are to
take part at the concert. A rare treat is an
ticipated.
ENos e. WILDER died Tuesday afternoon
of tuberculosis of the spine, at the home of
Mrs. o. III. Richardson, his sister, on Barre
street, after an illness of two years, aged
twenty nine years. He was son Of Capt.
o. G. Wilder of Waitsfeld. He leaves a
wife and two children. His funeral will be
held on Thursday afternoon, at one o'clock,
in the Congregational church at Waisfeld,
Rev. j. Edward Wright officiating. In his
business relations at Beebe Plain and at
Waitsheld, he made many friends. His
sterling qualities OF heart and head were
recognized and appreciated, and his early
death is deplored by wide circle of friends.
Much credit is due Mrs. Frank A. Sher-
burne for the pronounced success that at
tended the entertainment given last Friday
evening by sixty children in Trinity church
vestry. For several weeks, Mrs. Sher-
burne has been training the little ones for
this event, and the fact that 1t was carried
through without a break or hitch is due
largely to the patient work put into 1t. The
vestry was crowd ed with spectators, and the
entertainment included Rotations by Eta
Hunt, Florence johnson and Gertrude Hay
ford; motion song by three little girls;
solo and duet, "Old Kentucky Home" by
Rolo Blanchard and Fred Keegan; piano
duet by Misses Ruth Fuller and Florence
| Shipman parasol and hoop drills; lillipu-
! tian wedding in which the little tots were
dressed in swallow-tail coats, and gowns
with long trains.
The seating capacity of the Church of the
Messiah was entirely inadequate for the
! great congregation that gathered there last
Sunday evening to join in the last service
of song under the direction of X. w. Ban
croft. The aisles and vestibules were filed
with chairs, and many were even then I'M
able to find seats. The programme, as pub
lished in tie WATERMAN last week, was
faultlessly rendered by f. w. Bancroft
Mrs. f. l. Pitkin, Mrs. Hattie Willard and
B. NJ Shepard, The trio Break, break,
break" and the tenor solo, 1.-THE Lullaby
Divine" by Mr.. Bancroft, were. perhaps,
the most thoroughly enjoyed. Rev. j. Ed
ward Wright, the pastor, interpreted APP
propriate remarks, in which he paid warm
and grateful tribute to those who had made
these services OF song such pleasing fea-
ture at this church for the past ten years
MARTIN O'DoNNELL, travelling agent for
| a picture-frame concern of Syracuse, n. Y,
went into the Exchange Hotel in an intox-
icated condition one evening last week and
was put out by Sheriff Collins, who hap
pened to be present. He resisted the officer
striking him in the face. Later, he was ar
rested on Elm street by Deputy Sheriff
Graves and committed to Jail. In city
court, next morning, before Judge Smile,
he was convicted of intoxication and fined,
| with costs, S11 OIL. On warrant issued by
States Attorney Stanton, he was imme-
mediately rearrested, charged with assault
ing an officer. OF this charge he was &C.
quilted, but was convicted of breach of
the peace, for which his fine and costs
amounted to S20.87, making total of
S31.SS his plain drunk cost him. He sue
ceeded in raising the money, and escaped
the alternative sentence of ninety-six days
in the house of correction at Rutland.
THE annual popular excursion to New
York via the Central Vermont railroad will
be run on Tuesday, September 30. Fare
sive, five dollars for the round trip. At
New London the elegant steamer Getty Of
Lowell" the greyhound of the sound, will
be in waiting to take passengers to New
York, arriving there at seven o'clock
Wednesday morning, When the train
reaches Brattleboro, if the number war;
rants it, special fast train will be run
through to New London making no stops,
arriving at New London early, giving all an
opportunity to see the sights of this beauti-
Montpelier and vicinity can take the noon
express, arriving in New London in time to
take the steamer. Tickets will be good
going September 30, to arrive in New York
not later than September 30; good return
ing, to leave New York not later than Oc-
tober Q, to arrive at starting point until Oc-
tober TO-
THE Rutland Herald of last Friday had
the following, which, substituting the
WATcHMAN for the Herald. this paper cor
daily endorses. Good matter and live
news items are dumped in the waste-b basket
daily in this Office for the reason that nc
names are signed TO the communications re-
ceived. The Herald says: DO not send
anonymous communications to the Herald
for print. And do not think this re-
quest means somebody else; it means you
1t is the rule of newspaper offices every
where to throw all anonymous communities
tions into the waste-basket, and nobody
who reads at all can fail to see notices to
that effect. but yet hardly day passes that
the Herald does not get such things. They
are of all sorts-discussve letters, news
items, personal items, marriage and death
notices, and what not The real mischief
OF the thing is that great deal OF this mat
ter is good news which the Herald would be
glad to print il it knew whence it came
But without a name the writer loses his
trouble and the Herald loses the news"
AUSTIN DAVIS ARMS died last Saturday
morning at his home at East Montpelier
Center of paralysis of the throat, aged
seventy eight years. For the past three
years Mr. Arms has been afflicted with St.
Vitus' dance, and has been gradually fail
ing during that time. He was born in East
Montpelier, December 26 1917, and has al
ways resided in that town with the excep-
ton of two years following the close of the
war, when he was engaged in mercantile
business in Montpelier. Mr. Arms was for
many years town clerk of East Montpelier,
and has often been honored by his towns
men with other positions Of trust. AS a
breeder of high-grade Jersey cattle, his
fame extended far beyond the limits of his
own town and county. He was a ready
and interesting writer, and for many years
was a valued contributor to the agricultu-
raj columns of the WATCHMAN. In July,
1871, he married Fannie Dodge of East
Montpelier, who survives him, with one
daughter, Fannie, wife of Fred w Strong.
The pleasant celebration of the golden we'd
ding anniversary of MIR. and Mrs Arms in
July, 1891, is still pleasantly remembered
by many in Montpelier and elsewhere His
funeral was held from his late home last
Monday afternoon, Rev. j. Edward Wright
officiating. and the burial was i'm tha fam