The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-17
this week testing dairy herds for tubercu-

losis.
The Sunday morning service at Bethany
church will be held in the chapel while the
auditorium is being renovated The even
ing service will be discontinued until fur
ther notice.
BECAUSE of the great demand for passen-
ger coaches to Burlington to-day, the ex-
cursion to Highgate Springs by the local
court of Foresters, to have been run to. day,
was postponed.
DIR. PERCY L. TEMPLEToN and family
vent into camp at Glover last Saturday.
The doctor will return to Montpelier July
|, but Mrs Templeton expects to remain
until September.
THE game of ball between the Montpelier
Seminary team and the Cuban Giants, that
was to have been played on the Seminary
campus Thursday afternoon of this week,
has been cancelled.
ERNEST CHAUssE, formerly of the Van
Ness House barber shop, and workman
for A. Felix Pratte about ten years ago, is
working for L. David Moss, as is Thomas
Smith of New York.
REV. EFFIE X. M. JONES OF Barre is to
supply the pulpit of the Church OF the Mes
siah next Sunday morning. Rev. j. Ed,
ward Wright, the pas or, is to preach in
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
BEAR in mind the republican caucus
called elsewhere for next Monday evening
to elect seventeen delegates to the republic
can county convention to be held at Capital
Hall Wednesday, June "a
WE have received from E. w. Thompson,
traffic manager of the Bay Line of Steamers,
a copy of " The Oriole OF the Bay Line" a
periodical that is artistically and typo
graphically very much OF a success.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Ladies' Aid So
| ciety OF the HeatOn Hospital will be held at
their hall in the Heaton Block at three
o'clock this afternoon. 1t is requested
that the furnishing committee be present
Mr.. AND MRS. JOSEPH POLAND went to
Amherst, Mass, last Monday. They will
attend commencement exercises at Smith
College, Northampton, Mass, where Miss
Mary Poland, their granddaughter, is to
graduate.
A SPECIAL train, to accommodate dele
gates and others wishing to attend the state
convention at Burlington, will leave the
| Central station at seven o'clock this morn
ing. Tickets will be sold at convention
rates for the round trip.
G. L. THOMAS of Richford has moved his
family to the George l., Lane house, corner
Vine and Summer streets. Mr.. Thomas is
a commercial traveller for a Boston house.
and desired to have his family nearer the
center of the state.
Fl. E. SLAYToN, L II. Greene, r. c. Bow
ers, j. p. Adams and r. B. Denny went to
Milton on the early train last Sunday morn
ing. During the day they made a tour Of
Grand Isle county on their wheels, return
ing to Montpelier on the midnight train.
A SERVICE of song will be held at Trinity
church next Sunday evening, commencing
at seven o'clock, at which Miss Alice Jack
son of Bellows Falls, and Miss FL. Julia
Cross and others will be soloists. The new
singing-book, ' The Voice of Triumph" !"
will be used.
A CHILD of George Irwin was accidentally
run over by A. o. Cummins last Thursday
NJ 1r;x- al
Elm street when the little fellow ran di-
rectly in front of the horse. He was cut
somewhat about the head, but his injuries
were not serious
In the permanent organization Of the re-
publican national convention at st. Louis,
committee to inform the candidate for presi-
dent of his nomination when it shall be
made. 1t is safe to say that Delegate
Brock and party will go to Canton, Ohio,
the home Of William Mckinley.
FRKD T. AUSTIN of Brockton arrived in
town last evening with enlarged plans for
the proposed city hall, on which he wished
to consult Mayo Stratton md the Board
of Aldermen. These plans are not, as yet,
in such state that an intelligent descrip-
ton of them can be made, but they will be
completed and ready for the consideration
of the Council at the date named
MELISSA, wife OF Mason Paine OF East
Montpelier, was found dead in bed last
Wednesday morning. She retired in her
usual health the night before When her
husband attempted to arouse her shortly
after five O'Clock, he found her body cold !,
indicating that she had been dead several
hours. Her funeral was held Friday after
noon, and the burial was in the Cutler
burying-ground.
LILLIAN MCNAIR COUNCIL, No 2, Daugh-
ters of Liberty, gave an entertainment last
Saturday evening in Grand Army Hall to
the United American Mechanics and to the
Junior order A brief musical and literary
entertainment was furnished, refreshments
were served and social evening was en-.
joyed. The purpose of the ladies to bring
the different branches Of the order into
closer touch was pleasant success.
The city ordinance against riding bicycles
on the sidewalks has been repeatedly vio-
lated by few persons of late, and the au-
thorities propose to put stop to it. A
young son of Allen d. Moore was run over
on the sidewalk last Monday by Charley
Clark. M. Moore entered complaint and
Clark was arrested on Tuesday by Deputy
Sheriff Tuttle, taken before Judge Lucia,
and his case was continued to next Friday.
THE appearance on Haymarket Square
last week of an itinerant popcorn pedler
with concern that popped the corn by ma
chinery has led w. III. Farrar to go him one
better at his store on Main street. Mr..
Farrar had ON the sidewalk last Monday,
for the first time, an ingenious machine
any assistance from the "engineer in
charge. 1t is now in order for some enter
prisng State street merchant to trot out a