The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-05
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congress from the third congressional dis.
trict of Connecticut, will be one of the
speakers at the annual meeting of the State
Young Mems Repub ican Club, to be held
at Montpelier next Wednesday. Mr.. Rus.
sell has been continuously in congress since
1887, and has a reputation as one of the
most forceful orators in the 10 wer house Of
the national legislature. He is largely in.
terested in the manufacture of woolens, and
can speak both from authority and personal
experience on the tariff question.
ABOUT twenty members Of Thomas
Wildey Encampment of Odd Fellows, with
delegations from Barre, Waterbury, Waits
field, Northfeld and Bethel, went to Ran.
dolph last Friday evening to assist in insti
tuting Excelsior Encampment there After
the organization the Patriarchal, Golden
Rule and Royal Purple degrees we're worked
upon a class of twenty candidates by a team
from Thomas Wildey Encampment. At
the close of the nights work the visiting
brethren were royalty entertained at a BAN
quet served in Grand Army Hall. The
new encampment starts off with a large
membership, which includes many of the
leading lsiness mer o! Randolph
SOME of the subscribers and patrons OF the
Telephone Exchange appear to think that
the new programme of calling by numbers
il for the convenience Of the Telephone
Company, which is an entirely erroneous
impression The change was made wholly
them to get more rapid connection with
parties called, without waiting for the op-
orator at the central Office to look up the
number before calling the party wanted
Besides, it enables the lbscriber to do
business without any one knowing with
whom he is talking-a point which is greatly
appreciated by most telephone subscribers.
The system of calling by numbers Is the
only one now in use by all telephone com
panies.
The prominent feature Of the mdwinter
nun mber of the VernOnter is series of inter
estiug articles on Young Men Politics.
Among the contributors are Senator John
NJ. Thurston of Nebraska, Hon. George f.
Edmunds, Congressman Grout, Colonel
George L. Childs of St Albans and B. B.
Smalley of Burlington. CAPTAIN s. E. How.
ard writes an entertaining sketch of " The
Vermont Society in Boston," and Mrs.
Della E. Needham contributes an article on
" The Woman's Relief Corps" nong the
illustrations are Montpelier Seminary Cam
pus, the fountain at the Soldiers Home in
Bennington, Bratteboro street in winter
and portraits of the contributors to the lead
ing article.
AMONG the book added TO the Montpelier
Public Library since September, apart from
those secured by purchase, are the follow
ing: Ten volum-s, 1S5l-1S6l, of The Art
journal, presented by I. w. Wood; forty
volumes, presented by Miss NJ. A Upham,
.
Autobiography and rare English edition
of Franklin's works, published in 1906; Life
Romance of an Alge brast, etc, presented
by their author, G. w. Pierce; stories by
Jan MacLaren and c. Nj. Thompson, pre-
sented by Mrs. M E. Smile; and various
public do 'uments of great value for refer
ence, presented by Senator Morrill,, Hon.
Charles Dewey and Colonel f. Z. Smith.
The Official Record Of the Union and Con.
federate Armies" so far as published, is
also complete.
AN exchange makes the following truth
ful and timely suggestions that will apply
in almost any newspaper field: " Arrears
OF subscriptions are accumulating. II
passes our comprehension that our friends
should let their tritling obligations run into
years-two, three and upwards. Every out.
lay of a newspaper is cash down. If our
subscribers don't pay US how do they think
we can go on at all? There is not a cent OF
profit IN a years subscription unless it is
paid in advance. None OF those who are
owing us would expect grocer to sell
Them tea on credit for whole year at
cash price. Yet that is exactly what they
expect at the hands of the newspaper men.
We are getting out of patience with them.
II we owed one of hem and would not pay
they would sue US without ceremony"
THE special committee appointed by the
Young Mems Republican Club to act with
the executive commi irtee from the State
and banquet TO be held az Montpelier next
Wednesday, February ~, met last evening.
Nothing has been left uudone that is in the
power of his committee 70 do, and all ar.
rangements are compile ted for celebra-
tion that shall long be remembered. The
afternoon meeting will be held in the
Opera House; where Congressman Russell
of Connecticut aud others will address the
assembly, and at the banquet some Of the
brightest talent in Vermont and adjoining
states will be utilized. The Young Meas
Republican Clubs of Burlington Morris.
vile, ST.. Albans, st Johnsbury and other
towns will be present in body, and the
Montpelier Club will muster with full ranks.
II. DWIGHT SMITH died last Saturday
morning at the Union House, from a hem
orrhage of the stomach, aged sixty.ons
years Mr.. Smith came TO Montpelier in
1856 aud for thirty. years worked at his
trade as platter for Fisher & StrattOn, and
later with Fisher x Cotton. He was
member of Company l, Thirteenth Regi-
ment, Vermont Volunteers, tn vas raised
in Montpelier and vicinity by Col. A. G.
Brown. He leaves wife, dau ghter and
son at West Lebanon, n, II, Funeral SER
vices wer held last Monday morning at the
undertaking rooms of JohOnnotts & Hall,
Rev. DIR Norman Seaver officiating. and the
body was taken to Greenwich, Mass, for
burial, An escort OF comrades accom- panied
the remains to the Central Vermont sta
witch by III. Q. Cotton, who very gener-
ously betrayed the burial expenses.
A SUBSCRIBER sends an interesting letter
on the much mooted question of two full
moons in one month. Few people, he says,
seem to know the facts about this phenom-
enon. Here is 4 Boston paper containing the
statement that since the beginning of the
Christian era there has been no month of
December with two full moons. Our cor
respondent has diary for each year since
1865. By reference to this diary he finds
that In the month of December, 1876, there
were two full moons. From men of astro-
nomic science he learns that the moon of
certain day or month comes back to the
same place in about nineteen years. The
correspondent gives the following twelve
dates OF the rec rrence Of the two full
moon phenomenal March l and 30, 1867 /;
October and 81, 1868; July 2 and 81, 1871; t;
May and 81, 1874; December l aud 81, 1876;
August and 81, 1879; July 1 and 80, 1882;
January / and 30, 1885; October / and 81,
1887; July 2 and 81, 1890; January and 81,
1893; December 2 and 81, 1893
A CATALOGUE Of the trustees, teachers and
students connected with the old Academy
at Montpelier during the year ending July
/ % IL, 30 A. oh.