The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24

Rutland as the place, and Wednesday and
Thursday, September 23 and "a as the time, |
for holding the state convention. Much OF
the afternoon and evening was consumed
in arranging the programme.
MISS RACHAEL LAvINE died recently at
Westport, N Y, where she went not long
ago. hoping that the change of climate
would be benefit to her health. She was
buried from st. Patrick's church at Port
Henry, N. Y, last Sunday week. Miss La
vine had many friends in this city, who will
sympathize with her parents in their afflic-
ton. Deceased was only sixteen years old.
AT the service of song held at Trinity
church last Sunday evening, Miss Alice
Jackson Of Bellows Falls, who Is guest of
Rev. and Mrs. A. III. Webb, sang three
solos that gave great enjoyment to the large
congregation present. Miss Jackson has
cultured contralto voice OF great compass,
purity and sweetness and enjoys more than
local reputation as a soloist in southern
Vermont.
AN excursion from Barre and stations in
elusive as far as Waterbury will be run to
Plattsburg, N. Y, next Saturday, via Gem
tral Vermont railroad and Steamer Rein
deer" The excursion is under the auspices
OF Canton Vinton, Odd Fellows of Barre
and the fare for the round trip is only one
dollar. The train will leave Montpelier at
nine O'Clock; returning, will reach Mont
The members of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association organized a baseball team
last Monday evening, with l.. III. Greene
manager and Richard Standish temporary
captain d. M. Spence, w. @. Berry and
John Leland were appointed committee
to secure grounds. A subscription paper
will be circulated, and it is hoped the first
game can be arranged for July 4, with the
Fort Ethan Allen team.
REV. j. j. LEWIS, of South Boston,
Mass who has many personal friends
in Montpelier, has accepted call to be-
come assistant pastor of st. Paul's church,
| Chicago, and enters upon the duties of
that position October next. Mr.. Lewis is
to have charge of the extensive institutional
work connected with this church and is to
deliver Sunday evening lectures in the in
terests of the Sunday-school.
MISS CLARA SUTHERLAND, the lady who
has been engaged as matron of the Heaton
| Hospital, will come to Montpelier about
July 1. Miss Sutherland has had large ex-
perience at the city hospital at Lowell,
Mass, and at the Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston. She is graduate of the
Montreal city hospital, and the Boston Eye
and Ear Infrmary, and the trustees are to
be congratulated on securing her services.
f. w. BANCROFT gave his new song lecture,
Songs of Home and Country" at recep-
ton given in Burlington last Wednesday
evening by Mrs. w. Van Patten. In speak
ing of this lecture, the Free Press said: "Mr
| Bancroft has a capital literary style-and
his singing, so fine, full of feeling and
marked by such admirably distinct enun-
citation, is almost beyond praise. There
can be no more delightful entertainment for
a company of cultivated people than one of
his musical lectures"
THE annual examinations at Montpelier
Seminary occurred on Monday and Tues
day of this week and the prize speaking
| Tuesday evening. This morning at eleven
o'clock Rev. Dr. T. P. Frost of Baltimore
Md, former pastor of Trinity church. will
deliver an address before the alumni asso.
citation. The class day exercises occur this
afternoon on the campus and the annual
concert in the chapel this evening. The
graduating exercises will be held on Thurs
day morning at $3.50, followed by the alumni
dinner at the Pavilion. The festivities Of
the week will close with the principals re-
ception at the chapel on Thursday evening.
THE suggestion made last week that a
baseball nine be organized in Montpelier
meets with much approval, and the fact has
developed that we have in our midst mate
rial for team that is excelled by very few
in the state. Among the crack players who
would join are Robert Emery, George Par
menter, William whelan, Richard Stand.
ish, Clifton Heaton, James Goodwin, John
Leland and others. Montpelier never had
better material, at the seminary or else
where, for a frst.class nine than can at
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financial assistance some first class games
can be witnessed in Montpelier during the
summer months.
DURING the past week Miss May o. Ed
son of Marshield bargained for the millin-
cry store of Mrs M. A. Leland in Langdon
block, and the transfer was to have been
made last Saturday. On the strength OF
her brothers. good credit Miss Edison con.
tracted several bills among local merchants
furniture dealers, etc, which she neglected
to pay. She left Marshfield last Saturday
ostensibly to come to Montpelier, where
she had her baggage checked, and since
that time nothing has been heard OF her
either by Mrs. Leland or by her friends and
family. She was seen on the streets OF
Montpelier last Monday morning, bu
whether she is still in the city or has left fol
elsewhere is unknown.
JOHN STONE died last Friday at his hom,
on Berlin side, of lung trouble, after an i'll
ness Of two years, aged fifty-eight years
Mr. Stone was born in Waterbury and ha
lived in Montpelier since his return fro
the war. He was harness. maker by trad,
. and has worked for John Lease, Flanders
Pierce and M. A. Kent. He was an industri
Gus, hard-working citizen and has alway
borne an excellent reputation. He leaves
, widow. His funeral was held last Sunda,
, afternoon from st. Augustine's church
Rev. Father w. j. O'Sullivan officiating
and the burial was in the Catholic ceme
3 terry. Mr.. Stone had an honorable wa
record. He first enlisted as a three-months
man with the Ransom Guards at St. Al