The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

ments with liberal hands. Quite a sum of |
money was realized, which will be devoted |
to some good cause.
The jewel that is to be competed for dur |
ing the season by members of the Mont |
pelier Gun Club has been on exhibition
at the jewelry store Of @. III. Baldwin. It is
beauty, Of which the winner, at the close
of the season, will have good reason to be
proud. This jewel will be held, week by
week, by the member of the club making
the highest score, and will finally go to the
one having the greatest average.
The observance of Children's day at
Trinity church last Sunday attracted a
large congregation. The interior Of the
edice was profusely trimmed, and at the
morning service Rev. A. II. Webb, the pas
tor, spoke to the children from the words
And Jesus set a little child in the midst
of them" In the evening a concert was
held, at which service entitled Our
Young Crusaders " was pleasantly rem
dered
The Daily Gazette of Delaware, Ohio
in recent issue, gives graphic account of
a runaway, where Miss Blanpied, daughter
of Professor and Mrs. S. j. Blanped, was
thrown violently from buggy. The drop
| ping of trace frightened the horse driven
| by her escort. 1t became unmanageable
and ran, overturning the buggy at street
| corner. The top OF the buggy gave a prOvi-
| dental resistance to the blow, and the oc-
cupants escaped with severe shaking up.
A NEW timetable went into effect last
Sunday on the Central Vermont railroad.
| With the exception of the White Mountain
train, mentioned elsewhere, the only
change on the main line is the night ex-
| press south, which leaves at 1876 A. M, in
stead of 1910, The first train in the morn.
ing for Barre leaves at 6: 30 instead OF 7:15;
in the afternoon, at 12: 55 instead of / : 10;
| in tho auanipU of a, O0 inltaQ1 Of z. m
o'clock.
j. Fl. MOORE, the hotel beat who now
anguishes in the House of Correction at
Rutland, engaged board for himself and
party of four at the farm house Of n. G..
Tabor. They were to arrive last Monday,
and as money was no object the swindler
was perfectly willing to pay $40 per week,
and for the use of team to take him on
" fishing" excursions. The only wonder is
that he didn't try to work Nat" for a
loan of S. on some of his bogus certified
checks.
The White Mountain train arrived
promptly on time on its first trip last Mon
day in charge of the veteran conductor,
Henry Chamberlain. This train is made
up of Wagner vestibule drawing-room
car, passenger coach and combination
baggage and smoking.car. 1t is very pop
lar train for travellers between Montpelier
and Burlington. making only two stops
westward bound, with no change of cars.
Coming from Burlington to Montpelier it
does local work between Essex Junction
and Montpelier
EVIDENTLY somebody has put up job on
the urbane but susceptible capital cor
respondent of the Free Press, proof of which
is seen in the Montpelier item last Monday
that Il. FL. Greene and FL. E. Slayton did
not make the trip to Boston on their wheels
last week, but went by train from White
River Junction The Free Press correspond
ent was imposed upon, and the statement
in the WATCHMAN last week that Greene
and Slayton made Concord, n, H., the first
night, and Boston the evening of the sec
ond day, on their wheels was correct.
THE farmers of Vermont will do we'll to
take notice of the warning Secretary Nc
Kean of the Maine Board of Agriculture
has given the farmers of that state against
swindle called the Farmers Cooperative
Association. set Of men are now can.
vassing Maine in the interest OF this So
called association, exacting S5 down for the
privilege Of buying of the concern. They
offer genuine Singer sewing-machines
worth $50 for S1275 and other things in
proportion, The farmer who pays his So
gets nothing for it but sad experience
AMONG the prominent articles in The
Vern1onter for July is an article on the war
administration of Governor Holbrook, an
interesting sketch of Middlebury College,
and an intelligent description of the pro-
posed Masonic temple. A full-page por-
trait of Governor Holbrook adorns the title
page and the number is embellished with
, thirty half-tone illustrations. The July
number closes the first year of the history
of this publication, which has, under the
skilled hand of G. s. Forbes, its editor, at.
tanned successful foothold among the
standard publications of the Green Noun.
tain state.
AT the meeting of the City Council held
last Wednesday evening bills in favor of III
+ B. Daley, for $3.50, and d. A. Guptil foI
seventy-fve cents, were ordered paid. A
petition for an electric light at the junction
: of Park Avenue and Hubbard street was
received and referred to the committee
on lights. Permission was granted the
Warren Telephone Company to erect tel.
ephone line inside the city limits and tC
place an instrument in the city, the loca
: ton of the poles to be left with the City
Council The revision of the articles o.
agreement for an electric railway was com
pleted, and the same was placed in the
I hands of the city attorney.
G. G. DUDLEY was struck by a falling
brick last Friday while at work on the DR.
Rice house on Main street. Mr.. Dudley
was at work on the ground at the time anC
) the brick fell from the chimney with sucl
D force as to crush the top of his skull, max
' ing compound fracture. He was taken tC
< his home in an unconscious state, wher,
g DR.. @. E. Chandler, assisted by DR.. ID. G
I Kemp and Dr. A. B. Bisbee removed sew
4 eral pieces Of bone from the wound. 1t wa
Q found that small piece of bone had en-
s tered the brain, and when this was re