The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
the Grand Central Station in New York

the Grand Central Station in New York
city.
MARY, wife of James Dinsmoor, of Ster-
ling, ILL.,, the former widow of the late Ziba
II True OF Montpelier, died last Sunday at
Sterling of pneumonia, aged seventy seven
years. She left Montpelier thirteen years
ago, lived in Milwaukee, Wis, for year.
and has since resided in Sterling. AS Mrs.
True the deceased is very pleasantly re-
membered by the older residents of Mont
pelier, very large number of whom were
numbered as her friends and who will
mourn her death. She was the mother-in
law of Mrs. Hattie K. True of Montpelier
with whom she visited last summer. Her
funeral was held at Sterling on Tuesday.
MONTPELIER has good reason to be proud
of its volunteer fire department. The
promptness with which it responds to an
alarm, day or night, Is always subject of
favorable comment Before the alarm was
through sounding last Saturday evening for
the fire at the Exchange Hotel, hose COM
panies one and two and the hook and ladder
company were on the ground, and in less
than four minutes after the first stroke of
the bell two lines of hose were laid from
different hydrants, with Chief Clark and
his assistants at the scene of the fire. Fortu-
nately their services were not required, but
they were there just the same and ready to
do effective work.
The customary morning services of the
festival of St. Patricks day was observed
on Tuesday morning in St.. Augustine's
Church. with Rev. Father w. j. O'Sullivan
celebrant of the mass. In the evening an
oyster supper was served in the rooms of
St. Peters Court, Catholic Order of Fores-
ters, and st. John the Baptist Society, fol-
lowed by pleasing vocal and instrumental
concert by the members of the choir of St.
Augustine's Church, assisted by Miss Ber-
tha Gibbons of Wiuooski, pianist. Brief ad-
dresses by Rev. 1. G. Mclaughlin of ST. AL
bans, Rev James O'Nel and Rev. w. j.
OSulivan and others were interspersed,
and all united in honoring the festal day
TIE officers and non-commissioned officers
of the Second Battalion, First Regiment,
Vermont National Guard, Major O. d. Clark
commanding, headquarters at Montpelier,
were most fortunate in having with them at
their school Lieutenant Henry w. Hovey
Twenty fourth United States Infantry, and
professor of military science and tactics at
Norwich q University. BY order of the war
department Lieutenant Hovey was assigned
to duty at Northfeld last fall and since his
assignment he has taken great interest in
the National Guard of Vermont, and is do
ing everything in his power to make it pro-
ficient in its duties He is a thorough gem
tleman and an officer of decided ability
Free Press.
THE district meeting of the Daughters OF
Rebekah, held in Odd Fellows Hall last
Thursday afternoon and evening, was a
very successful affair. Over one hundred
visiting members were present from Water.
bury, Cabot, Randolph, Barre and North.
field. The meeting was opened in form by
Miss Matte Johnston of Northfield district
deputy, who gave the address of welcome
Bright Star Lodge of Barre worked the de.
gree in the afternoon, after which a banquet
was served in Grand Army Hall. In the
evening the work was eXemplified by Social
Lodge of Northfeld. Among the distin-
guished visitors present were Mrs. II. L
Stilson of Bennington, president of the
state assembly, and Mrs. Mary G. Goodell
of Burlington, both of whom made brief
congratulatory addresses.
DANIEL X. Cross died last Friday in Den.
yer, Col, of pneumonia, aged fifty-eght
years. Mr.. Cross was born in Montpelier
and was son of the late Timothy Cross
When he was sixteen years old he went tC
Boston, and entered the jewelry store OF
Bigelow Brothers & Kennard, where he re-
mained until the Civil War broke out. He
had an honorable record as a soldier, serving
as lieutenant of the Fifth New Hampshire
Regiment, and later as colonel and aid-de
camp on the staff of General o. o. Howard
AT the close of the war he embarked in the
boot and shoe business in Boston, but con-
sumption contracted in the service forced
him to go to Colorado. He was at the time
of his death associated in the shoe usness
with his brother Walter. Their main store
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