The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

interest to the city, and which will soon be
made public. The following permits we're
granted at this time by the council: l. T.
Lull, to repair house; G. M. Lyons, to shin
gle house; Albert Tuttle, for the j. X. Lang.
don estate, to slate roof of the f.. W. Bailey
feed store.
TIE members of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association and ladies' auxiliary are to
hold reception at their rooms on Thurs
day to Thomas w. Wood, the artist, to
which the members Of both branches of the
organization have been invited and are re-
quested to bring friend with them. Music
is to be furnished Ivy the Montpelier orches-
ira, and light refreshments will be served
during the evening.
c. w. MUNsELL of Cleveland, o., formerly
with the Ohio Farmer accompanied by Mrs
Alice Whitman, his daughter, has been visit
ing Miss Lenora T.. Witt during the past
week. Mr.. Munsell made this office a
pleasant call Friday evening, during which
he showed himself alive to and in sympathy
with the work of newspaper editors and
publishers. He predicts clean $50 900 ma
jority in Ohio for presidential electors, and
will be in Cleveland, November next, to
make one of hat number.
THE bumptious Brattleboro Reforner said
editorially last week: "If Gov. Grout
wants to argue in earnest for reduction of
state expenses, he can adduce an object les
son right under the nose of the egsls ture
in the Washington county grand jury that
has been in session ever since the opening
OF the September term OF court, hanging on
and drawing its per diem on the chance OF
getting an occasional liquor case to deal
with In fact, there is no end of plunder
under this guise of prohibition"
REV. DIR. NJ. ID. KNEELAND, secretary of
the New England sabbath Protective
League, will preach In Bethany church next
Sunday morning. At the evening service
Rpv nr will of
the morning, discussing the rights of Amer
leans to their Sabbaths DR.. Kneeland will
deliver an address to the public in Repre-
sentatives' Hall next Monday evening at
half past seven. He is brother-n-law of
Speaker Lord, and is everywhere known as
an eloquent and forceful advocate of the
cause he represents.
| Hon. CHARLES DEWEY is authority for
the statement that the dispatch sent from
Montpelier and published in the Free Press
on Friday regarding the theory as to the
disappearance of X. ID Blackwell originated
solely in the imagination of the reporter
who wrote it, and that the belief there ex-
| pressed that he is somewhere at work upon
an electrical appliance is not shared by his
| family and friends. There are no new fea-
lures in this remarkable case, and the cause
of Mr. BlackwelPs sudden disappearance is
still profound mystery.
IT was the eminent novelist, William
Dean Howells, who first predicted the great
success of James A. Hernes play, "Shore
Acres" Mr.. Howells read the piece in
manuscript and wrote letter about it to
| the well-known theatrical manager r. VI
| Field. Since then "Shore Acres" has had
some phenomenal runs and broken many
records. The play is good for many more
years and will win an independent fortune
for it's author. The production of this fas-
cinating idyl of New England country life
at the Blanchard Opera House on Friday
evening, October %, will prove one of the
enjoyable events of the current season.
AT three o'clock Friday morning Mrs. Sa.
mantha e. Wing, widow of the late Joseph
A. Wing, passed away at ber late residence
on Main street at the mature age Of seventy
eight years. The deceased has been In
feeble health for the past three years from
a combination OF diseases, but for several
weeks past she has been confined to the
house with acute Bright's disease, which
caused her death. Mrs. Wings maiden
name was Webster, and she was married tc
Mr.. Wing at her home in Cabot in 1910
They resided for some years in Plainfield
where all her children were born except
John G., who was born in this city. They
took up their residence in this city in 1858
where they have made their home until
their decease. During this time the de
ceased has increased her circle of friends
by her amable and true womanly conduct
so that her loss is not confined to her fam
lily but TO the community at large. Her six
children, all OF TINS Clty-MlsSes Elizabeth
B. and Alice NJ, Mrs. A. ID. Farwell, Mrs
Collins Blakely, Hon. George w. and John
G.-survive her The funeral services were
held at two o'clock on Sunday at the
house, Rev. j. Edward Wright officiating
and the remains were inferred in the fam
lily lot in Green Mount Cemetery.
AN audience which largely outnumbered
the one of the week before gathered in the
Church of the Messiah last Saturday even
ing and testified to the growing popularity
of Mr.. Underhill's monologues. 1t was wei
entertained. The programme presented g
wider variety of characters than any of its
predecessors, perhaps the most enjoyable
feature being the quaint talk of an old ne
gro servant in " A Bachelors Party" whose
devotion to his dear master was both laugh
able aud pathetic. Mr.. Underhill has an ex
cellent negro dialect. The second number
was highly amusing sketch based upon al
incident in j. M. Barrie's play, The Pro
fessor's Love Story" and told of the adven
lures of two Scotch peasants in making love
to the same girl. Scotch selections may bt
so we'll done as to be almost unintellig giblt
the average American audience, bn
Mr.. Underhill skilfully avoided this dan
ger by translating much OF the Scotch int
terse and humorous English, depicting thu
nationality more by tone, face and mannel
than by dialect. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
my Ships is little gem, and Howells
farce The Sleeping Car " sent every ont
home in the best possible humOr. The pro
gramme was pronounced by all most de
lightful one, but by far the best of thu
course is TO be the last one, David Cop
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