The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

clothes, too, lots OF 'em.
BY the advice of his physicians Bishop
Hall has Cancelled all his engagements in
Vermont until May TO- His health is i'm
proving. but it is deemed unwise for him to
resume work at present.
ARRANGEMENTS for the dedication of the
Gill Odd Fellows Home at Ludlow are GO
ing rapidly on and the building will be in
proper condition at the time set for its ded-
| ication. The grand lodge of the state will
take day during its annual session at Rut-
land, and go to Ludlow by special train for
that purpose.
HATTIE e. FEssENDEN of Brattleboro,
aged forty, committed suicide last Sunday
by hanging. She was daughter of Warren
Fessenden. She had been respondent over
her fathers illness. having been his con-
slant attendant during the winter months.
She leaves, beside her aged father, a sister
in Hinsdale, N. II.
CAMP No. go, at Manchester Depot, will en-
terrain the fourteenth annual encampment
of the Vermont Division, Sons of Veterans,
on July and next. The adjutant's report
for the quarter ending March 81, 1896, shows
forty-fve camps and 978 members in the
state. The camps at Randolph, Morrisville
and Hyde Park, in the order named, made
the largest gains in membership for the
quarter.
DIR. L. G. WAKEFIELD was at Pomfret
last week, where he inspected the blooded
dairy herds OF Hon. Homer W. Vail and
Hon. H. M. Miller. He found both entirely
free from any trace of tuberculosis. In the
herd of r. l.. Davis Of that town he found
two diseased animals, and in Austin How
ards stables the disease was discovered in
mild form. DR.. Wakefield also tested
herds in West Hartford last week and was
able to give the owners clean bill Of
health.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN has reached the highest
point known in recent years. 1t is seven
feet and ten inches above low water mark.
The breakwater outside Burlington harbor
is entirely covered, and the Champlain
Transportation Company's dock is flooded.
Several large wholesale grocery FIRMS who
have storage houses along the dock, have
removed their goods to places OF safety.
The water reaches the lumber yards, and
high wind would cause serious damage by
the waves.
PENSIONS granted to Vermonters: Resto-
ration and increase, Henry H. Nichols (de-
ceased) Of st. Johnsbury Center increase,
Dillingham; Waldo of Brookfield and Martin
Haskins of South Londonderry; reissue,
Charles l.. Rounds of West Euosburgh;
original, widows, ETC., Rose @. Nichols of st.
Johnsbury Center and Mary M. BoyDton Of
Elroy of Middlesex, Truman B. Smith of
Stowe, Timothy Blanchard of East Rox-
bury, and Daniel w. Blake Of South Cabot.
IRA G. CALEF of Washington, VT, has
given 81 900 to Mary Fletcher Hospital,
Burlington. In letter to the president
and trustees, enclosing a check for this
amount Mr.. Calef says: Having been
daily visitor at the hospital for about one
month one year ago, and seeing the good
work accomplished while there to the poor
and rich alike, and knowing it requires
money to carry on such work, l enclose my
check for 81 900 and ask you to place it
where it will do the most good thinking
knnuv mazda nf for
better than / do. My sister, Miss Caef,
who was under your care one year ago, has
daily improved, and joins me with best
wishes"
NELLIE CLARK of Bennington was ar
rested last Friday for shooting at Thomas
Niles and Orville Noyes of Salisbury.
She claims that she ordered them from her
house and they would not go. Before her
arrest she led the officers quite chase and
was finally found in the attic of the house,
drawing herself up through a small hole.
She has recently served term in Jail for
riding horseback through part of Shafts
bury and White Creek in perfectly nude
condition. She claims that her home is in
Boston and that she is dressmaker. She
has been in several other scrapes.
THE Baptist State Sunday-school Conven-
ton will be held at Newport on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 1, 2 and 3
next. Among the speakers announced
Burr of Ruggles Street Church. Boston,
who will treat "The Bible School Its
Place, Power and Possibilities, and " Win
ming the Children to Christi; Professor
Henry 7. Bailey, superintendent OF the de-
partment of drawing in the public schools
of Massachusetts; also Rev. Kerr B. Tup
per- d. D., who has lately come from Den
yer, Col, to succeed Rev George Dana
Boardman, DID, in the pastorate of the
First Church, Philadelphia, His chosen
theme will be" Is the Old Book from God?"
SIR CHARLES RIVERS WILSON, president
of the Grand Trunk Railway OF Canada,
will sail from Liverpool TO America on
April % He is to make tour of inspec
ton of the road and attend a meeting of the
directors at Montreal At the next meet
ing there will be several important financial
measures to discuss, the most important be-
ing the receivership OF the Central We mont
railway, now under the control of the
Grand Trunk. "This matter" said the
railway president, in an interview in Lon
don last Friday, will receive the most
careful attention, as the Central Vermont is
vital part of the Grand Trunk railway
Wilson said: 1--WE do not propose to lease
any new roads. Our policy is one of strict
conservatism. We must contract rather
special meeting of the Traffic Association in
matters We desire amicable arrangements
with all our competitors, especially the Ca
madam Pacific"
MILD soap don't eat, rot nor ruin clothes;
Harmless " is its name.