The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-05

alogue contains the names OF eighty-three
young gentlemen and seventy four young
ladies.
THE net receipts from the sale of tickets,
balcony tickets and refreshments at the
charity ball was $418 Great credit is due
the various committees for the intelligent
and untirng work they put into the enter
prise, Mrs. M. l.. Leland, Mrs. j. O.
Houghton, Mrs l.. Bart Gross, Mrs. John
Miller, Mrs. Willis Blanchard, Mrs. Il. X
Peck, Mrs. Alma Smith ami Mrs George
Wheeler constitu ed the committee on re
fresbments; Mrs l., Bart Cross Mrs. c. p
Pitkin, Mrs. q. W. Porter and Mrs. A ID.
Farwell, the committee on printing. The
ladies desire to extend their thanks to the
WATCHMAN, the Argus and Patriot and O.
f. Boswell for courtes les eAte nd"d; to Misses
Sadie and Alice Roakes, Eva Roselle,
Bridget Slattery and Hannah Cummings,
who watt ed on tables; to the members of the
orchestra, who gave their services; to the
members OF Company III, who rendered
valuable assistance aud to D. A. Guptil
and Orville Dewey, for services rendered.
WHEN Charles Wilson, the advance agent
for In Old Kentu ky" was in Montpelier,
last Saturday, he called on Colonel A. G.
Brown, president and manager of the Yer.
mont Telephone & Telegraph Company. and
asked permission to decorate a number OF
the telephone poles inside the city limits
| with advertising matter He was told by
| Colonel Brown that IT. was not in the power
| OF the telephone company to grant such
request, az there is both state law and
| city ordinance against it, and, in any event,
| the telephone company did not want the
poles so dishgured and that such permission
would not be granted When Colonel
| Brown came down town Sunday morning,
and saw the adve rtising matter tackled on
several poles in the business center of the
| city, he determined to test the law on This
| point. A warrant for the arrest of Wilson
was placed in the hands Of Sheriff Bancroft
Monday morning, he was arrested on the
train between Burlington and Essex juno
ton and brought 10 Montpelier on the noon
train In City Court, Mond Az afternoon,
he was fined with costs, SIT II for his
| fragrant violation OF city ordinance, and
he left for st. Adams in the evening sadder
and wiser for his experience in trifing with
| Yer mont laws.
"SowING THE WIND, at Blanchard Opera
| House, last Wednesday evening, was
| greeted by an audience that about two
thirds filed the auditorium. The strong
points of this play are its theme, Sex
against sex" l. has all ingenious plot, in
tensely dramatic situations, sharply drawn
characters and pungent dialogue 1t is a
| play that appeals with peculiar force to the
human heart and stirs to its very depths
the element of human nature known as
love of far play. Rosamond is char
acter to challenge the sympathy and inter.
est of the most Indifferent of play goers.
| SDurneO because Snb mas Deen uenleu lHe
privilege of legal parentage she turns upon
" Brabazon," the adopted father of her
lover and assails the cruelty of his sex
toward her own in way that makes the
old man writhe with remorse. 1t was a
fine battle this conflict of sex against sex,
and was fought with great brilliancy on
both sides. The pith of the whole play was
that " Brabazon " was really Rosa.
monds own father, and the unfortunate
Helen Gray" her mother, although
neither Of the two former are aware OF that
fact until nearly the close of the play. The
piece was finely acted from beginning to
end, and prese nted with complete
cast costumes and scenic accessories that
made it all the more enjoyable.
d. L. CARTER, superintendent of the
Wrought Iron Range Company OF St. Louis,
and his corps of statesmen, l. II last Monday
for East Fairfield, where they are to be 10
Gated for the present. Mr.. Garter and his
men have had their headquarters at the
Exchange Hotel siuce the middle of last
October, and since that time the territory
within a radius of fifty miles of Montpelier
has been thorou Zhly covered by them. In
Chittenden, Orange and Washington coun
ties they have sold LOGS Home Comfort
ranges 400 Of which have been sold in
Washington county. OF the fifty-two that
have been placed inside the city limits OF
Montpelier only one man has been in any
way dissatisfied and, on the other hand
Mr. Carter has in his possession written ties
J timonials from many OF our prominent CHI
zens which very strongly. endorse the
ranges his men have sold here; Some o.
these have been published in the WATCH
MAN. Mr.. Carter came to Montpelier with
gilt-edged recommendations from clergy
men, bankers and leading citizens in places
where he has been formerly located, all o.
which he has proved, during his stay in
Mont oelier, were justified Personally hC
is man with whom it is pleasure to dc
business, and both he and his men have
the "huste" characte 'istic of the West
The company that Mr.. Carter 50 ably rep
resents is rated by G. Dunn & Co. at 81
million high" Their business methods
are strict one of their rules being to retaiI
in their employ no man who uses iDtoxicat
ing liquor in any form. If the seven sales
me1 no have had their headquarters a
the Exch inge for he past few months arr
far sample of their travelling men land /
is right to presume that they are), then thei
400 or more men who are constantly on thu
road constitute body OF men OF which an.
corporation might well be proud. Sine
this company commenced business 1t ha
sold over $50 coo Home Comfort" ranges
1t was awarded the six highest awards a
; the Worlds Fair, six gold medals at tn
California Midwinter Fair, gold and silve
medals al the New Orleans Exposition, anC
the highest awards given by the Western
Fair Association IF London, Canada. Mr.
Carter and his family have formed man.
= pleasant friendships during their stay il
Montpelier, and their departure is regretted
FIVE hundred or more legal voters of tn
city crowded into Capital Hall, last Monda.
evening, in response to the warning for
: special city meeting TO see II the CIT
3 would instruct its board of school director
!, to furnish transportation to all the scholar
within the limits of the city wishing t
: attend school, so that all scholars shal
ha 70, as near as possible, equal advantage
of transportation to school as practicable
whether such scholars attend the Catholi
school or some other" The meeting wa
: called to order by Mayor Wing and the cal
was read by City Clerk Merrill. Colonel j
II. Lucia said that as he understood tn
I, law in the matter the meeting could no
: give the board any instructions by whic
they could be bound; that it was an act c
fol y for the meeting to spend its time ant
risk its health in discussion OF the matter
i and he moved hat the article in the warn
ing be dismissed. T. X. Gordon said b
agreed with Colonel Lucia in regard TO tn
: legal effect of the vote, but he thought thos
present would like to vote on the matte
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