The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-30
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morning at the sheds Of the Capital Granite
Company. One Of the cutters employed
there was expelled from the Union last
week for non-plyment OF dues. He was
looked upon as scab when he went to
work Monday morning, and the Union
men, refusing to work with him. went out
Later, the man who caused the disturbance
paid his dues, was reinstated az a member
Of the Union, and the trouble was over.
The City Council held short session
last Wednesday evening. Nye L. Smith
ard X M. Walling were granted permits.
sion TO repair their houses, and Thompson
Il Darby were licensed to peddle meat and
vegetables. The petition Of II. II Recor OF
Barre, TO operate a night lunch cart, was
refused. The following bills were ordered
paid: Union Gard Company, printing,
S1150; w. E. Mcdonald, So 25; James 6.
Finn, So. Adjourned to Thursday evening
HENRY TALBOT, who has been Ia Jail
three weeks because of an unsatisfactory
disclosure, was brought out last Saturday
but he still refused to tell where he OBJ
tanned the liquor on which he became in
toxicated. He declared himself as perfectly
satisfied with his quarters in Jail and ex
pressed a desire to go back where three
meals a day and good bed are sure thing.
He was fined the usual amount and took
the alternative sentence of fifteen days in
Jail.
Mrs. FRANK JENKINS, who lives with her
init suicide last Monday by drowning MIR.
and Mrs. Jenkins came to Montpelier from
Newport several weeks ago, and the fact
that her husband had been unable to obtain
work made Mrs. Jenkins respondent. She
also stated that the abuse she had received
from him had made her desperate. c. II.
Fuller saw her going towards the river, and
her wild actions led him to follow her Mr..
Fuller caught her as she was about to throw
herself into the water
| A SERIES of monologue presentations, I'M
der the direction of Charles f. Underhill,
is to be presented in this city. The first,
THE Rivals" will be in Blanchard Opera
House next Monday evening, for which
| tickets OF invitation will be sent out
These enteri ailments will be under the
auspices of the Young Peoples Fraternity
connected with The Church Of the Messiah,
and have met with great favor elsewhere.
Later dates and subjects are as follows:
| Wednesday, October IA, Grip Van
Wrinkle y; Saturday, October II, three-part
programmes; Wednesday, October 81
David Copperfield."
MISS EMELINE LEWIS, sister of the late
w. G. Lewis, died last Saturday morning at
| 100 Elm street, aged eighty-seven years.
| During nearly her entire lifetime Miss
Lewis was housekeeper for her brother,
and since his death she has been anxious to
| go. Her funeral was held Monday after
noon and the burial was in Green Mount
pelier, January IA, 1909, and was the last Of
a family OF seven. She had always lived at
the old homestead on South Main street un-
til it was recently purchased by Blanchard
Brothers. For several years she has been
patient invalid. Rev. DR.. Norman Seaver
was the officiating clergyman at her funeral.
TROOP f, Third United States Cavalry,
Captain George A. Dodd commanding,
camped in Montpelier last Wednesday
night, on their way from Manchester, n. Ii :,
to Fort Ethan Allen. The ground select ed
for camp was near the Peck & Cummins
tannery, up Worcester branch. The troop
marched from Marshfeld that day and moved
on to Waterbury on Thursday. Major o. D..
Clark and Captain A. G. Eaton met Captain
| Dodd outside the city limits and escorted
him and his command to the ground Sc
lected for camp. One private arrived on
| foot about an hour behind the troop. Be-
cause of characterization at Manchester, he
was sentenced by Captain Dodd to walk
| from Manchester to Fort Ethan Allen. He
was escorted by two mounted troopers.
THE mystery surrounding the disappear
ance of e. d. Blackwell is as far from solu-
ton as ever. Several possible clues have
| been followed during the past week, only to
| find no tangible trace of his whereabouts A
| letter received last Friday by Postmaster A.
| j. Sibley from Solomon Morton of Lowell,
| VT, stating that he had seen Mr.. Blackwell
in Montreal, and the belief of Mrs. H, r.
days ago, have both been proved cases of
mistaken identity H. E. Fifeld returned
on Tuesday evening from Boston, where he
has been continuing the search for Mr..
Blackwell, and where he was unable to
| find any possible clue. w. T. Dewey went
to Boston last Monday to continue the
search. While many plausible rumors and
! theories have been in circulation during the
past week, the fact remains that Mr.. Black
wells disappearance is still an unsolved
mystery
FAUST as given by the Morrison Company,
will be the attraction at the Blanchard
Opera House on Saturday evening, October
3. While the world endures, Goethe's tragic
story of Faust and Marguerite will continue
to live. The story has been celebrated in
song, and in its operate form has been
deliberately staged for many years; but it
remained for this company to present it in
worthy dramatic form with all effects and
accessories necessary to give it that weird
ness intended by the author. In this ver-
sion the role of Mephisto is made jolly,
| jovial devil-one well calculated to enchain
the souls of men in the glamour of forbidden
pleasures. The scenic effects are strongly
| brought out and serve to accentuate the
dramatic situation in vivid manner. One
OF the most notable effects is at the end of
| the first act where Mephisto exults over
the capture OF the soul of Faust, when,
" midst darkness and thunder-bursts, the
| blazing cross appears over the cathedral
| doors.
THE following data, for the month Of Oc-
tober, covering period Of nine years, has
been compiled from the weather bureau
records at Northfield: Temperature
Mean, or normal, ago; warmest month. that
OF 1894, with an average of 4S'; coolest
month, that of 1888, with an average Of 39o;
highest temperature, 83o, October 3, 1891 /;
lowest temperature, 12o, October "a, 1889;
average date Of first killing frost in autumn,
September 49, average date of last killing
frost in spring, May 49, Precipitation (rain
or melted snow)-Average for the month,
80 inches; average number of days with
.01 of an inch or more, IA; greatest monthly
precipitation, 3.57 inches, in 1885, least
monthly precipitation, As inches, in 1896;
greatest amount recorded in any twenty
four consecutive hours, LII inches, October
6, 1889; greatest amount OF snowfall iu any
twenty-four hours, record extending to win
Ter OF 1888 only, 20 inches, October q,
1887. Clouds and weather-Average num-
Der OF clear days, 81 of partly cloudy days,
IL; of cloudy days, 10. Wind-Prevailing
winds have been from the south; highest
velocity, 60 miles, from the south, October
IA, 1893.
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