The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18


Ladies' Debating Club held joint debate
al the High School building last Friday
afternoon, when the question whether the
income tax is desirable was discussed.
THE gymnastic exhibition recently given
in the Opera House by the members OF the
Young Mems Christian Association classes
will be given in Barre next Tuesday even
ing, aud in Northfeld on Friday evening"
March q.
HORSE from Barre became unmanage-
able, last Monday afternoon, ran down
State street and through the Central Yer
mont railroad bridge 1t was captured un-
injured near the engine house. The sleigh
was wreck.
| DIR. X. l.. CLEAvEs goes to Montreal to-
dav to attend the annual meeting of the
State Dental Association, to be held there
to-day and tomorrow. AT the banquet,
Thursday evening, DR.. Cleaves will respond
to the toast " Our Guests"
MISS ELv1RA H. TAYLOR died of pneu.
monia, last Wednesday morning, at her
home on Elm street, aged seventy-two
years. Her funeral was held last Friday
! afternoon from the home of Chester Taylor
in Middlesex, Rev. j. Edw ard Wright Of
ficiating.
Box 90 was rung in at five o'clock last
Saturday evening for slight fire in parti-
ton in the second story of the Exchange
Hotel. few pals of water squelched the
blaze and the services of the fremen were
not required. An oVerneated CHIMNEY was
the cause.
MRS. s. S. PEARSON daughter of Mrs
William B Silver, died last Sunday in Bur-
| lington. The body was brought to Mont
! pelier on Tuesday and placed in the receiv-
| ing tomb at Green Mount Cemetery, where
brief services were held, Rev j. Edward
| Wright officiating.
ALEXANDER BARATTI of Albany, N, Y,
| brother of the unfortunate man who com.
mitted suicide last Friday night, is in town
settling up the affairs of the deceased. In
this, and in the arrangements for the funeral
and burial, he has been ma;erially assisted
by Sheriff Bancroft.
HORACE w. WHELPLEY died last Monday
! of consumption at the hone of Mrs. Green,
| his sister, on Prospect street. Berlin. aged
thirty years Mr.. Whelplsy was native of
New Brunswick. He leaves a wife and one
child. The funeral will be held from Christ
Church this afternoon and the burial will
be in Green Mount Cemetery.
THE pedestal on which is to stand the
bronze statue of a catamount at Benningt IN
| Center is to be OF Windsor granite, taken
from the quarry of the company of which s.
l.. Howe of this city is treasurer. The
weight of the pedestal, finished, will be nine
tons 1t is design ned by j. p Rim of Bos-
ton, the architect of the Battle monument
THE Baptist Christian Endeavor Society
has elected E, e. Towner, president; Miss
ham, treasurer; Mr.. W A. Shay, recording
secretary; Miss Lena Crossett, correspond
ing secretary Miss Maud Crossett and
Mrs. Shay are delegates to the county cou-
ventiOn to be held at Waterbury next Fri
day.
A j. Hough, the poet laureate of the Yer
mont Conference and of the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows of Vermont, will regret TO
learn that he is to sever his connection with
the Vermont Conference at the coming ses-
sion at Barre, and is to be transferred to the
New Hampshire Conference. He is 10 be
stationed at Claremont, n. H., the coming
year
THE COTTON KING" drew good audi
ence to Blanchard Opera House last
Wednesday evening, and this interesting
melodrama was cleverly and artistically per
formed, while the scenic and mechanical
equipment was on an elaborate sc ale. There
is an abundance of fun in the plav. comcal
situations and lively dialogue TO relieve the
strain OF the more thrilling and sensation Al
features
The officers of Company Fl of Montpelier,
Company of Barre and Company f of
Northfeld attended the officers schbo for
the otfi GERS of the Second Battalion of the
First Regiment, Vermont National G Guard, ,
held in Armory Hall last Wednesday even
given by Lieutenant Hovey, commandant
at Norwich University, Northheld, and
Major o. d. Clark, and informal talks on
military subjects were given.
COUNTY EXAMINERS d. X. S1MoNDs of Ben
nington county, G. A. Andrews of Orleans
county and e. II. Wbitehill of Winds ,r
county were in town last Friday in consul
taton with M S, Stone, state superintend-
ent Of education, arranging for summer
schools. 1t was decided to holi such
schools at Manchester, July 6, Barton, July
13, and Springfield, July 20-and pro oably
thnr i,,F IL li,a md rlo tiao
on dates to be announced later.
BINGHAM MARVIN of Jackson, Mich, son
of Morton Marvin of this city, whose don
key " design for a show window in a boot
and shoe store has been taken up by retail
dealers in almost every state in the Union.
has anew design, entitled "Out of Sight,
OF which full description is given in the
Boot and Shoe Record of March A. Mr.. Mar
vim realizes that window-dressing is as
much of an art as is newspaper advertising,
and he is making this special study, with
very satisfactory results.
MRS SoPHRoNIA WooD, who died last
week at the home of Frederick W. Wood
her son, in Chicago, at the advanced age of
ninety-seven years, was born in Montpelier,
June 8, 1899 Soon after her birth her
father moved to Grafton, Mass. She was
the mother of thirteen children, only on9 OF
whom is now living. Her father vas sur
geon in the Revolutionary War, under len
eral Washington. Her husband died twenty
years ago. Her body was taken to Phladsl
phia and buried beside he remains of her
husband aud twelve chillcen
The supper and ciable held last Friday
evening by the Ladies' cisty of the Church
of the NJ ssiah was very literally pat
roniz9d. Supper was served from half past
five 10 seven o'clock, and in the evening
Longfellow's "Courtship of Miles Stan-
dish was presented, with #. w. Bancroft
as John Alden; j. Eli Goodenough, Miles
Standish; Miss Jane Bancroft, Preclla; l.
j. Hathaway, Elder; Leslie Hayford In
dian, and Ralph Wylie, Messenger Miss
Eva Clark, violinisU, and Miss Alice Perry,
pianist, accompanied the performers
THE March number of the Montpelier
School Record was issued last week from
this office. Tais sprightly aud ably-con
Quoted periodical is now one year Old, and
has already demonstrated that it has a fla d
peculiarly its own. The Record is unique in
character, in that it is entirely FREQ from adj
vrrti4rments aud depends on its suhscrip-
ton list for its existence. That list how
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