The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10
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ity, and very many who have heard him
once will be very glad to hear him second
time.
For the accommodation of the citizens Of
Northfeld and vicinity a passenger coach
will be attached to the freight train leav-
ing Mortified at eight o'clock each morn
ing, enabling passengers to reach Mont
p9ler at 9: 10. This arrangement will con-
tinue during the session of Washington
County Court.
The Vermont State Dental Society will |
hold its twenty-first annual meeting at the |
Pavilion next week Wednesday, Thursday |
and Friday. A certain number of patients |
can obtain some first-class work done free |
OF charge by applying to DIR. X. l.. Cleaves |
OF this city before that time.
SHERIFF COLLINS, with Deputies futile, |
Wedge and Harvey searched last Thursday
evening the places kept by Patrick Carey
and George West. No Intoxicating liquors
were found. The living rooms Of Moses
DEMO were also searched, and two quarts of
whiskey were seized. The case of Mr..
DEMO came up in city court last Saturday,
and the wbiskey was ordered returned to
him.
The increasing demand for large boxes at
the Montpelier post-offce has led Postmas-
ter Sibley to make arrangements with the
department to take out one hundred and
twenty boxes in the third section and to re-
place them with twenty-four large boxes or
drawers. The change will be made in the
near future and will be appreciated by the
patrons Of the post-ofice
The local Baptist society Is to be congrat-
ulated that 1t is now able to do without aid
from the state society. At the monthly
business meeting held last Thurs " even
ing, 1t was unanimously voted not to apply
for the six months allowance alrta y due,
but to conduct the financial affairs OF the
society in future without outside aid.
MISS BERTHA d. LOVELY died last Thurs
day afternoon at the home of A. f. Forten,
her step-father, at No. Is Pitkin court.
Miss Lovely was fifteen years old. and the
cause OF her death was consumption. Her
funeral was held at Bethany church on
Sunday afternoon, Rev. Dr. Norman Seaver
officiated, and the burial was in Green
Mount Cemetery.
The WATcHMAN incidentally secured con-
siderable free advertising in the county
court room on Tuesday afternoon. OF the
twenty-three jurors examined in the Marsh
case, six had read noinewspaper account of
| the crime with which Mrs. Marsh and Mr..
Buzzell are charged, and Of the preliminary
hearing at Northfield year ago, one had
| read OF it in the Boston Journal, two in the
Boston Globe, one in the Northfeld Ne,os.
one in the Free Press, four in the Argus,
and eight in the WATcHMAN.
FOLLOWING is the order of Lenton SER
vices at Christ church for the week ending
March 49, This evening at half-past seven,
evening prayer and sermon by Rev. H. W.
| r. Stafford of Barre. Friday evening at
Z: 80, evening prayer and Bible study con-
| Quoted by the rector. Subject, THE In
carnation." Strangers interested in the
study of the Bible are invited. Next Sun
day morning, the sermon will be upon
Objections to the Episcopal Church"
Ushers always in attendance.
THE three young men who attended a
dance near Middlesex Center last Thursday
evening were speechless with amazement
when they drove into Putney's livery sta
BILE in the early hours of Friday morning
and were CURLY informed by the sleepy
hostler that they had driven home the
wrong team. AT last accounts these young
men were looking for an owner for the
team they drove home, and for the horse
and sleigh they started with. Perhaps
"Miles" or "Waite" can give later particu-
lars.
Two individuals from Sutton, who were
in Montpelier on Monday evening as wit.
nesses before the United States District
Court, came near spending the night in the
custody of Tailor Dudley. After supper
they paraded the streets in an intoxicated
condition and made considerable distur-
bance. They finally had sense enough to
realize that they were spotted by the city
police and went to their room at the Ex-
change Hotel just in time to escape arrest
They were no credit to the town from
which they came.
THE gallery of Trinity church has been
partitioned off and will be fitted up as a
room for the use of the primary department
| in the Sunday-scho The expense of doing
the work and Of furnishing the room is
borne by members OF the church and con-
gregation who were once members Of the
primary class, as memorial to the late
Mrs. David l.. Fuller, who, for more than a
quarter of century, was teacher of that
class. A concert to raise funds for this pur-
pose will be given in about two weeks at
which Mrs. George e. Mills, Miss Annie r.
johnson and George III. Wilder will take
part.
Col. FRED E. SMITH has purchased from
the e. NJ Irish estate the old Barnes build
ing which was moved back from its old To-
cation on State street, between Christ
church and the Exchange Hotel. Col.
| Smiths purchase is understood to be for
the protection of the Episcopal church
against any use or occupancy of the prem
ses which would be Objectionable. They
are now occupied as residences by Clark b
Roberts and Herbert p. WEIGH, by George
K. Holden for an office and the rear part
for the city stable. There is also a suite OF
three rooms on the lower floor at present
| not occupied.
THE recent agitation in regard to com.
peting telephone exchange in the city OF
Montpelier has resulted in an increased de.
mand for telephone service, and the Yer
mont Telephone and Telegraph Company
| mas very recently plaCeu telephones In the
following places: b. NJ. Shepard's house
DR.. Corbin's Office, l.. @. Tewksbury's book
store, the Union House, A G. Eaton's
house, Frank Dewey's house, Charles S.
Berry's house. George w. Parmenter's new
house, Fred Blanchard's new store, G. ii
More & Co.'s new Office in Vermont Mutual
Fire Insurance Company's building, all in
Montpelier; also in Rev. S n. Jackson
house and in the Commercial House, both
at Barre. They have also orders to place
telephones in four more offices and places
of business which is to be done at once
Col. A, G. Brown, president and general
manager Of the Vermont Telephone and
Telegraph Company, informs us that the
company has two hundred and seventy tele-
phones in the different houses, offices and
business places in the city of Montpelier,
something like one hundred and seventy
five OF which are in the private houses OF
those having children attending the union
school. For the benefit of such families,
Colonel Brown has offered to the school
commissioners to place an instrument in
the union school building the same to be
under the care OF the janitor, and to be at
the service of those Of the teachers and
scholars who may find II necessary to COM
municate with their homes, call hack, or
to meet any other sudden emergency which