The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-04
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ordered paid as follows; Thomas Osborn,
lumber, 1914; 7. X. Merrill, clerk, Sc Go;
j. M. Boutwell,, crushed stone, 1887. 49,
Brooks q Deming, supplies, $1.40; Union |
Gard Company, printing, S2l61; James b.
Ramsay, Jr., $500 g. ii. Thornton was |
granted license to do trucking and team |
ing. Building permits were granted az fol- |
lows: George W. Wing to single resi- |
dence; Thomas Cantllion to repair resi- |
dence; A. @. Blanchard to build house on
Hubbard street; Mrs j. g. Smith to erect
a house on Main street; Ralph Willev and
j. b. Anderson to single residences Den
mis- Lane estate to single houses on Elm
street; M. e. Tro nbley to single house on
Summer street; z. II. Hinckley was grant
ed permission to take up water pipe on
Hubbard street and Napoleon Dubec to set
pole on Barre street for derrick guy;
Caroline II. II. Wilder was granted permits
sion to connect with the sewer and to build
a house on Hubbard street. A petition was
received for street from Fullerton to Hub
bard street, which was referred to the COM
mittee on streets. Alderman Perrin was
appointed a committee of one to arrange
with the officers Of the electric railroad for
crossing the Rialto bridge. 1t was voted to
close the foundry bridge for travel until ne,
cessary repairs can be make. The board
voted to sell to KelleAer Broth rs, for $1,000
the building near the Arch bridge, occupied
| by them as stone shed.
AS will be seen by an advertisement else
| where the Star Course Committee OF the
| Young Mems Christian Association has
| secured an option on some OF the best talent
that can be obtained, in the hope that they
| will be able to present it to the citizens OF
Montpelier during the coming fall and win
ter. They also have proposition from one
| OF the leading bureaus. which, II they are
able to accept, will give the people OF Mont
pelier and vicinity not only the largest
| amount but at the same time the best, and
| at
sense money making scheme as the scale
| OF prices that follows shows. II the COM
mittee can come out whole it Is all they ask
| or expect. It will be necessary to have at
least 800 season tickets pledged, and can:
vass OF the city Is now in the hands OF
twenty ladies, thus far with gratifying re-
suits. The proposition is along the same
lines as those adopted by the management
Of certain well-known theaters in New
York and Boston, which is, not only to give
high grade of entertainments, aud more
OF them, but at the same time at pop
ular prices, namely ten entertainments for
one dollar, with reserved seats fifteen cents
extra. The list which follows shows that
the people in any large city pay as much
for attending almost any one OF these enter
tainments as is charged for the entire
course. The people of Montpelier can Ill
afford to miss such an opportunity. The
list includes Leland L. Powers, the we'll
known impersonator; Mary French Field
daughter OF Eugene Field in readings from
her fathers poems; the Boston Star Orches
trail Club; the Kellogg Bird Carnival ant
Concert Company; the Temple Quartette
Boston; the Katharine Ridgeway Concer
Company; William r. French, ILLUSTRATOR
and lecturer; Robarts Harper, lecturer
James Hedley of Cleveland, o., lecturer
and the Welsh Prize Singers from Wales
NEARLY every member in Montpelier o
the Vermont Fish and Game League i
planning to attend the midsummer meet
ing of the league, to be held next Friday a
the home Of Lieutenant-Governor n. w
Fisk ut Isle La Motto. This meeting prom
ises to be one of the most important as wei
season in Vermont. 1t was the original in
tention to hold the meeting on July %, but
was postponed until August 6 in order tina
President Mckinley might be present. Tb
: President is now at Hotel Champlain OIL
Bluff Point near Pittsburgh where, as
is well known, he Is to spend the month G
August. President j. W. Titcomb of tn
league has engaged the steamer "Maquam
to take the presidential party from Platts
!, burgh to Isle La Motto on the morning c
, the 9th. The steamer Reindeer" has bee
chartered to take members OF the league
branch clubs and their guests to the ISLAM
and return. The boat will leave its whar
in Burlington at 1915 P. M, upon the arriva
Of noon trains from Rutland, Montpelier
St. Adams and the Burlington & Lamoill
valley ROAD. Inlb Will give all menu Der
except few living at remote places, an or
portunity to go by the boat by taking tn
train the morning Of the 9th. The boat vii
stop at Fisk's dock, and dinner will
served by the Isle La Motto Ladies' Aid Sc
ciety on Northumberland Fisk's lawn
Arrangements have been made for shelte
, in large tents in case Of rain. The roun
! trip on the boat from Burlington and re
, turn, including dinner, will cost So, an
tickets will be obtainable on the boat
There will be excursion rates on all raj
roads, good going to Burlington August
} and 6, and good returning from Burlington
August and 7. The steamer will leav
the island in the evening in time to srriv
in Burlington for the late evening trains.
! is regretted that the arrangements canno
be extended to include ladies', but owing t
, the unusual attendance this year, this, ur
fortunately, is out Of the question. Cover
! will be laid for five hundred, and it is pos
sible that three hundred more can be az
commodated. President Mckinley is 81
pected to make brief address Frank
Green Of the st. Adams Messenger will b
the POSTMASTER. Other speakers will be
: A. Rowland OF Montpelier, Hon. r. W
Hulburd Of Hyde Park, Prof D. Y. Con
stock Of st. Johnsbury. P. NJ Meldon G
Rutland and w. ii. Button Of Middlebury