The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14
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sheds in Barre is practically completed.
The poles arrived on Tuesday and were dis
tributed on the streets Of Montpelier over
which the road is to run. The contractors
are confident that the road will be in oper-
alton by September 1, which is thirty days |
earlier than is called for by the franchise.
FREDERICK b. PRATT, prominent rail- |
way official of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Mrs. |
Pratt are guests of Colonel X. j. Kimball at
" Montague Place." Colonel Kimball's sum-
mer home at Randolph. Through the cour-
tesy of Colonel e. c. Smith the directors
car, est Lawrence " was rendered the
party on Tuesday for trip to st. Adams.
A stop OF an hour was made at Montpelier,
and, despite the rain, carriages were taken
for drive around the city. Two daugh
ters of Colonel Kimball were in the party.
PROFESSOR ID. s. BLANPIED has recon-
sidered his determination to remain with
the Montpelier Seminary another year and
has severed his connection with that insti-
tuition Professor Blanpied goes to Nashua,
N: H., where he has fiattering offer He
will move his family to Nashua in about
two weeks. Miss Annie r. johnson, in
structor of vocal music will return next
year and will again have charge of the
choir of Trinity church.
JOSEPH BROWN died suddenly last week
Tuesday at his home at East Montpelier Cen
ter. He had been working in the hay field
for Calvin Hersey and was nearly overcome
by the intense heat. He started for home
and several hours later his body was found
where he had attempted to climb fence.
Deceased was a brother Of the late George
o. Brown OF this city and was sixty-three
years old. His funeral was held last
Thursday and the nterment was in the Cut
Ter burying ground.
GOOD joke is told on Rev. Andrew Gill
lies, who is at present away on his annual
vacation. A few days ago City Sheriff Ban
croft was in need OF the services OF clergy
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home OF Mr.. Gillies on Barre street to secure
him. Mr.. Bancroft had never seen the new
pastor OF Trinity church, and when he came
to the door his youthful appearance de-
ceiyed the city official who inquired of Mr.
| Gillies II his father was in. Mutual expla-
nations followed and the funeral was at
tended at the proper time.
The formal opening of the new Wood Art
| Gallery in the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION building will occur on Tuesday
evening, July q. The order of exercises Is
not yet completed, and further mention Of
the same will be made next week. On
Monday evening, July 26, Mr.. 7. W. Wood
| will present to st. Augustine's society the
painting LA Madonna del Rosario" by
| Murillo, copied by Mr. Wood in the Dull
witch Gallery, near London. The frame Of
| this painting with the CROSS is one hundred
twenty nine inches high The presentation
will take place in st. Augustine's church.
A LARGE crowd came down from Barre
| last Friday evening to listen to the concert
given by the Montpelier Military Band
from the Pavilion stand. Barre is without
| a band this season and the fact that resi-
dents of that city will come to Montpelier
| on hot night TO listen to band concert
shows that the usual outdoor concerts that
have been given in that city are very much
missed. The Montpelier band gave an I'M
usually fine programme last Friday even
ing, which was appreciated by the thou
sands OF people who gathered to listen to it.
| The clarinet solo by W. E. Dufur was per-
sistently encored, and portion Of it was
| repeated.
| II. @. WEBSTER, former well-known
business man in Montpelier, was instantly
| killed at Windsor on Monday. He was out
| driving, when his horse took fright and ran,
coming in collision with a telephone pole.
Mr.. Webster was thrown out and his death
was instantaneous. For more than twenty
years deceased was resident and prominent
merchant in Montpelier. He was identified
with Trinity church, and was former
member Of Vermont Lodge Of Odd Fellows
He was fifty-three years of age, and is sur
vived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs
Wesley G; .Taplin. The funeral will be
held from his late home in Windsor at three
o'clock this afternoon, and the burial will
be at Windsor.
THE WATcHMAN most heartily endorses
every word OF "Citizen's com munication
on Rights, Private and Corporate, u
printed elsewhere in this paper. The refer.
, ence is to the municipal bushwhackinp
among the shade trees, last week, upon the
premises OF certain property owners on
School street. Every fair-minded person
will agree that the act, in all its incidents
was wanton trespass upon personal right
and privilege, rendered more odious by its
arbitrary character and by the circumstance
that the property owners were women, less
capable than men of defending their rights
and property against intruders. "Ctizen u
has properly set forth the wanton character
OF the procedure and shown how the affair
might and ought to have been managed
and how rational men, regardful OF the
rights and feelings OF citizens, would have
gone about the business. In the administra.
ton Of city affairs no advantage should be
taken Of the rank or condition or circum.
stances OF any man or woman Fair play tc
ALL No petty tyranny. The Constitution
and the Laws OF Vermont are mightier than
municipal edicts.
PROF. EDWARD W. MORRILL,, for the pas
nine years at the head Of the department,
Of higher mathematics and physical science
in the Montpelier Seminary, died last Fri
Mrs. Morrill, in South Tunbridge. Prof
Morrill, was seriously i'll with typhoid fever
for several weeks last fall, and the disease
finally terminated in tuberculosis. Several
weeks ago, Prof, Morrill, went to the home
OF his wife in South Tunbridge, hoping thai
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faithful and efficient teacher, and the news
of his death will cause profound sorrow
among the hundreds of students who have
been under his instruction during the
time he has been connected with the semin
airy. The body was taken on Monday to
the home of his parents in Gray, Maine
where funeral services were conducted by
Rev. DR.. e. M. Smith Mrs. Morrill, has
the sympathy Of large circle Of friends al
Montpelier in her sore bereavement
BENJAMIN f. WALKER died suddenly last
Friday night of heart failure at his home
in Chicago, aged seventy-eight years. Mr.
Walker was brother Of Mrs. Annie Knapp
widow OF the late D. T. Knapp Of Mont
pelier, and for several years past he has
spent his summers at the Pavilion in this
city. He had made arrangements to come
to Montpelier again this season. Mr.
Walker was born in England and came tc
this country in 1876. In 1853 and 1854 he
was pastor OF the Methodist church in this
city. and in 1854 was chaplain OF the House
OF Representatives. Later he left the min.
istry and was engaged in the wool business
for several years in Philadelphia. Since he
has lived in Chicago he has retired from
active work. He leaves three sisters in
England. Mr.. Walker will be remembered
| very Dleasantly not only nv the few w hf