The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-07
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL. HAPPENINGS.

. DIR. f. f. MORAY of Worcester, Mass,
was in town last week
MRS. q. b. WAITE and daughter, Ella, Of
Cambridge, are guests of James T. Sabin
REV. FATHER w. j. OSULLIvAN preached
at st. Mary's Church, st. Adams, last
Wednesday evening.
ARTHUR HUBBARD of Kansas City, Mo,
has been visiting Ashley Hubbard, his
father, during the past week.
HARRY BAToHELDER of Wesleyan Uni
versity has been secured as coach for the
Montpelier Seminary base ball team.
Roscoe GRANT of the Rutland High
School, has been visiting schools in Barre
and Montpelier during the past week.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Charles G.
Cory rendered them reception last Fri
day evening at their home on Berlin street.
MAYOR SMITH of st, Adams was in town
last Wednesday to attend the monthly
meeting of the board of railroad commits
sioners.,
the Il NJ. Irish estate, the building and va
cant lot lying between the Montpelier
House and Taylor street.
G. w. LUCE has purchased of W. H. Moss
the atter's interest in the barber shop of
Luce & Moss Mr.. Moss was obliged to re-
tire because of poor health.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Young Mems
evening to enable the members to meet Mr..
Thorpe and Mr.. St. Lawrence, the new
secretary and physical director.
L. 9. MEUNIER of the Montreal law firm
of Meunier & Meunier, and j. s. Derochers
of Chambly Basin, brother of Philip
Derochers, who was killed March IS, near
Barre Transfer, were in Montpelier last
week, investigating the case.
EXTENSIVE improvements are in progress
at the works of the United States Clothes
Pin Company. The roof will be raised, and
the interior of the building generally recon-
structed, to accommodate the increasing
business of the company. An electric mo-
tor will be added to the power.
HATTIE, wife of Oliver Dobey, died last
Wednesday evening, after an illness OF two
years with consumption, aged forty-two
years. She leaves husband, one son and
one daughter. Her funeral was held Friday
morning from st. Augustine's church, Rev.
Father W. j. O'Sullivan officiating, and the
burial was in the Catholic cemetery.
GEORGE WHEELER, overseer OF the poor,
has received during the past week large
number OF letters from parties claiming re-
lationship to John Fallon, who died re-
Gently at Heaton Hospital. The fact that
the dead man left a snug bank account has
become known in several states remote
from Vermont, and cousins and brothers Of
the deceased multiply.
SHERIFF COLLINS and Deputy Sheriff
Graves again raided the " Soldiers Home, y
corner of Elm and School streets last
Thursday morning. Henry Emmons, the
man in charge, was arrested, charged with
keeping nuisance and with keeping with
intent to sell. In city court Emmons fur
nshed bail in the sum OF $500 for his ap-
pearance at county court.
w. A. SHAW, observer at the Mortified
signal station, sends us the following me-
teorological summary for the month of
OF, hiuhaat
March 10; lowest, 10, March l; prevailing
direction of wind, south; total movement of
wind, 1873 miles; maximum velocity, fifty
miles an hour, March 6; total precipitation,
273 inches clear days, D; partly cloudy
days, 10; cloudy days, 16.
DANIEL SULLY was seen at Blanchard
Opera House last Friday night in his realis-
tic play entitled 20 Brien, the Contractor"
1t is the story of an Irishman who is proud
to be an American citizen, and who has a
Clean healthy, simple sense of the heroism
of labor, and hatred of trickery and de-
ceit. The climax is reached when O'Brien
quiets strike between Italian aud Irish
workmen, and drives the golden spike that
completes the railway line.
AN alarm of fire was sounded from box
81 early last Friday morning for blaze in
the paint shop OF f. E. McGorrie, on Elm
street. A cigar stub thrown in a box of
sawdust had smouldered during the night,
and when the fire was discovered a hole
was burned through the floor. The depart
ment rallied promptly and the flames were
quickly squelched. The loss to Mr.. Nc.
Gorrie on stock is very small and the dam
age to the building was nominal.
BROOKE and his famous Chicago Marine
Band will give concert in Blanchard
Opera House this afternoon, commencing
at two o'clock. Miss Sibyl Sammis, pupil
of Nine. Lime, will appear as vocalist. OF
this band the Lacrosse Press says: The
Ut,Nrt 10 AID IL
has taken Gilmores place. Not person
who heard this superb concert but will add
his voice to the mutitudes who have al
ready exclaimed that Brooke is the greatest
expounder OF popular music in America"
UNDER the auspices Of the Young Peo-
pies Religious Fraternity, Little b.
Peep was brought out in the vestry of the
church of the Messiah last Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. The principal charac-
ters were assigned as follows: Little b.
Peep" Miss Alice Stoddard; Netticote,"
Miss b Berthe M: Dewingi "Lsyde Lea"
Matte Demeritt; GILL;" Miss Florence
Smith; Cookie Shell " and "Silver Bell"
Misses Annie and Marge Slayton; " Boy
Blue" Rollo Blanchard; "Taffy," Eddie
Slayton, with several peasant lads and
lassies. The characters were all we'll taken,
and so familiar was each with the part as.
signed them, that the affair passed off
smoothly and without break Owing to
other attractions, each evening the attend
ance was not large.
JUDGE CLARK W. UPTON, a native OF
Montpelier, has refused a reelection as one
of the judges of the twelfth judicial district
of Illinois, position he has honorably
filled since 1877. OF Judge Upton recent
issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean says GAS
jurist, Judge Upton has few peers and no
superiors. The truthfulness OF this state
ment is verified by the very few of his de-
cisions which have been reversed by higher
tribunals. His extensive knowledge of law
and practice, his clearness of mental vision,
his readiness to grasp all technical ques-
tions, his well-ballasted temperament and
proverbial good nature are elements that
have won him great popularity. The morn
ing and noon hours in the courtroom were
available to jurors and litigants, as we'll as
attorneys, for social chat, and at his
rooms at the hotel he was accessible to all
corners. At the recent spring term he prac-
tically finished his judicial 1abors in Ken
dali county, but he will have an enduring
name in the hearts of the people,"
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