The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-02-24
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being q winner. Miss Brock led the list in
Vermont with 81, 104 votes. She Ia q niece
OF j. w. Brock OF this city. More than
7 900, 600 ballots we're cast In the New En-
gland states.
A RECEPTION In honor OF washington's
Birthday was given in the vestry Of Trinity
Church on Monday evening. 1t was en-
tirely informal in character, its object be-
ing to promote sociability In the church and |
acquainted. The ladies realized about $50 |
from the sale Of home made candy, lemon. |
ade and aprons. The vestry was very pref |
tily trimmed with flags and bunting, and |
over the platform was suspended portraits
OF the father Of his country and OF Martha
Washington.
ALDERMAN W. r. WESTON was given a
pleasant surprise last evening. without
the knowledge OF her husband Mrs. Weston
invited Mayor Stratton, City Clerk Merrill,
Street Commissioner Roberts, and the MEM
bers of the City Council, with their wives,
to their home on Loomis street for q social
evening. After the popular retiring alder
man from ward three had recovered from
his surprise q very pleasant evening was
passed. Refreshments were served and
card playing was enjoyed.
WILLIAM Brown, whose arrest and i'm
prisonment Is noted elsewhere disclosed on
ID. Tomassi, who runs the Italian fruit
store on South Main street. Mr.. Tomassi
denied that the beer he sold Brown was
Intoxicating and demanded jury trial,
which was given him on Tuesday afternoon
in city court before Judge Smile. f. P.
Carleton appeared for the state and r. L.
Laird for the respondent. The jury, COM
posed OF M. r. Chase, Abraham Long,
Oughtney Jangraw, B. M Shepard, Forrest
Goodale and Ambrose j. Alexander re-
turned verdict OF not guilty and Mr..
Tomassi was discharged. Brown also dis
closed on Henry Premier OF Barre, who had
sold him two per cent Uno beer, but after
| the verdict in the Tomsssi case proceedings
against Premier were quashed.
Mics Lucy W. GUERNSEY has in her pos
| session an ancient volume that is Of special
| interest as the birthday Of the Father OF his
lished in Boston In 1900, and Ia entitled
Washington's Political LeRacies," and
| contains many political documents written
by Washington, including his circular letter
to the governors of the several states in
1888, the address of Congress in acknowl-
edging his eminent services, with his reply,
and his farewell address to the army. The
| work is dedicated to Mrs Washington and
has an appendix containing an account Of
the last illness and death Of Washington
and the national tributes OF respect paid to
| his memory. Miss Guernsey has also shown
US copy of the Waterman and Christian
Repository, published at Woodstock in 1890,
| which is indeed curiosity to newspaper
men of the present day.
AN excellent trotting course has been
scraped on the ice above the old arch
bridge, and next Saturday afternoon a free
trot will be held there. A 2:4O and free for
all race, trot and pace, will be on. In the
latter prize of a S35 harness will be given
as first prize, add horse suit for 8, cond
prize. In the 2:40 class, prizes Of horse
suit and sleigh robe will be awarded.
National rules to govern. No entrance fee
is required, but entries, which should be
made to j. M Boutwell,, Montpelier, will
close next Friday at midnight. These races
and prizes are provided by some of the lib
eral business men of Montpelier who enjoy
a good horse race. All they ask Is a full
list of entries, and good crowd to witness
the sport.
The community was saddened last Mon
day evening by the intelligence that Miss
Emma Wood, daughter of Marshall G..
Wood, was dead, after brief illness with
peritonitis. Miss Wood has for several
years been a valued clerk in the dry goods
store of T. S. Brophy & Co., and was young
lady who had very wide circle of friends
she attended the charity ball in her usual
health last Thursday evening, and was an
interested spectator from the galleries
During that night she was taken seriously
ill. DIR. ID. q. Kemp, her attending physi-
clan, called in doctors Chandler and Nc
guire of Montpelier and James of Water
bury in council and everything possible
was done to relieve her sufferings and save
her life. Her disease, however, was pc.
culiarly malignant, and defed the strenu
GUS efforts of the physicians. She died
about seven O'Clock on Monday evening
She leaves a father and mother, three sis.
ters, Misses Lizzie, Ida and Gertrude, and
one brother, Marshall L. Wood. Funeral
church on Thursday morning at nine
o'clock, Rev. Father w. ]. O'Sullivan Off.
ciatng, and the burial will be in the Cath
Ollie cemetery.
ABOUT one hundred volumes have beer
ordered recently for immediate addition tt
the Kellogg Hubbard Library. Among
them are the following; American Tour
lists Abroad" by w. T. Adams; Digging
for Gold" by Horatio Alger, Jr.; 1.-THE
Choir Invisible" by j. l.. Allen; "The Las
Quarter Century in the United States," by
q. B. Andrews; "a Rebellious Heroine
and "Mr. Bonaparte Of Corsica" by j. X
Bangs; "a Year in the Fields" by Johr
Burroughs; "Rome of To-day and Yester
day." by j. Dennice; Colonial Days in Ole
New York." by Alice NJ Earle; "Authors
and Friends" by Mrs. James T. Fields
"a Book Of Cheerful Cats" by j. G. Fran
els; "The pilgrim, Republic BY J. A
'Phroso" by Anthony Hope; Letters Of
Victor Hugo" Country of the Pointed
Frs" by Sarah o. Jewett; "The Sever
Seas" by Rudyard Kipling; "Mariorie's
guest by Jeanne u. Lincoln; 'DOreen
by Edna Leyall; 1.-THE Mind of the Master,
by Ian Maclaren; with My Friends" by
Brander Matthews; "Modern Heroes of the
Mission Field" by the Bishop of Ossory
Chapters from Life" by Elizabeth s
Phelps; Friendly Letters to Girl Friends, .
by A. ID, T. Whitney; and Famous Ameri
can Actors of To-day" by O. E. L. Wingate
and F. E Mckay.
TIMOTHY ID. SARGENT, foreman of the
Union Pacific yards in Omaha and Council
Bluffs, died on Wednesday, February TO-
after short illness from an acute form oil
the grip, finally resulting in an attack OF
pneumonia. The Omaha Bee says "Mr
Sargent was one of the old attaches of the
Union Pacific system, and the announce
ment of his death was received at head
quarters with great regret as well as with
considerable surprise. He came to Ne
braska from Vermont at the close of the
year 1879. In the east he had been con-
nected with the Vermont Central railroad
and on January 1, 1880, accepted the posi-
ton of assistant roadmaster of the Union
Pacific's Nebraska division. l.. M. Denny
was then roadmaster, and Mr.. Sargent was
his faithful assistant until the beginning of
1886 The Union Stock Yards Company
was then putting in its establishment at
South Omaha Mr.. Sargent accepted the
position of superintendent of railway con.
struction of the company. In that capacity