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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01
Special City Meeting.
prise.

The Bridge Question Again Thoroughly
Discussed and Settled by a Decisive Vote
The Lawyers Exchange Compliments,
While the Voters Listen and Applaud
The Story in Detail.
Nearly five hundred voters crowded into
Armory Hall on Monday evening, in response
to call for a special city meeting to see if the
voters would authorize the city council to build
highway bridge across the Winooski near the
G. II. More crossing, in place of the foot bridge
which has already been partially built. Mayor
Guernsey presided and the warning was read
by city clerk 7. r. Merrill.
T. r. Gordon was at once upon his feet He
introduced the following resolution: IRE
solved that the city council of Montpelier are
hereby instructed to cooperate with the select
men of the town of Berlin in changing the foot
bridge now being constructed by the said city
and town, at or near the G. III. Moore stone
sheds, to highway bridge at the same place,
and that it is the sense of this meeting that said
change be made, provided that one half the
expense of said highway bridge and the abut-
ments for same, including the abutments al
ready built by said city and town for said foot
bridge the expense of which has been paid by
Montpelier, is paid by the town of Berlin, and
provided further that the total cost of said
highway bridge above the said abutments shall
not be in excess d $1,000"
j. II. Senter thought that the voters had
already decided what they wanted. The city
taxes are now in a condition where the rich and
poor can stand them. The streets are now in
good shape and if we go wild and build bridges
we can get along without, we shall land our
selves under load of taxes that this generation
will not see lifted. Mr.. Senter was not in favor
of a highway bridge at this point at the present
time. When we do need a bridge there il
must be an overhead crossing, but that we dc
not need at the present time.
T. X. Gordon called for the reading of the
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East Warren.

The lumbermen are very busy getting
ready for winter hauling of logs, but the
cut will not be large. The mountains are
being stripped of the best very high up and
there is not much money in the business.
The Ladies' Mite Society will meet on
Thursday forenoon with Mrs. j. l.. Tillot-
son. There will be Christmas exer-
cses at the church. - Willis Cady and
family from Northheld spent the past week
creamery were paid twenty-five cents for
their October butter. - Mrs A. e. Ed
redge is suffering with asthma.
The Fish and Game League has recon-
mended the repeal Of the law for an open
season for hunting deer. That was just
what was expected they would do. They
would like to tie the great majority OF the
people hand and foot and deprive them Of
the right to hunt and fish only when and
how they choose. Very few deer have
been killed in this state, judging from re-
ports. Very likely not one-tenth of the in
crease, and they have become so plenty in
many places they have become nuisance
and the farmer must sit and see his crops
destroyed. The first law OF nature is self
preservation and the farmers will not sit
quietly always aud have their natural
rights taken away. 1t will be much better
to allow an open season for killing, under
strict regulations. IL is nearly an impossi-
bility to kill one under the present law, I'M
very strange that occasionally one Is wound
ed and gets away and is lost. Very few
know how to hunt deer. have had no expe-
rience. To hunt without dogs in season
of no snow to track them IL seems to be
only by chance one Is killed. Now some
have had the smell of venison il the open
season is not allowed will have it any way.
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Cabot.

Miss Ada Nelson goes to Boston next
Friday to attend school there.
Miss May Lyford is going to Boston this
week to practice type writing.
Mrs. Tyler Don slipped and fell in such a
manner last Friday as to crack the bone OF
one leg.
The second lecture OF the Christian En-
deavOr course will be next Friday evening.
A rare treat is expected.
Go to the Waterman Office for fountain
pens for Christmas. II you can't go. send
by mail. Orders carefully attended to.
All persons interested in the meeting of
the board of agriculture to be held in this
town on December 16 and II, are requested
to meet at the hotel on Saturday evening
next to make arrangements for the same.
Let there be full attendance.
One of the pleasantest events Of the sea-
son occurred last Wednesday afternoon
when William II. Turner of Berlin and
Miss Myrtle G. Boyles of this village were
united in marriage at the Congregational
church, where busy hands, prompted by
affectionate ties, had tastefully twined white
ribbon among natures evergreen boughs in
the form Of an arch at the end OF each aisle,
and one in front OF the platform, from which
was suspended by a white bow, a horseshoe
Of geranium leaves and white chrysanthe-
NUNS. An elegant patted fern was very
white, could keep silent only till few
minutes past two, when NJ. ID. Wells played
a wedding march which ushered in the
wedding party the bride and groom taking
a position uuder the emblem OF good luck.
brother of the bride and cousin of the
groom and another brother and his bride of
but few weeks ago, stood on either side,
while Miss Marie Wells and Miss Leah Bow
ditch, two little flower girls, were seated on
the platform, each holding basket OF pink
carnations. The wedding ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. III. l.. Hartwell. A short
reception was held in the church parlor,
and from three to four home reception to
near relatives, intimate friends and the
Christian Endeavor society, of which Miss
Myrtle was a worthy and highly esteemed
member. Refreshments of cake, coffee and
fruit were served. The presents were nu-
merous, useful and valuable, and testified
to the good wishes of all present. just as
the newly married couple were starting for
short wedding trip there seemed like a
cloud burst, and rice fell plenteously from
all directions. George Boyles and Miss
Sarah McAllister accompanied them to the
depot.
A CARD.-We, the undersigned, do here
by agree to refund the money on a tifty-cent
bottle OF Greene's Warranted Syrup OF Tar
il il fails to cure your cough or cold. We
also guarantee twenty-five cent bottle tC
prove satisfactory or money refunded
Wells, Boyles & Rogers, Cabot.
Morse Brothers, Cabot.
s, @. Voodry, Cabot
Frank Carr, Calais.
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American Beet Sugar Industry.

In an article contributed to the
November Forum Edwin F. Atkins of
Boston, gentleman conspicuously con-
nected with cane sugar production,
and whose counsel in respect of
Cuban affairs was heard at the White
House during the latter days of Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration, argues
against the wisdom of undertaking to
produce by cultivating the sugar beet
the $50, 900, 900 in sugar the people of
the United States annually consume.
The production of beet sugar, artifici-
ally stimulated by Germany, France
and other European governments, Mr..
Atkins says, is in excess of the demand
and has thrown a heavy burden upon
those governments. So he doubts the
wisdom of entering upon similar policy
in this country. Furthermore the pro-
duction of this vast amount of sugar at
home would deprive the government
of one of its chief sources of revenue.
The exports of the United States to
these sugar producing countries are
about three times the value of the
sugar imported. Mr.. Atkins argues
that it is wiser to continue to
send these countries wheat, corn, beef
and pork and import their sugar than
by raising our own sugar to break down
great foreign Industry and lose the
foreign market for our food products.
Their sugar industry circumscribed or
destroyed, the European beet farmers,
the writer urges, might be compelled to
turn their attention to the production
of the grain, beef and pork this country
is now sending them. What then
would the American farmer gain? The
conclusion to which Mr.. Atkins would
lead the farmer is that, economically
and in the matter of his personal
finances, he would make a mistake by
engaging in sugar beet culture, and il
he is wise he will stick to the raising OF
wheat, corn, beef and pork.
In defense of the sugar beet industry
and in illustration of it's capacity for
profiting the farmer, in comparison
with wheat raising, Francis Wayland
Glen sends to the New York Sun the
subjoined illuminating communication
To the Editor Of the Sun-Sir: In part an
swer to the attack upon the beet sugar in
dustry of this country, made by Mr.. Edward
r. Atkins Of Boston in the Forum, permit
me to give the result Of the year 1896 at tn,
Watsonville Beet Sugar Mandatory O
California. The average yield OF beets wa,
14.06 gross tons per acre, and the average
product OF sugar from the same was 8, b4l
pounds. The farmer was paid an average
Of 81 per ton, or 500 per acre, for the beets
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Mr. Senter said that he knew that the rail
roads would oppose grade crossing and when
a highway bridge is built at this point the
public safety demands viaduct bridge. If
the attempt is made to put in bridge here
with grade crossings, litigation would surely
follow, and it would cost the city more than
the mayors estimate of highway bridge i'm
GLIDING land damages. Mr. Senter thought
there was necessity for any further expendi-
ture of money at this point. The Rialto bridge,
the bridge crossing the Winooski near the
Central Vermont depot, and the foundry
bridge must soon be rebuilt a courts com
mission has decided that this bridge in question
is not public necessity. The resolution
passed last June, which has Just been read,
did not bind the city to build foot bridge or
any other bridge near the G. II. More sheds.
f. L. Laird thought highway bridge at
that point necessity. lie reviewed in detail
the history of the bridge case and favored the
passage of the resolution introduced by Mr.,
Gordon,
W. A. Lord said he appeared in the private
capacity OF tax payer and not as a paid
attorney, or as one who had some lots to sell
on Berlin side He believed the resolution
was deceptive for the voters, and referred to
the fact that all the land damages from Barre
street to the river, which must be paid by the
city of Montpelier was not mentioned in the
resolution. III bridge is to built there it must
meet the growing necessities of Montpelier for
the next fifty years and six or seven thousand
dollars would never build such a bridge. Mr.
Lord said there is a present necessity irsde
the city limits for the rebuilding of bridges
all the city can stand mt present, and he moved
that the resolution introduced by Mr. Gordon
be dismissed.
Mr.. Senter replied to some personal allu-
sions made by Mr. Laird, and Il. r. Gordon
then took the floor. He said that the town Of
Berlin in special town meeting had voted to in
struct its selectmen to use their influence tC
have highway bridge instead of a foot bridge
and if foot bridge is put in there it means
$1,000 practically thrown away. Mr.. Gordon
prophesied that school district No. in Berlin
will be the sixth ward of Montpelier in five OIL
ten years, and urged the point that the resolu
ton did not ask for highway bridge at this
point unless it could be built for $1,000
Several attempts were made to drown Mr.
Gordons voice but with the assistance of the
mayor, who vainly attempted to preserve order
Mr. Gordon continued until he had finished hi
argument. A ballot was taken on the motion
to dismiss the resolution which resulted al
follows:
Whole number of votes cast. $40
Necessary for a choice. ...... .............. lis
In favor of dsmissing the resolution...... 2.6
Against dismissal. .........,.....-.......... l23
And the resolution was declared dismissed
On motion of w. A. Lord the meeting wal
adjourned.
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ern Union Telegraph Company died last
Saturday night at his home in Englewood,
N. j. He had returned from his Office in
the Western Union building in New York,
in apparently good health and he was read
ing in his library when stricken with heart
failure. He died within short time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

THE Canadian proposition in favor of
closer relations between the United
States and Canada is another evidence
that the protests against the Dingley
tariff was simply bluff.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

business is to succeed, but at the same
time he gets at an understanding of the
advertising value Of newspaper and
willingly pays its price if he uses it's
columns at all. Unless the Gazette is
an exception, it is every week receiving
numbers of propositions for advertising
more absurd than it deems the one in
question to be, and if the contemporary
should devote paragraph to scoring
each one he would have little room for
anything else.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.

RECENT advices from China confirm
the statement made several weeks ago
that gold standard is to be adopted by
that government as soon as practicable.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01


CONGRESS, when it meets in regular
session next week, will have no occa-
sion to regret its action in the special
session by which it placed the Dingley
tariff law upon the statute books. The
doleful predictions made by the Demo-
Gratis about the prospective operations
of the Republican tariff measure which
was enacted at the special session few
months ago are not being realized. On
the contrary, the four months in which
it has been tested have proven that the
Republicans made no mistake in their
action with reference to this measure.
Its earnings in the four months in
which it has been in operation are
millions in excess of those of the cor
responding months in the history of
Wilson law and are sufficient to fully
justify the belief of the Republicans
that it will, when normal conditions are
resumed, prove ample in its qualities as
revenue producer, and in it's effect
upon our commerce. The rec pts of
the treasury during the first four
months of the operation of the law will
amount in round numbers to 100000,
600, while the Wilson law in its first
four months earned about $4,000, 900.
When it is considered that the Wilson
law had the benefit of enormous i'm
portations which had been held back in
order to get the advantage of the lower
tariff rates which it gave, and that the
Dingley law labored under the disad.
vantage of very small importations be.
cause of the heavy shipments into the
country prior to its enactment, it will be
seen that the operations of the new law
indicate that it is to be much more sue
cessful as a revenue producer than was
the Wilson law. The further fact that
the receipts have steadily increased,
and that those of November will be, in
round numbers, 1926 ,000, 900, shows that
with the return to normal business con.
ditions, and the importations which
will follow the absorption of the i'm.
mense stock which was in hand when
the new law went into effect, it is per-
fectly apparent that it will, within q
very short time, be producing all the
revenue that the government requires
to meet its current expenditures, and a
surplus to put into the sinking fund,
something which was not done in any
period of the Wilson law.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

REPRESENTATIVES, of the free coin
age proposition met last week in Ken
lucky, and after a few minutes of pri-
vate conference announced that they
had decided to " Keep up the fight for
free silver" In view of the fact that
the Republicans in that state made
gains where free silver was the issue in
the recent election, members of that
party will offer no objections to the
decisions of the free coinage Kentuck-
ians.
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when any worthy object is in need of
help. The advertising columns of the
WATCHMAN tell who some of these
leading merchants of Montpelier are,
and the new advertisements of many
others will appear next week. Our
merchants are preparing for large
holiday business and there is no reason
why we should not give them the trade
they have right to expect. Let the
people of Montpelier follow the ex-
ample set them by the Central Vermont
railroad and buy their holiday goods
from their home merchants.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

THE National Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry, at the recent annual
meeting of the Order in Harrisburg,
Pa, honored Vermont again and
showed their appreciation of the services
of an active and efficient officer by re-
electing Hon. Alpha Messer of Roches-
ter Lecturer of the national organiza-
ton. Mr.. Messer was first chosen to
this important post four years ago. The
Lecturer is the chief agency through
which the principles and purposes of
the Order are promulgated and through
which Subordinate Oranges and the
members personally are melted to active
labor. He is the mouthpiece of the
Order. He prepares its literature. He
is the editor and conductor of the
Grange Quarterly, the publication OF
which was begun under the auspices OF
the national organization in 1896. This
publication and the various pamphlets
published under Mr.. Messer's supervis-
ion display push and an energy, fer
tility of resources and literary ability
combined with good judgment and
sound common sense, that have made
him an official of the foremost rank in
the Order to which he is so zealously
attached. Mr. Messer got his training
in the Vermont State Grange of which
he was many years the Master and
which highly prospered under his
energetic management. He was one
of the earliest members of the Order in
this State. He has risen from the
ranks and his advancement has been
the proper recognition of merit and
ability.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

THE Granite City Leader made itself
ridiculous last week by labored edi-
torial on the failure of the jury to do
it's duty in the case of murderer Kelley
at Nashua, N. H., and in scoring the
compromise verdict of the twelve men
who decided Kelley's fate. The Leader
should keep more in touch with i'm
portant events in New England before
il comments upon them editorially.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

THE New York Commercial AdUer-
t,ser says that Secretary Bliss has evil
IDENTITY carried his business habits with
him to the Interior Department. He
has succeeded in cutting down the esti-
mates of his subordinates for the next
fiscal year over S9,OOO,OOO. This is an
effective way every time of fighting a
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

THE Hardwick Gazette is reviling the
Farrar & Barlow advertising agency of
Burlington because, as the Gazette
alleges, that agency offered two dollars
for the insertion of reading notice six
months. Instead of rushing into print
with its grievance-if it was a griev-
ance-the rational and business-like
course for the Gazette to have pursued
was TO refuse the proposition, if it was
not satisfactory, and il it desired to Sc
cure the business to fix its own price
and show the agency that the price was
fair and reasonable. The WATCHMAN
was the first, or at least among the
earliest, of the State papers to take adj
vertising from the Farrar- Barlow
agency. 1t has done business with the
company for over five years. Mr.. Bar
low, the manager of the agency, is an
energetic young man with a realizing
sense of the fact that he must look out
or himself and his customers il his
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

WHY is it that our expectations to
practically all the countries which pro-
tested against the new tariff have in
creased under the new law? The thir-
teen countries which protested against
the new law, instead of shutting out
our goods in retaliation for the pas
sage of this act, actually increased their
purchases from us in August and Sep
TENDER nearly $25 ,OOO,0OO as compared
with the corresponding months of last
year under the Wilson law. Here is a
conumdrum for those Democrats who
insisted that high tariff meant des-
truction of our market abroad.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01

And the resolution was declared dismissed.
On motion of w. A. Lord the meeting was
adjourned.
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1T is not the Eastern question 30
much as the Western question that is
now vexing Europe. The rather hys-
terical appeal of the Austrian minister
of foreign affairs for sort of continen-
tai industrial "trust" to combat COM
mercial competition from the American
side of the ocean, no doubt awakens
responsive feelings in the breasts of all
other premiers and all the monarchs.
Similar expressions of discomfort with
the growth of American commerce
come periodically from Germany,
France and England, but hitherto none
have gone so far as 10 suggest actual
war, for such is the logical deduction
from the Austrian's allusion to the re-
ligious conflicts of the middle ages.
The exasperating features of a tariff
war, from the European standpoint, is
that trade intercourse with the United
States and Argentine, for instance,
could not be cut off without causing
actual suffering at home, and the popu.
lar reaction might be unsettling, and
indeed dangerous.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-06-16

The AIiller viii case of Pitts
burg, on trial for the past Eve
Feeks. IN which Hon. Chas. T..
Hogg andl--Alai. ". 81. Tomlinson,
appeared for the contestants, was
decided adversely to the coates-
tants A motion was made for a
new triad and viii be argued Thurs
day The jury we're divided. until
the court directed that the minority
should go with the majority and
make up and return verdict
Eminent lawyers declare this a
strange proceeding on the part OF
the court Should the court re-
fuse new trial. the case viii be
appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Shot His WHO.

The news reached here yester-
day evening from Ben Lomond,
that during a family row, man
had shot his wife, using shot
gun. filing her face with bird-shot
but not dangerously wounding her.
He was arrested and fined by the
Magistrate for assault The wife
refusing to prosecute. the matter
viii not be investigated further
Vecould not ascertain their names
but they were citizensof Ohio, and
had only been in the neighbor-
hood few days.
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Hit the Omcer.

Constable John Crump, of Glen
denim District. had a warrant for
the arrest of one John Shifiet, and
while he was reading the warrant
to him, Shifflet struck the officer
on the head with club knocking
him senseless. Two bystanders
then arrested Shiflet. He was
charged with beating his wife and
the warrant was sworn out By her.
ShifHet was given ten day in jail
by Squire eIEfiey, and he was
brought here by Constable Crump
and locked up
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the same to be placed IN the lodge.
room, so that We might ourselves
have a perpetual reminder OF him
self and his influence for good
amongst us. and that those TO come
after us might have the opportunl-
ty to study his features and learn
true Masonry from his example.
AT the request, and ia behalf OF
your COMMITTEES appointed for that
purpose, have now the honor to
report their duty done, and to pre-
sent to Minturn Lodge. No. 49, a.
Z e Al NJ. this portrait, which we
regard as an appropriate, though It
may be an inadequate, tribute to
the sterling worth of our former
Grand Master
After these remarlSs by Mr.
Wiley. the portrait was acceEted
by an unanious vote of the lodge.
and the portrait ordered to be
placed upon the wall of the lodge
room
Ihis portrait was palntee BY a'
artist In Cincinnati. and is e splend-
id likeness of Mr.. Howard.