The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-03

average precipitation Tor This month for
ten years, 2 30 inches; clear days, four I;
partly cloudy days, thirteen cloudy days
eleven.
A CAMPFIRE will be held in the hall of
Brooks Post on Thursday evening at half
past seven to which the public is invited
The affair is under the auspices OF Brooks
Post, Brooks Relief Corps and General
stephen Thomas Camp, Sons of Veterans.
There will be speaking by local talent, and
good music.
THE United States Weather Bureau has
made arrangements with Col. A. @. Brown,
manager OF the Vermont Telephone and
Telegraph Company whereby weather FORE
casts will be bulletined each day at eleven
O'Clock at the central telephone station in
Montpelier, and sent from there to the sew
eral stations on Col Browns system.
IT was genuine delight to the friends of
f. w. Bancroft to hear his voice in service
| OF song, held last Sunday evening in the
Church Of the Messiah. A choice programme
was rendered, and the audience was so
| large that 1t was necessary to fill the aisles
with chairs. Because of this service the
evening service at Bethany church was
omitted.
Miss MARY AHERN died last Friday morn
ing at the home Of Mrs. w. H. Campbell.
! her sister, after an Illness Of two years from
! consumption, aged twenty four years. She
! leaves ian iaged mother and one sister Mrs
! Campbell. Her funeral was held from St.
]
! eight o'clock and the body was taken to
Mortified for interment.
THE funeral of Lawrence Fitzgerald was
held last Sunday from St Augustine's
church, Rev. Father w. j. O'Sullivan Off
eating, and the burial was in the family lot
| in the Catholic cemetery. Mr.. Fitzgerald
died last Friday at his home in Plainfield,
OF kidney trouble, aged seventy years
He leaves one son and three daughters, one
of them Mrs. George Wheeler of this city.
THE Band and Adelph Societies con-
nected with the Montpelier Seminary will
hold joint debate commencement week
for prize of S25. The question to be dis
cussed is, Resolved, that free government
in the United States will prove a failure"
Pearl Daniels, Carroll Marvin and Harry
Hopkins will take the affirmative, repre-
senting the Band, and George 8. Lee, Lu-
Their g. Coburn and G. M Ramsey the mega
tive, for the Adelphi.
A HEARING was given by Judge Start in
the case of Coffrin against Coffrin, in City
Court room last Thursday. This is one Of
the divorce cases to be heard at the coming
term Of Washington County Court, and the
hearing before Judge Start was to settle
some disputed points. Pending the hear
ing Of the divorce suit Mr.. Coffrin is en-.
Joined from selling any furniture, Mrs.
Coffrin is given custody Of the four minor
children, Mr.. Coffrin to provide for the sup.
port of three Of them.
the girls Of the "Sweet Sixteen" club,
with few other guests, at very dainty
tea on Monday evening. The "Sweet Six
teens" are rather lively crowd, within
earshot Of whose weekly "gabfests no
ascetic should come if he would escape
wounding. Miss White Welcomed to her
parlors an exceedingly apprecistive COM
pany, and the company finds its vocabulary
somewhat too limited to express its due ap-
probation OF her hospitality.
WHATEVER may be individual opinions in
regard to the purchase of the Golden Fleece
building for a city hall, the election of Tues
day demonstrated that the hall is admirably
adapted to the holding of annual city meet
ings. Under the direction of Mayor STRAIT
ton and Sheriff Bancroft, the voting booths
and ratings were erected in such way as
to give ample room for individual voters,
and at the mass meeting in the afternoon
there was room for everybody and the
speakers could be plainly heard in every
part Of the hall. The assertion that Armory
Hall is the best hall in the state is in no
danger of successful contradiction.
THE statement of the figures of the ex-
pense OF the poor and the liquor accounts of
the city government, in the review Of the
report of the city council last week, was
correctly written and appeared correctly in
the compositor's proof, The two items adj
joined, and in making up the paper for the
the press the figures representing the thou
u,
making the statement of the expense Of the
poor, as published, $4,000 greater, and the
liquor account a similar sum less, than the
true amount. The expenditure for the
poor, as stated in recapitulation No. /
should have been 50, 46607; in the liquor
department, $5,7691S.
SOME of the provisions OF the franchise
granted by the city council to the Peoples
Incorporated Telephone Company are of
public interest 1t provides that all wires
strung by the Peoples Incorporated Tele-
phone Company within what was the lin
its of the village of Montpelier in 1894,
shall be attached to the poles now is use by
the Vermont Telegraph and Telephone
Company, unless otherwise ordered by the
city council. The franchise also provides
that all wires strung on State street shall
be cabled between the Pavilion and the
head of State street, and that wires strung
on Main street, extending outside the
junction OF Main and Barre, and Main and
| School streets shall be cabled under the
direction OF the city council.
THE benefit concert for Miss Agnes NJ
Dooley of Mortified, given in Blanchard
Opera House last Friday evening, attracted
fair audience, although not as large as the
artists who took part merited. j. c. Bart
lett and Miss Gertrude Edmands, tenor and
contralto soloists, are old time favorites in
Montpelier, and both were very cordially
received. Miss Bessie Belle Collier, the
child violinist, played with refinement Of
feeling, splendid technical outfit, rich,
mellow tone, and a general style of bowling
and phrasing far beyond her years This
Young miss, who is still in short clothes,
has promise of brilliant future. Miss
Dooley performed the thankless part OF ac-
companist in manner beyond criticism
About twenty-five of her friends from
NoIthheld were present.
THE following data covering period of
ten years, have been compiled from the
Weather Bureau records at Mortified.
Month of March for ten years. Mean or
normal temperature, 25o; warmest month,
1894, with an average Of $40; coolest month
1896, with an average of 20o; highest tenn
perature, GO on 19th, 1894; lowest tempera-
ture, 15o on I'd, 1891; average precipitation
for the month, 2 70 inches; average number
Of days with OF of an inch or more, IA;
greatest monthly precipitation 141 inches in
1896; least monthly precipitation, .06 inches
in 1894 greatest amount OF precipitation re-
corded in any twenty-four consecutive
hours was 68 inches on 10Th, 1896; the
greatest amount OF snowfall recorded in
any twenty.four consecutive hours (record
extending to winter of 1873 only was IS
inches on March -, 1888; average number
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