The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-12
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engagement is particularly fiattering as Mr..
Bancroft has already appeared Ave times in
Providence during the present season.
IsADoRE DUPLIssEs was arrested last |
by Truant Officer G. s. Whittier |
for habitual truancy. The lad was to have |
been given hearing before Justice j. Fl.
Lucia that day, but he eluded the officer,
and kept out Of sight until Saturday even
ing. He was taken before Justice Lucia
and adjudged truant, but senten nee was
pending his good behavior.
II. A. STANDIsH won first prize, silver
keg of powder, at the prize handicap shoot
held last Friday afternoon by the Mont
pelier Gun Club at the range near Barre
Transfer. Standsh hit forty-eight out OF
fifty birds, and fifty out OF ffty-three in the
handicap shoot. The second prize, fine
picture, was won by Hoisington OF the
Recreation Gun Club Of Barre.
On Thursday, June II, class day exercises
will be held by the graduating class OF the
Montpelier High School. This will be the
first exercise of the kind held in the history
OF the school. The programme as arranged
includes an address by @. K. Wheatley, the
president; class Grafton, Patrick CORY;
class poem, f. l.. Hayford; class prophecies,
Miss Nellie Moulton; class history, Miss
Edith Blanchard; address to undergrad
yates, Miss Julia Peck; essay on the late
Prof. s. j. Blanpied, Miss Mary Osgood
The graduating class has twenty'one men,
bers, making it the largest ever sent out.
AMONG the prominent attorneys outside
Of Washington county who were present at
the opening of the supreme court on Tues
day, were o. M. Barber Of Arlington, Will
lard Harrington, #. w. McGettrick and A A.
Hall of st. Adams, W. II. Bliss Of Burling-
ton, Joel G. Baker of Rutland, 8. K. Pingree
of Hartford, John Young of Newport, W. 2;
Stafford of ST Johnsbury, @. M. Wilds OF
Middlebury, II. X Darling Of Chelsea, j.:
e. Cushman Of Burlington, j. @. Enright of
Windsor, j. II. Mimms Of st. Adams, N. l..
Boyden of Randolph, #. L. Fish OF Yer
gennes, H. A. Hartman Of Rutland, and @.
Q. Fits of Brattleboro.
A DETAILED programme OF the Odd Eel
| lows celebration nextlweek is given on page
| two. The parade Wednesday afternoon
will form in front of the State House at four
o'clock, and, headed by the Montpelier Mill
tary band, will take the following line OF
March: Up State street to Main, Main to
to Barre, countermarch Main to School,
School to Loomis LOOMS to Jay, Jay to
Main, Main to Spring, Spring to Elm, Elm
to State, to the Pavilion, where dress
parade will be given. Owners Of private
residences and places of business on the
line of march have very generally con-
scented to decorate in honor Of the occasion.
THE Seminary team returned Tuesday
| night from a victorious trip, having won
| the first league game Of the season at st.
Johnsbury by beating the Academy boys
10 to II. This game was evenly contested
and in donbt up to the last minute but with
| the score II to II against them our boys
won the game in the last half of the ninth
inning on hard hits by Curtis and Bixby.
The boys feel that they have a fair prospect
of winning the $75 Interscholastic Cup now
| that st. Johnsbury Academy has been dis
posed of on its own ground. A second
game on the trip was played at Wells River
on Tuesday and won by Montpelier, score
IA to /.
THE seventh musical festival of the Bur
| lington Philharmonic Society will be held
in Howard opera house Monday, May H. to
| Friday, May 81, inclusive, with the veteran
Carl Zerrahn conductor. Grand concerts
will be given Wednesday evening, Thurs
| day afternoon and evening and Friday af-
ternoon and evening. A chorus of 300
voices, with eminent soloists, will render
| delightful programmes. The Central Yer.
mont railroad will sell special excursion
tickets to Burlington and return, good 60
| ing May IL to 81 inclusive and returning
May II to "a, for $175, from Montpelier and
board can besecured at the hotels at reduced
rates.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE CHAPTER,
Daughters of the American Revolution,
met on Monday evening with Mrs. III. A.
| Huse. 1t was the anniversary of the TAX
ing of Ticonderoga, and the exercises had
special reference TO that event. Rev. A.
battle, and recited The Ghost Story" by
Major Duncan Campbell, who fell in the at.
tack on Ticonderoga by Gen. Abercrombie
| in 1853. Mrs. II. X. Sherburne read selec-
tions from Thompson's "Green Mountain
Boys" Mrs, II. W. Cate read one of Col. G.
| G. Eastman's poems, and Judge Hiram
Carleton gave an interesting talk, in which
he showed that but for Ticonderoga there
would have been no Vermont. The next
meeting will be June II, the anniversary of
the battle of Bunker Hill.
| URSULA SPRAGUE, widow of the late
Judge S. s. Kelton, died early Monday
morning after brief illness from pneumo-
| mia, aged seventy-seveD years. In March,
1888, she was married to Judge Kelton, and
settled on the farm in East Montpelier
resided in Montpelier since 1878. Her hus-
band died several years ago. Mrs. Marcella
Furguson, a sister, has lived with her of
late, and has tenderly cared for her in her
declining years. She leaves two sons-Capt.
Dwight ID. Kelton of Washington, d. c.,
home farm in East Montpelier. The fune-
raj will be held from her late home on Elm
street at half past eleven this morning
Rev. j. Edward Wright officiating, and the
body will be taken to East Montpelier for
burial beside the remains of her husband
PETER BURKE, a section man on the Gem
trail Vermont railroad between Montpelier
and Barre, dropped dead last Saturday
evening just as he was stepping into his
buggy in front of the post-office The body
was taken to the undertaking rooms Of
Johonnotts & Hail. where it was examined
by Health Officer III. A. Fisk. The physi-
clan decided that paralysis of the heart was
the cause of death. Deceased was fifty
eight years old. He leaves widow, two
daughters and four sons. He had formerly
lived in Richmond and Burlington, and had
resided on Berlin side. near the electric
light station, for the past five years. He
served two years in Company M, Eleventh
Vermont Regiment, and was honorably dis
charged at the close of the war. The
funeral was held from st. Augustine's
church on Monday, and the body was taken
| 20 Richmond for burial.
AS will be seen by reference to Washing
| ton County Court proceedings a motion was
made last Saturday by f. p. Carleton and
Il. A. Rowland to dismiss the petition for
the appointment OF another courts commits
sion in the Charles street bridge case. The
motion was opposed by T. R. Gordon and
| +. l.. Laird. No decision was rendered, but
from the remarks of Judge Rowell 1t is in
| ferred that the motion to dismiss will be
| overruled, and II counsel can agree on COM
missioners they will probably be appointed
| when county court convenes Monday, MAY
"a. In that case the old straw will be
threshed again before new commissioners,