The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-02-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

DANIEL DURFEE q prominent citizen OF
Bristol, died suddenly last week, aged
sixty-eight years.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters Original, Chester
Powers of Middlesex, IS; George "A. Shep-
ard of Bedford, S6 original, widows, H.
Elizabeth Mudgett Of Plymouth, IS.
In the House of Representatives last
week Congressman Circuit presented the pc
tition of Wendell p. Stafford and thirty
other prominent citizens Of st. Johnsbury,
demonstrating against the passage OF House
bill No. 80 and Senate bill No. 1878. re.
stricting the right to buy and sell railroad
tickets. Also the petition OF Mary j. Fos-
ter, secretary OF the Young Peoples Chris
tian Union of Derby Line for the passage
Of bill to prohibit the sale Of liquors in
government buildings
The appointments OF Bishop Hall during
Lent are as follows: Ash Wednesday, Feb
ruary 81 Barre; second Sunday, March 6.
Northfeld; third Sunday, March 10, Rut-
land; fourth Sunday, March 20, Newport;
Afth Sunday, March 81, St. Adams; Palm
Sunday and holy week, with all the Friday
evenings in Lent, at st. Pauls in Burling-
ton. After Easter the bishop will visit
Enosburgh, Randolph. Royalton, Olcott,
Arlington, Norwich, Manchester and ST.
Johnsbury.
CHARLES FAIRBANKS formerly OF st.
Johnsbury died recently OF pneumonia at
Nice, France, aged seventy.six years. He
was son of Erastus Fairbanks, one OF the
war governors Of the State. he was born
in Barnet December 8, 1921. His early life
was spent at his fathers home in st. Johns
bury. He was educated at Phillips An
dover Academy, and entered the scale firm
of r. & T. Fairbanks & Co. He went to
New York in 1845 to establish branch
house which is now the largest selling
house OF the concern, handling all the for
eign trade. In 1860 he was compelled by
i'll health to 20 to Europe, where he has
since resided.
SENATORS PROCTOR AND MORRILL, intro.
duced petitions in the Senate as follows; A
petition OF citizens OF Reading, and petit
ton OF citizens of Felchville, praying for
the enactment Of legislature to prohibit the
sale OF Intoxicating liquors in all govern
ment buildings. in all National Soldiers
Homes and army posts, and in the navy;
public buildings and grounds. By Senator
Morrill,. A petition Of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union OF Vermont, pray
ing for the enactment OF legislation to pro-
hibit the sale OF Intoxicating liquors in all
government buildings; which was referred
to the committee on public buildings and
grounds. BY Senator Proctor.
THE Randolph Musical Association will
hold its second annual festival on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday. February %, "a
and %. A chorus Of 100 voices is promised.
The following well-known talent has been
engaged to assist the chorus. Prof. Henri
G. Blaisdell of Concord. N. H., conductor;
Beedle's Orchestra of Keene, N. H.; plan
list, Miss M. Josephine Page of Laconia,
N. H.; sopraLos, Misses Cora W. Barnabee
of Portsmouth, N. H., Caroline L. Hauher
and M. Blanche Sparhawk of Randolph
contraltos, Miss Katherine Gilbert Of Bos.
ton and Miss Grace o. Applebee of Little
ton, N. H; tenor, Prof. Charles S. Conant
of Concord, N. H basso, DR.. George r..
CLARK OF the famous Rugges Street Quar-
tette OF Boston; reader, Miss Ethelynd
Gould of the Emerson College of Oratory.
Col. V. A. GAsKILL, a we'll known law
yer and preacher, died last. week at Rut.
land, aged seventy-fve years. He was
the son of Thomas Gaskill, born in Claren-
don in 1923. He fitted for college at the
Rutland County Grammar School at Cas-
Teton and graduated at Middlebury Col
lege in the class of 1874. After preaching
for year or two he went to Georgia, where
he followed the same vocation for several
important pastorates At that time ten Of
the leading Baptist preachers of Georgia
were natives of Vermont, many of them
graduates of Middlebury College. He af-
terward read law and practiced some years
in Atlanta and from thence he went to
Chattanooga. From there he returned to
Vermont some twenty years ago. He was
member of the Rutland county bar, but
had not practiced the profession since his
return.