The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27

trio railroad, wishes it distinctly under.
stood that the proceedings that disgraced
Dewey Park on recent Sunday, when a
gang OF Italians from Barre INDUCED in a
boistrous drunk there, have been sum-
marily stopped. A policeman is on duty
there now, both on Sundays and week days,
and all Objectionable parties will be kept
from the grounds.
The formal opening Of Dewey Park will
occur next Wednesday. By that time the
pavilion will be completed and the grounds
will be put in shape. The affair will be un-
der the auspices Of the American Order Of
Foresters OF Montpelier and Barre. The
Montpelier orchestra has been engaged for
dancing and an effort will be made to Sc
cure sufficient funds to hire the entire band
for the afternoon and evening.
A SPECIAL electric car load OF members OF
Canton Vinton of Odd Fellows from Barre
visited Canton Montpelier last Friday
evening, when Col. M. A. Mcclure OF Rut-
land installed the officers. At the conclu-
sion Of the work a banquet was served in
the robiDg room at which speeches were
made by Colonel Mcclure, William Mari,
e. #. Smith and James Campbell OF Canton
Vinton, and by several local members. The
party returned to Barre at midnight.
The last car for Barre over the electric
road now leaves Montpelier at ten o'clock
in the evening instead OF half past nine.
A car for Montpelier leaves Barre at the
same hour. Both OF these cars on the re-
turn trip go no farther than the car barn
The volume Of travel on the road continues
heavy. Since the road was opened the last
week in June about g., 900 passengers have
been carried. Extra cars are required
every evening to accommodate the people
in the two cities.
CAPT. G. A. BOND, former resident of
this city and Barre, now manager of the
Gloversvile Granite Company of Glovers-
vile, N. Y, has been in town during the
or unalr Hn hao hnh at
the shop of Charles A. Smith samples of the
granite he is quarrying, which has been
pronounced by experts who have examined
1t, as possessed OF more than the average
desirable qualities. Mr.. Smith will act as
agent for Captain Bond in Montpelier and
vicinity.
THE general manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Company has sent Man
ager d. e. Mason a circular letter, which
states that the internal revenue department
has ruled that the person sending tele-
graph message must affix and cancel the
one-cent internal revenue stamp required
by law, and that failure to do so renders
the company liable to fine of $40 and the
sender to fine Of 500. Do not blame
Manager Mason If he insists that these in
structions are carried out.
The electric railroad officials recently ap-
pointed George w. Kidder as special po-
liceman at Dewey Park, but M. w. Wheel
ock, town clerk Of Berlin: refused to ad
minister the required oath to Mr.. Kidder
and the matter has been referred to the
Berlin selectmen. The objection to Mr..
Kidder is not on personal grounds, but be-
cause he is resident of Montpelier, and
the Berlin officials feel that the policeman
for that locality should be a resident of the
town in which the park is located.
THOMAS Fox, a granite worker, some
time ago received an injury that required
the amputation Of leg. He has been pa
finy of ita1 ha,, n14
and poor, without friends in this country,
his future had seemed quite cheerless.
But his fellow workmen in the granite COM
pany Of Jones Brothers recently made up a
purse of nearly $500 for him and the gen.
eerous deed has greatly. cheered the poor
fellows heart. An artificial leg, it is re-
ported, will be the gift Of his former en-
ployers.
HORACE II. BLAKE, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Blake, died last Thursday morning
at Heston Hospital Of spinal meningitis,
aged nineteen years. Deceased was
out at Camp Olympia, because of his light
weight He leaves father and mother,
| four brothers and sister. His funeral was
held Sunday afternoon from the home OF
II. n. Lawrence, his uncle, Rev. j. Edward
Wright officiating, and the interment was
in the Cutler burying ground.
FRED THOMAS left last week in response
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Company III at Chickamauga Park. Mr..
| Thomas was member of the company
when it left Montpelier, but was thrown
out at Camp Olympia because of hernia.
He promptly went to Mary Fletcher hos
pital and submitted to an operation for the
removal of the disability, and since his dis
| charge from the hospital he has been impa-
tiently waiting the summons that reached
him last week. Such persistence and pa
triotism combined should not 90 unre-
warded.
B. B. BAILEY station agent for the Gen.
trail Vermont railroad is urging on Superin-
tendent Baldwin the desirability and neces-
| sity of some radical changes at the local
station. 1t is planned to combine the ticket
and telegraphic offices where the ticket
office now is, and enlarge the baggage room,
by the addition OF the space now occupied
by the telegraph office. A lunch counter
and parcel room, near the ticket and tele-
graph Office, that would be constant
| source Of revenue to the company, is also in
cluded in Mr.. Bailey's plan.
AN excursion will be run to Plattsburg,
N. Y, next Saturday via the Central Yer
mont railroad and steamer Reindeer. The
excursion will be under the auspices OF St.
| Peters Court, Catholic Order Of Foresters.
The Catholic summer school Is now in ses-
sion at Plattsburg and this will be an ex-
cellent opportunity for those desiring to
visit the school at small expense. An or
chestrs will accompany the excursion and
furnish music for dancing. The fare for
the round trip from Barre and Montpelier
will be one dollar; Middlesex, ninety cents
Waterbury, eighty cents A special train
will leave Barre at 1880 A. NJ, and Mont
pelier at 1850. arriving on the return trip at
a seasonable hour. The boat will be at the
Plattsburg dock five hours.
VARIOUS schemes have been devised OF
late for killing the tent caterpillar moths
that swarm around the arc light at night.
Alderman Blanchard and j. V. Babcock
hit upon novel scheme, which was 80 sue
cessful that the street committee from the
city council has ordered its adoption
throughout the city. The opening at the
base Of the large globe on the arc lights is
closed with paper, making a secure place
into which the millers fall after contact
with the electric light. The sixty-nine arc
lights in the city have been thus covered al
the base, and already several bushels of the
pest have been destroyed. Inasmuch as
each moth is credited with capacity OF
laying Ave hundred eggs, it would seem
that q good work has already been done
toward preventing the appearance Of the
worms next season.
PRESIDENT SoRrwELL and General Man
ager Stowell Of the Montpelier and Wells
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