The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

A DAUGHTER was born last Wednesday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert w Wheeler.
THE Olympia Mandolin and Guitar club
gave concert at Cabot last Thursday even
ing.
NAPOLEON Monty has been granted an
increase Of pension from So to $14 per
month.
MRS. I. s. BRoPHY is visiting Mrs. o. g..
Barron, her sister, at the Quincy House,
Boston.
MRS. M. f. LELAND left last Thursday
evening for Omaha, Neb., where she Is to
reside in future.
JOHN M. wBITcoMB of Beverly, Mass,
was the guest last week OF A. A. and w.
p. Whitcomb, his cousins.
A. M. Hunt OF Boston who represents the
Granite Magazine and rate book has been In
town during the past week.
REV FATHER W. j. O'SULLIvAN assisted
at q forty hours devotion held last week
at St. Mary's church in st. Adams.
A LARGE delegation from the Church OF
the Messiah attended the church fair and
supper at Middlesex last Wednesday even
ing.
MRS AMELIA FAY and Miss Della A. Fay,
her daughter, left last Thursday for Red
lands, Cal, where they are to remain dur
the winter.
MISS KATHERINE SMITH left last Thurs
day evening for jackson, Mich, where she
is to remain during the winter with Mrs.
Charles K. Wilson, her sister.
Mrs. LUCY HoLLIsTER OF North Montpe.
lier went last Thursday to Jacksonville,
Fla, where she Is to cook In the st. James
hotel during the winter season.
G. A. SMITH sat large monument last
week on the lot of the late Andrew II. ia.
quith in Marshfeld. This is said TO be one
of the finest jobs ever set in Marshfeld
cemetery.
HENRY L. e. SMITH went last week to
Jacksonville, Fla, where he Is to resume
bis former position as cashier in the St.
James hotel, one of the largest winter re
sort hotels in that city.
FRANK X. ROB ERNsoN will lecture in the
Young Mems Christian Association Stal
course next week Tuesday evening. His
theme will be manila and the Philippines
and his lecture will be illustrated by 15(
stereopticon views.
THE main entrance to the Pavilion is now
lighted by an arc light OF twelve hundred
candle power. This light is in close globe
and will burn $50 hours without trimming
1t is the first OF these improved arc light,
to be used in this city.
The new shirts and hats for the Hook ant
Ladder company have arrived and were
distributed to the members of the com
pany at their headquarters last Wednesday
evening AT this meeting three new mem
bers OF the company were elected.
THE Olympia Mandolin and Guitar clul
will give an entertainment in the vestry o
Trinity church some evening in Decembe
at which the Kinder symphony recital re
Gently given by George II. Wilder at tn,
will be repeated.
ERNEST MCDONALD and John Lawrence
sons of w. E Mcdonald and Herbert Law
renee OF Berlin street. were severely in
jured last Thursday noon, while coasting
The lads were coasting az right angles an(
came in collision with terrific force. They
were taken TO their homes in an insensibl,
condition.
ASSISTANT JUDGES, Mark Mears and G
d. Edgerton were in Montpelier last Wed
nesday preparing financial statement o
the county for the year ending December l
They laid a county tax of five per cent for
period of three years for the construction o
the new Jail at Montpelier. The old boart
of jail commissioners with M, e. Smile al
county auditor and A. W. Ferrin as county
treasurer were appointed by the assistan
judges.
JOEL e EMERsoN, farmer living il
Worcester was arrested last Wednesday by
Deputy Sheriff John L. futile for soliciting
business for the United States Benevolen
Society of Saginaw, Mich, an accident ant
sick benefit concern, without first having
registered with the State insurance com
missioners. Mr.. Emerson pleaded ignor
ance of the law and furnished bail in thu
sum of $500 for his appearance at the Marcel
term of Washington county court, which
was fixed by the assistant judges, Messrs
Mears and Edgerton. The minimum fin,
for this offence is 800 and the maximum
penalty Is 81 900,
THE lecture at the opera house last w ed
nesday evening, by Rev. DR. 8. A. Steele
gave some very entertaining glimpses o.
home life in Dixie before the war and wa,
enjoyable from first to last. DR.. Steele
spoke from the standpoint of "rebel." as
he and his fathers family were on the Con
federa'e side during the civil war, but hi
gave in very happy manner the reasons
which made him materially change the
views Of his early manhood. His long as
ISOLATION with the Southern people enabled
him TO portray their characteristics in very
entertaining way.
A MEETING Of the members Of Company
II was held at ArmorY hall last Wednes
day evening to divide the funds on hand
and to discuss the question whether the
company should continue az an organiZa
ton. 1t was voted to divide $40.19 on hand
among the four members OF the company
who remained at Chickamaugua when the
regiment came north. The remaining bal
ancs of 1913 is to be divided among the
twenty-five members of the company. The
company has at present but twenty
two members and l. is not yet decided
whether the organization will be KEEP
alive.
CORNELIUS HAYES of Moretown wal
tried last Thursday afternoon before Judge
Smile and jury composed Of o. j, Vail
#. A. Adams, A. j. Sibley, @. j. Berry
George Wheeler and G. j. Kingsbury, OF
the charge OF cruelty to his horse. III. G
Shurtleff,. grand juror, appeared for the
State and Hayes was defended by j. G
Wing and e. II. Deavitt. The testimony
of the State tended to show that the horse
was left on two separate occasions, stand
ing at the rear OF the Holmes block during
the entire night. The jury returned yer
dict Of guilty and sentence OF So and cost
Was imnosad. The Casa WAS annaalad Il