The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-02-09


of which shall include clergy
men and laymen connected with the Con-
church In this part OF the state. |
A committee comp Jsed OF Rev. DIR. Norman |
Seayer, Hon. M. s. Stone and A. j. Howe. |
all OF Mon pelier, was appointed to prepare |
a constitution and bylaws and to arrange a |
for the next meeting, which |
will be held some time in March.
The entertainment to be given next |
Wednesday evening in Grand Army hall, |
under the auspices Of Brooks Relief Corps,
will be well deserving OF patronage Major
X. ii. Henderson,, the drummer boy Of the
Rappahannock, and j. q. Hendershot his
son, will give an exhibition Of the possibili-
ties of the fife and drum that is called won
derful by all who have heard 1t. The Arion
Quartette will sing, and other local talent
viii assist In the programme After j., hear ear.
francisco, Gen. o. o. Howard wrote him
the following letter: my family and my
self were filled with enthusiasm by your in
imitable entertainment the evening OF our
memorial service at the Metropolitan Hall.
Why, the skirmish (and all by the drum)
aroused me. 1 knew the battle was near
as the scattering shots began to multiply.
But, OIL had no idea that you could give
US the cannon and the musketry as at full
blasti The effect was simply magnificent.
1 have tried to illustrate the musketry or
rifie-sounds, but no comparison can equal
that drumming. All your efforts on the
drum accompanied by your son with his
good fife, are very pleasant to me-intrinsi-
cally musical and replete with mutual asso-
Citations as they must be-"
WHILE Mrs. G. #. Lowe was In the KEEL
logg- Hubbard Library last Thursday after
from her shopping bag. On Saturday after
noon Mrs. Y. l.. Lawrence had similar
experience there, and she mourned the loss
OF Sl9:61. Saturday evening these purses
were found empty behind one OF the ra-
distors In the building. Suspicion was di-
rected in certain quarters and the case was
placed in the hands OF Sheriff Bancroft.
On Monday afternoon, armed with search
warrant, he visited the home Of the girl
suspected. She is twelve years old, and
when she saw the sheriff approaching the
house she ran, but was found that evening
at house on Berlin side. The mother pro-
duced the stolen money. except what the
girl had spent, and this was made good by
her father. The girl had told her mother
that she was employed at the library and
this money had been paid her by Mr.. Hub
bard. The girl was arraigned before Judge
Smile Tuesday morning, pleaded guilty,
and her case was continued until Monday,
February 81. Because of the former good
character Of the girl and to save her respec-
table parents the humiliation OF the expos
ure. her name is withheld for the present.
WE complete the list of the juvenile books
recently added to the Kellogg-Hubbard Lii
brary, with the following titles: "Mr. Kris
Kringle," by 8. Weir Mitchell Meg Lang.
holme," and miss Mouse and her Boys"
by Mrs: Wordsworth; Under the Cuban
Flag" by Fred A. Ober; "Boys of Fort
Schuyler" by James Otis; Among the
Meadow People," by Clara d. Pierson;
mWanolasset." by G; A; PIympton; Little
Sons" and, (by the same autho) "Odd
One," and "Teddy's Button; I'm Blue
Creek Canon" by Annie G. Ray; THE Lit
tie Red School house" by Evelyn Ray
mond; "Hildegard's Harvest" by Laura e.
Richards; king of the Park" by Marshall
Saunders; THE Secret of the Black But
ton" by William Shattuck; "The Bingham
Bag" by Margaret Sidney; "The Young
Puritans of Old Hadley," by Mary p. w.
Smith; "Unole Titus" by Johanna Spyri;
THE Red Patriot" and Walled In" by
W. Q. Stoddard; Miss Belladonna, by
nentas," by Everett T. Tomlinson; "The
Resolute Mr.. Pansy," by John Trowbridge;
"Another Girls Experience" and Rich
Enough" by Leigh Webster; "The Drift
ing Island" and "Kibboo Ganey," by Wal
ter Wentworih "Torpeanuts the Tomboy, :"
by Lily f. Wesselhoeft; and "Doctor Dick, !"
"MOpsy," and "Six Little Rebels" by Kate
Thannatt Woods
THE fourth annual interstate convention
of Young Mems Christian Associations of
Vermont and New Hampshire will be held
in this city next Friday, Saturday and Sun
day. On Friday evening general praise
service, led by George Z. Knight of Rut-
land, will be followed by an address of well
come by G. II. More, president of the local
association, an educational session, and a
campfire conducted by Rev, Andrew Gillies.
The programme Of Saturday is filed with
good things, and includes an address in the
afternoon by President NJ. II. BuCkham, OF
the University of Vermont, on 1.-The Oppor-
tunities Of the Young Man Of To-day" re-
ception to the state officers in the Wood
Art Gallery, game Of basket ball between
Montpelier and Brattleboro teams, and an
address in the evening by President w. j.
| Tucker OF Dartmouth College. The morn
ing service on Sunday in several of the
churches will be conducted by delegates
and speakers of the convention, a meeting
for men at half past three in the rooms of
! the local association will be addressed by
II NJ. Moore of Boston and K P. Shaw OF
| Middleboro, Mass. A union service will he
held in Bethany church in he evening at
which Rev. DR.. Norman Seaver and others
will speak. All the meetings are free and
the ladies are cordially invited to occupy
seats in the gymnasium gallery. The floor
will be reserved for delegates. Arthur f.
! Nevers, leader of the Third Regiment band
of Concord, N H.. will lead the music with
his cornet. He will be assisted by George
III. Wilder, fiutist, and Miss a. Julia Cross
will sing Saturday evening
If long drawn out newspaper reports
could sponge from the memory events that
bring sorrow, or could assuage private griefs
that follow in the train of tragic happen
| ings, the WATERMAN would devote columns
of space to such particulars as have come to
hand, or that could he procured, respecting
the recent disappearance of j Ware Foster,
in the city of Chicago. MIR. Foster was born
in this city. In early manhood he went to
Omaha where he obtained a clerkship in a
large banking institution of that city. Abil-
ity and fidelity, with winning personality,
won him advancement, and gained for him
the implicit confidence of his superiors.
Through their fundamentally he engaged
in banking in Douglass. Wyoming During
his residence there he received many marks
OF public confidence, and was appointed
national bank examiner of the State. The
National Bank OF Cheyenne failing in 1893,
he was importuned to take the receiver
ship of its affairs, and he finally resigned
his office at Douglass to accept this RESPONSE
bility. When the private banking house Of
Thomas A. Kent of Cheyenne failed, he was
appointed its assignee. These trusts he adj
ministered with such ability as won the
highest commentator of the officials to
whom he was responsible, and with such
fidelity and good judgment as resulted in