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

ne urst puDllC meeting. An address on
Narcotics" will be delivered by Rev. j.
Edward Wright. The public is cordially
invited to attend this meeting.
SUNDAY, January 80 will long be remem-
Dered az a bitterly cold day. At day break
he temperature was from twenty-four to
thirty degrees below zero in different parts
Of the city, and at no time during the day
lid it get higher than six below. At nine
o'clock Sunday evening minus twenty was
but the wind shifted before
morning and the temperature rose rapidly.
Monday night an old fashioned blizzard
raked and cooked the light snow in great
shape. Railroad traffic was paralyzed, and
many OF the highways leading to Montpe-
lier are reported impossible.
MRS. BETsEY BATES died suddenly last
Saturday morning Of heart failure at the
home OF X. X. Bates, her son, aged ninety
years. She retired In her usual health Fri
day night, and expired while dressing her
sell saturday morning. She leaves two
sons-K. X. Bates of this city, with whom
she has lived for several years, and George
L. Bates OF Manchester, N. II. Funeral
services were conducted Monday morning
by Rev. DR.. Norman Seaver, and the body
was taken to Windsor for burial. Deceased
was a native Of Hsrtland, and has enjoyed
remarkably good health during her long and
useful life
The FIVE members OF the executive COM
mittee Of the trustees OF the Montpelier
Seminary met on Monday afternoon in the
office Of Dillingham;, Huse Rowland to
look over the accounts of the Seminary for
the past three months, and incidentally, to
consider applications for the position OF
principal OF the Seminary that will be va
cant after June l, next. Quite large nuns
Der of applicants have already been heard
from, and the merits OF each " ere informally
discussed No definite action was taken,
but 1t Is probable that principal will be
chosen at meeting OF this committee to be
held about four weeks hence.
The house just south of the Pioneer
bridge, owned by the Consolidated Lighting
Company and occupied by Michael Broggi,
was burned to the ground last Friday even
ing. A defective chimney was the cause.
The building was insured for 500 in the
Union Mutual, and the loss was promptly
adjusted Saturday morning. A still alarm
was sounded, and the hose sleigh of Volun-
teer Hose Company No. was taken to the
| scene. The distance to hydrant was, how
ever. 80 great and the FIRE had gained such
Roadway, that no assistance could be rem
dered. Broggi lost nearly all his household
| furniture, his dog, and one hundred hens
| that were in the cellar, but saved barrel
| of beer and keg Of Italian wine.
THE Central Vermont and Montpelier
and Wells River railroads commenced on
| tuesday issuing coupon tickets for passage
on suburban trains between Montpelier and
Barre in place of the twenty ride cards pre-
NlOuSly III lutbt CdTuS On IDb CbDITal
| Vermont will be redeemed at their cash
| value II sent to S. w. Cummns, general
passenger agent, at st. Adams Conductors
on the Montpelier and Wells River trains
will take them up and issue coupon tickets
| for all unused rides. These card tickets
have been growing nuisance to conduct
ors because OF passengers in ore part of the
! train claiming to have bought ride of an
other passenger in another car In future
each passenger must present to the con-
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regular fare.
A REPORTER for the Hardwick Gazette
visited last week the summer cottage of j.
| II. Senter at West Long Pond in Wood
bury, and thus describes IT, 1T is the foun-
dation of one of the most pleasant places
among the green hills. Long Pond is one
of the many beautiful sheets of water in
this section OF the state. For general p c.
| turesque scenery, it outshines any that he
writer has seen, while the fishing and the
! hunting among the hills in very juxtapos-
| ton to it, are probably much better No
| better nor pleasanter place for a summer
| home can be conceived of. At present the
| buildings are fairly commodious and COM
| Portable but next summer Mr. Senter will
| erect modern cottage in that pleasant To-
caity that will be in accordance with his
ideas of comfort and his hospitable tenden-
| ces and DESIRES"
FRANCIS GRAvELIN was arrested last
Saturday on warrant issued by City At
| torney Carleton, charging him with furnish
ing intoxicating liquor to one Calico Parent.
He was in such an intoxicated condition
| when he appeared in court that he was re-
manded to Jail to sober up On Monday he
| was found guilty of intoXication and fined,
with costs, $12.01. He had no money and
| took the alternative sentence of ten days in
county Jail. He pleaded guilty to one sec
ond otfense of selling, was fined $40 and
sentenced to three months in the House of
| Correction at Rutland, where he will be
taken when his Jail sentence expires.
| Gravelin has been one of the most notori-
GUS and obnoxious pocket peddlers in the
| city, and all good people rejoice that he is at
last in the meshes of the law, and that he
will soon join his colleague, Oscar Lindsey,
at Rutland.
CONSIDERABLE interest was manifested in
the annual meeting of the Montpelier Board
| of Trade, held last evening in the law Office
! of j. III. Senter in Lawrence building. @.
II. More and Geo. C.Pratt were admitted to
membership. The report of the treasurer
showed S58050 on hand, and it was voted
to remit the annual dues for the past year.
| The following officers vera elected: Pres-
! dent w. e. Adams vce-president, j. s.
! Viles; secretary, j. III. Senter; treasurer,
A. G. Eaton directors, A. ID. Farwell, II.
G. Gleason, G. p. Pitkin; committee on real
estate and manufacturing, G. II. Shipman,
+. M Cory, Thomas Marvin, G. e. Taplin,
George l.. Blanchard; committee on trans
portation, l.. Bart Cross, Collins Blaktly,
ii. w. Kemp, j. G. Brown; committee on
finance j. A DeBoer, NJ E. Smile, j. V.
Brooks; committee on membership, f. M.
Cory, Fred Blanchard, G. Def. Bancroft.
A REGENT issue of the Insurance Standard
contains the following regarding a com
pany with headquarters at Montpelier:
1.-THE National Life of Montpelier, during
1897, issued 425 policies on women, insuring
S542,276, representing premiums of S22,-
351 54. At the close Of 1897 there were poll
cies in force on women to the number of
1926, insuring S2,SS41 1876, an average of
S1,49S per policy. The premium income
from this business equals SIG 59 80, an
average of S40.31 per 81 900. OF the total
insurance outstanding, 3 II per cent is on
female lives. The death claim experience
has been satisfactory. In 1894, $500; in
1885, $500; in 1896, So, 800; in 1897, S12,-
$50. The company makes no discIimina-
ton as regards form of policy, surplus pc
Rod or amount, but exercises discrimina-
ton in selection OF risks" This informa-
ton will be of interest to many policy hold.
ers in Montpelier and vicinity.
| In sharp contrast to the wild storm that
ragged outside the Crosse Tea given last
evening at Christ church parish house was
a very attractive place. The deft fingers of
| tho young ladies having the affair in charge
| had trananosed the dining and recentiOn