The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-11-30

WHEN DIR. X. A. Steele appears before an
audience in this city Monday evening, De-
cember o. IL Is hoped that the citizens will
turn out In goodly numbers to hear him
The doctor, who is an acknowledged orator.
will have popular subject aud can be
counted on to keep his auditors awake. This
is the fourth in the Star course series and
the cause Is q worthy one. While the sec.
retary and his immediate assistants are
working with will to build up the Y. NJ. .
q. A. let them not be forgotten. 1t IL an in
stitulion that well merits the support OF
every person in the city.
DIR. H. A. STEWART, who is stopping in
this city and who has not been here before
in nearly fifty years, says that "Vermont is
going to seed" He tells how when he was
here in the ffties that the State was occu-
pied by farmers Of the most thrifty sort and
the pastures and barns were filed with
stock Of the very best breeds and that every
one seemed to be well to do. The doctor is
eighty years old but he reads without I'll Q
aid OF glasses and he can recall dates, Incl
dents, occurrences and accidents OF half a
century ago with as much readiness as a
bright school boy can recite his lesson.
THE effect Of the Ballard enforcement
bill"-which went through the House with
hop, skip and jump last week. which is
to make life miserable for every one in the
State, who wears official cloth of any sort
If the prohibition law il not enforced,
should make its author giggle with high
glee 1t is stated on authority of the most
credible sort that every respectable place
in the city has bunged up its "wine celar'
ughter'n drum and the exhibitions of
dryness are said to have been painful to
witness. AS a matter OF fact the bill has
not become a law. II is only In its scare
crow state.
THE fourth annual business meeting of
the Sons and Daus hters of Vermont in
Hul laa halI -,
the Young Mems Christian association
rooms in that city. The secretary's report
showed that the pre- ent enrolment is 448
making slight increase over that Of last
year. The following officers were elected: !:
President, George II. Graham; first vice.
president, Col. j. L. Rice; second vice.presi-
dent. f. W. Barker; third vice-presldent,
Warren Hail. secretary, M. M. Kendall ;
treasurer, V. e. Moore; committee ufiseven,
Miss Alice Haskell, Mrs. Aonzo Pratt, DR..
w. L. Roberts, l.. j. Scott, Mrs. o. NJ.
Doubleday, Mrs. w. H. Miner, II. j. Whit
comb.
SOME of the local restauranters, who have
not showed proper regard for the rules regu-
lating their business having kept their places
open until morning hours. and harbored in
their places persons who apparently wished to
make them a sort of rendezvous, have been
notified, at the instance of the city council, to
close their doors at II o'clock. The city coun-
ell is to be commended for its action in this
matter, as well as the police officers, who
exercise vigilant effort to see that these,
as other places in the city, are conducted ac-
cording to the restrictions allowed them No
one in the city feels disposed to curtail a le-
gitimate business, in the way of limiting the
number of hours that shall do business.
1t seems right, however, that city ordinances
should be made a potent factor when it comes
to maintaining a wholesome condition of things
and this is the substance of the matter in
question