The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-29

tober and November. Mr.. and Mrs. II. G.
Bowers, the present occupants, will move to
.Redstone" during that time, and the
Jewett house will be put in thorough re-
pair for Col, Smiths use
JUSTICE T. j. DEAvrTT heard last Satur.
day, the case Of I. II. Gordon against j V.
Morrow and wife, in which lien on GER
tain property was involved. The court rem
dered decision that there had been no
service on Mr.. Morrow, but gave judgmen'
for the plaintiff against Mrs. Morrow.
The members of Mrs. e. M. Smiths Bible
class in Trinity church Sunday school sur
prised her on Monday evening at her home
on Seminary hill, and presented her with a
handsome Bible. Before the students left
the hill they presented DR., and Mrs. Smith
with set OF solid silver souvenir spoons.
In the case of j. Harry Holden, adminis-
traitor against Aaron W. Goss, for debt Of
Friday, judgment was rendered for the
plaintiff. e. A. Heath Of Moretown and e.
III. Deavitt of Montpelier appeared for the
plaintiff. There was no appearance for the
defendant.
THE Berlin caucus to elect delegates to
the county convention, was held last Satur-
day afternoon in Berlin hall, when the fol-
lowing delegates were elected. Daniel
Worcester, A. H. Cole, L. p. Lawrence, H.
B. Ayers, William Brown, @. W. Dustin
aud M. W. Wheelock. These delegates 90
to the county convention uninstructed.
THE bond for $4,000 called for in the de-.
cison rendered by Judge Munson in the in
junction case OF the Consolidated Lighting
Company against the Barre and Montpelier
Traction and Power Company was filed last
Saturday afternoon in the Office of the
county clerk. r. G. Kennedy, A. O.
Humphrey and j. j. Flynn signed the bond
A SECOND box, weighing 450 pounds, was
shipped last Thursday to the mem bers of
Company II. The contents included 1000
quinine pills, pipes, tobacco, stationary,
vaseline, postage stamps, towels, handker-
chiefs, soap, razors, pens, lead pencils
Dewey flags, witch hazel, and scores of
other articles, that will, without doubt, be
very acceptable.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE r. EHLE gave a
pleasant reception and dance at Elmore's
hall in Lawrence Building last Friday even
ing in honor of Miss Alice Archibald of
Northfeld, MINI. Mrs. Joel P. Heatwole
and Miss NJ. D. White assisted Mrs. Ehle in
receiving the guests. Music was furnished
by Prof and Mrs Elmore and members of
the Montpelier orchestra.
Tne four banks of Montpelier have de-
clared their usual semi-annnal dividends
payable on or after July 1. That of the
Montpelier National bank is four per cent
of the First National bank two per cent, OF
the Montpelier Savings bank five per cent
and of the Capital Savings bank three per
cent, making total of about S15 800 to be
paid to stockholders
M. s. STONE, State Superintendent of Ed
ucation, has arranged for summer schools to
be held during the month of August in Ran
dolph, Bristol, Bakersfield, Morrisville, st.
Johnsbury, Rutland and Putney. The list
of instructors is not yet completed but they
will be announced in circular to be sent
out to teachers throughout the State These
schools will all be held during the first two
weeks in August.
A HEARING was given last Thursday in
the Office of George w. Wing before Hon.
George W. Hendee of Morrisville and Mr..
Wing as arbitrators in the case Of John e.
Hubbard against Daniel E. Dingwall of FL
more, relative to rent of farm in Elmore
owned by Mr.. Hubbard, which Mr.. Ding
wall has occupied. j. P. Lamson appeared
for Mr.. Dingwall and Mr.. Hubbard pre-
sented his own case. No decision was rem.
dered by the arbitrators.
DIR. THOMAS d. STRONG of Westtield,
N. Y, was visitor in the city over Sunday.
DR.. Strong was former teacher in the old
academy and left Montpelier in 1849. He
found few familiar faces after an absence of
fifty years, but enjoyed renewing acquaint-
ances with George Hubbard, Homer w.
Heaton, III. 8. Loomis and a few others.
DR.. Strong came to Vermont to attend a re-
union of his class of 1S48, at the University
of Vermont,
L. W. SHEpD, whose nomination for post
master at Montpelier has been sent to the
Senate, must have smiled as he read his
ante norton obituary in one of the local
dailies on Monday evening. According to
the data therein given Mr.. Shedd was born
in 1858 and is fifty-five years old enlisted
in the Ninth Vermont Regiment at the age
Of nine years, and was in the employ Of a
Burlington lumber firm from August 1871
until April Of the same year. Lovers OF
chronological surprises will find much in
teresting matter in this sketch of the life
Of Mr.. Shedd, which may probably be ex-
planned on the ground of his prominence in
life insurance affairs.
MRS. CHLOE MARSH, widow OF the late
Frederick Marsh, died last Saturday at
Rocky Hill, Conn, aged ninety years and
six months. Mrs. Marsh left Montpelier
Twenty-Five, years ago, and has, since that
time, lived with Allen A. Robbins, her
brother, at Rocky Hill. During the years
she lived in Montpelier she was a faithful
member OF the Congregational church. She
took letter to the Rocky Hill church with
which she has since been identified, maxi
ing a continuous church membership OF
more than seventy years. For the past ten
years she has been totally blind, but with
| patience and resignation she waited for her
release. 1t was from her the city purchased
what is now known as Haymarket Square.
| IlCA UOuy VOC oAOuBh1 w UhOubpOllCk AhOh-
day night by William G. Robbins, a
nephew, and was buried in the Marsh lot in
Green Mount Cemetery Tuesday morning.
j. w. Brock, L. Bart Gross, A. w. Ferrin
and George e. Taplin went to the cemetery
with Mr.. Robbins and assisted at the burial,
The decision of Judge Munson on the
question Of dissolving the injunction placed
upon the managers Of the electric railroad
by the Consolidated Lighting company, was
received last Thursday by Judge Smile.
The gist Of the decision is that the injunc-
ton Is dissolved, provided that the defend.
ant file q bond for $4,000 with securities
that shall be satisfactory to the clerk OF
| Washington county court, conditional to
pay the Consolidated company, all the
damages 1t may be sdjudged to have sus-
tanned from the defend dants taking power
from the Viles plant at Middlesex In disre-
gard of the terms OF its agreement Of Janu-
ary 18, 1897. And provided further that a
master shall be appointed in the case and
that he shall report in time for the Sep
tember term Of court, and that II the case Ia
appealed the appeal shall be heard at the
October term OF Supreme court; and, fur
ther II the orator has reason to believe that,
pending these proceedings, the owner oi
the Middlesex plant Is lowering his rates
for elecric lighting in competition with the
orator, the latter may move for q renewal
Of the injunction.