The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-07-05
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

| city.
The juries in the liquor cases against A
bert Wiley and Frank Hunt returned
verdict of not guilty.
The children Of the Sunday-school of tn,
| Church OF the Messiah enjoyed picnic a
Benjamn's Falls on Saturday.
W. A. Wheaton OF st. Paul, Mimi,
former organist at Bethany church, was il
town today on the way to his old home IL
Barre.
Sheriff Bancroft is authority for the state
ment that for the six months ending June
30 there have been sixty deaths in the city
OF Montpelier.
The members Of the Sunday con.
nected with the Baptist churches of Barre
and this city are to hold picnic at Cherry
vale grove next Friday.
Mrs. Wilder Huntington and children
went to-day to Queen City Park for two
weeks, after which they will go to st. AL.
bans to remain several days.
A meeting OF the members of the Young
Mems Christian Association was held Sum
day afternoon at the association rooms for
conference on religious work.
A movement is on foot to organize a golf
club in the city. 1t should be a successful
venture, as there are several localities in
the vicinity which would make desirable
links.
The social sing at the Young Mems Chris
tianAssociation Friday night was an enthusi-
astic affair. These sings will be held each
week on Wednesday evenings at eight
o'clock.
Mr. Moody OF New York, husband of the
authoress, Mrs. Helen Watterson Moody,
who is spending the summer at the Jewett
residence, arrived in the city Saturday
evening.
The union picnic OF the Barre, East Barre,
Websterville and Montpelier Baptist Sur
Friday, July7. Will leave on the electric
car at nine A. M.
The annual meeting for the election of
officers of the Woman's Home Missionary
Society connected with Trinity church will
be held Wednesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. M. L. Beardsley.
III. X. Sherburne arrived in the city Sat-
urdsy evening from Kirksville, Mo-, where
he recently graduated from the American
School of Osteopathy. He is guest at the
home of f. A. Sherburne, his brother.
Royal B. Wheeler, aged forty-nine years,
died Saturday at his home in Moretown
after few days illness from typhoid pneu-
monia. He is survived by widow and
three children. The funeral was held from
the house Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. L. Howard of New York
are visitors in the city. During the Span.
ish- American war, Mr.. Howard was located
in Cuba where he furnished the Argus OF
London, Eng, with water color sketches of
the campaign. Mr.. Howard has with him
many OF the sketches which are of high
order.
A detachment of the squatter soveregns
of Berlin pond made their annual entry
upon their reservation on Saturday. A two
weeks sojourn by the placid waters will
restore energies exhausted by the cares
that peise the sovereigns down through the
remaining fifty of the year.
Washington county convention of the
Woman's Christian Union will be held in
Northfeld, July 6 and Z. Thursday even
ing will be Demonstration night. Friday
Mrs. Mabel L. Conklin of Brooklyn, N. ",
lecturer and organizer for the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, al
SO the general secretary of the White Cross
societies, will be present.
Mrs. Jacob W. Pape, aged thirty.one
years, died Saturday evening from perito-
nitis at her home up Worcester branch.
Her illness was brief, she not having taken
her bed until Friday. The deceased is sur.
vived by husband and two little children.
She was daughter Of Benjamin Bean of
Fayston. Funeral services were held this
morning from st. Augustine's church. The
remains were taken to Moretown for burial.
This year the city has taken no action re-
strictiIg the sale or use of fireworks
There is State law which prohibits both
at any season though it has never been ac-
lively enforced The city, rather than be
come in any way responsible for damages
which might result from the use of fire.
works by licensing their use even by the
indirect way of issuing orders regarding
their sale and use, prefers to allow the indi-
vidual to take these chances.
A horse driven by two young men from
East Montpelier became frightened Satur-
day evening when opposite the Pavilion by
dog rushing at the horse. The animal got
beyond control, running around the Yer
mont Mutual building, throwing the young
men out on the vacant lot adjoining the
store Of G. H. Whitney and, across the
walk between two electric light poles
through space that seemed impassable.
The animal was secured on upper Main
street after causing some wreckage to the
carriage.
School Superintendent Stone has prepar-
ed for the Paris Exposition OF 1900 an inter-
esting exhibit of Vermont's school statistics
and system OF school administration. The
exhibit consists Of handsomely bound vol
umes containing, each by itself, the school
report for 1898, the school laws, questions
for the examination OF teachers, the school
register, statistical blanks, teachers certi6-
Gates, and the course Of study. Photographs
OF ten OF the best school buildings in the
state, giving one exterior and two interior
views, also form part Of the exhibit.
d. G. Field and family spent Sunday a,
Benjamin Falls. While there the Japanese
poodle Mr.. Field brought from Chattanooga
Tenn, had a fit, rushed off into the woods
and defed all attempts to secure him. Mr.
Field went to the locality Monday and
found the dog dead by the roadside. Some
thieving fellow had stolen the collar from
the dog. On the collar was plate bearing
the name OF Kitty Field, the little daughter
OF Mr. Field. The dog was valuable on,
because OF the rarity OF the species. 1t wal
the only one OF that breed in the State.