The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-11-22
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOGAN U4PPENINGS.

Edward w. Felt left Saturday for Topeka,
Kan, whore he is TO be employed as rail.
road traiuman.
A Thanksgiving dance will be given at
Village Han, East Montpelier, Thanksgiv-
ing evening. See posters later.
Mrs. Viola Billings, teacher OF Grade 8 in
the Union school is confined to her home
by illness. Her school has been tempor-
arily dismissed.
A. w. McDermid started Monday night
for Denver, Col, where he hopes TO regain
his failing health. He will be accompanied
as far as Charlotte Mich, by Louis Lipsey
of Calai..
About lortyof the local knights of CO.
lumbus went to Barre Friday evening to be
present at the working of the second degree
by the council there. They retured about
midnight by special electric car.
A. j. Phillips will meet the singers Of
Shady Rill, Putnamsville, Worcester aud
vicinity this evening for a reunion of the
the singers. Mr.. Phillips will be accom-
panied by O. f. Lowe, Miss Alice Folsom,
Miss Salie Oviatt and MIR. Hutchinson, or
ganist OF Christ church.
l.. Bart Cross and A. w Ferrin left Fri
day evening for Chicago. They will visit
Kansas City, Mo-, and points in Kansas be-
fore their return. Mr.. Cross expects to
reach home the last of this week, but Mr..
Ferru will be longer away.
Mt. Sinai Temple is to make pilgrimage
to Middlebury on Friday, December ],
where a large class of candidates, with a
goodly supply OF canned camePs milk, is
waiting to be conducted across the torrid
sands OF the desert. The caravan will
leave this city on the 1915 A. Nj. train.
The contract for building the new school
house has been awarded to G. II. Hopkins
& Son Of North Attleboro, Mass, for S24,
600. The work of construction will not be
begun until spring and the building com
mittee expect that the appropriation Of $780,
600 voted by the city VIII be adequate to fit
out the building ready for occupancy.
Col. f. E. Smith was in Waterbury in the
interests of the Vermont Mutual Fire Iusur.
ance Company Monday. Repre- sentatives Of
the several insurance companies in which
the @. O. Warren tannery is insured are
there adjusting the loss suffered by Mr..
Warren in the recent fire. The loss TO be
borne by the companies will be pro rata on
the basis of the amounts Of insurance car
red by them on the property.
"Gregg's" express delivery wagon was
the object Of much interested attention this
noon as it was driven along its route. A
part OF it's freight consisted Of six deer,
" hich were delivered at the residences Of
II. 0. Kent, Fred Frink and Wallace Lam.
phere, who returned today from the Maine
hunting grounds, each with two handsome
Christopher McCaffrey was arrested Sun
day evening by Chief oil Police Tuttle for
intoxication, He was convicted TODAY in
city court and fined, with costs, $40 OF,
which he was unable to pay. He was re-
manded to jail for ten days His dog was
faithful to him iu his adversity for he re-
fused to be parted from his master. The
animal is at the Jail and will serve time
with McCaffrey.
e. T. Segun has eceived a photograph
of his brother George, also a fine view of
the camp OF the FOrty-sixth regiment at
San Francisco. George has recently been
appointed regimental orderly, a position
very much sought after. In letter also
received from him by his brother today he
said he had also been chosen as one OF the
regimental sharpshooters, and expected to
go TO the firing line when he reached Ma
Mia. His Montpelier friends are glad to
hear such excellent reports of him, but they
expected nothing less than good record.
Moy 10y, formerly employed as govern.
ment inspector, who is well known in
Montpelier, was arrested in Boston Thurs
! day afternoon, on a warrant charging him
! with conspiracy with other government Of
ficials in smuggling Chinese into this coun
! try. This is an old indictment against 10y
which had been returned in the northern
! district of New York. His whereabouts
had been unknown for some time until he
was located in Boston. He has a white
wife and one child at Bennington. He wai
taken to Auburn, n. Y.
About six o'clock this morning fire wai
discovered in the roof OF the house on thePar
menter farm in East Montpelier owned anC
occupied by Simon Wheeler. The fire wa!
caused from defective chimney and spread
rapidly to the adjoining buildings which
were consumed, despite the energetic ef
forts OF Mr.. Wheeler and neghbOrs to saw,
them. Except the live stock, wagons and
part OF the furniture, the contents OF th
buildings were destroyed. The loss is esti
mated at ahou' S1700. The property was in
sured for 81 400 in the Vermont Mutual
G. o. Stratton is at the scene of the fire to
day to adjust the loss.
On Tuesday an elderly woman, VIII
was apparently a stranger in the city, wa
observed wandering aimlessly about nea
the Central Vermont station. Upon inquir.
it was found that she was in search OF al
employment agency and had been let
astray by the sign on e w. Bailey & Com
pany's mill, which had been placed ther
on Dewey day aud which has not yet beel
removed. 1t bears the legend Bureau o
Information Opposite Pavilion Hotel" an,
she had been searching the vicinity for tn
office without avail. She was directed &
M. W. Wheelocks intelligence Office an,
thus made happy once more.