The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-05


music and there were only balf-dozen
lady dancers present as against about fifty
OF the sterner sex
The funeral OF the late g. II. Guernsey
WAS held from the house at two O'Clock on
Saturday, Rev. w. A. DAWSON assisted by
Rev. w. j .Cloues, officiating. The bearers
were comra es of the deceased in Battery
1, First artillery, Eleventh Vermont Volun-
teers. Burial was In Green Mount Gene
terry.
Rev. Joshua Gill of Boston, presiding ell
der of the New England district of the
Evangelical church, is expected here this
week. From here he will go to Topsham to
establish church, On Dec. 7 will be at
East Montpelier to dedicate the new church,
He will hold Holiness convention from
Dec. 8 to 16 inclusive at East Montpelier.
The session laws OF 1900 are printed and
in pamphlet form, containing thirty two
pages after the same style as two years ago.
They are being distributed to the legisia-
tive members and States attorneys today.
They will be issued to the weekly newspa-
pers on Friday and to the daily papers Sat
urday TO be used as supplements.
The annual season. OF Mt. Sinai Temple
will be held in Armory hall on Friday even
ing, December Id. The reports OF the treas
urer and recorder will be giveu, the annual
election of officers and the election Of four
representatives TO the Imperial Council,
which meets at Kansas City, Mo-, June IL,
1901, will occur at this time At the close
of the work. the visiting Noble will par
take OF the usual feast of cemels', nilk and
other delicacies OF the desert Salam
A boy by the name of Adams residing at
65 Elm street dropped into Wheelock &
Dawley's the other day and announced that
a shepherd dog had gone mad on his street
and he wished to get gun with which to
kill it. Mr.. Dawley equipped him with a
Il. rNrsI In.An Nl,Ax 1n.v
the boy returned the revolver and four car
tridges but said nothing as to the fate of the
mad dog which still rem aims a mystery.
Hon. Jonath IN Ross, chairman, and l..
NJ Read and Fl. S. Bingham, members OF
the State board of railroad commissioners
met at the State House on Monday and
this morning for organization and to plan
the work of the coming months A. e.
Watson, commissioner, and Charles Batch
elder of the old board, met with them. AT
a meeting of the board held this morning
e. M. Harvey Of this city was chosen clerk
OF the board. Mr.. Harvey will have his
Office in the commissioners rooms at the
State House.
Henry Irwin has been absent from our
midst for some time The cause of his so
journ was the fact that mittimus issued
from the city court was out against him
This instrument was in the hands OF Depu.
ty Sheriff Tracy, who, hearing that the fes-
tive Harry was haunting Wells River and
vicinity, sent the papers to an officer there
on Monday. After chasing Harry into New
Hampshire, the officer captured him. Har-
ry, with the vision before him of engaging
in the marble industry during the cold
weather at the House of Correction, de-
cided to settle and gained new lease OF
liberty by depositing With his captor $34.07.
W. A. Shaw, observer at the weather
bureau, Northfeld, makes the following
meteorological summary for the month of
November: Mean atmospheric pressure,
30 OIL; highest pressure, 3068, date, 17th
lowest pressure, 1928, date, 9th; mean tenn
perature, $50; highest temperature, ZOE,
date, 2lst; lowest temperature 30 date, 18th
greatest daily range of temperature, 29o
date, 18th; least daily range of temperature,
80, date, 25th; mean temperature for this
month for Ia years, 33o. Prevailing direc-
ton of wind, south. Total precipitation
3.99 inches number of days with .01 inoh
or more Of precipitation. IS; average pro-
cipitation for this month for IA years, 3,2S
inches; greatest amount of precipitation in
"a hours, / SO, on oath and 25th,
James A. Stack, aged forty-two years
died a. his home in st Albans Monday af-
ternoon after two weeks illness from
typhoid fever. He was born in Middlesex
and has been resident of St. Albans for
twenty eight years. He has been employed
as an engineer on the Central Vermont rail
road for twenty years and for the last nine
has been engineer of the observation engine
"St. Lawrence" In this capacity he be-
came well-known in this city, where he was
popular. He was prominent member of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and knights of Columbus. A widow and
four children survive him. He was a
brother OF Miss Julia Stack, Mrs. John
Ford and John Stack of this city, the latter
being an engineer on the local branch line
of the Central Vermont road.
d. ID. Berry is a practical Joker but he
met his Waterloo the other day when he
thought he was perpetrating a joke on his
friend, 9. III. Roakes, while the latter was
being shaved in local barber shop. When
Daniel entered the shop, M .Roskes was in
one chair and stranger in another. Dan.
iel, while awaiting his turn, observed high
collar lying on the table and thinking IL be
longed TO Mr.. Roakes, inscribed his name
across it's pure white surface in a large
bold hand. written with blue pencil. His
chagrin can better be imagined than des
cribed, when, after directing the attention
of the other waiting customers to the Joke
he observed Mr.. Roakes draw his collar
from his lap and adjust it, while the strang
or appropriated the marked collar on the
table.
Weather bureau statistics for the month
OF December. cover ng period of thirteer
years, have just been issued from ths
Northfield station. These compilation,
show that the mean or normal temperature
was 21o; the warmest month was that o
1891, with an average OF 31o; the coldes
month was that of 1890, with an average 0
90; the highest temperature was SO on De
cember 20, 1895H the lowest Temperature
was 27o on December IA, 1893 The average
amount OF precipitation for the month wa
273 inches; average number of days will
.01 OF an inch or more, 13; the creates
monthly precipitation was 5.88 inches II
1887; the least monthly precipitation wa
81 inches in 1896; the greatest amount O
precipitation recorded in any "a consecu
tive hours was IA inches on December 2
and 30, 1887; the greatest amount of snow
fall recorded in any "a consecutive hour
was q inches on December %. 1887.