The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Services will be held at the Evangelical
church at 2;30 and P. ii, on Memorial
Day. All are cordially invited.
Miss Mary I. Jacobs left Friday evening
| for Swampscott, Mass, to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Frank Wiley, her cousin
Burt Fisk, convicted Of intoxiostion at
Waterbury and unable to pay bis fine, was
| brought to this cityMonday by Deputy Sher-
| iff Cooley and lodged in Jail for ten days,
The remains OF Mrs, Margaret Braley
! aged seventy-oue years, were brought to
this city Monday from Rutland and buried
beside her hus band In Green Mount ceme
terry.
A handsome monument Of Barre granite,
containing nine pieces, hel been set on
George W. Kidder's lot in Waterbury. The
work ives done by Fred Hall Of Mont
pelier
The regular monthly meeting OF the
Ladies' Auxiliary to the Young Mems
Christian Association will be held at the
association rooms Wednesday Afternoon at
three O'Clock.
The marriage of Miss Anna Permeeo
Wells daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Wells OF Burlington, and Mr.. James Greer
leaf Sykes of New York, is announced icr
Wednesday, June II, at the Unitarian
church In Burlington.
The aged father and mother OF Vernon
Rogers of Cabot visited him at the Jail Fri
day afternoon. The grief Ct these worthy
people was pitiful TO witness IL is ex-
pected Rogers will ba taken before Judge
Watson In county court Monday afternoon,
Richard Blackall has been expecting a
check for S75, the accumulation of divi-
dend5 during the last fifteen years, from the
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association Of
New York n which he is insured, but he7
instead received an assessment for S205.
Every Vermonter is interested in May
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advertised here g. 1t is imported and
roe sted by Gross Abbott Company OF
White River Junction, VT, and sold by
your grocer. A trial will convince you it is
the best coffee.
The horses which are in training at Leb.
anon, n. H, and well known here which
are to participate In the races TO be held
Thursday at the Granite City trottiug park
in Barre are: "Susan" and "ROscoe" in the
2:24 class; "Dors" and "The Governess" in
the three minute class.
"The worm that dieth not" has again
made it's appearance in Montpelier. On
Elm street, in the vicinity of the old Gem
etery, these worms have appeared in large
numbers especially IN the elm trees. Street
Commissioner Roberts will begin war at
once upon the pes9 with the city "buR
pumps"
Friday afternoon W.R. Ainsworth caught
a rainbow trout while fishing in the Winoos-
Z
which measured eighteen inches from tip TO
tip and weighed two and quarter pounds.
The fish gaven lively fight before being
landed, but was finally taken in with the e.
istauce OF Zeb Carlo.
The Edmunds High school team Of Bur.
lington defeated the Montpelier Seminary
team on the campus Saturday afternoon by
q score OF 6 to 2. The game was won on
close margin, for up to the eighth inning the
score stood to in favor of The home team.
In this inning the home team went to pieces
al d the visitors made five runs.
@. II StackpOle, the hustling general
agent fer Chase Brothers OF Rochester, n.
f, the well known nurserymen, believes
in taking his own medicine. At his farm
on "Cummings' Square" in East Montpelier
he has Duchess Dwarf pear tree, one year
old, that has two hundred aud ten bios
SONS. Mr. Stackpole has quite nursery
started, made up from the stock he sells
1t is reported that among the indictments
returned by the United Statas grand Jury
at Windsor on Friday is one against Joel
Emerson, former insurance agent at
Montpelier. Emerson was arrested at
Msncnester, M. H., several weeks ago, Just
after o had skipped from Montpelier, for
using the mails for fraudulent purposes
and has since been kept in Jail at Rutland.
Frank Bean we9 arrested Monday aft1r-
noon by Chief Demeritt for intoxication
and lodged in jail He ives driving a team
recklessly about the streot), in the course
of which, IL is alleged, he ran over little
girl, who was not seriously injured. In
police court today, the case we continued
for one week a. I. r Gordon, counsel for
Bean, asked for jury trial. Bean was
released upon furnishing $50 bail.
The sympathy OF the bench and bar OF
the State goos out in large measure TO Judge
w. P. Stafford in the affiiction that he's
come to him in the death OF his nine years
old son, which occurred last Friday at at.
Johnsbury from tonsilitis. Judge Stafford
was called home on Thursday, but did ncS
then fear what WAS 80 500 to come. Be
cause of this added affection Judge Stafford
did not sit on the Supreme bench to-
day.
Hon. Alden Spesre, ex.president of the
Boston Chamber OF Commerce, and grad
uate of Newbury Seminary, he] sent TO
Hon. w. P. Dillingham;, chairman of the
board of trust9el OF Montpelier Semns~y,
his check for $500, TO be used in paying cur
rent expenses at the Seminary. Mr. Speare
has also given a conditional pledge of
5000 toward the Seminary endowment
fund.
A special meeting OF the Montpelier
branch Of the Granits Cutters National
Union weg held Saturday evening for the
purpose of receiving partial report from
the special committees appointed to look
into and investigate the accounts of the ex-
members are very reticent about giving out
any detailed account OF the report, but it is
said the committee finds that the defc
will be fully as large as at first expected.
About twenty-five from Barre attended
the entertainment given Friday evening in
Grand Army hall by Stannard lodge, New
England Order OF Protection. Rain pre-
vented a large attendance from Montpelier.
Before the lunch baskets were sold at auc-
tion phonogreph entertainment was given
by John e. LELAND, and piano duet was
rendered b, Mrs. j, II. Waterman and Miss
Nellie Parmenter. Much amusement YVES
created at the auction sale OF lunch baskets.
The hall was pretuly trimmed with ferns
aud lilacs.
The incoming mail train from the north
ws9 reported an hour and half late Mon
day, so the branch train Went 70 Barre. The
mail train, however, wG1 only about fifteen
minutes late and about twenty-five passen.
! gers "hooied" it in on tho ties from the
| junction up TO tue city. Evidently some
body blundered and the passengers who
walled into Montpelier, as well es those
left on the platform at the junction for
more than an hour, were very indignant az
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