The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-30

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A. G.. stone, the jeweler, has secured the
services of Frank l.. Scofeld to take the
place of w More. More finishes
work at the store of Mr.. Stone on Satur-
day aud Mr.. Scofeld begius his duties on
next Monday. Mr.. Scofeld is a jeweler
engraver and optician of large experience,
beng graduate of the Waltham horologi-
cal school and of Fosters school of optics
in Boston For the past seven years he
has been employed by Place, the ieweler,
of st. Albans.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of Wells & Boyles in another
column of this paper. Call and see
oriental rugs and carpets on special
sale.
Harle o. Cummins has received the
appointment of private assistant to
Prof. Richards, head of the mining
engineering department at the school
of Technology, Boston. Mr.. Gu unmins
will begin his duties at the beginning
of the next school year. His book,
'Welsh Rarebit Tales, will be out
this week Its appearance is looked
forward to with much pleasure.
The civil suit of Newall G. Wright
against Maggie Guy to recover the
NoAuO VI b WdSOlIS was lltdIN
morning in city court before Judge
Smile. This case grew out of part
nership III the Calais granite COM
pany Judgment was rendered for
plaintiff to recover $50 and costs of
$3.50. j. G. Wing appeared for the
plaintiff and O. E. Woodward for de-
fendant.
The high school base ball team play
ed its first game of the season with
the Goddard Seminary team on the
Goddard campus on Saturday, the lat
ter team winning by "a score of IL to 3.
The grounds were in bad condition on
account of the rain. The high school
team put up good game notwith-
standing the fact that they have had
but little practice this season. Excel
lent work was done by Crapo as pitch
er and Huntington at the bat.
The Preferred Accident Insurance
Company of New York, offered a
prize of $50 to the agent who guessed
the correct number of applications re-
ceived at the home office during the
last eight days of March. No agent
guessed the correct number, which
was 706, but two came within one.
+. A. Timby guessed 705 and S. S.
Ballard of this city 701 and the COM
pany divided the prize. Mr.. Ballard
says it is like finding money.
The time of taking inventories by the
listers expired on Friday The total num-
Der of inventories taken is 2900 seventy
three are unaccounted for. twenty-five of
which are probably on the way by mail
ID. e. May, st. Johnsbury lister was in
town Oh Friday and expressed much sur
prise and pleasure over the close system
III operation i'll this city whereby the lists
and taxes are gathered as with fine tooth
comb. Mr.. May said thatin st. Johl sjury
there We're 1000 inventories not yet in.
There are also s5l000 uncollected town
taxes from last year. 1000 in Village
taxes, hree collectors are now in the
Held endeavoring to obtain these taxes
The schedule for May for the board
of railroad commissioners so far as
laid out is as follows: May 6, at
Barre to see about the proposed Aver
street extension of the electric road,
which will necessitate crossing the
tracks of the quarry railroad We'd
nesday, May Z, at St. Albans to in
vestigate the accident which occurred
at East Swanton on April "a. About
the middle of May the board will be-
gin its annual inspection of roads.
This is done earlier this year to allow
the clerk time to prepare the biennial
report to the general assembly of 1902.
A sensation was caused on Sunday
by the discovery that the
glass in the door of the residence of |
Harry Lowe had been broken. A case
Of breaking and entering was at first |
as the glass was so broken |
that the door could be unlocked by |
reaching the hand inside. Mr.. and |
Mrs. Lowe are in New York, where |
they spend their winters, and the |
house was closed. Miss Ella Bailey,
sister of Mrs. Lowe, was notified. |
She summoned Chief Reagan, and af- |
ter an examination of the rooms it |
was found nothing had been disturb
ed. The broken glass was attributed |
10 the malicious act of some midnight |
prowler without any design at theft |
A carpenter secured the door by cov-
ering the glass with board.
Four first meetings of creditors
we're held on Saturday in the federal
building before Referee +. H. Deavitt.
The four bankrupts were present, but
rs none of their creditors put in an
appearance and none of the bankrupts
lad any assets except household goods
which are exempt, no trustees were
appointed The cases were those of
Maurice Ferris of Cabot, Glenn NJ.
Jotfrin of Barre town, Charles Nc
Lean of Barre town and Thomas II.
White of Williamstown. A final meet
ng of the creditors of George O. Oav-
IS of Marshfield was also held Mark
Mears, trustee, presented his final ac-
count which was accepted and trustee
was discharged.