The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-11-05
Montpelier and Vicinity.
LOCAL HAPPENING

John @. Brennan of West Fairlee is
visiting in town for few days
George Paul is visiting his parents
at Waterbury Center for few days.
Mrs. L. J. Morton of st. Albans is
the guest of friends in this city for a
week.
The pictures of Wilder's Orchestra
will soon be ready and will be on sale
at Wilder's music rooms
Mrs. j. M. Poland will occupy tenn
porarily the apartments of Mrs. Mary
b, Peck on School street.
Is the millennium at hand in YER
mont? We have had two days of al
most continuous sunshine.
Mrs. william Hooper was called to
Philadelphia on Monday night by
the critical illness of brother.
The annual banqnet of the Fish and
Game League has been arranged for
Thursday evening, November 13.
The Senate has concluded it wants
more time in which to present bills.
Under suspension of the rules a
Edgar w. Emerson will hold pub
lie seance in Grand Army hall We'd
nesday evening, November 3, at 80
O'Clock.
Miss Gertrude Leland is employed
as stenographer in the Office of A.. w.
Prescott, cashier for the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad.
The Barre Defenders will play the
Dartmouth college, second team on
the Montpelier Seminary campus Sat-
urday afternoon, Nov. 10.
The sophomores of the High School
will have dance in Knights of Co.
lombus Hall, Nov. IA. Wilder's Or
chestra will furnish music.
John A. Goodwin contemplates
hanging his Mckinley portrait in the
Apollo club rooms, as he has no avail
able place for the picture at present.
Harry, brother of r. H. Mattison,
the Rutland Herald's legislative re-
porter, broke his collar bone in a
football game at Saxton's River, Sat-
urday.
w. j. Royce says that no ashes were
kept in the barn attached to his resi-
dence; therefore the fire therein on
Friday morning could not have had its
origin in ashes, as reported.
Because of the delightful weather
prevailing Tuesday the pupils of the
Union schools were given half hOl-
day and also an opportunity to visit
the Legislature in the afternoon.
Edgar w. Emerson of Manchester,
n. H., vii addre IS the Spiritualists
in Grand Army hall November 9 at
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ten cents will be taken at the door.
Business was business in the Senate
on Friday. Every minute, from the
time the presidents gavel fell until
adjournment, was taken up with reg
ular business, the passage of bills, etc.
Up to date the Senate had not over.
ridden the report of a committee, al
though it has in some instances made
radical amendments to bills after the
committees had pronounced them o.
X.
Senator Backus proposes to have
the six inch trout law enforced by
giving the fines to the party COM
planning of the violation of the law
a bill presented by him on Friday SC
provides
Rev. William j. O'Sullivan of this
city is to assist in chanting mass over
the remains of the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Degoesbriand in Burlington Friday, il
being the third anniversary of the
Bishops death.
change was made so that the Senate,
as we'll as the House, shall have until
next Wednesday to put in bills. Later
in the day the Senate adopted on its
part joint resolution to change the
joint rules in the same way.
G. N. Goss of this city was elected
a member of the executive committee
of the White Mountain Commercial
Travellers Association last Friday at
the fourteenth annual banquet of the
organization at Concord, N. H.
During the remaining weeks of the
Legislative session, the Central Yer
mont Railway Company will sell ex-
cursion tickets from Montpelier to
Montreal, p. O., and return, on Fri
days and Saturdays only, at 81. Tick
cts are good to return until Monday.
Electing the county examiners OF
teachers by direct vote of the people,
instead of having them appointed as
now, might be a good thing for some
mere politicians who wanted office
but it wouldn't add anything to the
efficiency of that important branch Of
the public service.
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Lord have re
ceived nearly a dozen requests from
women who wish to adopt the baby
girl which was left so mysteriously
with them recently, but Mrs. Lord be
lieves that she will retain the gift ant
the name Dorothy will probably b.
conferred upon the infant.
The young men of the Baptist churcl
have been planning to give a veni
son supper in their church vestry
Recently they purchased a fine dee
and tomorrow evening they are t.
serve him from five to seven. TIL,
l Swedish string seXtette are to furnisl
! music during part of the evening
: The admission will be % cents.
Let's see 1t was four years ago
: wasn't it, that the Wall Ballard com
bination turned their guns on tn
,, State board of agriculture and sough