The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-08-20
of 200 feet on the west side and toward
Waterbury,

I The handsome setter dog of G. O. Bar
/ rrtt Is the hero of half tale The ami
/ mai lay too near the track when the Sem
/ mary hill car passed. He sat up on his
| launches and huwled A boy ran out.
grasped the dog by the collar and pulled
II away from the tracks. TO the boy
| amazpment half Of the dogs tail Law ON
the tracks. 1t had been cut off by the
passing car.
City Sheriff Bancroft is trying to ar
range for Il session of United states dis
tlict court in this city, ere long, as there
are about hliN who desire To take out
their second ana final papers and become
citizens. Judge Wheeler does not think
he will be able TO attend to the matter in
season for the september election, aud
Mr. Bancroft has written to g. r.. john
son of Burlington, Cl nix of the court, to
see if he cannot come to montpelier aud
do this work.
At the Republican caucu-, held in id
dleseX on Thursday evening Hon Will
lam thapi WAS nominated for Repre-
sentative His tOwLsnen paid tribute to
his sincerity aud we'll known ability as "a
Republican leader, by giving him 81 out
of 40 votes cast. Under the circumstances
existing IN MddicsrX it would seem To be-
for the interest Of all parties there to unite
on Mr.. Chaplin and make his nomination
and election unanimous.
The local optiou brethren seem sensitive
on the subject OF the arshiield and other
l. cal Local option rallies" The facts re-
sprcing the arshheld chill were correct
" stated by the journal correspondent \
member of the local Republican commit
tee dropped in during the evening aud
made the following count; Total attend
ance, y. Women, .; bows, I; Democrats
from Cabot 3, Net local option attend
auCO, IL.
f.
Boston has given Henry b. Daley a sight
draft Tor $50 in settlement of his claim
for broken ankle; one for 500 to Harry
j. BertOi, in settlement for claims for in
ilries sustained in an accident in Phila-
delpha: one to j. w Brock. for settlement
for injuries to his hand; one to c. NJ. Wig
gins, ior S3j in settlement for injuries re
cpived by being thrown from his can riage
and Que to f. o Wedge for S2j, in settle.
ment for injuries to his thumb.
The fifth annual reunion Of the Wash
iugton County Veterans Assoc't'n opened
at Dewey Park. this city. ON "Wednesday
and will continue through Thursday with
Il rousiug campfire in the evening. The
Pavilion is prettily decorated in ma ioual
cOlms. 1t is expected POO will be present
at the informal reception on Wednesday
morning. although letters of regret have
been received from several me mbPrS
who reside in the wesi An iufurma-
camp fire will be held on Wednesday after
noon aud the election of officers will be
held on Thursday Alraug' ments have
be N made by the committee in charge so
that meals will be ser we'd on the grounds
Now Barre's local opt nists have more
trouble ahead, a it is stated in that city
that w. W. WlshaTt's name as nominee
for city Representative may be refused Il
place on the official ballot 1t is alleged
there was an hre@ularity in the way MIR.
Wishart was nominated. Two caucuses
were called and the call for one bore tue
names of several geutem, II, while the Sec
Ond was signed "RepubliCau City Com
mittee.' The Clement Republicans will
meet tonight to discuss the matter. In
the event of Mr., Wishart's name not be-
ing allowed on the ballot il is stated that
the local option party of Barre will sup
port the Democratic nominee if a promise
can be txacted from him that he will sup
port Mr.. Clement, If the election goes to
the Legislature. after giving his first vote
for the Democratic nominee
Monday night when the regular ana
Clement Republicans appeared before
City Clerk Wells of Barre with their
tickets completed, which they wished
to file with that official, that the
same might be put upon the official
ballot the boilers were elated with
the belief that their ticket would be
the first on the ballot City Clerk
Wells however, thought differently and
gave the regular Republicans the
place of honor. He informed the
gentlemen suffering from "Clem-
entia" that they would have to come
in behind the band wagon and tag
their ticket Independent Republi-
cans. - They will do so but they are
rather chagrined over the matter.
The Australian ballot ticket to be used
at the coming election is so complex, be-
canse of the miXup in the several parties,
that il is estimated that the number of
ballots which will be thrown out be-
cause of apparent error in marking
will exceed 5000 throughout the tate
There is also a chance for scores of com
plications to arise in marking, which if
the election is close may nave to b. de
termined by the Legislature. In the bal
lots for this congressional district, the
name of Kittredge Haskns, the present
incumbent, does not appear ON the Local
Option ticket, as that party held no dis
trict convention and So has no candidate.
His vote may therefore suffer consider
ably, with chance of the election going
To Harris Miller of West Fairee. the
Democratic candidate, should enough of
the Local Optionlsts vote the straight
ticket and fail to write in the name of
Haskius. The tellers whose duty will be
to count these ballots are not to be enyied
their task this year.