The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-08-20

day evening by Mrs. (. c Vail to her
guests and their friends. About twenty
five couples were present, Widpr's orChts =
ira furnishing music. The party tripptd
the light fantastic until eleven O'Clock.
Lemurl \ Idle of Boston is the guest of
Il NJ. Goddard, his nephew. Mr. lde is
connected with Daniel Il Upham, pro-
prietOrs of the "old corner book store
and came us far as Bun lington with the
Boston Vermont Association, of which he
is member.
special train was rum over the
Montpelier and We Is River railroad Friday
afternoon to convey forty-seven trotting
horses from Littleton, n. II to the Gram
lite ity Trotting Park ut Barre. A.
Suuderin arrived this noon and his string
of horses will come on the special.
Eleazer f. Dodge formerly resident
ofthis town, died in san Francisco June
%, aged eighty years. Mr.. Dodge will be
remembered by many o. the older resi-
dents He leaves two sons, AIRED :. aud
Zenas T., and Il daughter, Mrs. Henry
MOsDaCh.
Admiral Clark and family left on Sat
urday To visit in Bradford. He is 20 20
to Newport, r l., TO attend a naval board
meeting on August %. He will return to
this city as the guest of The Sons of the
American Revolution upon the occasion
of President Roosevelt's visit here.
The excursion over the Montpelier and
Wells River railroad to Newport given by
clerks union of Barre Wednesday was at
tended by $50 and as this is the clerks hol-
day the business houses in Barre are
closed. In Barre 26G tickets were sold, 100
from Montpelier and fourteen from
Plain6eld
Two youths about twelve years of age,
hailing from Mortified left their homes
"Wednesday intending to see the world.
They landed in ontpelier and lost their
nerve when confronted by policeman.
They said they we're sorry and promised
to return to their homes. They left on
the midnight train.
The street railway was again tied up
this morning at the corner of Main and
Barre streets, because tunnel had to be
eXcavated under the tracks OH the curve
to stop another leak in joint of the main
Some are beginning to wonder if the pipe
will have to be uncovered clear to the
reservoir before the leakage is stopped.
The Burlington Free Press says; The
Rutland Street Railway Company will APP
ply to the General Assembly of the State
at its next session to extend the COM
pany'S charter and to get Il new charter to
build and to maintain steam or electric
road from Rutland to Woodstock and
Montpelier
Fred Blanchard, when before the city
council on Wednesday even uncon-5u,
sciously purloined a hat. While speaking,
he laid his felt hat on table beside the
straw one OF } Nj. Healey and when he
went out he took the straw hat. Mr. Hea-
ley did not notice the change for little
time, but when he did he started in pur-
suit of Mr.. Blanchard An exchange was
soon effected
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been a source of trouble since Sunday,
was finally repaired on Tuesday afternoon
and power and water restored about two
o'clock. A report that there was another
break on Charles street arose from the
drip caused by the main on Nelson street
being shut off. The ditch at the corner
of Main and Barre streets was hlled
and the tracks cleared so that at 4:3O
o'clock the first car in about two DAYS was
run to the State street terminus.
Ray Sawyer, aged thirteen years, died
on Thursday at the home OF James Saw
yer, his uncle, in Berlin, after only four
days illness with acute congestion of the
spine. His mother, Mrs. NJ. ID. Drew of
, erln, survives The lad will be pleas
antly remembered in the business section
as IA flower boy, who won many friends by
his pleasing and gentlemanly manner.
The funeral will be held from the house ut
two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Rev.
j. Edward Wright officiating. Burial Will
be in the Sawyer burying ground in the
Berlin.
j. l.. Davis, better known as "Chin'
Davis. appeared in city court this after
noon and retracted his plea of not guilty
to the charges of assaulting several of his
neighbors, getting drunk and making
nuisance of himself generally Grand
Juror +. A. Bailey asked Judge Smile to
remember Mr.. Davis past record and give