The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-08-13

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for New York. The memorial will be a
bronze portrait relief and inscriptions on
stone and is TO be placed in Grace church,
Orange, N. j., next Easter.
j. s. Vles has had great success this
year in raising chickens but he has not
been so successful IN keeping them. Dur
| ing the past weeks, thieves have stolen
| forty seven of them from his farm on
| Northfield street. Now Mr. Viles loves
his chickens and for that reason does not
| love their abductors and has offered a re-
ward Of $50 for their apprehension.
The regular preaching services i'm the
| Church of the , essiah will be omitted
| during August. but IN, etngs of the Young
| Peoples Fraternity will he held on two
| Sundays, August 10th and oath, at 7:C0 D.
| IN. The subject tomorrow evening Will
| be Golden Deeds Leader, Miss Grace
| Clarke. The presence of those not mem
bers of the Fraternity is desired
Miss Gertrude, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Casey, died at the home
of her parents in Moretown on Monday
afternoon after painful illness from n
sumption. The deceased was sister of
| Bart Casey, former resident of this city.
| Her age was eighteen years. The funer-
al will be held from St. Angustne's
church at ten a. M, on Wednesday.
Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery.
The advance sheets for the docket for
the September term of county cou1 +
| show fifteen new divorce cases. Among
the civil cases recently entered is that of
| Ward \ Douglass, contractors, against
| the New England Road and Construction
| Company, and the Franklin County Saw
| ings Bank and st. Albaus street railway
trustees. The damages in this case are
| entered at $1,000 70" an alleged broken
contract
Excursion to Ausable Chasm See ad-
vertisement on page FIVE.
The repairs i'll the break in the water
main were supposed to be completed
early this morning and the water was let
| on for time but 1t had soon to be shut off
again, as il was found the gate on the
fourteen inch pipe was leaking and some
time was consumed in repairing this.
Families all along the line, even on Cliff
street and Seminary hill, were iuconven
fenced by the lack of water and had to
borrow 1t from those who have springs,
for drinking purposes
Tne housekeeper Of Francis Leslie en-
tered complaint to the police on Mon
day evening, She said she was afraid of
Leslie as he was threatening her with a
big dirk knife made from a file. Officer
Durkee went to the rooms, which are over
the shop of II. B. Sabin on East State
street, and found Leslie in an exc ted
frame of mind. He asserted that he did
not mean any harm, bnt only wanted his
| housekeeper to marry him. His knife was
taken away and he was quieted down.
Excorsion to Ausable Chasm. See ad-
vertisement on page five.
An informal social gathering of the Ia
| dies of the Church of the Messiah was
| held yesterday afternoon AT the home of
Mrs. j. Edward Wright The program in
| cluded the reading OF an interesting paper
| concerning the Womens Alliance by Miss
| Alice Wing and the reading of several Sc
leclions by Mrs. W. f, Terrill as well as
social chat and the discussion of some fu-
ture plans. Mrs. Terrill is a recent grad
uate of the Boston School of Oratory and
this her first public reading since her re
| turn. She was listened to with much
| pleasure.
George LeaZure, quarrymau employed
at the quarry of Llbersant, Iunes "
| Cruickshauk at Websterville, was in-
stantly killed on Saturday, his life being
crushed out by the falling of a stone. AS
soon as possible the stone was removed
and the mangled body was then taken to
his home at Websterville to await burial.
l.eazure was Il years Of age and un-
married. He is survived by his paren ;.
| two brothers and two sisters who reside nj
Rlchfo d. The young man came to Barre
| about SIX years ago from Rickford since
which time he had been employed as
quarryman at various quarries. he had
| been employed by Libersant, Inues <
Cruckshank since last January.
A serious accident occurred on North
field street OH last Thursday evening as
Will Rand of this city and Miss Eastman
of Gouldsville were driving into town
plunged over the embankment on the
north side of the street. This is the spot
here two young men were dumped some
time ago, drop of about dozen feet
and most treacherous locality in the
dark. On this occasion the carriage was
turned bottom side up and somewhat
wrecked. Miss Eastman sustained Il
broken wrist and was attended by Drs
Burr and Newcomb She returned home
Oh Saturday.
Henry G. Fullerton had a narrow escape
from fatal injury while out driving witt
Z. A. Gale OH Sunday morning. The horst
became frightened at an electric car on
are street. Mr.. Gale touched the ami
NAL with the whip when it made plunge
breaking the back strap so AS TO let the
breechiug down around its heels. The
horse then began to kick and attempted
to run away. At the corner of Barre
and Main street was restrained by "A by
|
) thrown on the car track while attempting
TO get out of the wagon. MIR. Fullerton
/ was carried to the store of Callahan 8
Avery and Il physician summoned. i
was found he had escaped with slightel
, injuries than had at first been supposed
? However, he sustained a severe scalI
wound on the side of his head.
2 Charles Cilley of deer and bear fam,
met the struggle of his life the other da,
} and il was the real thing, for Charles car
= ries the battle scars. Charles had Rus
sian-Siberian-Curan bloodhound, which j
!, the hero of many IA bear fight. The AM
NAL of late has shown animosty towart
its owner whenever he wore fireman
> hat aud on this occasion attacked Charles
biting him through the thigh and hand
: Charles secured his hunting guns au,
: after several shots killed the animal fu
which he had been offered $40 few day
before This loss is made up by his find
"A ing giant wild bee hive which yielded
c he claims, over 800 pounds of honey al
+ though il was warm day when he too
d out the honey and some of il melted an
4 was lost.
Apropos of the bear hunt today,
certain local merchant heard of it a