The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
Montpelier and Vlniclty.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

where Mr.. Dodge is to be employed
as night clerk in the Thousand Islands
House for the summer months.
Senator w. 2. Dillingham; left on
Saturday for Seattle, Washington,
the starting point of the Senate sub
committees Alaskan tour. He went
over the Canadian Pacific route.
E. M. Goddard left on Friday for
Niagara Falls, N. ". to attend the
meeting of the American Librarians
Association and also the convention
of the National Librarians Society
of the State. He will be gone about
ten days.
Mrs, G. H. Shipman and daughter
Challot left on Friday for Boston
for q two weeks vacation They
will visit in several cities of Massa-
chusetts and will attend the gradua-
ton exercises of the Abbott school,
Andover, Mass,
Mrs. d. F. Clark left on Saturday
for Northampton, Mass, to attend
the graduation at Smith College. Miss
Jean Cochran, her sister, is member
of the graduating class. Before re-
turning Mrs. Clark will visit her sis
ter, Miss Gertrude Cochran, in Boston.
Edward D. Field went to Rutland
Friday evening and left on Saturday
for San Francisco in charge Of col
lection of Cinnamon who are to be
deported. On the trip he will act as
deputy United States marshal. He
will have the assistance of one spe-
cial officer for each four orientals.
After the high school class day ex
ercises on Thursday "A meeting OF the
alumni of the school was held. No
organization was perfected but COM
mittee consisting of James Dewey,
Miss Florence Ferrin, Miss Julia
Peck, Miss Wing and Miss Mazda
Joslyn was appointed to investigate
the matter and meeting will be
called later
A fishing party made up of Louis
Rivers, Louis Wood, ST., and John
Yatter of Worcester returned on Fri
day night from two days fishing ex-
cursion to Greensboro Pond. George
Yatter of Manchester, who was also in
the party and is still there, caught the
largest fish which weighed five and a
half pounds. The party brought back
twenty-five pounds of fish. A hail
storm struck the pond while they were
there, so severe that it made it nee
essary to go in.
The New England Telephone ex-
change at Burlington now has 1,001
telephones, that number having been
reached on Friday. Although this is
a good number the exchange is still
behind the combination of Barre and
Montpelier, which may be counted as
one exchange, inasmuch as the service
between them is free The record
for these two places to date is
Barre 5S1, Montpelier 57S. total of
1859 instruments or 1853 more than in
Burlington. Roxhury with seventy
four instruments and Waterbury with
forty SIX are a part Of the Montpelier
district making total of 1879. the
largest district in the northern divi-
sion.
The services of Emil Goldstein, first
violinist in the Boston symphony Or
chestra, can be obtained for nine
vided sufficient subscription can be
raised. G. H. Wilder is at work en-
deavoring to raise the amount among
those who wish to take lessons and
anybody who is interested in the
scheme will be informed of particu-
lars by calling upon Mr.. Wilder. MI.
Goldstein is an artist and the effort is
being made to get him for several
weeks each summer SO that it will be
possible to get the very best instruc-
tion without going to Bosom. 1t is q
chance of life time to those desiring
to receive the best instruction
The editorial board of the High
School Record for next year is com.
posed as follows: Editor. in-chief, Jo
seph Blakely; assistant editor, Miss
May Deming; business manager, Ly'
man Wheelock; assistant business
manager, Ernest Goodrich locals, De
Witt CLARK; alumni, Miss Mary
Boardman; exchanges. Raymond Ran
ney; athletics, Rollo Blanchard, gen
eral literature, Joseph Blakely, Mis-
May Deming, and Miss Caroline Girls
void The new officers of the higf