The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-06


are on City Sheriff Docherty,s book
! for collection. Last year 1873 names
went over for collection by the sheriff
amounting to SO, 100. 96, showing this
years record to be 1878 80 better than
last year.
Among late arrivals of former
Montpelier people are Mrs. julius
f. Workum of New York, at Hon B.
f. Fifield's; Mrs. Theron o. Bailey,
from Boston, at the Pavilion; Mr. and
Mrs. Walker, with three children,
from Boston, in cottage at Berlin
pond; Mrs Nora Bailey Colt, of New
York, with two children, at the Pa
vilion. Mrs Walker and Mrs. Colt
are pleasantly remembered here as
Miss Katherine and Miss Nora Bailey,
daughters of Mrs. T. o. Bailey.
License commissioner w. T. Dewey
upon request sent specimens of a GER
tain brand of alcohol and beer hand
led in one of the licenced places in
lington for examination several days
ago. He has received communication
from the laboratory that the liquor
more than complies with the require
men is of the law in purity and con-
tains the proper ingredients. The
specimens were procured by disinter-
ested party and sealed and sent by the
commissioner.
W. A. Shaw, observer of the
weather at Northfeld, furnishes the
following meteorological summary for
the month just closed: Mean tenn
perature, GA. degrees; highest tenn
perature, 80 degrees on the ninth
lowest temperature, Al degrees on the
twenty eighth; total precipitation,
II inches, total movement Of wind
5551 miles; maximum velocity of
wind Al miles an hour on the sec
ond, total number of clear days, 4 {;
partly cloudy days, 9;cloudy days, IS.
The following letters were adver-
tised at the Montpelier post. office for
the week ending August 3; Mrs. B.
B. Brown, Mrs. Ella Davis, Mrs. G.
B. Durcee, Mrs Henry Hopkinson,
Mrs. E. M. Phillips, (2), Miss Eva
Perry, Mrs. Marion Sanborn, Mrs.
Charles Smith, Miss Lila l. Webber,
A. b. Andrews, Leonard G. Bliss,
George N. Bliss, j. H. Byrnie, j. A.
Bartlett, E. Chasebryant, Arthur
Counter, G. A. Cook, (2), f. W. Hay
den, Peter Lucie, Friedrich La
Beecque. E. @. LeBarron, j. J. Mar
tin, (2), NJ. w. Russell, Theo j.
Spinks, H. A. Tanner, Walter Walker.
The Mountain View Golf Club,
which is composed of summer resi-
dents at Caspian lake, Greensboro, has
asked for series of games with the
Montpelier Country Club players and
it is believed that meetings can be ar.
ranged. The personnel of the Noun
tain View Club makes it quite not
able organization for among it's mem
bers are Bliss Perry, editor of the At
lantic Monthly, Rev. DR.. F. E. Dew
hurst noted Chicago divine. Rev. DR.
p. M. Snyder of Rockford, ILL.,, anC
several college professors. This team
has played two games with the Ole
Pine Golf Club of st. Johnsbury ant
each team has victory to its credit.
1t was announced in the Journal o
Monday that the Rev. Lucius +. Reed
the highly esteemed pastor of Bethan.
church had gone to his home on va
cation covering the month of August
The wishes the worthy preacher re
ceived on all hands, that he nigh
enjoy his vacation were not at al
perfunctory. There was in them cor
diality, the real spirit of earnest goo'
will and they had an added interes
in the circumstance that when Mr.
Reed returns in early September h
will have doubled the interest hithert
felt in his pastorate, and his oapacit.
: for pastoral usefulness as we'll. o.
August 10, at Crete, Nebraska hi
marriage to Miss Mary Stevens It'd
ball will be celebrated. All the con
gratulations, sincere and cordial. will
not be felt or expressed at the meeting
Of tie wedding guests; and in these
qualities none will excel those tn,
PASTORS parishoners and friends in thi
city have already prepared both TO
him and for her whom he will wed ant
bring to live among them.