The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-02-12
ABOUT VERMONT.

enlarged and improved. Years ago
| these Guarries were considered among
the most valuable in western Vermont.
In addition to the old quarries the
firm has opened three new ones. Sixty
men are now ut work, but as soou as
the spring opens the number will be
increased to 100. The firm has the
contracts to furnish the marble for sew
eral new buildings in New York. aud
orders for marble now ON the books
guarantee work for the entire season.
4 track will soon be laid to connect
the works with the Rutland railroad.
The Woodbury. Granite Company
has erected a derrick in the freight
yard at Bethel and is earring to Hard
wick grafite to be finished for it's
New York contract
NJ. w. Brooks of Townshend thinks
he has a genuine Stradivarius violin.
He Mas written the Boston Globe that
his violin has engraved on it the fol-
lowing inscriptions " Antonius Star
adivarius Cromoneufs, Fariebat, Ammo,
1876.
The annual communication of the
fifth Masonic district will be held un-
der the auspices of Burlington Lodge,
No. 100, at the Masonic temple i'll Bur-
llngton, Thursday, February 10, be-
ginning at 2 p. III. Patriot Lodge, No.
80, e. o Martin, worshipful master,
will eXemplify the work of the Il. A.
degree at 3 80 p. IN. At 80 p III. the
reception of the grand officers will be
held Burlington Lodge, No. 100, II.
George Evans, woIshipful master, will
eXemplify the work of the Master
Mason degree i'll full ceremonial
form. Charles r.. Montague, grand
master, Lee 5. Tillotson, grand lee
turer, and other grand and past grand
officers are expected to be present. A
banquet will be served
The Burlington street department
and the union men clashed for a brief
time Monday morning but the trouble
was settled without difficulty at noon.
Owing to the severe storm it was nee
essary to employ large number of
teams to romove the snow from
Church street. Among them were
teams owned oy f. +. Nc ore and A.
O. Ferguson, neither being union
teams, although tn drivers on Mr.
Ferguson teams were union men.
The sleds were loaded by the union
men on Church street without com
plant but when it came to unloading
them the union men refused to do the
work The drivers thereupon un-
loaded their own teams and the mat
ter progressed until noon, when a
settlement was made by dropping the
nOn-union teams
The school for boys in the andrews
cottage at the Vergsnnes industrial
school was opened Monday with Miss
Mary Ormsbee of Cabot as teacher.
Homer Brewster, the we'll known
horseman, has become landlord of the
hotel in Coventry.
Nearly 1000 attended the citizens
caucus held at Rutland Monday even
ing. The meeting resulted in the
nomination of David W. Temple for
mayor; Will l.. Davis, for city treas
urer; and Frank l.. Clark for city
constable. all of whom served in
these positions during last year. The
only person in the hall who made any
opposition to the action taken was
John d. Spellman, an aspirant to
leadership of the local Democrats.
After his speech he was Kissed out of
the hall. John Dervin, who failed to
get the nomination at the mass meet
ing of union men held last Saturday
night, filed nomination papers with
the city clerk today. The paper was
signed by thirty three voters. 1t is
not thought that Dervin has any great
number of followers. The Republi-
cans opposed to Mr.. Temple will hold
a caucus at Baxter hall Saturday
night.
l. 9. Smith of Barton Landing, who
passed his ninetieth birthday last
September, insisted that he be taken
to Barton to vote against license last
week Tuesday. Mr.. Smith was a
member of the Legislature from Sal
en- Derby when the prohibitory law
was enacted fifty years ago and he
has been staunch supporter of it
ever since.
Harry Wilson of Derby killed an
otter at the outlet of Salem pond last
week 1t was fine specimen, meas
uring three feet eleven inches and
weighing twelve pounds. The skin
brought S14
Clestic G. Stevens of Randolph who
has some renown as a skillful hunter of
hedgehogs, has invented a folding
Latchet that closes like Jackknife
and can be easily carried in pocket.
The law requires that in order to
secure the State bounty of thirty five
cents the hedgehog's head must be
veniently to bring forward the noe
essary trophy of the chase Mr.. Stevens
conceived the idea of this Ratchet
which when open is fastened firmly
at the joint so that it will not shut
of itself and becomes despatching
agent almost equal to an automatic
guillotine. Armed with this deadly
weapon it is feared that Mr. Stevens
will become such an DISCRIMINATING
force to hedgehogs that Candlemas
day in this part of the country will
have, to go out of commission as an
aid to weather representations.
BY order of DR.. Rich of the State
cattle commission, there were killed,
Thursday, at the farm of B. b. Colby
on the Gilmore mountain road in Nor
ristown, seventeen out of herd of
twenty nine cattle. Those killed
were found badly afflicted with tub
erculosis. 1t seems the cattle upon
this farm have been found diseased
before, so that effort to stamp the
disease out was emphatic in this in
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