The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-09
ABOUT VERMONT.

W. S. Dillon, for the past three
years assistant secretary of the Low
ell, Mass, Y. M. @. A. assumed the
duties of secretary of the st. Johns
bury Association on April 1.
st. John de Crevecoeur Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, of st. Johnsbury, and OK Bow
Chapter of Newbury, met at Wells
River on Saturday and took dinner at
Hale's Tavern.
The Dorset valley correspondent of
the Londonderry Sitter says Parties
ARE going the rounds trying to sell
formulas to the farmers to make ma
pie syrup out of G sugar. They war
rant it to be so near the real as to fool
old sugar makers, it is the real Chi
cago stuff.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed by Melvin II. Teachous and
Gardner L. Orion, partners conduct
ing general store at Calais. They
have liabilities of So, 6l2 80 and assets
of So, 062. %, of which $702 are claimed
exempt.
John Carey, an inmate of the SOL
ders' home at Bennington, died in the
hospital March 81. Had he lived
until August he would have been
ninety years old. He was the oldest
of trf nd !,
was caused by old age. He served in
Co. X, 10th vt. Vols, and was adj
mitted to the home from Proctors
vile, August 20, 1890.
The Logan House at Middlehury
claims the di stinction of opening the
first bar under the new liquor law.
| Wednesday April 1. was the time ap.
pointed and the bar room was crowd
ed. Ale was the only beverage on
sale and it is reported the demand
was so great that many were turned
away, as the bar tender was unable tC
attend to their wants.
United States Deputy Marshal Luke
Parish, on March 81, arrested Mrs
Emma A. Collins of Cabot for viola
ting the postal laws in sending pro
hibited matter through the mails
He took the woman to st. Johnsbury
| for hearing before the United States
commissioner, Harry Blodgett, who
bound her over in the sum of $500 tt
the May term of district court al
| Windsor
The new steamer Vermont. the
third boat on Lake Champlain of tina
name, will go into commission Mem
orial Day An excursion will be ar
ranged for that day and the splendid
new steamer will then be officially
recognized as a part of the flee
owned by the Champlain Transporta
tion company Just now the decora
tors are busy and the electricians ar,
putting in an elaborate system of cleo
trio lights and call bells.
Brattleboro people are great,
pleased over the passage by the New
Hampshire Legislature of the bill in
cooperating the Connecticut Rive
Power Company, which has beef
signed by Governor Bachelor and i
now a law. The way is now cleal
for the construction of dam acros
the Connecticut river at Brattleboro
charters having been granted in botl
Vermont and New Hampshire, anc
there are many who confidently ex
pect that the project will materializ
rapidly.
The funeral of Rev. DR.. George H
Ide, native of st. Johnsbury VIII,
for the past twenty-five years ha,
been pastor of the Grand avenue Con
gregational church Milwaukee, wa
held from the North Congregations
church at st. John ;bury OH Sunda,
March 30. The service was conducte,
by Rev. DR.. Edward 7. Fairbanks
assisted by Rev. ID. M. Beach of Min
neapolis. Rev. DR.. Ide was a mem
Der of the 10Th Vermont regimen
during the civil war. and the st
Johnsbury Grand Army post escorte
the remains to the grave.
DR.. l.. A. Smith, one of the owner
of the Eureka copper mine at Pix