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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-24

The Methodist and the UniVersalist
societies will have Christmas exercises
at their respective churches on Thurs
day evening of this week The Con-
gregationalists will have their exer-
cises at the church on Friday evening.
Next Sunday there will be Christ
mas sermon at the Congregational
church with special christmas music.
Mrs. Kate Brush Field, Clinton Cram,
and perhaps Ben Bailey with the vio-
lin will assist in the song service.
Hopkins & House are Gin the pro-
oession." their store having been
duly decorated for the coming of
Santa Claus this week. The holiday
"show" in our village is well worth
coming to see. the evening being the
best time to see it.
Dean Corliss of Washington is the
young man working for Messrs. Bene.
vides & Rowell, in their meat bust
ness. He goes to Barre with their
team two or three times per week.
One of our good Vermont friends
who has lately gone to California for
his health, writes that he has seen
nothing yet, there, that he would
give the old Green Mountain State
for. But the trip over the Rockies
was SO very hard for his wife that he
breads the thought of a journey back
here.
Our high school department is hav-
ing two weeks vacation, or till Mon
day. January
Charles M. Edison filled his ice
houses last week, with what seemed to
us an unusually fine quality of ice
from his pond
@. o. Degreenia, the purchaser of
the Norman G. Davis farm, has let
the job of cutting 900 cords of sixteen
inch wood on the farm, to be hauled
away next year when dry. He will
| also take away, this season, 100 to zoe
| cords of stove wood. He came from
| the Willard farm in East Montpelier
to our place.
| Whereas it was thought few months
ago that Ophir S. Martin would fill a
consumptive's grave before another
| winter should pass; and whereas he
has been in Brookfield and in Tun.
| bridge on business matters in the last
| week, and is all the while attending to
| business in connection with the III. j.
| LABEL meat market; therefore, be il
| resolved that we can't always tell
what is coming next, and that we
will ever hope for the best. With
| even more certainty, not many years
ago, it was believed that consumption
had its remediless grip on Mrs. Henry
+. Erskine's daughter, Kate, and today
she seems in excellent health. Heaven
be thanked for both these deliver.
ances.
Norris Wiggin, son-in-law of Will.
lard Sprague, will live in the house il
Mill village just vacated by Mr.. Ben
evides. Wiggin runs the engine at the
Lynde saw mill
Druggist Fred A. Ainsworth offers
his trade now cough remedy bear
ing his own name that he reasonably
expects will prove an excellent thing
Let him tell you all about it at hi
store.
Our carpenters are to be oongratu
lated on the amount of work presen
and prospective at their hands.
For the first time in his life ant
after good deal of experience in get
ting out logs, William u, Pratt me
with an accident last Saturday after
noon that might easily have PROVED
fatal one, perhaps. He was taking
large load Of logs from the west sid
of the town, and was at point no
J far from the Amos Davenport place
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-24
WILLIAMSBURG

Harley Martin, the right hand man
in the Albert r. Martin blacksmith
shop, in the matter CT shoeIng horses,
has been laid off from work by sick
ness in the past two weeks. His wife.
who was injured nearly three weeks
ago in South Barre in collision of
buggies, is able to sit up little while
at a time.
Engineer Davidson at the Grearson-
Beckett Company's works has taken
the rooms in James S. Hopkins house
lately vacated by Mrs. Charles r.
Benedict
Grearson and Beckett are getting
out lot of stove wood besides saw
timber from the land they not long
ago bought of Lucius s. Simons.
j. X. Lynde will take off lot of
Palmer place now owned by Fl. H.
Martin.
We have just had the pleasure
through Rev. William Scofield Of see-
ing Christmas music entitled Chris
Watched their Flocks by Night" that
he sent to England, his native country,
for. He says that for three hundred
years it has been largely sung there
by the churches as the last music on
the last Sunday of the year. 1t is also
sung out of doors at midnight of the
Gath of December just as Christmas
day begins, the singers going from
house to house. The first words of
the hymn are
Christians awake, salute the happy
Wherein the Savior of mankind is
born.
The old time music to which these
hymns are sung strikes us as beautiful
and we hope to hear it. Mr.. Schofield
tells us that years ago some seventy
five of his countrymen in America
went out by night, as their custom had
been at home, to sing these hymns in
the city Of their adoption, and were
taken by the police Tor disturbance
but were discharged later when it was
learned that it was an old English GUS
tom.
1t is planned to revive work in the
Junior Christian Endeavor society in
the Congregational church.
A curious accident happened lately
to horse hitched in George @. Earle e
barn. For years Mr.. Earle has had a
strap fastened to the side of his stall
and near the manger To this straI
was attached a large iron snap. Nc
one can tell how it Was done but the
horse standing in the stall caught the
lid of an eye in this snap. The lid
was punctuIed by it and it was with
difficulty that the snap was removed.
1t is'said that Ed J. Poor will buil6
house on portion Of his land for
merly known as the Ebenezer Smith
place and that his oldest son, 1ardi
ner Poor, will occupy it,
Frank O. York's oldest daughter
Eldeqia, is to be married on Ohrismtal
to Fred 4. Quits of Barre.
1t is with sincere regret that W.
note the departure of our esteemed
townsman, William H. Witherell, WHIT
went to Newport last Monday to liv,
with a nephew who has a bakery
there. In the years since coming herr
from Lowell, Mass, to reside, Mr.
Witherell has won the hearty Iespec
of our people. In late years he ha
been quite infirm from an acciden
that occurred to him on his farm here
greatly injuring a hip and from which
he had never recovered the normal us
of his limb. We commend him Ii
the good people of Newport as mos
worthy Christian man.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-24
Washington and Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Curtis of Waits River.
Ladies' coats and furs at marked
down prices at Fits.
CHELSEA.

Fay l.. Thompson was married at
West Fairlee ON the 9th inst. to Mrs.
Emma d. Kellogg of Vershire, who
obtained divorce from her former
husband on the same day. They have
moved into the Minard house.
There will be Christmas exercises
and trees at the Methodist church in
the village and at the West Hill meet
ing house on Friday evening.
Herbert j. Kingsbury has moved
into the Vincent house.
DR.. Carlos R. Keyes OF Duluth,
Mimi, has been here for several days
to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs.
Cabot, but has now returned home.
Mrs. Erastus Bugbee was declared
insane last week and committed to
the Waterbury asylum.
Mrs. Alice l.. Welcome is for time
with her parents, DR.. and Mrs. Cor
win.
Several students are at home for
the Christmas vacation: Rena o.
Barnes from Kimball Union Academy,
o. Fay Allen from Montpelier Semin-
airy, Donald L. Comstock from st.
Johnsbury Academy, Nora E., and
Florence o. Taylor from Goddard
Seminary.
Flora M. Corwin is at home for a
short vacation from her work as teach
or in New Bedford, Mass.
John M. Atwood went to New York
on Monday to resume work as travel
ing salesman.
The annual meeting of the Congre-
gational church will be held on Satur-
day January 2, the business meeting
being called for at 10 a. m, to be fol-
lowed at noon by the annual dinner
and roll call 1t is desired that all
members of the church who may be
unable to present send response to
be read in answer to their names at
the roll call.
Annie Sleeper is here from Brattle-
boro for sew eral weeks on visit to her
other.
Mrs. Ellen S. Cooley has given up
housekeeping and is spending the win
ter with her daughter, Mrs. W. II.
Dearborn.
Mason S. Stone gave an excellent
lecture in the regular course en- Mon
day evening, entitled 1.-The Prophet
of the Philippines.
MIDDLESEX.
Rev. J. E. Wright is expected to
preach in the Brick church in Middle
sex next Sunday at :l5 p. m.
NORTH CALAIS.
Miss Ipez G. Cameron, who has
been i'll for a week, was able to re-
sumo school on Monday
Warren Fair and Miss Mary r.
IL - kAl -, MT
Saturday.
Miss Leila Parker, who is attending
school in Montpelier, is at home for
the holiday vacation.
The annual election of officers of
Stowe G. A. r. is to be held at Me-
mortal hall hext Saturday afternoon.
WATTS RIVER.
The dance at the school house last
Tuesday night was success. An oys-
ter supper was served. M. Hamilton
furnished music.
George II. and Albert N. Richard
son were in Peacham on business the
first of the week.
Richardson Brothers have begun
work on their lumber lot in West
Oorinth.
Arch Button of East Orange was in
the place on Thursday.
Mrs. John CLARK was in East Or
ange, Saturday, to attend the funeral
of her brother, ,Orrin Eastman.
John Sanborn of East Orange was in
the place this week trying to hire
teachers. He lacks two for the town
| of Orange.
r..o s.. n.Io.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-24

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
ing Piles. Your druggist will refund
the money if PAZO OINTMENT fails
tv cure you. in to IA days. 500.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-24

We sell
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
MORE PRINTERS ON STRIKE.
Union Men are Called from Every
Job Office in Atlanta.

A general strike in the job printing
Offices Of Atlanta, Ga, was declared
Saturday afternoon, and the Typo
graphical Union and Employing Print
ers' Club have locked horns for big
fight.
With the exception of two men in
the Office of the Atlanta Lithograph-
ing Company, there are now no union
printers at work in any job Office in
the city.
The following firms are the ones
concerned in the strike; Foote &
Davies, the Franklin Byrd, Piedmont,
Bennett and Mutual Printing Compa-
MES, the Atlanta Lithographing COM
pany, w. R. Bean, the Atlanta Envel-
ope Company, M T. LaHatte, Montag
Brothers, the Atlanta Typesetting
Company and Syl. Lester.
The general strike order was issued
for the alleged reason that every one
of the concerns named in the order
were doing work for firms causing the
trouble.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
THE FEAR OF FLOOD
Will Keep Crescent City ia Sus'
pense For Weeks.
yIGILANT EYES UPON LEVEES
Waters Slowly Recede at Memphis
and Railroad Traffic is Re.
sumed-HopefuI Feeling
Now Prevails. -

The local weather bureau at New
Orleans Thursday again advised prep
aration for a 21-foot stage OF the Mis-
siSsippi If the entertainments hold. The
bureau promises that the Red Atch-
hafalaya and Ouchita will continue 10
rise. AS, however, the flow OF the
Red and Mississippi continue into the
Atchafalaya, carrying off a great vol
ume of water from the main stream
and relieving the lower reaches OF the
river, the expectation is that the pre-
diction of the bureau will not be ex'
ceeded.
A vigilant eye is being kept On ev'
ery foot of levee from Red river land
ing to New Orleans.
Ample provision has been made by
the city for the 4-4ghest water prom
Used. In 1897 the levees from Louisi-
ana avenue to Southport gave the
most concern, but these are now con-
sidered of impregnable strength and
the temporary entertainments along
the commercial front are in excellent
shape and, as rule, built to height
capable of resisting a maximum OF
% feet.
Thus far there has been no inter
ruption to steamboat or ocean going
traffic. The water is over many OF
the wharves, but emergency walks
have been laid and freight is handled
elf rrhf iro
Members CO the state board of en-
giReers are at various points along
the Mississippi, the Red and the La
fourche On the latter stream there
are now three crevasses, but planters
not Immediately within range of the
breaks have had time in which to con-
struct temporary entertainments to
protect their places.
| Considerable damage will be done
to the oyster industry by the present
levees are small, because there is lit
tie cultivable land, the river is now
running over and filing up valuable
beds of bivalves. River water, as a
rule, destroys the oysters.
Thus far the cotton sections Of the
state have escaped overflow. The rich
est fields are those protected by the
fifth district levee board in north
Louisiana. President McClelland, Of
| the board, continues to express conf
dence. that this stretch of levee work
| will hold.
| Weather Observer Cline says that
| If the levees hold the period of high
water in the vicinity would probably
last three weeks That estimate is
based on the length of time that the
crest If the flood will consume in
the flow from Helena. The food
speed, however, is variable and three
weeks is considered the extreme lin
it of suspense if the levees hold.
Still Falling at Memphis.
The river at Memphis Thursday
night was 38.7 on the gauge and fall
| ing, but the reports which have been
received from points north of the city
say that the fall las begun to have
an appreciate effect.
The Iron Mountain railroad has at
last succeeded in running a train into
the city from the west. The Little
Rock passenger train arrived Thurs
day afternoon shortly after o'clock,
and little later the 81. Louis train
| followed. Three trains were sent out
Thursday night by the Iron Mountain
and Cotton Belt 1t is reported thai
the other roads will resume passen-
| ger traffic Immediately
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
DEWEY SCORES GERMANS.
Admiral Says Bills Navy Is "smalh
Potatoes" Compared With Our
oWn-May Rile Kaiser.

A washington special says: The,
possibility that the German govern.
ment may make inquiries of the gov.
eminent of the United States regard
ing certain declarations of Admiral
George Dewey concerning the German
navy and the recent maneuyers Of the
United States in the Caribbean sea,
was the principal topic talk in Off.
cial circles Friday.
Ever since his experience with the
Germans an Manila bay, Admiral
Dewey has had no love for the Ger
man navy, and, like most of me other
officers of the United States navy, he
believes that a clash between Ger
many and the United Gta.es is almost
inevitable. Looking to this POSSIBLE
ity. the general board Of the navy, Of
which he is president makes all its
calculations for naval development
with reference to Germany All com.
parsons OF naval strength are with
Germany to the exclusion of other Eu,
ropean powers.
This all-prevailing sentiment is:
doubtless responsible for some Of the
utterances OF Admiral Dewey quoted
in any interview published Friday, in.
which he declared that the navy of
the United States is superior to the
Germany navy. He goes farther and
declares that the United States navy
is the greatest in the world, giving as
his reason that every man in it is
man of Intelligence.
THE German navy" he declares, is
an entirely different organization in
its makeup of human material
have made a deep study OF that navy.
NV belief is that it's efficiency in pos
sible action is greatly overestimased-
The men do not begin to compare in.
education anL intelligence with the
Americans"
Thereupon Admiral Dewey proceeds
to reveal some very interesting official
secrets. He declares that the maneu-
vers In the Caribbeon sea were not
only successful, but were the greatest
object lesson of the kind that the
world has probably ever seen.
1T was an object lesson to the kais-
er more than to any other person" he
declares. Think Of 1t! Fffty-four
war ships were engaged, Germany
could not possibly get a feet over
here that could fight such an aSgre-
CATION of warships as that
While Admiral Dewey does not
say SO, in just those words his inter
view carries the inference that the
maneuvers carries the inference that
the maneuvers were designed esreelaF
ly for just that purpose.
Dewey Was Imprudent.
There is a general feeling in official
| circles that Admiral Dewey should not
| have said what he did, but everybody
acknowledges that he told the truth.
The officials of the navy department
will take no notice Of the interview
unless they are called upon to 90 50
through diplomatic channels. InlS
means unless there is complaint from
Germany. In accordance with his gem
eral instructions, Count Speck YoA
Sternberg, German plenipotenuary'
| has cabled the text Of ,ne lpterYl5"
| to Berlin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
MILLS TO. MOVE SOUTH.

New England Plants Having Too
Much Trouble with Labor Unions.
1t is stated at Manchester, N. H.,
on good authority that the Stark
mills are to be removed south, proba-
bly, to some point in Alabama, owing
to the constant agitation among the
workers in the mills and the constant
ly increasing demands Of the labor
unions. The mills employ LOO hands
with weekly pay roll of $4,000.
The owners of the Stark mills are
not the only ones who are considering
the advisability of escaping the exac-
tons of the labor unions by going
south,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
REBELS BODY FOUND.
San Miguel, Filipino Leader Slain in
Fight With Scouts.

A Manila dispatch says: The re-
port that San Miguel, the Filipino
leader, was killed in Fridays fight
near MariQuina, is confirmed. His
body has been identified and deliver
ed to his relatives for burial.
San Miguel, with his body guard,
consisting Of thirty men, abandoned
the fort at Mariquina and attempted
to escape, but the Macabee scouts sur
rounded the party, mortally wounded
San Miguel and killed six of his body
guard.
After he fell. San Miguel emptied
his revolver among the Macabees and
died fighting. He was the last un
reconciled Filipino.
Lieutenant Reese and other wound
ed scouts will recover.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
Dewey Forced TO Explain Ills
Talk AbOHt Germans.
PUBLICATION WAS UNEXPECTED
Admiral Expresses Regret that Re.
porter Went so Far in His Quo
tation-Surprise Over
Presidents Action.

A Washington special says: That
the president strongly disapproved OF
Admiral Dewey's action in reefcting
upon the German emperor and his
navy in a recent interview was strik-
ingly illustrated by a sensational incl
dent which occurred at the white
house Saturday. The president sum-
moned the admiral before him, and
asked for an explanation of his con-
duct.
The admiral explained at length
what he mad said about Germany and
the kaiser and offered as an excuse
the fact that he had neglected to state
to his interviewers that the remarks
were confidential and not intended
for publication. Admiral Dewey told
the president he deeply regretted the
publicity given the interview and
hoped it would not embarrass the ad-
ministration.
Captain William s. Cowles, the
presidents brother in law and his
naval aid, accompanied the admiral
to the white house and was present
throughout the interview The presi-
dent and Dewey parted amicably and
the statement was authorized after
wards that no further action would
be taken by the president SO far as
Dewey was concerned. 1t is believed,
however, that the president, uuoff-
cially at least, will acQuaint Baron
Won Sternberg, the German minister,
with Admiral Dewey's explanation.
The presidents action has caused
great sensation, and in some quarters
he is criticised for making the Incl
dent so formal and public Ordina-
rily the secretary Of the navy would
have been the proper authority to call
Admiral Dewey to task. But it is
learned that the president did not con-
suit the secretary regarding Dewey's
conduct.
Germans Attack Dewey.
A special from Berlin says: Ger
man foreign Office officials say they
do not believe that a diplomatic incl
dent will result from the recent inter.
view with Admiral Dewey, published
in newspaper of Newark, N. j., and
containing references to the German
navy and German emperor.
The officials say they are reluctant
to believe that the admiral was cor
rectly quoted, especially in view of
the good will he showed toward Ger
many in the messages exchanged with
Prince Henry"
The foreign officials add that should
the interview turn out to be true, it
would prove somewhat disturbing to
the pleasant relations with the United
States"
The interview with Admiral Dewey
has angered the German newspapers.
Those CT a usually moderate tone re
fer to it in a bitter manner. For in
stance, The Vossiche Zietung says:
THE American navy is evidently
suffering from a disease of infancy,
lack of modesty. Its leader evinces
something unspeakably immature.
One can only stand amazed that such
intensified self-complacepcy should be
taken in a people of Germanic ori-
gin. SAch behavior would not excite
wonder if it had occurred in some
Central or South American republic,
or Hayti."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
AGED COUPLE MURDERED

MutIated Bodies of LuttrelI and MS
Wife Found in Their Bed.
In the eleventh district OF warren
county, Tennessee, the dead b0IleS %
Peter Luttrell and wife, both past CIV
years old, were found in bed at 'Aei'
home horribly beaten and mull.a.'I'
The discovery was made by Lee wen,
ers and wife, who mad CONTRACT "
care for the couple, in consldeTa.IG'
for which the latter had decided wen,
ers their farm, taking effect upon 'n'''
death
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
ASPIRATION OF BRYAN.

Runor that Nebraskan Wants Nation.
al Democratic Chairmanship.
h Washington special says: William
Jennings Bryan aspires to the posi-
ton of chairman of the democratic ma.
til nal committee in the next presi-
|. idential campaign. Mr.. Bryan mas, it
MI stated On apparently good authority,
onfded the fact that he entertains
this ambition to several prominent
democratic leaders 10 Washington,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
ANTICIPATED GREAT STRIKE.
Seven Cotton Mills at Lowell, Massa.
cbucafEs. Close Their Doors.

Seven Cotton Mills at Lowell, Massa.
chusetts, Close Their Doors.
The agents of the seven cotton
mills at Lowell, Mass, in which the
operatives declared strike to begin
Monday morning, decided not to at
tempt TO start their mills on Monday.
The shutdown in anticipation IF
the strike for a 10 per cent advance
in wages was due to the belief of the
agents that no other course was open
to them They adhere to their pre-
vious declaration that a wage increase
could not be granted, and assert that
it would not be profitable to attempt
to run the mills with half a force
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
SCOUTS DEFEAT REBELS

Georgia Soldier Falls in VIZ
Charge Upon Filipino F0r''
A Manila special says ~, do
panies Of Macabebe scouts sl6nan' ',.,'s
feated the main body Of San ME- ,I;g
force Friday. It is believed pan
uel was killed. ..io.telv
Lieutenant Reese was no,
wounded. The scouts lost tnfe9 -
killed and had eleven wounaeu' o Of
Lieutenant Boss Reese is q na.. ,o Of
Carrollton, Ga, MEMBER % rar
the most prominent families q Nth
roll county. and very popoi1'
the people of his native CITY
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
BILLS WIFE rADLY HURT
Empress of Germany Thrown 'r0"


Empress of Germany Thrown "'"
Horse and Bones are Broken, o,ao
A dispatch from Berlin says
empress was thrown from her hoioS
while riding at Gruenwald Friday "N'
her right arm broken
The empess fell heavily EInpY.o,
William, who was near at mana w." va
among the first to reach her slae a." isI
assisted her to rise. The lllp''t
party was galloping at the mo'No .d
when the empress horse sN!eu 80"
stumbled
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-08
MOODY SELECTS ANAMo

As Location Of United States Naval
Station on Island of Cuba.
After a personal inspection of the
proposed site, Secretary Moody has Sc.
lected Guantanamo as the principal
United States naval station in the
West Indies. Secretary Moody, Sen
a'or Proctor and Congressman Can
ron, Foss and Gillett arrived there
Monday on board the United States
dispatch boat Dolphin, which anchor
ed in the lower bay
Secretary Moody estimated the
strategic points, the transportation IA
c'!ties, the water supply and the sur
rounding country.