The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-05-12
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
i-JcAL HAPPENINGS.


wife, consideration so, 900.
At the meeting of the Apollo Club
Thursday five new members were
voted in: Ralph Q. Brown, Charles
@. Baldwin, @. f. Woodward, Jr., N
N Peck, j. e. Flanagan.
Mrs. w. @. Raidy and son, Harold,
will leave on May 90, for their home
in Pocatells, Idaho. They have been
spending the winter at the home Of
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Wood, Mrs.
Raidy's parents
Association papers have been filed
at the secretary of states office for the
First Universslist church of North
field. The Subscribers are Herbert e.
Reed, Jason E. Dole, Walter Dole,
Charles Dole and Paphro d. Pike.
At the meeting Of the school board
Wednesdays requisition of SO, 800 was
voted This is the regular requisition
for salaries, etc., with the bill fol
coal added. 1t was also voted to make
the salary of Mrs. W. E. Terrill $500
year. This is an increase of $25,
The arson case of Philip Bell who
was arrested on the charge of having
set fire to the meat market of Papin
Bros in Barre was Saturday mol pros
sed by States Attorney John H. Sen
ter who stated that the evidence was
not sufficient to warrant his being
held.
a petition has been circulated
among the members of Washington
county bar recommending the appC int
ment of George NJ Powers of Morris.
vile for the judgeship soon to be va.
Gated by Judge Wendell p. Stafford.
The petition has now majority of
the names of the bar of this county.
State Secretary F. S. Morrison of
Burlington had some interesting
charts of the Y. M. O. A. work in
Vermont on exhibition during the
convention, which will be sent to the
international convention at Buffalo,
May Ills. They show that the mem
bership in Vermont in 1879 was 673
while it is now 1919. The association
in 1875 owned So, 600 worth of poop
erty In 1904 it has $134, 600 The
expenses of running the association
in 1875 were S6Sl In 1904 they are
approximately $l8, 767.
The Memorial Day committee of the
G. A. II. are already at work making
preparations for the celebration of that
day. The speaker of the day Roger
W. Hulburd OF Hyde Park, was en-
gagged some time ago. Christ church
sent an invitation for the Memorial
Sunday services to be held in that
church this year and the invitation
has been accepted The committee
having charge of preparations is made
up as follows: Capt. l.. M. Hutchin-
son. George W. Colby, S. W. BeDja-
min, Edward Baker, n. @. Peck and
John Birtel. more full announce
ment of exercises will be printed later.
In a one sided game Montpelier
Seminary defeated Brigham Academy
on Saturday by a score Of 10 to 4.
The Seminary put up good game
from start to finish, shutting out
Brigham the last eight innings.
brennan put up a good game at short
and Huntington kept the hits down
to three in the last eight innings
He took McBride's place after the
first The visitors played rather loose
,1xya rnn 10
story They made mistake in the
seventh when they changed pitchers
as Start was pitching good ball but
lacked support Several hits credited
to Montpelier were scratch hits The
day was an ideal one for base ball
but the crowd was small. Following
is the summary and position of the
players:
Do Daily Journal advertisements
pay? Mrs E. l. Drury, some days
ago, lost purse containing $40 in
money and $40 mileage book. She
waited four days for the purse to turn
up and then put Lost advertise
ment in the classified column of the
Daily Journal The following day a
Barre man teiephoned the Journal
that he had found purse answering
the description in the advertisement
therein, and Mrs. Drury's yaluables
were duly restored to her. The purse
was found on the branch train by a
Mr.. Wells. So much for an honest
finder aud a good advertising medium.
On Friday, M. W. Wheelook. real es-
tate agent, advertised in the Journal a
So, 900 property Saturday he ordered
the advertisement cut out of his list of
properties for sale, the publication
having brought purchaser So
much for an enterprising agency and
-again-a good advertising medium.