The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-10-06
Henry Liberty, of Burlington, made


a novel plea in city court, Tuesday.
1t was charged that he stole two half
pints of whiskey from Patrick Lavell,
then walked to South Burlington and
drank the whiskey. In city court
Wednesday morning he told Judge
Hawkins that he did not steal the
stuff as the appropriation of some-
ones whiskey was not stealing. Judge
Hawkins did not agree with Liberty,
and he was fined.
The first play in the new opeIa
house in The Strong, Burlington, will
be given lex month. The new opera
house is complete in every detail and
up-to-date in every particular. Work
on this building was begun months
ago and when ground was first broken
the present elaborate structure was
not contemplated. The foundations
were first laid for the removal of the
old armory. When that burned a
query arose as what should be built
but after carefully considering the
matter j. j. and J. +. Whalen made
a contract with Calm 81 Giant for the
lease of an opera house for a term of
years. Work ON the building was
then begun and has been carried to a
successful completion.
Mrs. S. P. Brown of Gaysville, has
a brass eight-day clock that is over
one hundred years old. Her grand
father, David Waller, owned it when
he kept a tavern in Bethel in the brick
building now occupied by Jackson
Graham. Over seventy years ago it
was taken to the home in Gsysville
where Mrs Brown now lives and has
not been moved from it's corner since.
The calendar part of it has not run for
a good many years, but it keeps per-
feet time.
Congressman D. j. Foster of Burl-
ington, started Thursday evening for
a campaign tour through the West,
expecting to speak most of the time
for two weeks in Missouri, and to be
absent until the close of the campaign.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Foster
and two daughters, Mathilde and Mil
dred, who will pass two weeks at the
st. Louis exposition.
The Rutland merchants are Begin
ming to think over the matter of what
they will do regarding trading stamps
when the year for which most of them
signed contracts expires December /.
No definite action has been taken yet
by the merchants but it is practically
certain that they will get together
with the object of getting rid of the
stamps. There has been much les:
demand for stamps during the past
few months than there was at first and
in some of the stores they are not
making much trouble, while in others
they are as much bother as they were
when the scheme started.
Senator Proctor's examination Al
Rutland of candidates for appointment
to West Point on Friday morning was
taken by five boys, Jason D. Jones OF
Chester, Robert H. Dunlop of Poult.
ney, George Nj. Cook, of Post Mills,
James r. Darling of Barre and George
E. Pike of Sunderland. They were
given a physical examination by DR.
O. S. Caverly of Rutland.
An order has been promulgated by
the Boston & Maine railroad officials
whereby the trainmen on the express
leaving Newport at ~, 90 p. M. ant
II. 80 a. M, are obliged to continu,
through to Boston, instead of chang
ing at Woodsville, N. H., thus max
ing a run of 235 miles a day.
At the unanimous request of tn,
Congregational church society o
Mortified, the Rev. W. S. Hazen.
who recently resigned as pastor of tn,
church, has reconsidered the matte
and that he will remain a
pastor for the present,