The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-28
Joseph Papin, proprietors of the mar
ket, and Phil Bell, clerk, followed.

At q special meeting OF the school
board Oh Tuesday evening e. g.
Ham, the present incumbent OF the
office, was re engaged ss principal of
the high school and superintendent of
the city schools. His salary remains
at 81, 700 g. W. McAllister and G.
A. Huntington were re.engsged as
ianitors with salaries of $500 and $3.50
respectively. Mr.. Hams reelection
has been favorably commented upon.
DR.. f. E. Steele, by order of Gov
ernor Mccullough, has investigated
the condition of George A. Jarvis, of
Barre, now in the State hospital for
insane at Waterbury Jarvis had pc
titioned the Governor for elease on
recommitment to States prison where
he was serving twenty years SEN
tence for con vIction of rape when ad-
judged insane. The doctor reports
Jarvis as still insane.
Miss Nettie Brush, who has been
confined to the house by severe burn
on her foot, suffered accident No. 2 at
The Lenox on Monday evening. AS
she was about to come down stairs,
in some way her crutch slipped aud
she fell the full length of the stairs
striking on the back of her head.
Aside from being badly shaken up she
sustained no injury. She is hoping
that final No 3 will not come until
she has recovered sufficiently from the
first to thoroughly appreciate it.
Mrs. E. d. Putnam. who has been
Quite number of angle worms on
the State House roof, is the find that
John W. Hill reports The beasts"
are found in or near the troughs that
edge the roof. These worms must be
of very ambitious variety and will
perchance prove especially seductive
to the willy trout. As the first of May
approaches, doubtless the Isaak
Waltonians' of Montpelier will try
to win the good graoes of Mr., Hill in
Aorder to obtain permission to dig"
their bait on the State House roof.
Some prehistoric whale or even "the
monster Leviathan'' might be handled
with bait taken from SO lofty source.
The order signed by Governor Nc
Cullough, for the committal of Croto
to the hospital for the insane, reached
Sheriff Evans on Saturday and, ac-
companied by Deputy Fitzgerald, he
took him to Waterbury on the 3. 80
train. Croto showed voci ferrous signs
of insanity in the Jail on Friday
night, which took the form OF an
ardent desire to visit Barre. Oroto
was arrested for the murder Of Peter
Vorron in East Montpelier last Sep
tember and was under observation at
the asylum for some mouths, being
adjudged insane by Superintendent
Hutchinson whsn the hearing came
up in county court some time ago.
Some of the mem bers of the boys
department of the Y. M. @. A., here
in Montpelier, have become enthusi .
astic in the study of forestry. The
immediate cause of this sudden zeal is
the offer of a prize that Harry K.
Bolles. secretary of the association.
has Just made. A prize will be given
to the boy who makes a collection of
the largest different varieties of wood
from the woods in this vicinity, and
who mounts them the best. The
contest opened on Monday and will
close on June l. By this method
Mr.. Bolles hopes to add greater inter-
est for the boys to the tramps that
they will take this summer. and to
further their knowledge of local
botany and teach them habits of OBJ
servation.
The demand for telephone service
in and about this city has never been
as great as al the present time, espec.
tally among the farmers. The farm
ers circuit to West Berlin was recently
connected up with six subscribers
Denny Farm, 332-15, H. W, Strong
1922 G. w. Williams, 1928; Newell
J. Lord, 1926; @. L. Slack, 1929
This is only partial list as the com
= pany will build about three miles o.
: pole line to connect six more subscrib
= ers in that vicinity. The line ganl
are also at work running new cir
cult TO Middlesex and will also built
about three miles of new line to con
meet twelve new subscribers. Thi
work, with the underground worl
that is to be done in Barre, will keeI
the company in action this spring A
carload of underground material ha
arrived in Barre and the work will
begin at once.