The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-06-23
NJ oN7pElIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

A new fire alarm is to be estab-
lished in Montpelier in the form OF
whistle to be placed at the M. q W.
r. r., shops where sufficient steam is
always at hand to operate the whistle.
Stanley O. Wilson returned on
Thursday night from Shrewsbury, N.
J.. where he went to attend the mar
risge of his brother, DR.. r. Browning
Wilson, OF Holbrook, Mass, to Miss
Mary Jeanette Patterson OF Shrews-
bury, N. j. Mr.. and MRS. Wilson
went to st. Louis on their wedding
tour.
Rome G. Brown, Esq, Of Minneap.
oils, has been appointed. by the pres
ident of the American Bar Associa-
ton, the delegate from Minnesota in
behalf of the Association to the uni
versal congress Of lawyers and jurists,
which is to be held under the direc-
ton of the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position at st. Louis next September.
The marriage of Miss Lsvinia
Fuller, daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
Merrill T. Hamilton and Sam Clifton
Williams, of Newport, VT, is an
nounced. Mr.. Williams is q promi-
pent lawyer in Orleans county, and
a member of the Vermont court OF
claims. Congratulations from the
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Williams are
sincerely given.
The board of school commissioners
met on Wednesday evening in the
Offices of the National Life Insurance
building and received and accepted
the resignation of Ernest u. Ham as
principal of Washington County Gram
mar School and superintendent of the
MONTPELIER schools. Mr.. Fred j..
Brownscombe will succeed Mr. Ham
as superintendent while the position
of principal of the high school has not
as yet been engaged Aside from MI.
Brownscombe' duties as superintend-
dent he will instruct in mathematics
in the high school.
The graduating exercises of the
Montpelier Grammar school were held
in the opera house on Friday evening.
The class numbered thirty eight mem
bers, fourteen of whom participated
in the evenings exercises. The pro-
gram was interesting and varied, in
Guiding recitations and original essays
and orations. A large audience at.
tended and greatly enjoyed the efforts
of the young speakers who are now
ready tc enter the high school, The
diplomas were presented by E. M.
Goddard Of the school board and mu
sic was furnished by the Wilder Or
chestra.
The house breaker, who has beer
trying so may doors O. nights IL
Barre recently, was on South Mail
street in Barre, Thursday night Mrs
M. j. MCGOWAN, who was sleeping ii
a room at the rear of their fat to b.
near when called by her son. who Il
ill, was aroused by him about thi
incoming. She turned on a ligh
which shone out ON the rear stoop AM
scared man who weht tumblinl
down the stairs and away as fast a
his legs would carry him. At anothe
house on the same street the occupant
heard the rafting of key in doc
and in going to it, scared ma
away.
The Western Union Telegraph Cou
pany has made arrangements to hav
an office on the base ball grounds wit
circuit connecting the other citie
in the Northern League. A blac
board will be placed on the ground
and the score Of the games in tn
other cities will be posted. Office
are to be installed also on the baf
ball grounds of the other Norther
League cities to afford promptne
in service throughout the entire sy
EN-. When game is being played ]
Montpelier all the other games beir
played will be posted by inning
This will prove a source of interest
the base ball enthusiasts who folio
the games this season.