The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-25
ABOUT THE STATE.

A stock company has been organized
| in Weston and incorporated with a
capital of ~, 600, and will be known
as the Wantastiquet Trout Club. The
stock is divided into eighty shares at
S25 share. The old reservoir has
been purchased and will be stocked
with trout. The sheet of water is
situated among the mountains, three
hundred feet higher than Weston viii
lage and covers about seventy five
acres. 1t is an ideal home for trout,
being full of ice cold springs, which
boil up large quantities of water. 1t
is the intention of the club members
to make 1t popular summer resort
with park, beautiful drives, hotel,
and cottages.
Nathaniel o. Howard, of Provi.
dence, r.. l., a graduate of Brown
University, on Monday was chosen as
sistant principal of the high school of
Rutland at a salary of $3.50 per year.
Mr. Howard last taught science ut
Cosohocton, o.. and he was principal
of school there.
The police of Rutland raided the
grocery OF W. p Donahue. Thirty
bottles of beer, small quantity of
whiskey, and many empty bottles were
found. Donshue appeared in city
court and gave $500 bail
The discovery of the presence of the
browntail moth in several localities in
Hartford has aroused the apprehen-
sion of owners of wood lots. as the IN
sects are destructive to trees. Burn
ing the leaves on which the eggs are
found is said to be the best remedy
against an increase Of the pest.
Fish and Game Commissioner E. A.
Davis, of Bethel, was recently in
formed that family named Lewis,
living in Hancock, had been making
practice of killing deer out of sea-
son and sailing the meat. Saturday
enough evidence was secured to au-
thorize the issuing of a search war
rant which was placed in the hands
of Deputy Sheriff Hemingway, of
Granville. The Lewis dwelling was
searched Saturday night and part of
deer carcass was found. As result
James Lewis was arrested.
The performing boy Jack who
has been shown at about every fair in
New England by his owner, Joseph
A. Wilson, of Chester Depot, recently
died in Boston. Jack was ten years
in the show business with his master
and had appeared in all the first
vaudeville houses from Maine to Tex
as and for three or four years was the
Mother Hubbard dog in the extrava-
ganza Jack and the Beanstalk"
which toured the country. Mr.. Will
son, familisrly known as 'Joe," has
been employed this season as ticket
seller at Austin e. Stones museum in
Boston.
Capt. O. f. Burnham, ordnance
officer, will probably be appointed
quartermaster of the First regiment,
Vermont National Guard, to act at
the manoeuvres at Manassas, Va, in
stead of Quartermsster N N Hadley,
of Brattleboro, who is on leave. @,
W. Louis, who was member of Con- =
pany A in the war with Spain, and
who later served with the Forty fifth
volunteers in the Philippines, has
been appointed commissary sergeant
OF the regiment.
Mrs. Bresse laid down her hand bag
on the counter, few days ago, at the
Bartlett Company's store in Island
Pond, forgot about it, and did not
miss it until retiring for the night
AS the bag contained 49, 700 in cash
and securities her feelings can we'll be
imagined, She and her husband
went back to the village and looking
through the window, saw the bag
just where she had put 1t, which evil
dence must have satisfied them, for
they returned home without attempt