The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY

Miss Bessie Cummings has sold the
building and land at "a Hubbard street
to Hugh A. Allen. Consideration
80, 900.
The Halloween party given to the
members of the boys department. of
the Y M. @. A. on Monday evening
was success. The boys to the nun
ber of fifty-eight entered heart and
soul into the time honoIed Hallow e EN-
games and sports. including creepy"
ghost stories told by Secretary Bolles
to the group gathered about the fire
place. Refreshments were served.
Mrs @. B. Parker of Sugar Hill,
n. H., has been visiting the past
week in Marshfield, Cabot and Calais.
the latter her native town, and is
now the guest of her niece, Mrs. H.
M. Farnham, of East Montpelier.
Mrs. Parker is so years of age but
very active, seemingly at least a
score of years younger She is long
time subscriber to the Watchman. She
returns to New Hampshire tomorrow,
sraveling unattended.
A book of poems that was printed
in 1880 is among the collection in the
library of Miss Emily A. Glover,
teacher of French and German in
Montpelier Seminary. The title page
bears the inscription that follows:
THE Seasons, A Poem by Mr..
Thompson, London, Published by J.
Miller near White Hall, also by A.
Miller in the Strand, London, 1870.
The volume contains 81 pages about
five by nine inches in size. The
binding is of good substantial leather,
the type is very clear. Miss Glover
rescued thu book from a pile of old
books which was bound for the rub
bish heap at a neighbor' s house.
Miss Glover did not realize the value
Of her find until some time after she
obtained it. She would not part
with the book now for any price,
hardly.
Willard Clough, of Washington, is
exhibiting the petritied human body
disooveren on his farm in Washing
ton, at the corner of Elm and School
streets. Experts in anthropology be-
lieve that this body antedates the
American Indians. The body is five
feet ten inches tall and weighs $50
pounds The person was evidently
murdered, as the head is cut off and
there are marks of several knife
wounds on the body The body is
turned into pure limestone but many
of the tubes, nerves, veins, ETC., are
clearly marked. The body was found
imbedded in the roots of a big tree
that grew over spriLg and it was
while enlarging the spring that Mr.
Olough discovered the body. He has
shown the curiosity at most of the
fairs and in many of the principal
towns of the State.
Inc program IOI bll5 OOLhph IL
and the Montpelier Military band fair
to be held Nov. 1919 has been ar
ranged as follows: Nov 10, grand
opening ball; IL, Company ii fancy
drills; IL, Bethany boy choir; IA, boys
from St. Michaels school in news.
boy sketch; 10, Bethany Boy Five
in a sketch written for them by Will
liam Hauser of New York; l6, drill
by the Woodmen II, physical culture
drill by Mrs. Kate E. Terrill's class
from the high school; l8, @. E. Kee'
nan in monologs 10, drawing Of
prizes.
The following meteorological data
for the month of October just past
have been compiled by w. A. Shaw,
weather observer at Mortified: Av
erage temperature AZ degrees highest
temperature II degrees. Oct. 10; low
est, 10 degrees, Oct. 81; total amount
of precipitation 229 inches; number
of clear days 3 partly cloudy II cloudy
10.