The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-05-12


will be given some evening next week.
Mrs. Joseph Poland returned on
Saturday from her winters stay in
the city of New York
Raymond Paine will have charge
of the Y. M. @. A. rooms during the
absence of Secretary Bolles.
Abbott & Bailey of this city have
been awarded the contract for roofing
the new granite shed of e. B. Ellis
Company in Northfield.
Miss Eva Kennedy, who is teaching
the present term in the town of Barre,
has accepted q position as teacher in
the ninth grade in the schools in Wa
terbury.
The regular meeting OF the court of
claims, which was to have been held in
the Office of the State auditor Tues
day, has been postponed until the first
Tuesday in July on account of the ILL
ness of f. O. Williams of Newport
and the absence of Frank Plumley in
California.
Officer George Booth, of Barre,
passed through the city this morning
on his way to Rutlan1 with Erico
Maggiani, who is under the sentence
of not less than eight nor more than
nine months. He was convicted. in
the Barre city court, on Tuesday, of
shooting bullet into the door of John
Caslini's house. The shooting was
done last Thursday.
At meeting Of the Jumpers and
polishers held ON Monday morning, to
review the situation and determine
upon the future course of the union
the offic ais Of the International Quar-
ry Workers Union, president and Sec
retary, who were present, upheld the
action OF the strikers and advised them
not to return to work until some def
mite agreement had been reached with
the manufacturers No nearer ap-
proach to- settlement has been
reached.
Fire broke out Tuesday in the resi-
dence of Fred D. Beckley ON Park
street in Barre. Mrs. Beckley had
finished ironing and gone out for
time. The fire was discovered in the
vicinity of the kitchen by neighbors
and the alarm rung in. The blaze
was extinguished by the chemical
engine and the damage amounts to
about 800, 1t is thought to have
caught around the kitchen stove.
Secretary Harry R. Bolles of the Y.
M. @. A., is in receipt of copies of a
booklet showing the work done by the
association at Proctor. The associa-
tion was organized in 1902. 1t now
has 4I6 members from sixteen different
nationalities, the gymnasium classes
number SO members. The educational
department maintained eight different
classes taught by members of the as
ISOLATION. A camera club of sixteen
members has been organized. The
bowling alleys are well patronized.
The following letters are advertised
at the Montpelier post office, May 8,
Miss Grace Bagel, Miss Grace Gums.
bury, Melissa Gould, Ada M. Harring-
tou, Mrs. Susan Parks, Mrs. Emma
A. Pratte, Mrs. Thomas Ryan, Emma
Stanley, Otter Bascom, Banonji D.,
George Chambers, George Chamson,
Henry Carney, W. d. Conklin, Chas
M. Goss, Amos Gusha, W. Y. A.
Hendrickt, ]. j. Hanlow, Francis
Longe, Henry Lavigue, B. Putnam,
John V. Parks, M. Pritchsrd, Mess.
Spear & Bancroft, M. d. Stray yIldger.
Association papers have been filed
at the Office of the Secretary of State
for corporation to be known as THE
Perley E Pope Company The an
nounced purpose of the corporation is
to carry on general merchandise and
dry goods business in the City of
Montpelier. The capital stock is
So, 900 divided into fifty shares of 500
value each. The papers are signed as
follows: Perley E. Pope. Montpelier,
Elmore H. Pope. Greensboro Bend,
JouHlo II. tIOpe, 0r6tusDOTO D6uu,
James Ritchie. st Johnsbury, and
Benjamin Strachan. Burlington. This
company is the one that recently pur-
chased the business OF Harry B. Tap.
| lin at the corner of Main and State
streets. The company is already in
possession of the store.
The funeral of the late James S.
Andrews, who died of apoplexy on Sat-
urday morning at his home on Jones
Brook, was held from his late home
on Tuesday at O'Clock The de-
ceased was sixty-four years old. He
was veteran of the civil war and
since returning from the war he had
spent most of his life on his farm IN
Moretown. He is survived by a
widow and two sons Martin, who
lives in Worcester, and Walter, who
| arrived in MoretoWn from his home